MROTD 2.24.20

I heard it again yesterday on youtube. All these Dashiki and Sandal wearing motherfuckers, these femacentric (yeah I made up that word), hoteps always got something to say about decent, hardworking black men because they "just have jobs." These incense burning repeat felons always talking about “You working for the white man. Not me. I just pay multinational corporation for a phone and internet service." Then they beg the “wage slaves" to donate to them "'cuz dey real men who stand on they own two feet.” Two feet that are quite ashy, by the way. Let me explain something to y’all. There is nothing wrong with working a job. The key to working a job is to do as much shit that benefits you while you’re on the clock. I’m working right now. Today I plan on finishing a manuscript, doing my taxes and putting my foot in the asses of these ho’s online like I always do. It’s about multi-tasking. Working a job can be quite profitable if you are doing it right. For others, your goals may be loftier than mine or not. I know a brother who works from home and makes $8 an hour. That ain’t shit, right? Well, he works another job concurrently that pays $12 an hour. And he works a 3rd that pays $10 an hour. He has three lap tops open and can multitask. No debt other than a $700 a month mortgage. So while you are shoveling snow to get out of your driveway and into the morning gridlock, you know what he’s doing right now? Eating Cap’n Crunch in his drawahs and watching Spielberg movies. Not Steven, but Mikaela. Stop letting these pro blacks and b1 muh’fuckas shame you because you have a job meanwhile they don’t have a pot to piss in and have never been in charge of anything. Or, on the rare occasion that they do have some sort of business, they likely make less than the brother I mentioned above. They’ll hold some neanderthug in high esteem because he peddled drugs to fund his mixtape to open a liquor store to leave something for the kids he leaves behind from baby mamas 2, 3 and 4 after he gets shot in the head. But you’re the chump because you model stability and want to be around to see your kids grow up. You’re the lazy, no ambition having slave because you’re not willing to peddle poison to make a dollar. And after they tell you what a chump you are, they’ll ask you to buy their DVD’s and T-Shirts.

Don’t ever let these assholes talk down to you for having a 9 to 5. As someone who has owned a business, been an independent contractor and worked for others—often at the same time— let me break down a few things for you. The overall business owner ship rate in the U.S. is somewhere between 10% and 15% and the median income is just over 50K. Blacks have a business ownership rate that’s somewhere between 7% and 10% and most of the businesses don't have any employees. Yes, we need a thriving business class and more businesses, but this notion to just push business on everyone and, if you don’t own a business you’re a bum, is pushed largely by people who don’t understand business and never ran one. Talk to people who have businesses that failed, black people in particular. They are in far worse financial condition than the person who just worked a regular ass job at 50K a year. There are reasons for that. The primary ones are they don’t have capital, collateral or access to low interest credit lines. They are funding their business on their “slave wages” and the “slave wages” of their friends and family. And then it’s high interest credit if they can get it at all. If the business fails, they are essentially wiped out and they are often taking their friends and family with them. See, the asshole you’ve never seen talking about economic building doesn’t have anything to tell you about that, does he? It’s all prosperity gospel with these Shea Butter Baboons.

“Yeah, don’t be lazy. Starting a business is easy.

Sep 1) Come up with a great idea.

Step 2) Implement it.

Step 3) Make a lot of money.

Step 4) Employ other blacks.”

But wait, doesn’t step 4 contradict all the other shit you said earlier?

“That sounds like talk from someone who isn’t interested in building.”

Seriously, stop listening to these assholes. To my knowledge, I’m one for the few people who have actually bothered to give you a sober assessment of where we are and given practical steps that virtually anyone can take to change the future of your family. And you don’t need to come up with the next Super Soaker or Shea Butter sensation to do it. You don’t need to drop an album or run the 40-yard dash in under 10 seconds. You don’t need to sell out any arenas as a comedian. You don’t need to wear a dress and emasculate yourself for the entertainment of Whites. Nope. None of that is necessary. I will repeat my excellent advice here because my facebook pages never last too long and a I need a slightly more permanent repository for my genius until a positronic brain is invented that can hold my consciousness and teachings. Yes, you should encourage the entrepreneurial spirit where you see it. But you don’t have to force it. Not everyone has to own a business or be an independent contractor. You can see the people best suited for doing that pretty easily and early on. In high school, I knew who they were. They were the ones buying candy in bulk and selling them for a dollar each between classes. They were the ones who were part of the business club. Very easy to spot. Of course you encourage them. But here’s the rub: Having that drive and ambition doesn’t mean much if you have nothing to give them and their parents usually didn’t. Even the brother selling candy needs at least a $100 and someone with Costco membership or amazon account to buy a variety of candy. He has to be mindful of when he can sell and avoid getting robbed. You didn’t think that was something to consider, huh? Yeah, talk to the dollar store adjacent to the school I worked at that would shout down every day when the school had lunch because they got tired of losing product to shoplifting. It made more financial sense for them to shut down for an hour and a half during the day than to deal with the theft.

“So where you gonna put that candy during class, homeboy? Because you can’t have book bags in the class room. Your locker, you say?”

That sound you hear is hands rubbing together in anticipation of you doing that. My point is you need money to make money and if you don’t already have money to begin with the trek towards making money is a long and perilous one. You can have the greatest idea in the world, but if you have no money to get it off the ground and maintain it during the startup, you might as well not have the idea at all.

Anyway, here’s what all "wage slaves" can and should be doing:

Step 1): Buy life insurance.

Step 2): Designate a non-asshole as your beneficiary

See how easy that is? Compare it to any one of the economic building crowd and see if they have ever given a simple and clear path towards what you can do to help your family and other black people by extension. Note that these steps aren’t going to do much for you or anyone else why you're still breathing, but you may have children you care about or grand children or siblings or even a non-related person. For the price of a cup of coffee for a week, you are essentially becoming a seed planter so that, years from now, when that non-asshole wants to take preferably his (or her) shot, he won’t have to max out his credit cards and borrow his way into the poor house. Yes, this is a multi-generational plan. The problem cannot be fixed in a single generation. In fact, I’m going to make taking out a policy, designating another beneficiary and paying the premium at least ten years in advance, a requirement to cash out my policy.