We Have To Stop Advocating Against Each Other.

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:02]Good morning, black people. Got your coffee? I got mine.

[00:00:07]So, I don't have a lot to say today.

[00:00:11]Just a little something on my mind. But before I say what's on my mind today, there are people that I need to say thank you to. I need to say thank you so much to Mickey for helping out with the library pantry. Mickey, sister, thank you so much for helping with the library pantry. I appreciate you. Same thing with T. Taylor. T. Taylor, thank you so much, sister. Thank you so much for helping. And to Gilda, Gilda, I got your note. You already know. Thank you so much, sister. To Patrick. Patrick, thank you so much. Long time supporter and ally. I appreciate you, Patrick, as always. And then I have a person who helped that doesn't really like for their name to be mentioned, and I want to respect that. So, we shall just call you anonymous and say thank you so much for your help of the library pantry.

[00:01:01]Thank you so much. Um, y'all might know that I went yesterday to um pass out bags to seniors and that was eventful.

[00:01:12]Very much so. If you over in the village, you know just how eventful that was because we were we had a little kiki about it. Let me tell the rest of y'all, you know, I'm not the gossipy type, mind you, by any means, but when I tell you, I was thinking about this all yesterday and me and my husband were talking about this. One of my seniors announced to us that she is a part of a throppple.

[00:01:36]And I'm kind of wondering if she knows what that is, but I guess she does. And she seems so proud of it. And mind you, no judgment on my part. Do what you got to do.

[00:01:50]But when I tell you I am literally made up of questions. My husband had to nudge me when I was standing there yesterday because I was about to just launch into a secession of questions because my mind that's the way my mind works because I mean first I wanted to know if she knew what that was. And then secondly I wanted to know who all were involved. Is it, you know, is it two men and a woman? Or is it her and a man and another woman? And what are the rules? And do they live here full time or I just got questions.

[00:02:29]Oh, not the old people getting it in.

[00:02:31]Y'all is And then that's another thing.

[00:02:32]Is it Is it intimate in that way? Is it I I just want to know, man. And these people are in their 80s. I'm just I'm just a little curious.

[00:02:50]I'm just a little I'm just a little curious. I'm just just a little bit. I'm just a little curious, you know. Not that I want to involve myself in the lifestyle. Not not I I just got questions about the lifestyle, you know.

[00:03:05]Anyway, no judgment here. No judgment here.

[00:03:12]I've been telling y'all to get into community.

[00:03:20]Anyway, let me stop. Let me stop. You know what I want to talk about today?

[00:03:24]What I really want to talk about today is I've been seeing across social media platforms how, you know, gig workers are trying to um that's what we call them, people who do Door Dash and Instacart and Ship and Uber and Lift.

[00:03:45]We call them gig workers.

[00:03:47]How they're trying to organize and get benefits and whatnot.

[00:03:54]And you know, I read the comments and the push back is crazy from just regular schmegular American people, other Americans that don't do gig work. The um the push back is crazy and I I I don't quite really understand that, you know, are we so hyperindividualistic here in America? And I guess we is I'm about to answer my own question. I guess we are um to the point where we advocate against other Americans.

[00:04:36]As a UAW worker, as a former labor leader, I was always taught that we advocate for each other, for one another, and that we don't advocate against each other.

[00:04:55]And this fear that we as Americans, first off, first off, most of us, more than half this nation is not financially secure. We we we we not making it. We can't afford to live here. More than half the nation.

[00:05:16]And so when people find a way around, when people figure out a way to help themselves, it's almost like these really, really rich people have conditioned us to immediately put roadblocks in one another's path while they just continue to get richer.

[00:05:46]and they continue to take all the wealth and funnel it up from the bottom, which is where we are, all the way up to the top where they are. And it's keeping us poor. And it's one of the ways that we are staying poor is because we are advocating against each other when we should be advocating for each other. Why do we do things like I get that people went to college and that they have their degrees and that they didn't have help too much help well definitely no help in the form of student loan forgiveness.

[00:06:26]So when we talk about student loan forgiveness and that's one of the ways that we can alleviate the financial burden of of America's Americans.

[00:06:38]We advocate against people having that because we didn't have it.

[00:06:43]Well, I had to pay my way through college. You got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you got to do the same thing.

[00:06:53]When we talk about starting programs for firsttime home buyers or anyone really wanting to buy within a certain income bracket, wanting to be a homeowner, we advocate against that.

[00:07:14]Mind you, boomers could buy a million-doll house for 10 grand back in the day. they could afford it because their income allowed them to be able to afford that and then some.

[00:07:29]I mean, don't we care about future generations of Americans?

[00:07:36]We We don't care about that. We don't care about making things easier for our kids.

[00:07:47]That's why I say we as Americans, we don't care about these kids because why aren't we, the current generations that are here now inhabiting the planet?

[00:08:04]Why aren't we trying to make life life that we see is becoming more and more difficult to navigate, especially financially? Why are we not trying to make it easier, not only for ourselves?

[00:08:18]And if we can't do it for ourselves, we not thinking about the next generation, we we just don't care nothing about them.

