"If they come for me in the morning, they will come foryou in the night." — James Baldwin
In July 2025, 500 tons of high-energy biscuits meant to feedstarving children were incinerated by order of the United States government.Let us be clear: this was not an accident. It was not bureaucraticmismanagement. It was the inevitable result of a system that has always usedpain as a tool, and suffering as leverage. What kind of system sets fire tonourishment? A system that knows hungry people are easier to manage than freeones.
The food had been purchased with taxpayer dollars, packedand ready to go. It sat in a Dubai warehouse for months, with organizationslike the World Food Program pleading for permission to distribute it to regionsfacing acute famine. The U.S. refused. When the food expired, they set fire toit.
This was not about safety or protocol. This was about power.When an empire cannot control who receives aid, it would rather no one receiveit at all. Starvation becomes a weapon, not a tragedy.
KeyMessage: Capitalism Exploits Pain, Empire Controls by Scarcity
This is how capitalism enforces obedience—not with whipsanymore, but by locking doors to food warehouses. Scarcity isn’t a failure ofthe system. It is the system. The people weren’t fed, because feeding themwould mean ceding control.
The U.S. government decided that no child would eat unlessit got to claim the credit. And when that wasn’t possible—it chose flames overfreedom.
And here’s what’s most telling: there was no outrage fromthe machine. There were no apologies. This was business as usual for a systemthat has always functioned by the logic of domination.
This moment exposes the moral bankruptcy of capitalism inits purest form. Food—designed and designated to save lives—was transformedinto waste rather than released outside the control of the state. That is notinefficiency. That is capitalism doing exactly what it’s designed to do.
It is important to understand that this is not an anomaly.It is a continuation of a long-standing doctrine: control resources, controllingpeople.
Black people have always lived under these conditions. Forus, authoritarianism is not a looming threat, it is a lived reality. From theauction block to the prison cell, from sterilization wards to food deserts, ourlives have always been shaped by forced deprivation and calculated abandonment.
"America has never been innocent. And God is not mockedfor long." — Cornel West
This is why we must build something entirely different. We must create our own.
Enter:BIT—Black Infrastructure Trust.
BIT is not charity. It is not a nonprofit. It is notbeholden to grants, donors, or performative diversity slogans. It is acommunalist institution—an ecosystem of survival built from the ground up, byus and for us.
When they burn food, BIT builds food sovereignty hubs. Whenthey withhold aid, BIT builds distribution networks. When they cut power, BITdevelops community-owned energy systems.
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressoris the mind of the oppressed." — Steve Biko
BIT breaks that mental grip by showing a different way isnot only possible—it’s already in motion. We do not wait for policy changes. Webuild safety nets, knowledge centers, and supply lines that answer no one butthe people.
But we are not waiting for them to fix it. We are buildingthe future in the ashes of their empire.
BIT is the ark. Communalism is the compass. And we are theones who will row.
"We are the ones we’ve been waiting for." — JuneJordan
The Warning and the Way Forward
If they burn food, they’ll burn futures.
What I’m here to do is connect with the ones ready tomove—ready to think differently, build differently, and live free on our ownterms. This is about one thing:
Liberation under Black management.
Until next the next episode:
Stay sharp. Stay Building. And stay Black on Purpose.
