The Wealth Game Black Families Can’t Afford to Ignore

It's always about us and it's always gonna be about us 'cause I'm a Black man in America and I'm raising a little Black girl, so it's always gonna be about us.

I'm a Black man in America that ain't never had his father.

It's always gonna be about us.

I'm a Black man in America that saw his mama do drugs.

It's gonna always be about us.

I'm a Black man in America that saw his mama go to prison and I was swapping shoes out over there in prison.

It's gonna always be about us because I know I ain't the only one that gotta see somebody that I understand that my role, I understand that who I am inspires somebody else.

I, I wanna get front and center and say that Black people, I love us.

Black people, you made me.

You, you are responsible for the growth.

You are responsible for, um, the, the path.

You know what I'm saying? Like, outside of just God giving me this God-given ability, it is because of you.

It is because of the likes, it is because of the shares, it is because of the reposts.

It ...

You helped to build me.

You gave me reason.

You gave me purpose.

You increased my courage.

You increased my power.

You increased my voice.

You increased my influence.

And, and it's nothing against no other race, color, or creed.

I love y'all all for it, but Black people, you made me.

And no, I would never in my life ever, ever forget that.

I would never in my life forget that because it was us that inspired me when I was in the trenches.

I saw 99% of Black families around me struggling.

I saw Black mamas working two and three jobs.

Me and all my homies was Black and we watched his auntie on drugs, my auntie on drugs, my mama in jail, his mama working two jobs, his mama a junkie, his mama doing this, his mama locked up, his mama an alcoholic, his mama messing with two and three men trying to get off.

And I watched it all.

I watched his daddy work on a garbage truck, his daddy come from prison, his daddy be a drunk, his daddy be a killer, his daddy be a gangster, his daddy be dead, his daddy be dead.

And it's because it was all Black people that I saw.