Principles of Change

This site will move in a different direction. The black blogosphere has illustrated that there is a lot of pain and a lot of things we have to do to get ourselves back to being a responsible people. This blog will not feed into the screamfest. We will rise above that and come up with an organized way for us as a people to move forward. In a lot of ways our community is starting from scratch. The handbook may have never existed for us to burn it in the first place. This blog will not be about what we need to do or about who didn’t do what they’re supposed to do. It will be a portal of actual action. Our principles are as follows:

Principles of Change
-Moaning, crying, bitching, and complaining are not going to help black people accomplish anything. All one has to do is take a cursory look at the black blogosphere to realize that everyone is screaming. This only leads to more screaming, name calling, and blame shifting.

Black women blame black men. Black men blame black women. The Y and millenial generations (30 and under) blame the baby boomers with the X generation caught between the two. The ‘conscious’ brothers and sisters blame the educated ‘elites’ and vice versa. The poor blames the rich. The rich blames the poor. The unreligious blame the Black Church. The deep sorrow exhibited through our collective rage is only proof that much healing and growth must take place. We have disappointed ourselves. We are ashamed of ourselves. We have let our ancestors down. We have thrown spit in the Movement’s face and it is with deep distress that we find ourselves in this bullshit we call being Black. But I don’t want to revel in the hate. You can play the blame game and kick and scream like a spoiled brat all you want but eventually you have to get up, dust yourself off, and keep moving forward. I am looking for real solutions because if I am stuck in mud all the screaming and hollering will not get me out. It will only add to the confusion of the situation. I must realize I am there, look around at whatever resources I have at my disposal (and there are more than we think within our collective), put one foot in front of the other, climb out, clean off, and run on. To those black people who want to run on and wash themselves of their blackness because certain segments (all of them in some way) of our community (and yes it is alive and well even if we want to convince ourselves that it is dead) have failed. They can go wherever they want to go. To those black people who don’t want to act right, we can give ourselves permission to let them die in the wilderness. LET THEM GO…NOW. No more waiting for people to act like human beings. When Marcus Garvey was organizing the back to Africa crusades, he was very clear that some black people can be left behind. They are and will be nothing more than dead weight. One form of capital punishment the Romans enacted was that the convicted was to carry a dead person on their back. Carrying the dead person would eventually cause the convicted (a healthy living human being) to rot from the inside out. The black world has carried the worst of itself on its back (deadbeat dads, welfare brats, (c )rap and hip-hop music, wicked heads of state in Africa) and is now dying the world over. Our yelling is simply our screams for life. We do want to live. We are uncomfortable with being the shame of humanity even when we marry into other races (to in some cases wash the stain away). And therefore change is mandatory if we are to prove ourselves to be a race that is worthy of existence.


Some of the most beautiful love songs were penned and/or performed by black men.

-Forgiveness is necessary. As stated above, everyone knows who the culprit is (and it usually is the group that they are not a part of). To have failed as much as black people have, it is fair to say everyone is at fault. The Black church has failed. The Nation of Islam has failed. Black men have failed. Black women have failed. Black political leaders have failed. The baby boomers failed (I place less blame on the younger generations because they didn’t become failures on their own. In most cases, they were raised wrong). Black entertainers failed. All economic classes among our collective has failed. Forgiveness is not for the other person, it is for you. Therefore, we must forgive ourselves for having let the problems get as bad as they are. This does not leave us off the hook for these actions. We recognize that we have failed. It simply allows us to press the RESET button which is in order.
There is blood on everyone’s hands so there is no need to measure who’s more guilty. Let’s forgive ourselves and make a decision to MOVE THE FUCK ON. That doesn’t mean move away and run as far as you can. It means let’s move toward changing our predicament. Furthermore, I don’t want to hear any excuses where we rebound back into the blame game (which is just that: a game where nobody wins). That is laziness at best. Someone needs to get down to business. Black people talk a good game but they have a hard time following it up with action, unless it’s a big crowd. We brag about how much we built this country (for white people). But when it comes time to build something (not talk about needing to build something) for ourselves we wring our hands in confusion and anger. BULLSHIT. Let’s forgive and move towards action.

