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

DISNEY OWNS ALL
OF THIS, and THIS.

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

AT&T OWNS ALL
OF THIS, and THIS
and THIS.

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.

 

 

As robustly documented in the book, "A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters," concurrent with the dawn of the White film industry, Black people also produced original films, which were produced, directed, edited, distributed by and starring Black people. These Black produced films with all-Black casts included silent films, talkies, and color films. Just like White films, the genres included westerns, mysteries, dramas, romance, action, comedies, etc. Unlike White films that intentionally limited Black actors and actresses to menial service-oriented roles such as laborers, servants, maids, etc., the stories and roles in Black films mirrorred the self-sufficiency of the Black "segregated" community, which ranged from service to professional, including doctors, lawyers, pilots, newspapermen, politicians, business owners, and civic leaders. So, why are successful Black stage and film directors, producers, actors, musicians, and music executives unable or unwilling to "pool" their collective creative and financial resources to create a Black owned and controlled theatrical enterprise comparable to Disney, Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, MGM, etc.?
   


 

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.

Disney's
Soul (2020)

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From the "Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia"

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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?

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.

In "Hollywood" ultimate control has been and continues to be primarily dictated by White Jewish men. As published in the LA Times article, How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? C'mon - "When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the (Jewish) Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah." Source: Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2008, by JOEL STEIN

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.

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:

ATHLETE
TEAM / SPORT
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:

NBA - Total Number of Teams 30
AVERAGE
SALARY*
NUMBER PLAYERS
TOTAL
SALARIES
BLACK
PLAYERS (75%)
WHITE
PLAYERS (25)
TOTAL
SALARIES
$7,700,000
450
$3,465,000,000
$2,598,750,000
$866,250,000
$3,465,000,000
NFL - Total Number of Teams 32
AVERAGE SALARY**
NUMBER PLAYERS
TOTAL
SALARIES
BLACK
PLAYERS (70%)
WHITE
PLAYERS (30)
TOTAL
SALARIES
$2,700,000
1,696
$4,579,200,000
$3,205,440,000
$1,373,760,000
$4,579,200,000
 

* 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.html

So, 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

 


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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:

Negro Baseball League - Primarly between 1920 and 1950, the league featured Black athletes with athletic abilities equal to or greater than White leagues, and most importantly, the Black league created revenue streams that supported the Black community. Instead of building on this success, Black people progressively abandoned their support of the Negro Baseball League. With regard to being "brainwashed," the overwhelming majority of athletes in the NBA and the NFL are Black, but these Black millionaires are far more "content" to be "owned" by White men than to create their own professional leagues. Tis. Tis. Tis. Gone are the days of being, "Black and Proud."

Motown - The most successful Black owned and controlled music company in U.S. history, created many legendary and wealthy recording artists (Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, etc.) and robust revenue streams that supported many Black communities. Instead, Motown owner Berry Gordy lacked the guts and intelligence to merge with other successful Black entrepreneurs and businesses (Solar, Johnson Publishing, Johnson Products, BET, etc.) to create a Black multimedia giant like TimeWarner, Disney, or UniversalNBC; so he sold Motown to White owned and controlled Universal Music Group.

Black Entertainment Television - The most successful Black owned and controlled cable television network in U.S. history. Sadly, as detailed in #1, #2, and #3 above, BET owner Robert L. Johnson lacked the guts and intelligence to merge with other successful Black entrepreneurs and businesses (Motown, Solar, Johnson Publishing, Johnson Products, etc.) to create a Black multimedia giant like TimeWarner, Disney, or UniversalNBC; so he sold BET to White owned and controlled ViacomCBS.

Softsheen - Black women spend more money on hair care than any other ethnic group of women, and Softsheen was the most successful and largest Black owned and controlled cosmetics company in U.S. history. Sadly, Terri Gardner, the President and CEO of Soft Sheen and daughter of the founders, lacked the guts and intelligence to merge with other successful Black entrepreneurs and businesses to create a Black-owned cosmetics and haircare giant like L'Oréal; so she sold Softsheen to White owned and controlled L'Oréal.

