Make no mistake: the return of Trump-era racism and regressive politics is not an accident—it is a response. A response to progress. A backlash against even the suggestion that America might finally begin to reckon with its foundational sins.
This isn’t about one man. Trump is just the face on the poster. The deeper issue is Trumpism—a movement powered by fear, by racism, by a desperate attempt to maintain white supremacy in a changing world. And it's not going away. So what does that mean for us?
It means urgency. It means focus. It means that for Black Americans, now more than ever, we must reject the illusion that the system will save us. History has already answered that question. The system—be it political, economic, or social—has never saved us. It was never built for us.
Yet we live within it. We work in it. We vote in it. We raise our children in it.
So we must do both:
We fight from within, and we build outside of it. That’s the real revolution.
[ The Trap of Hope Without Strategy]
For generations, we’ve been told to hope.
To vote.
To wait.
To be patient.
To assimilate.
And while our ancestors fought tirelessly for every inch of progress, each victory has been followed by a backlash—by a Reconstruction, then a Jim Crow. By a Civil Rights Act, then a Southern Strategy. By a Black President, then a Trump.
This cycle tells us one thing: without Black infrastructure, without unity, without control of our own resources, we will remain vulnerable to every political storm.
When we talk about infrastructure, we’re not just talking roads and bridges—we’re talking power.
Power to fund our own schools.
Power to control our own media.
Power to own the businesses in our neighborhoods.
Power to grow and distribute our own food.
Power to support one another when the system tries to shut the door in our face.
Black banks. Black farms. Black tech. Black schools. Black cooperative economics.
Not to exclude anyone else—but to include ourselves in a way that’s never been done on a national scale.
Unity is not a buzzword—it’s a strategy. A necessity.
[Unity of Purpose, Spirit, and Identity]
We need a unity of purpose—knowing what we are building and why.
A unity of spirit—rooted in love, dignity, and protection of our people.
And a unity of identity—where we stop chasing assimilation and start building liberation.
We are not a monolith—but we must become a nation within a nation.
And like every other group in this country, we have a right—and a responsibility—to secure our future on our terms.
Trumpism is a reminder. Not of our weakness—but of the urgency of our mission.
The time for asking is over. The time for building is now.
We must work within this system because it still affects every aspect of our lives.
But we must never forget to work outside of it too—creating the institutions that will not betray us when the winds shift again.
That’s the real lesson of this moment.
Trumpism proves the urgency. And now we must prove our unity.
Trumpism proves the urgency.
Not just to vote—but to build.
Not just to march—but to organize.
Not just to dream—but to construct.
Let this moment be our turning point. Because no one is coming to save us. But we can save ourselves—together.
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