WE’RE NOT GATEKEEPING BLACKNESS. WE’RE GATEKEEPING THE CLAIM.

WE'RE NOT GATEKEEPING BLACKNESS. WE'RE GATEKEEPING THE CLAIM. | King Crowder LIVE They've been saying it about us for years. FBA are gatekeeping Blackness. Divisive. Looking down on our own. So let me be very clear, and then I'll spend ninety minutes proving it. We are NOT gatekeeping Blackness. Blackness is wide open. Nobody's at that door. I'm not telling anybody what they are — that isn't my job and it isn't my business. We're gatekeeping THE CLAIM. And those are two different doors. WHAT "FLAT BLACKNESS" MEANS Flat Blackness means treating "Black" like it's one thing. One history. One claim. One line in the budget for everybody with brown skin in America. Flat means a program says "minority" and everybody walks in. Flat means a politician says "the Black community" and nobody asks which part, or when we got here, or what was done to whom. Flat is comfortable. Flat is easy to say from a podium. And flat is exactly why we can't name one specific thing we got. THE PROOF — AND IT ISN'T MY OPINION Here's how I know this isn't me being divisive. The only two government bodies in America that ever seriously tried to pay us drew the exact same line I'm drawing. CALIFORNIA REPARATIONS TASK FORCE — created 2020, final report delivered June 29, 2023. Roughly 1,200 pages. Eligibility: descendants of enslaved people, or of Black people living in the United States before 1900. And the chair of that task force, Kamilah Moore, said it in her own words: the recommendations are "not race-based, but they're based on lineage." The report put the figure owed at over $800 billion. It recommended no specific payment amount. Nothing was enacted. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — 2021. The first government-backed reparations program in the country. Up to $25,000 for homeownership, home improvement, or mortgage assistance. Eligibility: direct descendant of a Black person who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969, who faced housing discrimination from a city ordinance, policy, or practice. Residency years. Not race. So when somebody tells me I'm gatekeeping Blackness — the State of California and a city council in Illinois drew the same line first. Were they gatekeeping Blackness too? THE PATTERN — WE'RE THE ONLY ONES ASKED TO SHARE THE CUBAN ADJUSTMENT ACT, 1966 — named one country. Nobody told Cubans it was divisive to keep it. TREATIES AND TRUST OBLIGATION — named specific tribes, and produced two standing federal agencies, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service, each with its own annual congressional appropriation. Nobody called that gatekeeping. THE REFUGEE ACT, 1980 — named a status, built a federal office, provided cash and medical assistance. Nobody asked them to open it up to every immigrant. Only us. Only OUR claim is supposed to be a room anybody can walk into. Every other group in this country got to keep what was written for them. We're the only ones told it's divisive to even ask whose name is on it. NOW — WHAT I AM NOT SAYING I'm not saying anybody isn't Black. Not my job, not my business. I'm not saying any group deserves less. Everybody's got a claim on somebody. I'm saying ours has a different ADDRESS. I'm not saying we don't share a struggle. A cop doesn't ask where your grandmother was born. I know that. I live that. I'm not saying nobody else built anything. People from everywhere built this movement and I'm not erasing a single one of them. What I AM saying is this: a debt has an address. And when somebody writes a check, a name goes on it. AND HERE'S THE OTHER SIDE'S BEST ARGUMENT — because I always give it WATCH SUNDAY'S FIRST: "STOP CLAPPING FOR A PROCLAMATION — Where's The LINE ITEM?" I put the statutes on screen. WEDNESDAY 8PM CST — THE REPORT CARD. On the thumbnail. Five questions. Direct quotes. Public records. Letter grades. I moved it twice and I'm not moving it again. WHO THIS CHANNEL IS FOR King Crowder is a Foundational Black American channel built on empowerment, delineation, political awareness, and building something our people actually own. Live Sunday and Wednesday at 8PM CST. We date every statistic. We name every source. We give the other side its best argument. And we grade ourselves first. #FBA #FoundationalBlackAmericans #KingCrowder #Delineation #LineageNotRace #FlatBlackness #Tangibles #Reparations USE THIS PROGRAM IT IS INCREDIBLE! USE MY LINKWant to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/4641555550961664