Why Boyce Watkins Had to be Euthanized-gctid233932

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https://medium.com/@iramioseifrimpong/why-boyce-watkins-had-to-be-euthanized-f5f696b850c0

Monday's show brought on an expert, Dr. Jared Ball of Morgan St. University, to squash that notion.



Yvette then addressed Boyce's project. This is important because the project is bigger than Boyce. This is about anti-politics masquerading as black capitalism. Or anti-politics masquerading as religion. Or on the Breakfast Club or a Shonda Rhimes show, anti-Politics masquerading as entertainment.

To be clear, black capitalism, black religion, or black entertainment must be infused with black politics, or it's anti-politics because black problems are political problems.

I'm not a big fan of taking out other black men, but Boyce has been making money off of a quality of black capitalism that's anti-political. He is telling black people to quit their jobs and start businesses, or that they can become millionaires on Ameritrade day-trading. And then shaming them for "staying on the plantation" for keeping their job or being "financially illiterate" if they don't try to make their score on Ameritrade.

The median black family has a net-worth of &1700, set against the median white family with a net worth of $116,000 dollars.

I'm not against entrepreneurship or day-trading, but I think positing that as the way out of the legacy or black slavery and domestic terrorism is bad faith. We have political problems that call for political solutions. Boyce preaches black capitalism, but he couldn't pay his employees, which means that he wasn't really a capitalist, he was just a guy who was good at getting free labor out of his friends. That's fine.
 
 Richard Spencer is an entrepreneur. He started a online magazine The Alternative Right from a headquarters owned by his mother, an heiress to cotton farms in Louisiana.
 
 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/his-kampf/524505/
 
 Yes, you heard me correctly. Spencer built the Alt Right with slave money. Sit with that for a second. When I say white generational wealth is built on black suffering that is still in the system, as with the generational poverty, that's what I mean.
 
 I suspect the descendants of those slaves don't have excess investment capital to start and market media outlets.
 
 That's American capitalism to its anti-black core. Until we rewrite the rules to get investment capital into black hands while also increasing black worker power, capitalism will always be anti-black. Re-writing those rules is a political task, and that's the political work that black people who are about their business should be doing.
 
So Black people, keep your job. What little black money there is doesn't come from entrepreneurs. If you are a black bus driver who is happily married to a black nurse, you are winning. If you are a black parole officer who is married to a black waiter, you are winning. Don't let anyone shame you into quitting your job.

Keep your job, and change the politics until we have a political climate that's good for black businesses, or until you have saved the uncommitted investment capital where you can take the loss.
 
 I was talking with a friend who saw the segment and grew up in Kmt, and she said Boyce reminded her of the revivalist preachers who would blow into villages offering cures to desperate people.
 
 But right now, I'm reading Jaspers' General Psychopathy, and in Part II he starts drawing a distinction between real connections and meaningful connections. And I'm starting to believe that what Boyce was doing was meaningful, even if it wasn't real. But he abused the meaning of hope in black people's lives for his own gain.
 
 Lastly, I want to say a few words about anti-politics. Every economic message is political, so it's not the case that Boyce does economics and Yvette does politics. Rather, Boyce's economic preaching is embedded within an anti-political project. When he says that it's the Jordans and the weaves keeping black people poor, that's part of a political project to keep black people blaming themselves for their situation, rather than the legacy of generational poverty that is the direct result of US policies. Shoes do not account for the generational wealth gap that's been racialized in America.

Politics is hard. It depends on making yourself vulnerable to other people. It entails trusting other people and the unpredictability of their action. It takes material resources, like meeting spaces and childcare, was well as wisdom, but it's the only way forward for black people. Boyce, on the other hand, was telling people all they need is to fill out LLC paperwork and start a business.
 
 We had to euthanize Boyce for the same reason you have to push drug dealers out of your neighborhoods. There is a multi-million dollar industry that's designed to keep black people from organizing the black politics we deserve, and black people, it includes a lot of people who look like us, including Oprah, Shonda Rhimes, and Barack Obama, and any black person who won't utter the word reparations.
 
 (By the way, Obama was wrong in '04. There is a black America and a white America. One is owed reparations for generations of domestic terrorism, and the other is just going to have to accept that.)
 
 I wanted to take out Boyce because the programs are mutually exclusive. He was offering a desperate people a doughnut, and we are offering them a spinach salad.

Our way is harder. Filling out paperwork for business is easy. Organizing local, county, and state wide politics is harder. Learning about the government's role in black people's lives is harder. Depending on the political rationality of a damaged people is hard. But honestly, Black People, do you think you have more leverage organizing against the Democratic Party or individually against Goldman Sachs.
 
 The Democratic Party can be made to support reparations if we play hardball, where playing hardball employs a variety of strategies. Goldman Sachs, however, will run you over and not blink, and then hire spin doctors to convince you that it's because you didn't pray the right way or use your vision board wisely.

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Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

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why would anybody try to leverage the democratic party to support reparations when: 1. The party has had the only biologically Kmtyw president in the united states ever in office for 8 years, and he did not move one inch to support reparations which would also benefit his wife and children (and their relatives). 2. The Green Party already supports reparations.

are reparations only important if the democrats are the one to pass a bill on it? That is politically backwards. As is expecting any actual pro-Kmtyw results from a political system design to destroy us.

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We had to euthanize Boyce for the same reason you have to push drug dealers out of your neighborhood.

Is the author trying to equate Dr. Boyce to drug dealers? We've got to talk better about each other.

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We had to stop an rss feed of his that we had coming in, but agreed @Tenkamenin

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Obadele Kambon;234048 wrote: We had to stop an rss feed of his that we had coming in, but agreed @Tenkamenin

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I think some of the problems black people face are both Political and economical. But an important one not mentioned is a Psychological one. But I'm glad that is beginning to get better, as blacks are now showing their desire and hunger for knowledge of Self.

KNOWing is better than beLIEving.