(ThyBlackMan.com) I often hear the term “pro-black” thrown around like it’s supposed to be a thing, but one of the biggest issues that I have with that term is that it’s become a marketing trend that’s been exploited by big white corporations like Nike & Pepsi.
Here are top 5 reasons as to why I hate the term “pro-black” based on actual observations from social media and online.
1. It’s Become An Exploitative Cash Cow For Parasitically Opportunistic Black Capitalists – One of the main reasons of why I deeply resent this term so much is that it’s basically being used nowadays as an exploitative cash cow for notorious parasitically
opportunistic black capitalists in our community today like Umar Johnson, Tariq Nasheed, Brother Polight and including those in the mainstream like members of BLM like Deray and Colin Kaepernick.
2. Pseudo-Conscious Dudes Use It To Hide Behind Their Hatred Of Other Black People – Another one of the main reasons as to why I hate the term “pro-black” so much because it had breeded these pseudo-conscious guys in our community that do absolutely nothing for our community, but sit behind a computer all day and spew their hatred for other black men as well as black children and even other groups of black people and especially women. I have seen many posts on social media and videos online in which these pseudo-conscious guys like Tariq Nasheed and Robert Perkins have often voiced their extreme disdain for black women. Then there are pseudo-conscious guys on social media and online who often hide behind the “pro-black moniker” to not only openly express their hatred, but also encourage discrimination and violence against other groups of black people including black women.
3. It Breeds Opportunistically Greedy & Corrupt “Organizations” In Our Community – There are plenty of so-called “pro-black” organizations in our community like NAACP, BLM, and The Uhuru Movement that claim to be fighting for the “interests of black people“, but in reality they are notoriously greedy opportunists (who are mostly funded by white people) who hide behind the “pro-black” moniker that doesn’t really do too much of anything for our community, but opportunistically enrich themselves at the expense of the masses of black people who are poor and working class black people.
Early this year, former Uhuru members actually exposed The Uhuru Movement as an opportunistically greedy and corrupt organization by saying, ” “Everything we did was always something that made profit for the movement itself. “Things like Africans Charge Genocide, which I worked hard to get as many contacts as I could for were just used to promote events instead of what they were actually originally intended for.” “I have personally seen on many occasions the party raising hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars at singular events, but the members barely had any idea where or how the money was being invested.”
4. It Breeds Too Many Social Media “Revolutionaries” – One of the biggest things that I don’t like about the “pro-black” term is that it has breeded one too many reactionaries and social media “revolutionaries” that won’t go out into the community to fight for the interest of our community including fighting for the right to be a self-determined group of people, but instead what these reactionaries and social media “revolutionaries” do is spew their often condescending and irrationally anti-intellectual garbage down your throats and then comment on things like a meaningless stupid feud between Nicki and Cardi that have absolutely nothing to do with the issues that are currently affecting our community.
5. They Are Among The Biggest Cyberbulles – One pf the main reasons as to why I don’t like the “pro-black” term is because of the fact that a lot of these so-called “pro-black” people often bully real intellectual black folks into accepting their often negative, hypocritical, and condescending views about issues that affect our community. When we refuse to accept their irrational and condescending views as one former UM member commented, “You spend all of your hours on social media ganging up on people who don’t completely agree with you.”
The Conclusion – The point that I wanted to make in writing this article is to say that not everybody or organization in our community who claims to be “pro-black” is NOT “pro-black” because they use it as a ploy to exploit our community and express hatred for their own people.
Staff Writer; Kwame Shakir (aka Joe D.)
