Anytime you have to rely on the same community who murdered, raped and enslaved our ancestors for your livelihood, you’re already in trouble. They can take it away anytime they want, which is what is happening now. When will we wake up before it’s too late and start to do for ourselves, just like every other group that’s making fortunes off us does. Slavery is alive and well because we still haven’t dealt with the psychological effects of it, which is the main reason why we don’t work together.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

You’re a complete idiot.

I think that Harry Belafonte is basically correct; today’s artists are not as willing to lay life and career on the line for the sake of Black people as a whole as Mr. Belafonte and many in his generation were. But there is evidence that while the Carters haven’t yet given away much money in obvious ways, they are active in giving through setting up programs — and that is what I want to talk about.

I have always believed that it is sometimes better, if you have the capacity, to meet needs by creating on your own. When you give to something pre-existing, a certain amount of what you give has to filter through whatever pre-existing culture and structure has been set up. When you have the money and responsibility that the Carters have, it is definitely time to think about building vehicles to do good on one’s own, and that appears to be what they are doing.