Family, 

I appreciate you taking the time to review this page—the ultimate goal of MPWR BLACK. 

This is not just another blog. This is not for empty words or comfortable debates. This is the foundation of a mission—one that demands we face our condition and the systems around us with clarity and brutal honesty. 

The United States of America was not built for us—it was built by our ancestors and then expanded over us, extracting what it needs from Black culture to add to its profits.

Every dollar that moves through this country strengthens white communities, while ours are purposely and strategically starved of resources.

Other groups recycle their money within their own businesses, fund their own schools, banks, grocery stores, etc. and protect their future. They thrive, even when it means exploiting Black communities. Meanwhile, we too often fight each other over differences, and “it’s not that serious” ourselves into docileness. 

The truth is simple—until Black people fund, own, and control our own institutions, we will stay dependent on a system that operates off of the oppression of Black people.

Schools. Banks. Clinics. Grocery stores. Businesses. These are not luxuries—they are tools of survival. And if we don’t build them for ourselves, Black people will continue to be appropriated, exploited for profit, and pushed to the bottom of society—you can see this globally through the continent and diaspora, as a result of colonialism, imperialism, and racism. 

I am not asking you to dream small. I am asking you to dream dangerously big.

Fred Hampton was just 21 when he became Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in Chicago and organized the original Rainbow Coalition. 

Huey P Newton was 24 when he cofounded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, created the Ten-Point program, and became a face of the Black Power movement.

Sista Soulja was still in college when she was organizing rallies to combat police brutality, and her words shook America into facing its hypocrisy.

Their visions felt impossible to many—until they made them real. 

So, let’s talk solutions & numbers. There are more than 47 million Black people in America. One dollar each per month—just one—becomes over $564,000,000 every single year. 

% of Black America:

1/8 of us: $70,500,000 a year 

1/4 of us: $141,000,000 a year 

1/2 of us: $282,000,000 a year 

3/4 of us: $423,000,000 a year 

Understand this—with just a fraction of us united, we generate budgets bigger than universities, corporations, and even most countries. Asian, Latino, Jewish, and other immigrant communities understand this and already do this for themselves; they’ve made it so much a part of their cultural traditions that they don’t even have to talk about it publicly.

They run shops and hire their own, build schools, banks, cultural centers, and create entire networks of safety and power—while we are too often left as the resource they exploit. 

So why is it so hard for us to say, “Black people first”—at least economically? Why are we okay with watching $2 trillion in Black spending power vanish into everyone else’s hands but our own? 

Our taxes are snatched and wasted on false wars, corporations, and corruption. Our schools crumble, our roads rot, our neighborhoods are stripped bare. If we can unwillingly pay into a government that exploits us, we can willingly pay into a system created to provide resources and a path to liberation. 

I don’t claim to be the expert—I am a man who studies, who loves his people, who refuses to accept the slow death this country has planned for us. We need strong minds, bold hearts, and committed hands.

Results come from action. Liberation will only come when we take ourselves seriously, take control of where our money flows, and take command of our own autonomy. 

This isn’t fantasy. This isn’t delusion. It is math. It is history. It is survival. 

This is the mission. This is our chance to go from surviving, to thriving. This is the spark that ignites revolution. 

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