Why Black People Keep Losing

If Black People as a whole are winning then how is it we seem like perpetual losers by our own hand more than by others we constantly rail against? When I was in the U.S. Marines I learned warfare tactics, such as scouting out an area long before the enemy arrived to make small almost unnoticeable adjustments to the terrain just subtly enough to maneuver the enemy into our traps & range. We also sometimes set up dummy traps they would see as misdirection to further maneuver them where we really wanted them to go. It was basically making them come to us on our terms.

If the enemy didn't carefully watch where they were going or understand this strategy but assumed they were safe after a short distance, and weren't being vigilant then we could blow them up and cut them down easily. Black & Brown people are often being maneuvered & misdirected right into booby traps and firing range without a clue. Too many of our so called leaders don't know how to truly fight because they're really just motivational speakers lining their pockets with our money, and they're not strategists who understand the tactics of the system we're facing. 

We allow so called leaders to mislead us like mice under the hypnosis of the Pied Piper's nefarious tunes. We blindly follow them more times than not to feel a part of something. In our own desperation we've been complicit in creating bad leaders who devour us.  

These Black Pied Pipers can tell us they are the most requested, the #1 this or that, the top dog in the kennel, call themselves generals & princes, make allusions to their birth as special, claim ancestry they can't prove or has been disproved, and because they have charisma about them or travel a few places to speak we buy into their emotional blather even when they're clearly scamming us. They're not the national or international threats to the establishment they make themselves out to be or we want them to be. They're just famous to us on an updated version of the "Chittlin Circuit". 

Even me saying this kind of stuff will have some among us calling me an "agent" against Black People for knowing these things, but they won't bother studying them in detail to learn them. We'll just keep creating ridiculous conspiracy theories and Afrocentric myths while shouting "Black Power" as if it's a magic phrase that will change everything. We far too often rely on nostalgia with emotional support to carry the day, and this handicaps us. 

Here are at least 7 things you can count on from Black People that always trip us up:

1) Our gullibility for symbolism

2) Our desire for the myth of a "Black messiah" to become a reality 

3) Our emotions overruling our strategic thinking 

4) Our pride deceiving & misleading us

5) Our inability to lay aside our differences to unite

6) Our lack of any kind of standard for accountability or integrity for those we designate as our leaders 

7) Our inability or unwillingness to discern or acknowledge narcissism, megalomania, or mental health disorders among so designated leaders that we incorrectly call swag, confidence, fearlessness, being unapologetically black, and genius  

These things work against us every time and we still haven't learned better. I'm not the best orator or the most educated but I'm familiar enough with war & fighting to see we're not good at it. It's not just a matter of us being our own worst enemy, but also the fact that we don't understand our enemy or know how to fight them because we spend far more time fighting among ourselves about who's the leader, religion, and other non-factors that those against us don't allow to prevent them from fighting us. This is why we lose and we'll keep losing until we change this about ourselves. ~ Mr. Blaktastic