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16 October 2025
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amen, I can only add one thing , the designers of the million man march, the nation of islam/farrakhan have to be blamed for the lost opportunity + no long term plan or follow up.
And I can see why , cause though I have no proof, I will gamble a reshare online that, the nation of islam + farrakhan saw the million man march as a membership drive. Which in my view is a dysfunctional plan but I can see it with them. the Nation of Islam's primary problem from the time of malcolm has always been that they are membership first help second. Malcolm was help first, help second. Malcolm didn't feel a black person had to be a nation of islam member to be helped nor did the black populace in the usa need to revolve around the nation of islam and his exile i argue gives proof to my point.
Black men in modern times were not going to all join the nation of islam through this event.
I second you again, and instead of a bank, why not a credit union. again, banks by law have a more complex legal situation which is designed to be challenging. Credit unions are simpler to start, more simple in their financing.
I will even go further and say, with most black churches protestant, why can't they form a credit union where each black church is a member? they could had did that decades ago. Black churches + black colleges are the earliest black institutions in the usa post war between the states, 1865. The first time black people in the usa have some form of true collective freedom. So the fact that black churches don't have a financial institution made up of themselves is telling to their administration. They are in competition with each other to such a level, they can't unite.
In conclusion, and it goes to the same problem with the nation of islam, the black religious groups in the usa, are very tribal. Membership first, everything else second. I see this every sunday. In harlem today, with all the strangification or white reentry, the black churches still get their sunday folk who don't live in harlem to come in and wear their hats and carrying on. MEmbership first, everything else second. And I don't mind the tribalism. BUT, these same people then complain about the village all the time. If you are about your tribe so much that you can only help someone in the village when they are a member of your tribe, fine , acceptable, BUT bitching about the village is unacceptable when you aren't willing to help anyone unless it is for tribal gain. And they are not alone. When the HArlem EMpowerment Zone was started with Charlie Rangel , the house representative of harlem, a senior house member, black, supported by the clintons, only one black owned business in harlem got any money from that initiative, that was Mr. Copelands, who spirit flew years ago and whose restaurants have been out of business for years as well. He said so on a show called like it is with gil noble, also no longer on television as Mr. Noble, spirit also flew. I comprehend the white man runs the USA. But, 70/30. Harlem hasn't started any black owned nation wide franchises. I will apologize for Black Harlem. But that doesn't mean black owned businesses like Mr. Copelands, that were around for decades, couldn't be considered on equal footing, in the HArlem Empowerment Zone, by Black elected officials who all spoke positively of the Harlem Empowerment Zone. ... Said officials all also received alot of money for themselves... this is why SHirley CHisholm left... anyway, I don't mind tribes helping themselves, membership first. But, the black people need to do better speeches, from nation of islam/black churches/black elected officials who have failed to plan positively or effectively for the village, exposes that all three relate to the village as membership first, individualism second. Once you become a member of their tribe, they can do , if you are not a member, you are on your own and they are free to berate your failings, while never helping, even when they can.
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16 October 2025
This event began 10/16/2025 and repeats every year forever
Someone somewhere cited The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in a quick graphic.
MY REPLY
I told someone else somewhere, the issue is guidance. All movements need a destination. Absent a destination, a movement is bound to fail, meaning it will not move the world around the movement to somewhere.
IN AMENDMENT
yeah gil scott heron:) .. I said somewhere else, the usa will be 250 years old next year, that is a quarter of a thousand years. not a little bit of time. I don't see the revolution today, I think more of the time the roman empire changed location from roma to nova roma/constantinople. A time of change or upheavel, but alot of it wasn't the people of the roman empire which stretched from modern spain to syria uprising as much as after some chaos, the government remade itself to fit the people who lived under it. I think the usa is in that situation. The United States of America was founded by first people/native American slaughtering black African enslaving financially wealthy white European outcast. Said outcast developed a legal system that allowed for governmental flexibility more than any other at the time. But, the flexibility wasn't and isn't impervious to being used to maintain rigid orders/systems/structures. The white power order [white is top, white is best, white is right, white is normal and not white are the opposites], the systems of inequality applied across all forms of race [phenotypical/gender/age/religion/ancestry/fiscal quality and all other] , the structures of slavery from the prisons to the hospitals to the schools that allow the control of various people legally, to their detriment, are not as they were, have the same level of potency or presence, when the USA was founded. No, Richard has never been shackled or called boy by whites. But while said orders/systems/structures exist they are weaker than ever before in the usa or the European colonies that preceded it, and must embrace coexistence with new orders/systems/structures. Within the USA regional varieties of the orders/systems/structures will need to be embraced by all under one roof. Orders not based on whiteness but on wealth, allowing all who are financially wealthy the same privileges as white males when wealthy. Systems of inequality will remain but applied across fewer forms of race. phenotype, gender? no. religion somewhat, age,fiscal quality? yes. Structures of slavery will have to be replaced with structures of poverty. Yes keeping people poor. The USA is not becoming Star Trek, but the fabric of its populace is more varied than ever before in the past, more financially potent across all racial lines than ever before , more legally present /represented/demanding than ever before across all racial lines. So the federal government has to use its flexibility to reflect that. Will it? I don't know. Will I gamble it will? I gamble the USA will break as the people in it will not use the flexibility within the legal code to change the government to suit them.
The people outside the usa in many countries biggest issue is the strategic view of immigration, the age of the usa from the end of world war two to today has made immigration a better choice than scuffling to make ones country better. It is easier for a small family to move than to be part of a movement. The uprising outside the usa will require a change of minds. Cause, at the moment, it will never be easier to change Mexico/Nigeria/India than immigrate away from said places to a country like the USA, unless the USA closes up shop. Scrumpt is trying to get that to happen to support the old oders/systems/structures trying to hold on to dominance in the usa. I don't see long term that happening. Though, a big part of that is how the states are managed. For historical precedence, the articles of confederation did precede the constitution and its entire design was based on the idea that the states only undeniable unifying factor was self defense, which is still true today. But such a change will require a change in the quality of elected officials in the usa at the which I do not see at any level.
Gil Scott Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself on skag And skip out for beer during commercials, because The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox in four parts Without commercial interruptions The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle And leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre And will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal The revolution will not get rid of the nubs The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because The revolution will not be televised, brother There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance NBC will not be able to predict the winner At 8:32 on report from 29 districts The revolution will not be televised There will be no pictures of pigs Shooting down brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of pigs Shooting down brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of Whitney Young Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand-new process There will be no slow-motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkins Strolling through Watts in a red, black, and green liberation jumpsuit That he has been saving for just the proper occasion Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction Will no longer be so damn relevant And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane On Search for Tomorrow, because black people will be in the street Looking for a brighter day The revolution will not be televised There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be right back after a message About a white tornado, white lightning, or white people You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom The tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl The revolution will not go better with Coke The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath The revolution will put you in the driver's seat The revolution will not be televised Will not be televised Will not be televised Will not be televised The revolution will be no re-run, brothers The revolution will be live
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