I really hate Jared Kushner is even a thing.

We are forced to pay attention to what he says because he exerts influence in spaces that, like most of his colleagues, he is completely unqualified to occupy.

But “Black folks don’t want success” is a common narrative. So...

What I will say is the pervasive idea that Black folks just “don’t want to be successful” ignores that:

1. dominant culture insists that success singularly = $
2. It’s White supremacy doesn’t want “successful” Black folks
3. Black excellence in every industry drives culture.

1. Diasporas cultures, like pretty much all non-white, non-western culture, has broad and varying definitions of “success.”

White, western dominant culture made money its ruler. It does not, however, govern all of our values. Dominant culture doesn’t understand this.

2. Black folks reliably occupying the lowest castes racially and economically directly benefits the capitalism and supremacist culture that promotes the Jared’s of the world.

JARED doesn’t want Black folks to be successful. He’d lose his throne. Talk about projection LOL.

3. Folks know how powerful Black people are, which is why they work so hard to restrict us politically and economically.

Black people drive the culture dominant culture trades in. You don’t get American exceptionalism without Black brilliance.

I’m only saying this to hep move conversation forward.

‘Cause Jared means nothing to me beyond the fact that he said the quiet part out loud-and we should tell the truth, because plenty of “good” people think he’s right, and he’s wrong in like 18 different ways.

(By the way, American exceptionalism is some BS-I’m simply listing the things *someone like Jared* values that the backs of Black people gave him.)

They’re are typos all thru this cause nails and typing fast but y’all get the point lmao