[00:08:27]Being able to buy a house, being able to unionize, being able to organize, being able to um negotiate higher pay for themselves. We don't care about them. We really just out here not caring, not giving a [ __ ] about our kids and our grandkids.

[00:08:54]I think white supremacy has a lot to do with it, too. I do because remember how I said in yesterday's video, white people would literally rather suffer, starve themselves.

[00:09:10]You see it happening because they all over social media talking about what they can't afford, how how how high the cost of gas is and groceries are and tuition is and you know and medical expenses and we all could have had things like universal healthcare except they didn't want black people to have it. They would literally rather suffer than thrive side by side with black people. And so they will deny themselves in order to deny us.

[00:09:48]And I feel like a lot of us have been conditioned to think like that when it comes to other people, other Americans.

[00:10:02]We have been conditioned to not want each other to have easier to have it easier because we're having it so hard. I can't tell you how many discussions that I have or I'm a part of where we talk about how to fix it, how to make it where things are more equal and things are more accessible and people can become more successful and we can eliminate some of the burdens, the financial burdens of other Americans like the high cost of rent, excuse me.

[00:10:48]And how many people will literally get down in the comments and say, "Well, I pay my bills. I do this. It's hard for me. I struggle. So, I got a second job.

[00:10:59]You get a second job, too." Instead of just saying, "Let us all join together and making things easier for us all." and more equitable for us all and better for us all. It all starts with we have to start targeting the people on the bottom first, the most vulnerable. We have to start taking care of them in order that things get better for start getting better for the rest of us.

[00:11:41]If you are afraid that someone at McDonald's makes a higher wage than you when you work at say a warehouse and you feel like what you do is more important than what that McDonald's worker does and therefore you should get paid more.

[00:12:06]The answer isn't to advocate against that McDonald worker getting paid a livable wage.

[00:12:14]The answer is to advocate for that McDonald's worker and then advocate for yourself if you feel like what you do at your job is more substantial.

[00:12:28]I remember having a conversation with a paramedic one time and this was back when McDonald's workers, fast food workers were talking about $15 an hour.

[00:12:38]That was back when that would have helped them. And they wanted they were advocating for $15 an hour. And she was saying to me, the paramedic worker, that she only made $17 an hour.

[00:12:54]And she said she's out here saving lives. And I get that.

[00:12:58]So she didn't want that McDonald's, that person making hamburgers pay to compete with her pay because she felt like what she did was so much more substantial than what a McDonald's worker did. And I can't argue the point.

[00:13:17]But my point to her was maybe we shouldn't argue about the McDonald's worker being paid $15 an hour and maybe instead you should advocate for yourself to be paid a more substantial amount of money.

[00:13:39]Until we start thinking like that, the people at the top are going to keep eating us down.

[00:13:50]I think that a lot of us do that, meaning advocate against other people without even thinking about the consequences of that action.

[00:14:06]I personally don't feel like I would need to advocate advocate against someone in order to advocate for myself.

[00:14:16]That's not going to be a part of the argument for myself.

[00:14:21]Or maybe it will be if I say the McDonald's worker is making $15, $20 an hour.

[00:14:30]So I who save lives and have to deal with things like gunshots and whatnot and emergency situations, life and death emergency situations, my pay should be higher. It should be increased. Y'all feel what I'm saying?

[00:14:51]We need to collectively advocate for all of ourselves to receive more.

[00:15:02]Advocating for other Americans to have less because you don't have enough is not it.

[00:15:14]advocating against other Americans, having it easier because you had it a little harder is not it.

[00:15:26]We have to start thinking about future generations.

[00:15:31]Surely we are not so selfish and so hyperindividualistic to where we no longer care about the generations coming behind us.

[00:15:47]I want to see my kids generation be able to afford a house and I want to see their offspring be able to afford a house comfortably and so forth and so forth.

[00:16:02]I think it's weird that we damage each other in this way.

[00:16:10]I do.

[00:16:14]And it's one of the reasons, not the only reason, but it's one of the reasons why people are not being paid what they should be being paid because we holding each other back from it.

[00:16:35]I hope that made sense to somebody.

[00:16:38]Anyway, that's all that I really wanted to say today. That is that is that is if you are one of those people who are inclined to do that, y'all need to really really stop and think about what it is you're actually doing. You're advocating against other Americans. And this that's not how it should be.

[00:17:04]We should all be advocating for each other.

[00:17:10]not against each other.

[00:17:14]That [ __ ] is anti-American as [ __ ] That's all that I have for today.

[00:17:22]If you would like to support the platform, buy me a cup of coffee, or if you can help with the library pantry, please do so. I'll leave my cash app and VMO down in the comments. Have a good day. Have a righteous day. Don't be nobody's problem today. Don't be out here advocating against other people today.

[00:17:42]You don't have to do that in order to advocate for yourself.

[00:17:47]We need to advocate for everybody.

[00:17:52]Used to be a time when the unions were in effect and America was unionized that we did.

[00:18:00]And that that was also coincidentally during times when people could raise entire families on one paycheck.

[00:18:11]They could go on vacation.

[00:18:13]They weren't stressed out to the brink.

[00:18:16]They didn't need a a regular job and a gig job.

[00:18:21]They could afford children. They could afford tuition.

[00:18:29]Have a righteous day, y'all.