Are Black people stupid? What?
No, all Black people are not stupid. Frankly, it makes as much sense to say all Black people are stupid as it would be to say all White people are racist, which is also stupid. Black people are as smart as any other race or ethnic group. I simply wanted a title for this editorial that would get your immediate attention, especially the attention of Black people. However, I am going to point my finger directly at Black people who are stupid, dumb, ignorant, self-centered, arrogant, and two-faced Uncle Toms. Who? I'm talking about those so-called Black leaders, Black elected officials, and the rich and wealthy Black elite (like Berry Gordy, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Johnson, Michael Jordan, etc.) and other Black billionaires and Black multimillionaires who, instead of directly and collectively building Black businesses and cultural development, remain brainwashed on the Willie Lynch-inspired stupidity of obligatory integration and obligatory assimulation into White culture.
Every time, every time, every time, again, every time Black people develop a successful business or industry Black people sell out to White people. BET (Black Entertainment Television) was Black owned, but for decades its been a White-owned and controlled company. Motown Records was Black owned, but for decades its been owned and controlled by White people. Black women (brainwashed to constantly straighten their hair to look White-ish) spend more money on hair care then any other women on planet earth, but as usual the largest Black-owned hair care company sold out years ago to White-owned and controlled companies.
Next time you hear the hype about Black owned businesses, think about the sell-out of Soft Sheen to the French company, lily-White-owned and controlled, L'Oréal. Perhaps, more significant than the sell-out of Motown and BET, products from Soft Sheen and other Black hair care vendors played a major role in packaging an acceptable “White-ish look” for Motown recording artists (processed hair et al). Frankly, White owned L’Oreal and Revlon entered the Black hair care industry because it made sense:
1. More so than any other ethnic group in U.S., the clear majority of Black females, from children through senior citizens, have their hair “done” or processed on average every three (3) to four (4) weeks - throughout their entire life span. It’s a built-in, captive audience. Just add up the dollars signs!!!
2. For the most part, there’s no competition. After establishing market dominance (via promotional efforts essentially confined to a very limited network of Black print and broadcast venues), there are no “big players” that are Black-owned-and-operated who can muscle in and challenge White owned cosmetic companies and White owned trade publications like Sophisticate’s BLACK HAIR Styles and Care Guide Magazine.
3. The attempt by Pro-Line and other Black hair care vendors to make a bigger “revenue generating” foot print by marketing their products internationally is, ironically “colonial” and, unfortunately, to be successful L’Oreal and Revlon have deeper financial pockets and the shrewd and savvy business acumen not demonstrated by Black hair care vendors. Put another way, White companies don’t have any problem making money on the ethnicity of Black women and owning Black oriented companies that sell Black hair care products [hum, ethnicity + owning = slavery?]. You can easily find Soft Sheen’s advertisements throughout the world, like in the French magazine, “Miss Ebéne” [Translation: Miss Ebony]. Conversely, while Motown sold its artists under the banner “The Sound of Young America,” Black companies have not targeted the manufacture and sale of hair care products to and for White people. Why not? Are Black people afraid of making money off of White people?
History continues to repeat itself.
L’Oreal, owns and produces Dark & Lovely, StaSoftFro, Care Free Curl, Alternatives, Soft Sheen Optimum Care, Optimum, Wave Nouveau, Gentle Treatment, Ultra Sheen, Breakthru
Revlon, owns and produces "African Pride" (ironic,huh? White people selling Black people a product called "African Pride")
Alberto-Culver, owns and produces Pro-Line Comb-Thru, Soft & Beautiful, TCB Hair Relaxer, and Just For Me. After the big three Black owned and operated cosmetic companies (Soft Sheen, Johnson Products and Pro-Line) sold-out to White owned companies, the crumbs are left to the following much smaller Black owned companies: Bronner Bros., Luster Products, JM Products, Summit, Vitale and Dudley Products.
BOTTOM LINE: White Businesses make the most profit on making Black people look both Black and White!
One would think that with so many young White people trying to look and sound Black that one or more Black owned companies would do like Disney, Time-Warner, Comcast, and a host of Japanese companies - establish a consolidated company to jointly acquire and manage entire sectors of certain industries. Over twenty years ago, my letters in this regard to Motown, Stax, Philadelphia International and Solar records went unanswered. Where are these Black companies now? They either don’t exist, are White owned, or are no longer actively engaged as a full service competitor. In 1994, Steven Spielberg (film director and producer), Jeffrey Katzenberg (film producer and executive), and David Geffen (music producer and executive) "got together" and formed DreamWorks SKG, which produced hundreds of critically acclaimed and financially successful films such as Saving Private Ryan, Antz, Gladiator, Cast Away, Shrek and many, many more. But successful Black film directors, producers, and music executives are unable or unwilling to "pool" their collective creative and financial resources to create a Black owned and controlled multi-media company. Why?
