If Africans Can, We Can Too

By Lucius Gantt

      One by one, African nations are uniting and progressing. They are securing their nations, they are uplifting African youth, African seniors are being recognized and utilized and assisted, schools are being restored and rebuilt, and education is being taught in a language and curriculum that is best for the African communities.

      If Africans can progress and flourish, we can too!

      Africans in America must reevaluate so-called Black leadership.

      If Blacks in the United States held a vote to identify and name a Black leader, I didn’t get a ballot.

      Most of America’s “Black leaders” were chosen and designated as such by non-Blacks. Current Black men and women in leadership positions are quick to parrot and rubber-stamp the actions and policies of modern-day pirates, robbers, and colonizers of Black people and Black countries around the world.

       We need new Black leaders in the United States. We need leaders who will plead our causes that differ from the causes of others in America.

       We need leaders who knows how to create jobs for Blacks in America, leaders who can finance and build affordable housing, leaders who can address Black health issues, leaders who are not afraid to stand up and speak out for us, and we need Black leaders who will put us first, instead of selling us out to our enemies for “rice and peas”!

      Don’t get me wrong, being a good Black leader can get you killed in Africa and killed in America.

       Nearly every American Black servant or leader has been to jail and/or assassinated. It’s even dangerous to write about Black American progress and equal rights.

        Hmmm? If you don’t know, numerous attempts to kill the new and emerging African leaders happen almost every day.

         But we must move on without being timid or afraid of standing and speaking up.

         If a Black man or woman is elected or appointed to a public office, they should serve their constituents. Republicans have gerrymandered national, state, and local districts to make 60, 70, and 80% Black districts to take Blacks out of white districts so more Blacks can get elected and more white Democrats can be defeated.

         Black candidates are told by white Democrats, “We will help you win, and we’ll give you money, but you have to hire who we tell you to hire!” Black Americans, just like Black Africans can do everything in politics that non-Blacks can do.

         The Black candidates you love on all levels hire whites and repeat white lies about Black professionals being unskilled, inexperienced, unqualified, and inferior.

         We are none of that! Blacks built America just liked they built Black businesses in Tulsa, Rosewood, Atlanta, and neighborhoods in New York and other states.

          Every time funding and financing for Israel, Ukraine, the EU, Cuba, and other places are being considered, Black elected officials should rise, and say, “Our people need financial support too!”

           If your elected official has no clue how to generate government contracts for Black businesses and Black communities, tell your public servants to holler at The Gantt Report.

      I’ve kinda exceeded my normal TGR column length. But I will continue thi

s topic in another writing.

     The Black sheep in Africa and America need Black shepherds!

Recognize true Black servants and shepherds!