The Gantt Report

Manipulation, exploiting and oppressing Black Americans is so easy a caveman could do it and the descendants of cavemen are doing it right this very minute!

Once upon a time, Black people in the world had the highest respect. Our forefathers were kings and queens, warriors and fighters, scholars and prophets.

Today, the most famous African-Americans are those that are labeled as such by closet klansmen.

Jews pick Jewish leaders, Cubans pick Cuban leaders, Native Americans choose their own Indian Chiefs but the white news media picks leaders of America’s Black communities.

Think about it. Did you vote for Jesse Jackson? Did you select Al Sharpton? Was your choice Minister Farrakhan?

No disrespect to any of the recognized “leaders” but that man or that woman in your neighborhood that has ruined their careers, sacrificed their income, suffered all of the animosity and hatred and raised their blood pressure so that you could succeed and do better gets little or no attention at all.

The leaders designated by the white man live good. Jesse and Al never miss a meal. They live in luxury homes. They always have the best looking hairdos and they never saw a limousine that they would not ride in.

But that man and that lady in the hood will ride the bus to stand up and speak out for you. If they have to eat neck bones and pork and beans every night, they will do it before they sell their souls to sit at the devil’s table and have a steak dinner with the enemies of equal rights and justice!

You know the people I’m writing about. Oftentimes, you call them crazy!

Anybody that believes in God and disbelieves the devil, you call them crazy.

Anybody that demands respect, you call them crazy. Anyone that will love and protect Black women and children, you call them crazy!

After the time of colonization in the western hemisphere, came neocolonialism. If you don’t know what that means it means the colonizers don’t have to colonize, someone that looks like the victims of colonization will do the colonizing.

Europeans don’t have to tell Black people to speak the white King’s English, Bill Cosby will do that for them. You don’t have to tell professional basketball players to adhere to a dress code, Negro sportscasters will tell them for you. You don’t have to tell Black people that Jesus is white, the literature and art in the Black churches is self-explanatory!

A true Black leader is for Black people. If you don’t understand nationalism, you’ll never understand why there is a Chinatown, a Little Havana or a Little Haiti.

Caucasians may have, Latinos may have but God bless the Black people that have their own!

Two people so-called Black leaders will never talk about are Marcus Garvey and Yahweh Ben Yahweh. Both men led organizations that had their own schools, businesses, homes for their members, hospitals and health centers, guards and armies.

The Universal Negro Improvement Association led by Garvey at the time of its hey day had more members than the NAACP, SCLC, CORE, and Black labor unions combined.

No, we don’t expect America’s Black leaders to be perfect. We don’t expect them to have all of the answers. However, we do expect them to have some measurable successes some of the time! (Gantt’s new book “Beast Too: Dead Man Writing” is coming soon. Contact Lucius at www.allworldconsultants.net)