Over the years as the black nation, we have learnt and got to understand the power of collaboration and the power of supporting each other in any endeavours we undertake for the betterment of not only our lives but for our communities too. But that is seemingly getting lost.
Books such as the Capitalist Nigger teaches us how the jews manage to acquire the wealth they do for example, and the primarily element that contributes to their successes is the support and oneness they have for their own. Which is something we can all learn from, and should learn from. But now...
I have observed a destructive pattern, particularly from some of the "hustlers" in our communities, a pattern of some sort of selfishness and self-centredness that normally gets displayed by the so called hustlers.
This has become a concern because most of the time, we preach supporting one another, putting each other on, and utilising each other's relationships not just for the betterment of ourselves but for our whole communities. But now, there's a tendency of the hustlers hustling others, at times the very same people they expect the support from.
For example, if we are to work with the principle of helping each other for us all to rise, not just for a select few. We expect that if person A has a certain resource that person B might need for his or her own project, the expectation would be that person B would be greatly assisted with that resource. Particularly if A and B are all in a quest for something positive.
Well, that is what I expect would easily happen because we are all striving for the same support and the betterment of our societies. But person A will hustle and attempts to bargain as much as he can from person B.
What I have come to observe is that the hustlers are hustling the other hustlers and their own. It has almost become an every man for himself type of situation. There is a difference between when you perhaps have a service and people genuinely support you, from when you have a service but your only aim is to bargain from whoever tries to support you. This has seemingly become a pattern.
I have witnessed situations where your "connection" or fellow "hustler" tries to bargain from you rather than having a brotherhood or sisterhood mentality where relationships are paramount to everything. A fellow hustler will ridiculously overprice a product or service to you, the same person who tries to be supportive, and in most instances, the overpricing is specific to certain individuals but the price gets generic to others. Which brings me to the question, why?
I mean, we thought the aim was for black people to build their own legacies and for that to come to fruition, black people MUST support one another, but now the hustlers seemingly get consumed by self-centredness and hustle the very same people whom they would expect the support from. Which I think is brought about by a lack of value for relationships.
Everyone has become more concerned about their own personal successes, and others shall see for themselves as well. The lessons which we were to get from other nations, such as the Jews have been neglected. We have become so consumed with being the only or the first. If it means hustling my family, acquaintances, and partners, so be it. That is where we are going wrong, the thoughts and ideas of black people supporting and genuinely wanting to see each other win that is perpetuated in media are not entirely a true reflection of what is really happening in society.
The lack of value for relationships, the obsession with being THE ONE, and being unreservedly self-centred are the core reasons for how we got here and where we are headed. We need to change. And this needed change shall be pioneered and championed by all the "hustlers" who claim and preach oneness for all black people. Actions supersede any form of spoken words.
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