What We Don’t See: What Invisible Tricks Harm Black America The Most?

By Dr. Brooks Robinson\ Black Economics.org website. Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons We could have titled this essay: “The Forest for the Trees” or just “What We Don’t See.” Both infer that we are missing something. Are Black Americans missing something? Yes! The evidence is that we are not seeing clearly and are not researching properly. We are a People who have been in physical and mental slavery for centuries; we profess a desire for independence, self-sufficiency, self-determination, and liberty; we purport to have evolved the tools to materialize the just mentioned achievements, but have not achieved them; and we accept a message without much protest that we are (in relative terms) sliding back rather than surging forward. To clarify and arrive at the core issue, consider that there are many beneficial aspects of creation that are transparent or translucent. Three of the most important are our minds that guide our every action, the air that we breath, and the water we drink. In their purest forms, these wonderful elements of our existence are also most essential for life itself. Importantly, the wealthy (oligarchs and plutocrats), who seek to control or destroy us, have come to recognize that they can best...