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I know I said I was over it but I’m not. Like people literally are trying to make it seem like I’m saying Nipsey was murdered by the state for his documentary about a known fraud and person who weaponized cult tactics against black people, when that’s literally not what I’m saying.
Like you’d think on the site that made black lives matter pop, and that made black out day and other similar pro black ideologies pop, would be supportive of having empathy with black people who are not only not radicalized or informed, but who are also basing their decisions and thought process off of our history of government suppression and the medical industry as a wholes aversion to black people.
Like you really can’t have empathy for greiving black people less than 24 hours after a man who they looked up to was murdered, before they had any genuine information about who murdered him, and went only off of what he said about his future murder? But you’d rather act like I support cults, homophobia, and misogyny as well as toxic healthcare practices and bad science passing itself off as holistic care? Even though I’m a literal gay person who does work to get black people out of cults? Lmao okay.
This site is a cesspool. And I understand why people are like this, because anti blackness and white supremacy manifests in really specific ways in our community. But it’s honestly so draining to deal with or think about. This is why I need to stay out of discourse and just block people more readily because I’m literally so confused as to why telling black people to not be unnecessarily rude and mean and callous to greiving black people, especially if your goal isn’t to help them, educate them, or counter any of the harmful narratives they have picked up from cult leaders and scammers like sebi.
Someone said that Nipsey hustle wasn’t like Malcolm X to rationalize their shaming black people for believing what Nipsey said about his own murder, forgetting that Malcolm X was murdered by black people, not the state.
He was specifically murdered by leaders of the Nation of Islam, a cult in the black community that has been allowed to prosper and flow because of black people’s (and specifically African Americans) need to see themselves as powerful, unified, etc.
Here’s a link from the NOIs paper where they talk about forcing black people to buy into false and actually harmful “diagnostic technology” in partnership with Scientology people, another known and violent cult. In 2013.
One day we are going to stop shaming African Americans for being susceptible to cults due to our unique experiences and oppression, and will instead educate and protect fellow African Americans from these ideologies that are *literally* killing us and negatively impacting our quality of life AND any potential for genuine liberation work.
Anyway check out the Free The Land Initiative!
I’m especially interested in constructive feedback. Where does it fall short? What’s missing? What would the first step look like in order to make this a reality? My process was to think, if I was in a perfect world where money was not an issue, how would I solve the material conditions effecting African Americans and black people more broadly in America? I was inspired by MXGM’s plan for the black belt and Fannie Lou Hamer’s entire being, and initially did this as part of a two part thought expirement to regain mental clarity after disease. (the other thought expirement was around solving the Flint water crisis which can be viewed at bit.ly/FlintPipelineProposal).
I’m sick so I’m not actually trying to work on this now, just trying to make sure the overarching goals and vision is clear and holistic. Ideally, when I’m healthy and can actually make it work I can do so without having to step back into discourse instead of charging fully into the building and development stage. My hope is that once it’s time to build, the FTL Initiative initial site will be a testing ground, and that our blueprints could be used to create solutions for material problems in black and otherwise marginalized communities outside of the initial site. (Such as creating a blueprint for a community where black people don’t have adequate sewage systems and creating those systems, or expanding our internal healthcare model to other black communities regardless of financial status, or sharing blueprints/methodology with indigenous American and global populations who’s needs mirror those of AAs and black Americans more broadly)