"How long are you gonna sit around begging White people to do for us when we have the power to do for ourselves?"
Minister Louis Farrakhan
Clearly, do NOT blame White people for the stupidity of Berry Gordy, and his lack of business acumen and lack of "Blackness" for selling Motown to White people. Do NOT blame White people for the stupidity of Robert Johnson, and his lack of business acumen and lack of "Blackness" for selling BET to White people. Do NOT blame White people for Oprah Winfrey's hatred of Black men, her hatred of the traditional Black family and marriage, and her extremely low self-esteem that propelled her to be perennially obese; but question why Winfrey launched the television success of two White men who were already "rich," Dr. Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil) and Dr. Mehmet Cengiz (Dr. Öz), instead of using her media influence to make Black men and Black women multi-millionaires. Do NOT blame White people for Bill Cosby's predilection to chase pussy instead of using his creative and financial influence to work with other prominent Black people to create a Black-ish version of Disney, TimeWarner, Comcast/NBC/Universal, Sony, etc. Do NOT blame White people because the biggest and wealthiest Black musical artists like Michael Jackson and Prince had a predilection for drugs instead of using their creative and financial influence to work with other prominent Black people to create a Black-ish version of Disney, TimeWarner, Comcast/NBC/Universal, Sony, etc. Do you get it? Stop blaming White people; instead blame Berry Gordy, Oprah, Bob Johnson, Prince, Spike Lee, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, 50 Cent, Beyoncé, Tiger Woods, Floyd Mayeather, Jr., Jay Z, Tyler Perry, Cathy Hughes, etc.
Take a look at the following graph.
Multi-Media White Owned and Controlled Black Owned / Controlled Disney AT&T Comcast
None.
Instead, "they" control the "look and feel" and "they" write the "narrative."
Just ask Denzel Washington
Instead, "they" control the "look and feel" and "they" write the "narrative."
Just ask Dave Chappellee
"Why doesn't a slave
run from one plantation
to another plantation,
because the master
over there might
be nicer?"
Dave Chappellee
The Walt Disney Company is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. The company established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and theme parks. The company is known for its film studio division, The Walt Disney Studios, which includes Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Blue Sky Studios. Disney's other main segments are Disney Media Networks, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, and Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International.
Number of employees: 223,000
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company, the largest provider of mobile telephone services, and the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the United States through AT&T Communications. Since June 14, 2018, it is also the parent company of mass media conglomerate WarnerMedia, making it the world's largest media and entertainment company in terms of revenue. As of 2018, AT&T was ranked #9 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Number of employees: 247,800
Comcast is an American telecommunications conglomerate headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue and the largest pay-TV company, the largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia. As the parent company of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011, Comcast is a producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over-the-air and cable television broadcast, respectively.
Number of employees: 190,000
COMCAST OWNS ALL
OF THIS, and THIS.
And you really think there's a difference?
NOTHING CHANGES - As with Disney's 2020 film, "Soul," it's the demonstrated practice of Disney, throughout its history, to animate Black characters with extremely big noses, big lips, pertruding "bug-like" eyes, distorted ears, and protruding jaws. Plus, except for Denzel Washington's appearance in "Remember the Titians," and the animated 2009 film "Princess and the Frog" it's rare or impossible for an "attractive" Black man or an attractive Black woman to be cast in leading role in a Disney film; and images of a loving Black family structure are rarely or never in the script.
Soul (2020)
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Despite being "locked out" of a White owned and controlled film industry for more than a century, and despite being perpetually subservient to a White owned and controlled film industry that has perpetually defined the "image" of Black people, "we're" supposed to believe Black people lack the initiative, intelligence, gusto, or simply refuse to coalesce their economic, policial, and creative wealth to develop, evolve, and sustain their own film industry, really?