Negro Ensemble Company - Formed in 1967 by Black people to showcase original theatrical works about the Black experience by Black writers such as August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, and others, and featuring great Black actors including Kevin Hooks, Debbie Allen, Adolph Caesar, Louis Gossett, Jr. and so many, many more. So, why are successful Black stage and film directors, producers, and music executives unable or unwilling to "pool" their collective creative and financial resources to create a Black owned and controlled theatrical enterprise comparable to the "Broadway" theatrical experience in New York City?

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.

CHINESE OWNED AND CONTROLLED
Brooklyn Nets The Waldorf Astoria
AMC Theatres Strategic Hotels & Resorts
Smithfield Foods Riot Games
Legendary Entertainment Group Ingram Micro
GE Appliances Motorola Mobility
Instead of always surrendering ownership and control to White people, especially White males, why don't some smart and wealthy Black people, other minorities, and women flip-the-switch, consolidate their financial resources, and purchase major businesses that are primarily owned and controlled by White people, especially White men? Again, why haven't U.S. based Black billionaires like Oprah Winfrey, Robert L. Johnson, Robert Smith, Michael Jordan, and David Steward joined forces with Black multi-millionaires like Berry Gordy, Magic Johnson, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Will Smith, Ice Cube, Smokey Robinson, etc., to create a Black multimedia conglomerate like Disney, TimeWarner, ViacomCBS, or Universal/NBC? You know, build a multimedia company from scratch just like three wealthy White Jewish men named Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen successfully created DreamWorks SKG!
 
 
In 2018, Forbes published its assessment of the richest Black and African (yes, there's a big difference) people in the world.
     
Name ( Female)
Industry
Billion$
Nationality
1.
Aliko Dangote Sugar, Cement, Flour

14.10

Nigeria
2.
Mike Adenuga Oil, Telecoms, Real Estate, Bamking

5.30

Nigeria
3.
Robert Smith Venture Capitalist

4.40

United States
4.
Oprah Winfrey Television, Media

2.70

United States
5.
Isabel Dos Santos Oil, Telecom, Investments

2.60

Angola
6.
Patrice Motsepe Mining

2.50

South Africa
7.
Folorunsho Alakija Oil

1.70

Nigeria
8.
Michael Jordan Basketball, Marketing

1.65

United States
9.
Strive Masiyiwa Telecoms

1.39

Zimbabwe
10.
Mohammed Ibrahim Mobile Telecoms

1.18

British

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

 

The buffoonery of Black conservative intellectualism?

Candace Owens
Born: April 29, 1989 (31 years)

Stamford (Connecticut)
High School Diploma


Larry Elder
Born: April 27, 1952 (68 years)
Brown University, AB
University of Michigan, J.D.


Thomas Sowell
Born: June 30, 1930 (90 years)
Harvard University, BA
Columbia University, MA
University of Chicago, PhD

Attention: 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.

Aspire TV - Owned by Magic Johnson Enterprises but with limited distribution by DirecTV, Comcast, AT&T

TV One - Owned by the largest African-American-owned broadcasting company in the United States, Urban One, operating 55 radio stations and majority-owning the syndicator Reach Media, as well as its digital arm Interactive One, and the cable network TV One and Cleo TV.

OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) is primarily the property of White-owned Discovery, Inc., and minority owner Harpo Productions. Oprah Winfrey is contracted with the channel through at least 2025.

Bounce TV - Founded by Martin Luther King III, Andrew Young, and Andrew "Bo" Young III, is a property of White-owned E. W. Scripps Company.

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.

Do NOT blame White people for Bill Cosby's stupidity and 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, ViacomCBS, 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. That's right, as observed by Ernest "Raj" Thomas in the video at right, blame Martin Lawrence and his contemporaries.


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.

If Black neighborhoods mirrored the same character and scope of educational performance, business success, low unemployment, access to health care, fair and just judiciary, and low incarceration as White areas, well, George Floyd and so many other Black men and women would not be dead.

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.

I welcome your feedback.

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Trip Reynolds
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June 11, 2020
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