How do we get around it? Its easy and complex at the same time. Like Umar also believes, its start with the family structure. It takes conscious black man, choosing conscious women to be the mother of their children and training them up with priorities and a perspective on life focusing on whats really important. And these priorities should be inline with pushing the culture forward in education and economics. All while being committed to the culture economically and sharing information ( no crabs in a barrel mentality). It will take generations, but it must be a concerted effort to not marry the woman with the biggest butt, but with the brightest mind and loyalty to the goals. Then you will have a population of people who not only know whats important but reflects that on how they spend their capital and what they devote most of their attention to. ( I tried to keep it brief)
this is my biggest issue with the movement. we put too much effort into getting people to do what they dont wanna do.
the target audience of Umar, Boyce, and Claud Anderson want nothing more than to continue to listen to Cardi B, buy Jordans and purses, and work just to goto the club or occasional cruise to post pictures on social media.
they dont gaf about education and economics.
getting them to do any of the above is a complete waste of energy.
the change in them has to come from them. we’re not going to guilt or shame them into being more aware or seeking to be conscious.
people laughed at the idea that Jay Z’s 4:44 inspired people within our culture to do better, but a large portion of our culture needs that message to be implanted in song lyrics like applesauce laced with medicine
our culture refuses to employ this tactic though
its the great divide of our culture
spike lee used to have the audience AND the message.
once he lost the audience he could have easily employed Tyler Perry to convey his message through his lens.
NOPE.
he chose to publically chastize Tyler instead of using him as a bridge to reach the audience
its what we do
what would it take for Umar, Boyce, or Claud to pay an entertainer to endorse their product?
take any one of these self dustruction rappers and flash money in their face for an endorsement or lyrics, photo op, video cameo....
NOPE.
they’d rather alienate the portion of their audience that looks up to those rappers by trying to shame them publically through social media
such a ******* waste
and the cycle goes on and on