Internet Smart

By Lucius Gantt

         When I was younger, there were basically two kinds of “smart”. You were book smart or street smart. Nowadays, most Black people get their information by trolling the varied internet offerings.

          Well, I’m not the one who will criticize a person’s news gathering sources, but I will reject thyou read or hear on the internet is true and factual.

Most major digital platforms are owned and operated by billionaires with supremacist intents and purposes. The internet      billionaires seem to love the supremacist’s views on diversity, equity, and inclusion, they produce algorithms that promote i

deas about Aryan excellence and superiority, and more.

       But that doesn’t bother me either.

       My problem is too many Black people believe whatever sounds good on 10 or 15-second video posts is the “truth”. No

doubt, there is some good and quality information on the web, but Black people in America, Africa, and everywhere else, in the

world, should trust their elders, their community activists, their educators and scholars, and the Black community truth-tellers.

        Let me explain.

        There are millions of so-called “content creators, influencers, informers, podcasters, and posters’ who don’t know a damn

thing about the information they post. What most internet posters do is steal, copy, and post videos and commentary created

by others. They pick out what they believe is the most sensational, most intriguing, and most likely to generate shares and

content, and they run with it and generate revenue for themselves and/or their causes.

         There are roles for all of us who have internet platforms. The role of the internet posters who make money by posting

Information that was discovered, created, and shared by others is not to generate money for their subscribers and followers.

More than a few posters make good money; some posters probably make millions.

         The “posting people” love their friends and followers, who can be inspired to comment and subscribe to their sites  

Because looking at an internet site will not pay as much as the platforms where posters and followers have an active connection.

         A few of my friends love to talk to me about how great internet posters are. Hmmm? Perhaps some posters are “great”

When they post topics and subjects that internet trollers like and enjoy.

         I can’t do that, and theganttreporttruth.com can’t do that. I have a small niche. I try to be a truth-teller. I stay in my lane and focus on money and politics because those are the topics that are most important in the capitalist political and economic system that we live in.

         Money, like I always said, is the primary motivating factor in capitalist countries, and money and politics are parallel; wherever you find money, you’ll find politicians trying to tax, regulate, and appropriate the money.

         Now, don’t get it twisted. I love and try to get along with all journalists, including the social media “journalists”. I would love to sit down with them on their shows and podcasts to discuss our differences in opinions.

        So far, I’ve only appeared on a few podcasts with long-time media friends.

       The internet charlatans and pretenders will never sit down with me. Not because they fear me, they don’t. They fear the TRUTH!

They can’t control my comments. They can’t stop me from getting out the truth about important topics, and they can’t stop me from exposing misinformation that they share with my people.

        Some people have hopes and dreams, some people have plots and schemes.

        The TRUTH is an absolute defense! The TGR platform is 100% original content with zero stolen copy or videos, no talking points, and no “political” perspectives.

         The Gantt Report is nothing but the TRUTH!