Ice Cube alledgely sought Magic Johson, LL Cool J, Serena Williams, Will Smith, and others to join him to purchase twenty-one-(21) TV stations. Here's the problem: instead of trying to buy "the White man's property," Black people need to build their own!!! It's just that simple. Stop trying to be "White," and be Black, build Black, support Black. Get it? For example, the minimum NBA salary for one-(1) year of league experience is $1,445,697 (https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2019/06/nba-minimum-salaries-for-201920.html) and seasoned and elite players much millions and millions more. So, Black men, start you own damn league with the best players in the world who just happen to be Black, and at your discretion, you can do just like White people and hire a few token White players, but only "if" they're good enough. So, what the hell are you waiting for? Let's look even closer at the data of minority athletes who also hold ownership stakes in professional sporting teams:
Michael Jordan
Charlotte Hornets / NBA / Basketball Derek Jeter
Miami Marlins / MLB / Baseball LeBron James
Liverpool Football Club / Premier League / Soccer Kevin Durant
Philadelphia Union / MLS / Soccer James Harden
Houston Dynamo / MLS / Soccer Venus & Serena Williams
Miami Dolphins / NFL / Football Russell Wilson
Seattle Sounders / MLS / Soccer Patrick Mahomes
Kansas City Royals / MLB / Baseball Magic Johnson
Los Angeles Dodgers / MLB / Baseball
Of the aforementioned professional sports teams, Michael Jordan is the only "majority owner."
All others function as minority-owner investors, with little to no decision-making authority.
Minorities typically take a "minority atitude and posiiton" in business which is stupid, and here's why:
SALARY*
SALARIES
PLAYERS (75%)
PLAYERS (25)
SALARIES
SALARIES
PLAYERS (70%)
PLAYERS (30)
SALARIES* Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/highest-paid-players-in-the-nba-right-now.html
** Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/heres-what-the-average-nfl-players-makes-in-a-season.htmlSo, Black athletes in the NBA and NFL have approximately three-billion, that's $3 billion dollars of income they can collectively use as collateral to invest in their own professional teams, league, stadiums, broadcast networks, etc. Or, they could use their collective worth to spearhead a leveraged buyout of existing teams, existing stadiums, existing broadcast networks, etc. Instead, these Black athletes inconsistently act as "social justice warriors" in alignment with a marxist "Black Lives Matter" movement, while maintaining their Willie Lynch-inspired brainwashing to work for and be owned by White people. You got that? Oh, you still don't get it, really? Watch this.
The Negro Baseball league did NOT prosper because of White people, but solely because of Black people, and it prospered until White people used their economic might and the "fallacy of equality through integration" to kill the league. Motown was successful not because of White people, but because of the genius and musical talent of Black people; and Motown prospered until Berry Gordy lacked the business acumen to grow Motown into a truly multi-entertainment Black-owned conglomerate (i.e., a Black-owned version of Disney or TimeWarner, etc.). Tyler Perry's business model for a "Black-owned film studio," will likely have the same fate of Tim and Daphne Maxwell Reid's New Millennium Studios, which they built in 1997 in Petersburg, Virginia as both the only Black owned film studio in the United States since the 1930s, but also one of the largest independent film studios outside of Hollywood (57.4-acre site with its 14,850-square-foot sound studio), but they sold in March 2015 for ONLY $1.475 million because wealthy, affluent, and powerful Black people like Oprah Winfrey, Robert Johnson, Bill Cosby, LeBron James, etc. did NOT rally support to, again, evolve New Millennium Studios into a multi-entertainment Black-owned conglomerate (i.e., a Black-owned version of Disney or TimeWarner, etc.). So, are Black people like Ice Cube, Bill Cosby, Denzel Washington, Magic Johnson, LL Cool J, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Berry Gordy, Robert Johnson, etc., stupid? You tell me?
"We have the power of numbers, the power of organization, and the power of spirit. Let me explain what I mean. Sixteen million people are a force to be reckoned with, and indeed there are many nations in the U.N. whose numbers are less."
Paul Robeson
Source: "Here I Stand" © 1958 by Paul Robeson
(Legendary Black American athlete, bass baritone concert artist,
stage and film actor, and political activist), page 92, fifth paragraph
In summary, despite overt discrimination and blatant racism engineered and sustained by White people, especially White men, nevertheless, in many segregated communities, there was a time when Black owned and controlled businesses were launched and thrived without any or very little involvement from White people. For example:
Integration doesn't mean a
damn thing unless you OWN it!™Every time, every time Black people "integrate" into White society they eventually relinquish (give up) ownership and control to White people, such as Motown, Soft Sheen, Negro Baseball, Black Entertainment Television, etc. If Black people really wanted to "integrate" into White society, isn't it about time rich Black people pooled their resources and business acumen to buy Disney, AT&T, or Comcast? Perhaps, you haven't been paying attention, but this is exactly what the Chinese have been doing, duh! Just like Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer business in 2005 and acquired its Intel-based server business in 2014, all of the following companies are Chinese owned and controlled.
