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So you missed me! To be continued........

Jeffrey Thanks for clarifying. I'm gonna suggest another way of looking at it and include an answer within that suggestion............ It seems to me that creators of Black cultural product (music, art, education, literature, etc.) must first get the approval and qualifications from a white person (a "gatekeeper") to do so. It may seem like a petty thing to point out, however I would say that Black creators don't need approval and accreditation of a Caucasian to actually create. Our people will do that automatically because it's in our nature. *We need their approval and accreditation to DISPLAY our creations on THEIR PLATFORM (there television shows, social media, media outlets, ect...) And here in lays most of the problem. Too often our people think CAUCASIAN platforms are the only platforms, and spend too much effort and energy seeking Caucasian approval to be accepted on THEIR platforms instead of using our creativity to establish OUR OWN platforms where Cauasian approval and qualifications would be irrelevant if not non-existent. I could care less what YOUR rules are for renting a room in YOUR apartment...when I'm living in a 57 room mansion. They would be totally irrelevant to me. As far as whether your feelings of suspicion is wrong...... You may be surprised to learn that just as money only has the value we GIVE IT -the value of Caucasian platforms (television shows, radio, internet channels, ect...) are the same way! The REAL reason they put up rules and stipulations and force many of our people to seek their approval and accept SOME while dismissing OTHERS on their platforms (television shows, radio, youtube channels, instagram, ect...) is simply to RAISE IT'S VALUE by making it seem exclusive and make people fight extra hard to participate on them. Think about that for a minute or two. The fact is, most Caucasian institutions whether they are Universities, social media, television shows, ect...actually STRONGLY DESIRE Black participation and creativity. They don't want us away, they want us IN them for the most part and if we stopped patronizing them they'd BEG us to start participating again and even offer us money to do so. Don't believe me, look at sports and entertainment industries and how they pay our people MILLIONS to exploit their creativity! What they DON'T want is for us to form OUR OWN platforms where they'd be powerless and we'd have complete control over the content and it's distribution. Complete control over the display and presentation of our creativity. For example..... Imagine us having OUR OWN totally independent universities (not needing any money or licensing from Caucasians or the government) where we're teaching WHATEVER we want to teach and they couldn't shut it down. In a manner of MONTHS they'd lower all of the standards of THEIR BEST universities like Harvard and Yale and make enrollment absolutely to them FREE in order to pull our students back in them for participation because their value would be almost gone.