Elements in Hip hop, a bit of ratchet can co-exist with black empowerment. The problem today is that the ratchet stuff is dominant. I've been in very conservative areas of America and overseas and there is some underground ratchet going on but its not dominant or pushed. With us its pushed both externally and internally. A wee bit of ratchet has to play a minor role to black empowerment.
As Jason Black said, they hate us because we are black but they can dominate us because we are poor. An economic base makes it harder to practice white supremacy. Any of us on here can pend 20 years in jail unfairly over some random traffic stop or whatever. But it took millions of dollars, a lot of time and resources just to go after Cosby, Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, and any other big name.
Its much harder to successfully jail a black professional (engineer, dentist, etc) than an unemployed Pookie or Ray Ray. Its much harder to jam up the kid of a professional black man than the kid of a single mom from the projects.
Part of a myriad of reasons I try to be successful is for my own protection. Lastly, white supremacy is played as a team sport and as a collective we must defend it as a team sport, domestically...and globally, with all on code peoples. Racist Steve Bannon went to Hungary, Austria to support their hard right governments. White folks are cheering on the Afrikaaners in South Africa and I'd be very surprised if any of the supremacy groups in America didn't reach out.
Slowly but surely, on code Blacks in America are finding each other with platforms such as this or other influencers. It's growing, long may it last. It isn't happening soon enough, but the good thing so far is groups of people and high profile blacks are being pushed to either represent or be excluded.
