WTF Are We Supposed To Do With Hip Hop Celebration Day
America’s Scared to Give Black People Money
The United States Senate can’t seem to agree on most things but they have an especially hard time agreeing on meaningful legislation for Black Americans. Critically important life-saving issues like voting rights, evictions, vaccinations. But they did agree on one thing…
National Hip Hop Celebration Day! That’s right. Decided by unanimous vote, the United States Senate agreed to make August 11th Hip Hop Celebration Day. WTF are we supposed to do with Hip Hop Celebration Day?
What’s so scary about giving Black people money?
Remember, before the election, when Biden had the caucasity {Caucasian audacity} to say you’re not Black if you don’t vote for me. Remember that? Before the election, Biden spoke to Black America like we were on a first-name basis. Like we were cousins at the cookout! But after he moved into the house the negroes and natives built, now he can’t speak? Ice Cube warned us this would happen.
Remember that list of ‘Topics to Discuss in 2021' we had in December 2020? well, how much of it have we accomplished? None. We spent the first quarter of the year debating January 6th, voting rights, and now abortions. But I think I know why…
“From the time the first slave ships brought their African cargo to this country, Black people have been a component of the economic system but shut out of its benefits. Not only were they not allowed to participate in any meaningful way for centuries, but also as a consequence they have lagged behind in acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to develop a strong entrepreneurial class,” said Karen M. Rowley in her Masters Thesis for Louisiana State University.
The Brookings Institution reported that according to the most recent Census Bureau, Black people comprise approximately 14.2% of the U.S. population, but Black businesses comprise only 2.2% of the nation’s 5.7 million employer businesses. (December 2020)
“Economic power is the key to success in a capitalistic society. Business is the means to that power. African Americans can play this game and we can win at it,” said Earl G. Graves, owner, and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine.
Joe Biden has yet to live up to his word when he told Black America “the African American community has always had my back and I’ll have yours”. Since being in office he has passed numerous bills for other groups but has yet to pass a single bill for the Black community. Recently he continued with his disregard for the Black community after shutting out Black Media from receiving Federal advertising dollars. (TD Hip Hop Media, Aug 31, 2021)
When I think about what the Biden administration has accomplished in 2021, I’m reminded that Biden signed a $32M hate crime bill to protect the AAPI community from hate crimes, S.937 — COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. The bill makes no mention of protecting other groups outside the AAPI community. Now the Biden administration is dealing with allegations of only spending $11M of the $35M promised to black media & advertising and I think this is the reason why:
Nearly 100 years ago, in 1924, Manhattan Beach used eminent domain to remove Black landowners and shut down their resort that was attracting Black families to the area. It wasn’t until April 2021 when Los Angeles County decided to DISCUSS [not actually give back] righting a historical injustice of returning a $20M beachfront property back to the descendants of a Black family it was illegally stolen from nearly a century. What if a white family was forcibly removed from their property? What if their rights had been violated? What do you think the City of Los Angeles would do to restore what was stolen from them?
The federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million — not to the formerly enslaved — but to the white enslave owners.
April 16, 1862
The federal government compensated the “owners” of enslaved people for their “loss of property.” The federal government compensated the “owners” of enslaved people for their “loss of property.” However, the people who were freed were not compensated, nor given any assistance for the transition to their freedom and now Emancipation Day is an official holiday in Washington, D.C. How about instead of another crappy holiday, you give the descendants of slaves $23 million. Why? Because WTF are we supposed to do with Hip Hop Celebration Day?
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Resources
BLACK MEDIA SHUT OUT OF COVID-19 VACCINATION ADVERTISING BY BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. Derek T. Dingle. August 23, 2021.
Joe Biden Gives Roland Martin and Black Media The Finger While Handing Out More Symbolic Legislation. TD Hip Hop Media. Aug 31, 2021.
