That's the point of my post... I'm saying to you, you'd need everyone to agree on a direction and not too mention you'd have to take into consideration blacks from other places less Americanized... their views arent shared amongst foreigners let alone with blacks born here. That's not a knock, but an acknowledgement to the planning that would require grassroots communication first amongst us with organizing. We got Umar and Nasheed disagreeing on shit lol
Understand.
1. Just practice black economics. Hire black folks to cut your grass, go to black nail techs, hire black folks to do home & improvement, support black coffee shops, etc. Just spend your dollar with black folks. When you take trips, try and find a black person who owns an Air BnB, etc.
2. Disagreements will come about, but if you have folks (some on here) who don't understand that other groups look out for their own when it comes down to getting resources, keeping resources, then we will never get anywhere, case in point, nobody on this board is in agreement with KH or Trump sitting down with Tariq or Umar, regardless how they personally feel about those two individuals, they refuse to support that act. One poster on here brought up the dude old album or something, another one just called him a grifter, but nobody seems to care about how dude donated to pay for funerals, calls the sheriffs and police chiefs in other states/cities on behalf of families when they are jammed up. Niggas aint doing that for their "own" family members but here this man does these things. When folks get jammed up, they call Tariq, they're not calling Ricky Smiley, Not Steve Harvey, Roland Martin, etc they are calling him to help them in their situation and get the word out. He doesn't even know these folks, but he sends out the bat signal, and guess what happens, his followers, who are "grassroot" are on board with helping out those families.
Buddy paid for Dr. Henry Clarke's funeral, Dr. Francis Cress funeral. Tamar Rice funeral. Other funerals, Darren Seals out there in St. Louis another grassroot activist who was one of his followers etc. Kyrie Irving is an Executive Producer on this last film about HIp Hop. Nick Cannon fucks with the dude heavy, a lot of NBA/NFL players secretly fund his projects after he's reached out to the community with the Go Fundme. Nipsey Hussle fucked with him heavy. Young grassroot folks, the younger folks fuck with him You can have your own personal beef with buddy, but dude's track record is good as it gets.
Shit he does more than what Roland Martin do, He does more than what any other grass root persona that you can name.
Yea he cracks on 'tethers" but if you're not on that time and you support 'everybody's move, then he aint talking about you. I used to be on that time with dude and Umar until I started following their information more than who they were. Starting finding out about where they get their talking points, and the shit just made sense.
Those men have huge followings, both were on the Breakfast Club and both presences are heavy on the grassroot level. They are maybe the only ones at the grassroot level who has a huge following, maybe Jason Black can be thrown in that hat. These are the folks that the "grassroot" level black folks listen to.
3. Who else has a bigger following on the "grassroot" level besides Tariq and Umar? That can talk for the 'grassroot' to Trump and KH?? The breakfast club? lol Steve Harvey? These folks have no ear to what the 'grassroot' folks need and are asking for to get done.
4. Having this, we should include everybody has not been great for black folks, black folks been on this kick since the 70s. In the 60s black folks pressed the gov't and made the gov't change their way on how to deal with black folks which is not to do a dayum thing specifically for them. That's not how it should be.