The Black Community Has Been Robbed of its Leadership Voice

The lack of unity among the Black community is the running excuse not to organize and stand behind a Black leader or movement who knows the issues and challenges the white establishments on racism. But as always, racism is the one issue that unifies the Black community, and always has been. 

In any era of American history, racism has brought Blacks together in a fight for their lives. Now, is no different. The only difference is, there is no one Black voice to echo the true sentiments of the Black community on one accord.

For a few decades now, the Black community has been on this trip that we do not need a Black leader, such as we had in Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey, or the Black Panther Party, or any of the abolitionist leaders in the earlier centuries throughout slavery and Jim Crow. They were all men and women of true conviction, not like the passive whitewashed leaders of today. We were told and convinced that it is unnecessary to have a leader that speaks for the community because we all have different views and voices.

We were told, and agreed to, that we should participate in the political system if we want change and any attempts to radicalize the Black community would lead to a negative stigma and we would look like separatist and anti-American. Any argument to weaken the Black movement against racism would not be tolerated and shut down by government forces, and possibly lead to another assassination or imprisonment.

It might as well be said that we were tricked into shutting down any attempts to speak out and expose racism in its raw form. So, we shut our mouths and came to believe that a lone Black leader or movement would be a negative for our people. Contrary to popular belief, BLM (Black Lives Matter) was not a pro-Black movement, it was a worldwide response to police brutality and then hijacked by a lesbian group who had no understanding nor knowledge of the true Black experience.

We have gravitated toward – or been pushed toward - celebrity voices who phase in and out of public life with a few words but then turn tide and bootlick the white agenda. Our fake voices are rappers, athletes, comedians, and movie stars who are paid very well by the opposing forces to misrepresent the Black community or to undermine our entire situation. Their words ring hollow and then they retreat to their multimillion-dollar mansions and watch themselves on television.

The voices of Malcolm, MLK and the Panthers were loud and had such an impact on society the white establishment were forced to change laws or run and hide behind them. They even resorted to killing the leaders who had nerve to call them out in their racism. Nowadays, Black voices have been muzzled and movements are dispersed and scattered by defamation, legal persecution, and infiltration of covert government operations or simply ignored by mainstream media. 

Legitimate protest has been portrayed as riots and now there are laws against protesting. We have further been reduced to independent lawyers and social media influencers that do nothing more than bring up fleeting moments of the racism the Black community faces on a more frequent daily basis.

Major news outlets are now claiming that the views of Black America about racism could be conspiracy theories and that racism does not exist, while at the same time they shut down Diversity programs (DEI) that seek to educate whites on racist behavior in American institutions. 

"The study released Monday by the Pew Research Center examined the intersection of race and conspiratorial beliefs. It’s the second installment in the research group’s series on how Black Americans see success and failure."

They are erasing Black history, banning Black authors, and reverting to Jim Crow voting laws and social policies of indirect segregation. Bigots are voicing hate in public, the N-word is being used more often without shame by white adults and children, and politicians are openly pushing policies that turn back the country to when it was supposedly “Great Again.”

The Black community is being compressed and no one is allowed to speak out or are simply too afraid to.  Yes, we need a voice that speaks straight to the blatant ignorance of racism and to the white leaders who are trying to resurrect bigotry. We need someone who is not afraid to organize a movement of intellectual, social, and militant Black men and women to unapologetically stand against this foolery of racism and hate. 

Instead, the so-called Black politicians and role models and even religious leaders are slowly being brainwashed and divided by obsolete viewpoints. We need a unified voice that speaks against the one issue Blacks and other minorities face in this country. Racism, and the laws that protect it.