-The black family is important. Everyone is free to love and marry whoever they want. However, it is only Blacks and Asians who are the most likely to marry outside of their race. Whites, seconded by Latinos, in the US and abroad are the least likely to marry outside of their race. Blacks (whose social structure is weak on a good day) and Asians (whose sun is rising quickly) are the races who benefit the least from interracial relationships. Mind you, black-white interracial marriages have an 85% divorce rate. Therefore, this site will maintain that the black family is important.
I do not know why some black men have devalued black women and don’t place as much commitment to the community. It is safe to say that black men who think like that are dead weight. We are MOVING ON. We will not be trying to convert people who should know better, not at this late a date. Also, we will expect supposedly good black men to step their game up and hold their peers accountable. No more, ‘I’m a good black man because I have a 9-to-5 and I take care of my kids’. A real man (of any race) doesn’t brag about such things. That is a man’s ‘reasonable service’. That’s what a man is supposed to do. On another note, I don’t know why so many black women have resolved to accept bullshit from black men and commit to being baby mamas. Those who excuse the crazy are dead weight and must be cut off. We will no longer entertain that wrong thinking. Marriage is not for white people.
It is a union crafted by God Himself for the benefit of the men, women, and the children. We are lying to ourselves if we are thinking this single motherhood is helping anyone. We are lying to ourselves if we think spoiling our sons will help them.

-Money is power. ‘Money does not buy happiness’ is what poor people say to make themselves feel better. We must think ownership. Too many of the talented tenth mark success as being a high ranking employee at another person’s company. BULLSHIT. Even poor blacks know that that is BULLSHIT. We will encourage people to maximize their wealth and own their own businesses.

-Welfare Reform is important. Like I said before, black people must remove the dead weight in their communities. The welfare rolls are one place to find the majority of the dead weight. Every black person in America knows that there are two types of black people in this country. The upstanding black people must help their low class bretheren by making them responsible for their actions. Black progressives and politicians have made a living begging/blaming/shaming the US government to bend over backwards to give black people everything and WE ARE STILL NOTHING. We all know welfare needs to be seriously reformed. There’s nothing wrong with helping people in need. However, we have enabled BULLSHIT allowing people to have multiple children they cannot afford nor do they even attempt to care for. We have bound the hands of the schools in black neighborhoods to the point where they are just organized babysitting circles where 7 year olds can beat up their teachers and the parents have the nerve to wonder why the good teachers run for the hills and their kids can’t read in the 12th grade. Enough is enough. Most of the 'talented tenth' (whoever they are) is only a generation or two out of poverty so we know full well that the opportunities abound to change our individual predicaments. There is no excuse for having children you have no intentions to care for…for several generations. This must end or be seriously reformed.

-Crime must be punished. I and many others have grown a cold heart to black criminals. ‘They put drugs into the community’ is not a good enough justification to poison YOUR own people and become a neighborhood terrorist. ‘The police don’t value our lives’…probably because you don’t even value our lives. VALUE YOUR OWN LIFE, YOU BIG BABY. STOP WHINING. Knowing that the system is bent against you, why would you perpetually do the things that would land you in trouble? That just means that you are STUPID AS SHIT. YOU did/sold the drugs knowing what the consequences would be. YOU got involved in a gang. YOU held up the gas station. YOU raped the teenager while she was on her way to school. YOU shot and killed in your neighborhood. YOU disrespected the police. YOU didn’t apply yourself in school and chose to drop out. YOU didn’t pay your child support. YOU used your natural talents and abilities to inject fear into YOUR community. Therefore, YOU must be punished. There are no more excuses. Dead weight, be though removed. I’m SNITCHING.

- We must own our own continent, that continent being Africa. I was born and raised in Philadelphia as what I term a ‘generational African-American’ (brought here through slavery, 200+ years in the US) as opposed to a newer African-American (blacks who just got off the boat, so to speak). Do not blame me for that. I may not be ‘as African’ as you think I am but I got this dark skin, full body from the same place you got yours. And if you’re so proud to be African, why are you here, in MY COUNTRY (yeah we can play that game too)? Why are there more black people leaving Africa today than at the height of the slave trade? I apologize. Whether we want to admit it or not, black people the world over are tied to each other, just like every other race is tied to itself.

I weep over Africa just as much as I weep over the black predicament in the Diaspora. Africa has become the poster child of jacked up government. 40-60 years of independence and we still don’t own our own house. It is the ass of the world letting everyone come in and FUCK US OVER…and we allow this all in the name of progress. If black people in America (and the diaspora) did better, people would think differently about Africa. Conversely, if Africa did better, people would think better about the blacks in the Diaspora. It’s all related. Only we do not see it or don’t want to admit it. ADMITING It WOULD PROVOKE US TO WORK (A CURSE WORD I KNOW) TO CHANGE IT. Decent, bulldog (meaning not letting China or the West do whatever they want) government is what is required. No longer do we need politicians stealing from their own people and begging for white and yellow Governments to pay for their mismanagement (READ: THEFT). Again, this is dead weight. ‘But look at America. It is the last country to talk about corruption’. However, America can afford the BULLSHIT. Africa cannot.

-We must understand that it will not be easy. The Civil Rights Movement and the black independence movements came and went pretty quickly. Getting to the Promise Land (health, wealth, and strong families) and staying there will take work. It will not happen overnight but it will happen if we are steadfast and committed.


-We also understand that everything we need we have and/or have the ability to obtain.