Rant on Black Nation-Building

Revolutionary: What skills can you offer for nation-building in the Black community?



Flags and poetry and bold words mean nothing without that one word in your opening question:

SKILLS.

Afro-centric Black people, and every other fringe culture group in America, needs to learn that their big talk is worthless if they can't do the basics in life.

A city needs, to sustain itself, energy, transportation, trade, means of social control, food, water, waste disposal and a means for education.

That isn't sexy, sassy or dynamic. It's just public administration. And people don't want to do it because that would mean acquiring skills, using them and having few to blame but themselves if they come up short.

Every fringe group in America depends on the mainstream, no matter how different they claim to be. If you think Pan-Africanism is a worthwhile goal, then go for it. But realize that "independent business" isn't enough. They have to re-create the entire net or not both at all, because they will only be fooling themselves.