The Reality Is: It’s Black Americans vs. Everyone Else
“Why Black Unity Isn’t Just a Dream — It’s Our Only Way Forward”
From the belly of the slave ships to modern America, Black Americans have endured a war against their very humanity. The journey began with chains, blood, and screams in the Middle Passage and has evolved into new chains — economic, social, and psychological — backed by systems built to exploit, erase, and dehumanize us.
We have been raped, hanged, burned alive, drowned, whipped, and shot down in the streets. We’ve been experimented on like lab rats — from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, where Black men were denied treatment for decades just to study the effects of a disease, to the forced sterilization of Black women under the eugenics programs in places like North Carolina and California.
Despite centuries of pain, Black Americans have built this country — literally and figuratively. Our labor, creativity, and resilience laid the foundation for America’s economic power. From the cotton fields to the birth of rock & roll, jazz, hip-hop, and civil rights — the American brand would not exist without us.
A Target of Global Disrespect
Yet in return, every other racial group in America has disrespected us while attempting to climb the ladder of whiteness. Asians, Latinos, Arabs, and even Africans — yes, our own continental brothers and sisters — often treat Black Americans as if we are beneath them. Why?
Because America exports anti-Blackness like a global brand. The media, news, movies, and even textbooks project Black people as violent, lazy, and inferior — and many immigrants arrive already believing these lies. It’s a racist projection of white America’s own violent history and nature, pinned on us.
Take, for example, the African braiding shops across the U.S., where the majority of customers are Black American women. White women aren’t the ones sitting in those chairs. So when Africans show disdain, rudeness, or mock our culture while profiting off us, it is biting the very hand that feeds them. It’s a foolish adoption of the same propaganda used to enslave us.
The Implosion: Skinfolk Turned Against Skinfolk
As if the external attacks weren’t enough, many of our own have turned against each other. We’ve gone from marching arm in arm for freedom to filming fights for TikTok clout. Our music — once a voice of revolution and liberation — now often glorifies murder, drug use, and the degradation of Black women, all packaged and promoted by white-owned labels.
No other racial group pushes out music so consistently about killing each other, calling their women “bitches,” or glorifying street trauma like it’s a badge of honor. White music doesn’t celebrate white-on-white murder. Asian music doesn’t praise abusing their women. Yet ours is funded, played, rewarded, and consumed — by us and others — like a circus act.
It’s orchestrated genocide through entertainment.
Black Love Under Siege
Even the state of Black romance is under attack. Black men are often taught to desire everything but a Black woman, while Black women are increasingly disillusioned and heartbroken. And when they do date outside the race — which is their right — too often it’s rooted in self-hate rather than genuine connection.
If you’re in an interracial relationship because you truly love that person, that’s beautiful. But if you’re doing it because you think Black people are inferior, then you’re a victim of white supremacy — and now a tool of it.
And let’s be clear: when a wealthy Black man dies, and his estate goes to his white wife, that wealth rarely trickles back into the Black community. His parents, siblings, or children from previous relationships are often left out. The money he earned — from his Black fanbase or cultural influence — ends up reinforcing the very white power structure that never wanted him there in the first place.
The Urgency of Unity
The solution? Unite.
The word alone threatens systems. When Black people unite across classes, religions, and regions, the world shakes. That’s why so much energy is spent keeping us divided — through media, politics, and even music.
The reality is that no one is coming to save us — and that includes other Black folks who’ve bought into the system or turned their backs. But for those of us who still believe, we must remember:
- We are not inferior. We are the blueprint.
- We are not lazy. We’ve built nations — under bondage.
- We are not broken. We are wounded but powerful beyond measure.
The world may treat us like the enemy, but it’s only because they know who we really are. Kings. Queens. Warriors. Creators. Healers. Builders.
Let’s stop waiting for approval and start building for ourselves — with each other.
It’s time to UNITE — in love, in economics, in purpose, and in power.