In 2018, Forbes published its assessment of the richest Black and African (yes, there's a big difference) people in the world.
Aliko Dangote Sugar, Cement, Flour 14.10
Mike Adenuga Oil, Telecoms, Real Estate, Bamking 5.30
Robert Smith Venture Capitalist 4.40
Oprah Winfrey Television, Media 2.70
Isabel Dos Santos Oil, Telecom, Investments 2.60
Patrice Motsepe Mining 2.50
Folorunsho Alakija Oil 1.70
Michael Jordan Basketball, Marketing 1.65
Strive Masiyiwa Telecoms 1.39
Mohammed Ibrahim Mobile Telecoms 1.18
So, given the aforementioned, clearly, there are extremely rich Black and African people with expertise in diverse industries; so why don't these rich Black and African billionaires form a multi-national business conglomerate (like Warner Bros. Discovery, Boeing, General Electric, Disney, Sony, General Motors, Panasonic, etc.), or like the Chinese, use their collective wealth and business acumen to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, or Boeing, or General Electric, or Disney, or Sony, or General Motors, Panasonic, etc.? So, are Black people stupid?
Integration into White society has NOT and will NOT end the perpetual racism and oppression used by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people against Black people.
Muhammad Ali intervied by David Frost in 1974
Thomas Sowell
Born: June 30, 1930 (90 years)
Harvard University, BA
Columbia University, MA
University of Chicago, PhDAttention: Owens, Elder, and Sowell . . .
Q1: Given the existence of "conservative principles" throughout U.S. history, at what point during your lifetime did the socio-economic status and access to education for the overwhelming majority of Black people improve to significantly reduce or eliminate the wealth gap between White people and Black people? When?
Q2: People of color, and women, did NOT conceive, engineer, and execute acts of "inhumanity" to themselves, because people of color, and women, were not and have never held the power, control, or "privilege" to do so. So, as created and sustained by White men, if "systemic racism and system sexism" did not or does not exist, to whom exactly were laws to establish or prohibit racial and sexual discrimination directed?
Q3: Except for a few tokens, the overall social and economic status (i.e., equal access to education, employment, housing, health care, and the political process) for the overwhelming majority of Black people, and other peole of color, did not change, without regard to Republican (or conservative) or Democratic (or liberal) administrations, during the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and the 2010s. Where's any evidence to the contrary?
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Q4: If you're truly concerned about conveying and/or building a dynamic Black conservative policital voice, and educating Black people to spurn liberal dogma, instead of functioning as lackeys, coons, and preferred Negroes on White-owned and White-controlled print and broadcast media, why haven't you pooled your political resources and economic capital to build a dynamic Black-owned and Black-controlled conservative print and broadcast media empire? Scared? Do your beliefs only have "value" if and when validated by White men on White-owned and White-controlled print and broadcast media?
Bottom line? Fear those Black Conservatives endorsed by White people!As compiled and documented by A.C. Nielsen and reported by indiewire.com, as a demographic Black people watch 37 percent more television than any other group, and the TV industry has taken notice. Of the nearly 500 scripted series across broadcast, cable, and streaming, at least 60 are headlined by black actors. However, most of these programs don’t appear on BET, OWN (The Oprah Winfrey Network), Bounce TV, or TV One: 70 percent of the black-headlined shows run on other networks and streamers.
QUESTION: As networks with significantly deeper pockets aggressively pursue the African-American audience, do black TV networks risk losing relevance?
Connie Orlando, Head of Programming at BET isn’t concerned by the competition and said, “Across TV, SVOD, and film, Hollywood is waking up to the excellence of black creators and the power of black audiences, something we have done for the past 40 years,” she said. “African Americans are not monolithic. There’s room for all of us in the ever-changing content landscape, and other networks creating African-American content opens the door to more opportunities for African-American content creators, actors, and producers.” Sadly, Connie Orlando is dead wrong. Instead of coalescing Black people to form a Black-owned multimedia conglomerate, Orlando misguidingly champions the business-as-usual paradigm where White people, especially White men, ultimately own and/or control all aspects of Black entertainment.
The failure to coalesce Black people to form a Black-owned multimedia conglomerate is the reason why there are NO Black-owned local television stations in the United States of America - period. At best, there's a handful of cable-based Black-owned pseudo-networks often partly owned by White people and broadcast through much larger White-owned and White-controlled networks, such as Comcast, COX Communication, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, etc. For example:
BET (Black Entertainment Television) is a property of White-owned ViacomCBS.
