why I welcome insults

a reflection on the backlash to my Kendrick Super Bowl commentary

I released a video and article recently that’s gotten a lot of attention due to it’s against the generally accepted perspective on the Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show.

the REAL problem with Kendrick's Super Bowl show

While I’ve had many positive responses, a lot of them from this newsletter (more on that in a minute), I've had vociferous abuse from many others within the black community. This is okay and I’m glad it is happening.

It means that what I said has had an effect and that effect is thinking.

This doesn’t mean everyone will truly engage with the ideas or agree with them. The damage done to the black mind is severe and has layers many generations and centuries deep. This goes for black americans and Africans on the continent.

To expect ideas so counter to the indoctrination be accepted easily by everyone would be naive on my part.

Note, I will be talking about the negative comments in this article and not the huge number of positive ones so do not take this as a represenation of the general attitude of black america to what I said.

The easiest way to think about this is that, if it is true what I believe that black America already has the power to get everything they want from the United States including reparations, then how is America able to not only blind them from that reality so they think they need to protest and ask instead of demand and take, but they also attack anyone who even suggests such a methodology of self determination?

Well, that is the brilliance of the mental manipulation. It is when you don’t know where you came from and your history, education, information, media, news and entertainment is all controlled by the very machine that seeks to keep you ignorant of your own power.

If black americans wanted to they could bring the US to a complete stop within 24 hours. This is not radical thought, this is literally the amount of cultural and economic power I believe the community has.

That is something the US government will never want to happen and that is why all efforts have been made to make the black American believe that the determination of success is acceptance and inclusion.

D….E….I

This is where the black celebrity comes in. It is their job to validate the quest for that inclusion and representation within the machine that makes sure their own people never look outside it for an alternative path to glory. There are no mainstream black celebrities that got rich and powerful outside the system.

NONE.

Think about that the next time they talk to you about freedom and success.

That is a conversation for another day.

My platform has different types of people.

TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X are all different but I have found my Substack audience the most astute.

I am not surprised you have been the ones to most aggressively engage with and accept where I was coming from with what I said. It is why I have said you should find others like you and introduce them to this newsletter. This is where I would want to have my biggest audience. Not the rented real estate of traditional social media.

You have so much to say about Kendrick and black americans but what are YOU doing to effect the change that you’re talking about?

This is a paraphrase of a question I see repeated any time I make a video or write an article about the black american experience. Especially in the context of building synergy and unity with Africa.

The truth is, if you’ve been following my platform for any length of time or looked in my archives of the last 2 years, I’ve done and am doing a lot to action change. This is why I am so excited about The Three Hundred and this situation has made me more determined to make it work.

We cannot set ourselves free while depending on the infrastructure imposed on us. Infrastructure not controlled by us. When The Three Hundred is operational I will be able to do things with the direct support of a hand selected funding source that are all aligned in vision for Africa, the diaspora and the bridge between them.

I was asked on a LIVE show I did a week ago

Can a person join The Three Hundred if they don’t agree with your ideas?

The answer is no. This group is not a debate group it is an action one. My wider community is for conversation. The Three Hundred is to do things. In order for that to happen efficiently, everyone within it has to be aligned on vision and ideology.

There will be no arguments. Only stragising, organising, informing and action.

What I have seen is that the type of mind that understands this is not in the majority. That understands there is no value at all in being successful within the system set up to keep us exactly where we are. I cannot be happy as a rich man when my brothers and sisters are poor by no act of their own. I can’t accept that. To see the comments I received it showed me how much damage has been done to us.

They are satisifed with messages and codes but don’t need or demand tangible actions to validate their support. I am not like that. I don’t know how to be.

Maybe that is a good or a bad thing but I am so glad there are a few of you that feel the same way.

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The first The Three Hundred meeting will be in March. Stay tuned for what we produce. It will be amazing. If you wish to apply for one of the final places, have a read of the article and within it you can send in an application.

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