My thoughts on the negative effects of the black entertainment industry.

This was my response to a younger black guy I was conversing with on facebook. The original post was a picture/vid clip that said; 

Maybe if we overpaid teachers and underpaid rappers, 

there would be smarter kids and less shitty music.

https://www.facebook.com/forshitsandgiggless/videos/1559576614115063/

The young man's response was in support of budding artists plying their craft. I'm all for that. I am genuinely happy for anyone cultivating their good ideas & talents. However, my perspective of it is different. Based upon my age 53, where I grew up (Bermuda), am a father of two 30 & 29, and a grandfather of one, and the times I've lived through; (60's, 70's, 80's, 90's etc). 

I must also add that I've served in the military, with limited experience in secondary law enforcement, and private security as well.

My perspective is based upon what I've seen in the Black community in North America (Bermuda included) since 1964. My parents were NOI for the first 13 years of my life, (been to  'saviours day' 1971) & seen Elijah Muhammad with my own eyes, and basically grew up in the COINTELPRO wars of the late 60's and 70's, in the shadow of Malcolm X being assassinated by NOI, his temple No 7 in Harlem; which was Bermuda's contact point to the NOI as a whole. Chicago considered Bermuda under Temple No 7 Malcolm X and should be eliminated too. I could stand watch, search, drill, from the time I was 4 years old. That was my childhood. I learned a lot through this. Mostly about how NOT to do things.

 [I dropped NOI when I was 13. The majority of black Bermudians hated the NOI, & the Islands elites, white and black sought to actively destroy us. NOI is fucked in that it seeks freedom through cultivating hatred & practicing a religion that enslaved black people for 1400 years. The NOI practices a form of entitlement based upon cosmologically based racial superiority. This skews a persons world view.

I realized that I couldn't stay stick to the social norms of 'being black' as the other black people would. My position as an outsider in my own community gave me insights I might never have had, and also saved me from entanglement in social delusions & myths. False tribalism sports, bread & circuses. Docile cows with sand in their eyes.

I saw the hypocrisy behind the rhetoric.

I decided to associate with people based upon their character & mutual respect, not just because they were black or white. It changed my life. It changed my life because I was now free to go beyond the limits black people imposed upon themselves.

Ironically, as a result of my studious childhood, the only kids I could have a conversation with were the kids of the elites who attended private schools. The only thing that mattered was our interest in military stuff (army cadets). Oh, btw there was racism. However, I've also seen my white friends stand toe to toe with their parents because of me. I've learned to; "Pick your friends like you pick your fruit".

Because of my interest in military affairs; I was then exposed to geography, history, science, business, economics, etc. the wider world beyond that speck of an island. Pre internet days I would use any chance to buy books in New York, Washington etc.

"For me, being black is about how I express myself as an individual, 

not how well I fit into a social norm."   

Consequently;

I've watched rap develop in the early 80's and how the body count in the black community skyrocketed. BET, and the music, values & attitudes made black on black murder trendy and cool. I've never liked rap. I've never liked reggae. By the time my two sons were born in the late 80's I had to figure out how to increase the survival of my children from an increasingly murderous black culture. I watched as the supposed 'conscious' members of the black community became nothing more than crack dealers in black neighbourhoods, while the majority of the black community in those same areas said & did nothing to protect their own children and communities. 

Furthermore, lots of these 'musicians' laundered lots of the cash they made hustling other blacks to death, through their 'music'. No, I'm not down with it. I've watched as dozens of Black Bermudian's started to slaughter each other. I watched in Bermuda how a black run government and their corrupt drug dealing accomplices, created and maintained the conditions in which the murder rate went from 1 murder a year (maybe) to 48+. Per capita the murder rate in Bermuda was higher than in an American city. This in a country where everyone is connected to each other. (60,000 pop on 53.2 km sq/20sq. roughly 3,000 per sq mile.)

Many of my fellow Bermudians, invested in this same drug/music/ slaughter business to fuel their conspicuous consumption. I know that I am perhaps over simplifying things by omitting other factors, (The ruling white culture, colonization, etc) however, 

What are we as black people responsible for? 

When does the black community do something other than complain about being oppressed while keeping all the ways and means of stupidity? 

As messed up as it is that US cops are gunning down black people, if they the only source of murder in the black community, it would mean a 80% -90% reduction in black deaths. 

This is like being concerned about only the visible part of an iceberg, while ignoring its true dimensions underneath. 

Why is it that the most dangerous place for me to be as a 53 year old black man is in a black community? 

Black communities demand that municipalities staff with black police officers.

Black communities HATE BLACK COPS, more than they do white people.

Black communities give their tacit support to the drug dealers in their own communities. (everyone wants a dividend but no counter party risk as it were). Burning down their own nest.

When Ben Carson got lampooned during the presidential campaign about almost kniving another kid, I understood why. Because ANY black kid that was intelligent, and wanted to learn was immediately classed as not black; and would be literally torn apart by the others. Every day. For Years. I too have been placed in that position, knife and all. What can be said about a culture whose young people have to fight for their lives for the right to exist, IN THEIR OWN CULTURE?

Unfortunately, the black community destroys its best & brightest, while supporting the bread and circus acts.

The ancients knew that music is reflective of the state of mind of a people. And what I've seen over the past 50 years highlights the black communities self destruction, and not its advancement. I ask you this; would you want your son or daughter to be involved in this, or to emulate this? If the answer is no then the music & associated lifestyle are a hidden danger for black communities dressed as entertainment.  

I would rather not turn on the TV and see my granddaughter, or anyone else's being a 'ho bitch' in some music video. Stupid black artists are pushed to the top because they will have the greatest destructive affect on the black community. You simply get more bang for your buck. 

The bloods & crips, east coast, west coast, style and mindset that seems as if it is a personal preference musically, had its roots in the crack plague. False competition was great for sales.

No. I'm not down with it.

Milton