(ThyBlackMan.com) We don’t act like we do. Want proof? We have some of the highest rates in divorce, abortions, fathers not taking care of their children, and unwedded mothers. We spend a trillion dollars with every group except our own. We have issues within our own community about the color of our skin and the texture of our hair. We have class struggle within our group. Last but most importantly, we can’t seem to come together to save our lives, which is what it has come down to.
How did this happen? It wasn’t always this way. Before this so-called integration, we lived together, laughed together, played together, loved together, supervised our children and many others, went to school together, worked together, and fought together. What happened?
Is this really the American dream we’re living, or has it become the nightmare
How can we get back to the great people we once were, the beacons of strength, determination, and will? We had to be all these things to come through one of if not the most horrific periods in history. But unfortunately something stayed with us, even with all the successes we’ve had, something that is deadly to our true progress. How else do you explain us giving our all to help other groups become successful while our people continue to suffer? How else do you explain us being leaders in almost every field we’re allowed to enter, but not owning the wealth we produce?
I’m talking about the psychological effects of slavery. Some books have been written about this most important issue, and some have talked about it, but not enough. In my opinion, the psychological effects of slavery are the only things keeping us from reaching our full potential.
Our so-called government will not help us. They’d rather spend billions on arresting and keeping us in prison, which has become big business, rather than pay for a good education. People are making fortunes off our misery because we continue to rely on the same people who enslaved us to solve our problems. We can no longer blame people outside our community for the current problems inside our community.
It’s time to take a good look in the mirror, but the solution is a simple one — not easy, but simple — and that is to finally come together in order to solve our own problems. We are worshipped all over the world for our amazing abilities, yet inside our community, we struggle to support our gifts. This leaves the door open for people outside our community to capitalize and turn our wealth into theirs. Solving the problems in our community is not the hard part; working together is. I think it’s time to stop talking about Black Unity and Love and make it a reality.
Staff Writer; Terrance Amen
This brother is also author of Black Unity: The Total Solution to Financial Independence and Happiness. For more information, go to http://www.blackunitythetotalsolution.com.
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@ Jeff A
I bet you would like to date Black women and socialize with Black men. I guess this is why you’re writing a comment on a site called ThyBlackMan. But why are they angry? As for trying to assimilate, we’ve been trying that since we were physically free. It’s not our problem that your people continue to totally disrespect, discriminate, alienate, and anything else you can think of to keep us divided. Stop blaming the victims of 400 years of raciest attitudes for the problems your ancestors created and your people now still continue.
@ Mike Williams
Yes we’ve come a long way considering how short a period we had the opportunity to do so. That is a showing of our great strength as a people and nothing the Whiteman gave to us. But we’ve been successful as individuals, not as a community, and this is why we continue to struggle today because we don’t get the full benefits of what we produce. But if we started to produce all those things you mentioned below, we would be able to solve our own problems. Also if this site is such a bad site, why are you still making comments on it and negative ones at that?
Black Unity means financial independence and happiness
@ Jeff A.
The makers of this website would hate that. Then what would they have to live for!!
I'm a 50 year old white male. I love all people. Color makes no difference. For me, it's all bout how a person conducts himself or herself. It seems to me that the majority of Blacks (I hate the word "Blacks" and find it offensive, but I've heard others say they hate the word "African". I'd prefer to use the word "beautifuls") detest white people and prefer not to socialize or love caucasians. I'd love to date a black woman and socialize with black men. But Blacks are very suspicious of and angry at white people. It's truly a problem. We need to assimilate and create one race. That's what God definitely wants and it's where things are headed. Don't fight it, just enjoy it. It will be wonderful one day, assuming there's still an earth and that everyone hasn't killed one another. I wish you wouldn't differentiate the "Black Community" from the community at large. let's just be one community. We need to open our hearts and minds to create a beautiful and assimilated world!
@Deeann D. Mathews
It's not just our ancestors that owned all that. We still today own those type of businesses.We just don't own them on a grand scale such as white people. Black people are getting there. We just had a black president. It's not going to happen over night. We do still have that tough love as you say. We were in damn near slavery until the seventies. We have more black CEO'S of Fortune 500 companies now more than ever and self made millionaires. It's already happening, just open your eyes and stop being critical of black people and you will see it happening right before your eyes.
What we do not have, we can build -- if our ancestors built all those banks, credit unions, medical practices, law offices, and the like, we can once again. I think that was the point. But that will be some hard work... and one only does HARD work for the long haul voluntarily for one reason: true love. That is the love that got us here; our enslaved ancestors kept looking ahead to the day their children would be free, and put away what they could and built what they could accordingly. That is the same love we will need to have once again -- perhaps the question is, do Black people have it in them to have TOUGH LOVE for themselves?
Speak for yourself. I love me and my black people!!! Of course only 2% goes back into our communities. White people own more of everything. How many black owned grocery stores, clothing stores, car makers, large home builders do you know of? Do you want black people to go naked like Africans in the bush, live in cardboard boxes, and ride bicycles to work? All races have dead beat dads, abortions, and divorces. So if that's the case no race loves themselves!!! Black people don't get brainwashed by this nonsense!!! Get off the bull crap and keep moving forward like we have since slavery times. Sometimes I think this site is ran by white people! The only good thing I saw on this site is one of my Advertisements running next to an article. This site is pure hogwash!!!
Excellent article!