I guess the first step is to know and understand there is no, "us". You're fooling yourself (and wasting time) if you think of the Black Community as one, big, happy family.
A Black man will rob you just as fast as a White person.
A Black man will snitch on you just as fast as a White person.
And when you're in court in front of a jury, a Black juror will vote "guilty" just as fast as a White person.
All that is to say that you really can't "trust" somebody because of their skin color. And Malcolm X taught us that we can't organize on the basis of race. We have to organize on the basis of ideology, not race. That's why Elijah Muhammad was successful and Malcolm X wasn't. If you wanted to join Elijah Muhammad's organization you had to go to the meetings, abstain from drugs and alcohol, participate in martial arts training, etc. Malcolm X's organization (OAAU) accepted anybody as long as you were Black. Consequently some Black people came to one of the meetings and shot him before he could get the organization up and running. All that is to say we can't organize on the basis of skin color.
I think successful people know this. They don't think Black or White, they think GREEN. If it makes dollars it makes sense. Take Jay Z for example. There's a lot of haters that say he doesn't do enough for the Black community. Same with Obama, they said when he was in office he didn't do enough to uplift the Black community.
The bottom line is that each individual person needs to uplift him/herself. We can't sit around waiting on a mystery God to bring us food. We have to finish school. That means getting a diploma and/or GED. I live in Trenton where the dropout rate is about 50%. There's nothing I can do to make a dropout go back to school and get his GED. That's something he has to do for himself. If he doesn't finish school, he might be able to get a menial job making just enough to get by (if he's lucky). What's more likely is that he'll get arrested and go back and forth to jail until he either goes to college, joins the military, or joins a union.
I said all that to say we (The Black Community) have to stop looking at ourselves as one unit and do for self. Help out your individual family members if you can, but don't go to church, or Mosque and donate $1,000 hoping that they can use the money better than a family member who needs it.
Forget all of these organizations like the NAACP (jews) that claim to uplift the community, uplift your individual family members. If you have more money than you know what to do with, pay it forward. Pay off your nephew or niece's student loans. Help a brother (literally) out. If you have money stacked and you can afford to donate it, give it to somebody in your immediate family that needs it.
Waiting on some organization to make things better hasn't worked. We need to do for self and support our families.