Clearly, do NOT blame White people for the stupidity of Berry Gordy, and his lack of business acumen and lack of "Blackness" for selling Motown to White people. Do NOT blame White people for the stupidity of Robert Johnson, and his lack of business acumen and lack of "Blackness" for selling BET to White people. Do NOT blame White people for Oprah Winfrey's stupidity and hatred of Black men, her hatred of the traditional Black family and marriage, and her extremely low self-esteem that propelled her to be perennially obese; but question why Winfrey launched the television success of two White men who were already "rich," Dr. Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil) and Dr. Mehmet Cengiz (Dr. Öz), instead of using her media influence to make Black men and Black women multi-millionaires.
Martin Lawrence Is Not Who We Think He Is
According To Ernest "Raj" Thomas From Whats Happening!Sadly, Owens, Elder, and Sowell have absolutely no hands-on, practical vocational experience or academic expertise actually directing and/or managing AA/EEO/ADA/Diversity and Inclusion. They function only as a mouthpiece to their own skewed political rhetoric. Candace Owens, in particular, functions as a pseudo-expert only because she quickly and selectively retorts a few articles, reports or books she's read, and she's been handpicked to be the token "Black (Uncle Tom-ish) woman" on White owned/White controlled conservative media. It's wrong and stupid to ignore the perpetual existence of systemic racism and system sexism, and it's also wrong to blame every White person for the sins of the past. Likewise, given that White-male conservatives and White-male liberals have always been in exclusive control of the U.S. government and all aspects of business, industry, and public and private education, and that the socio-economic status for the overwhelming majority of Black people and other people of color has not improved under either political paradigm, it's wrong and stupid to champion one extreme as being better than the other. I'd welcome an opportunity to debate Owens, Elder, and Sowell but it really wouldn't be fair, because I'd embarrass them by revealing the flaws, stupidity, and buffoonery of her blatantly skewed rhetoric.
So, again, don't blame White people, especially White men, for the perpetual "stupidity" of Black people, other minorities, and women to constantly feel-the-need to have White men to validate their creative and technical accomplishments. Again, don't blame White people, especially White men, for the perpetual "stupidity" of Black people, other minorities, and women to constantly feel-the-need to have White men to validate their creative and technical accomplishments.
In Nebraska, communities throughout the state are encouraged to have "local rule" to determine and govern the boundaries and administration of local school districts except, of course, if you live in a predominately Black or Latino area. In Nebraska, an attempt for "local rule" or self-governance by Black and Latinos was labeled "segregation," but it remains perfectly okay and legal for White people in west Omaha to segregate themselves socially, culturally, and economically from Black people who predominately live in north Omaha, and Latinos who predominately live in south Omaha. Why did the author of LB 641, Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers, want "local rule" for Black people and Latinos? Here's why: Since admitted to the Union in 1867, for one-hundred-and-fifty-three-(153) years, White people have consistently been in complete control of all aspects of the education of Black and Latino students (funding, curriculum, hiring of teachers and administrators, location of schools, etc.), and NEVER in the history of the state has the educational performance of Black and Latino students equaled the performance of White students - NEVER. So, after one-hundred-and-fifty-three-(153) years of perpetual failure, what justification is there that White controlled school districts are truly capable of educatiing Black and Latino students? None.
It's a well-documented practice that the majority of White people pick and chose "if and when" they elect to integrate. Let me be clear, I'm not promoting separatism or isolationalism, which is actively practiced by most White people. Integration has its place and purpose, especially for White people who continue to generate a significantly greater financial benefit from integration than do Black people or other people of color. In order for Black people to dramatically improve "our" socio-economic status, integration and assimulation into White culture should not be an obligatory act; integration should be a consideration, but integration should not be our focus.
"How long are you gonna sit around begging White people to do for us when we have the power to do for ourselves?"
Minister Louis Farrakhan
Are Black people stupid?
Again, when White people make Black people as rich as Oprah Winfrey, or Michael Jordan, or Berry Gordy, or Robert Johnson and so many others, and these rich Black people fail to align themselves to create dynamic business enterprises to uniquely advance the socio-economic status of other Black people, then yes, these Black people are not just Uncle Tom's, egotistical, stingy, and narcissistic, they are also stupid . . . and weak . . . cowards . . . and not deserving of any respect or idolatry.
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