Black Dollar: The Entitled Descendant

For the Black Dollar Series, The Entitled Descendant is the grand or great grandchildren of Black elders who actually endured Jim Crow, segregation, and for Deep South descendants – 20th century slavery. These are the benefactors of many of the policy changes that came from movements like the civil rights fights or the washerwomen strikes that activated changes for wage equity, free education, TRIO programs, and less biased entertainment portals. This topic is personal, a bit long, and an overdue conversation. It’s time to honestly address the motivation of the bitter hatred growing around the topic, distinguishing legitimate gripes and dusty takes by inner-community saboteurs.

Threat to the Community: High

SCAM Meter: High

The Mindset

This is someone in the community who designated themselves as the only voice for the identity of Black America. This sentiment would quantify during the Trump era, only to see those same Entitled Descendant’s speak on “lineage” that affronts the prior generations efforts as their own. With the merely symbolic affiliation, they began to dictate how the rest of Black America should operate. They see other community’s, especially the Black Diaspora’s progress in America as disrespect of their entitled access to financial expansion, career opportunities, and social services in America. The want reparations, and opportunities before everyone because of what has happened in the past, but also a “check in culture” for anyone coming to America that can be labeled commercially as “Black.” They feel slighted, and any course correction of America’s ability to compensate should be for them and them alone, simply because they’re related to legitimate hardship of pre 1990’s Black America.

One tactic of the entitled descendant is to whine when they see people they feel aren’t good enough to become financially compensated or fiscally rewarded. They will start a hate campaign off/on line, based on not being what they perceived as not really Black American, only to discover the person is foundationally Black. The reasons for their hate are superficial, ranging from “being too dark to be us”, their skepticism based on “foreign sounding” last names, or flat out civic-discrimination due to misaligned reparation stances.

The History

The Entitled Descendant’s history in the Black community comes from waking up and seeing how much further they feel other types of Black and Non-black people in America started to receive financial gains, as they felt their Black economic stability suffering in the late 2010s. Seeing many Africans flood America for academic access, gain opportunities under the guise of being “Black/African American” on applications, to even seeing the expansion of Black foreign gains in entertainment and sports, resentment started to build. The success of America, based on Black ancestral efforts became a legitimate concern and something needed to be done, as the erasure started to border delusion.

And as more Foreign Blacks and Non-Black people were credited for things once seen as worthless when culturally presented by Black America, much of that resentment was warranted, especially when millions of dollars started getting passed around.

Fast Forward, the Entitled Descendant started feel the strain of the idea of “its okay when WE do it but not when Black people do it” concept. This became the harsh root of reclaiming Black America’s contributions that are directly connected to economic stability. From school funding leaning more to Hispanics, to health equity prioritizing LGBTQ,etc, social media’s blatant shadow-banning of Black content creators, and the real estate markets still blocked by quiet bias, the disrespect of Black America’s presence started to morph opportunity’s from White’s Only, to “All Welcome but Black.” As the world became smaller, America’s generational stifling of Black growth started to weigh on free market of competition, especially when the game was systematically rigged even after policy changes.

From the out looking in, this person is the real activist, highlighting economic statistics as proof of bias towards Black people in America. For every gain turned into quantifiable revenue, the question started to be raised, if its valuable, why is it only funded when “we” aren’t involved or in control. The personal goal is to be compensated and recognized, reminding everyone else, how and why the opportunity was created in the first place.

Faux Pas

For the Entitled Descendant, they are exactly right about erasure but, their entitlement from not having to be challenged in things the ancestors fought for creates the illusion of automatic rewards. By not sacrificing for the next generation, they feel they are owed but unlike prior generations, many of them flat out betrayed what Black elders stood for. Black elders were religious, believed in marriage, specifically to the same race. They valued how hard it was to vote and grab any opportunity such as education and trades as the cheat code to survive and breakaway from the deep pits of the White-leaning industrial systems. The elders that had the chance to break away, are now painted as “sellouts” by the Entitled Descendant. Those elders who would evolve past America’s crumbs, barely even acknowledge the gains of the Black foreigners because, they no longer see them in the same level.

Why would a Black college educated person be in competition for the same job as a non high-school graduate that can barely speak English? If they’re competing for the same job, that sounds like a personal problem.

Considering people from Africa could make $20 billion dollar deals, they have ping back to their country for every gain. That $20 Billion goes back home, but almost $18 billion is spent on the same infrastructure Black America doesn’t even have think about. So they end up having to figure out how to spend the remaining $2 billion to pay the entire county’s health care, homeland security, internet, etc. These are things Americans don’t even have to worry about. Plus their gains come with colonized concessions.

There is also fumbled bags and Faux Pas’ like the Elders had to function and operate in a rigged system merely based on being Black. Whereas the Entitled Descendant, chooses to move to predominantly White neighborhoods and whine about bias. They have low marriage rates that were strategically used to fortify abilities for loans and workforce agreements. The dismissive takes on education despite Black elders innovating America’s education system, through Bordentown style frameworks, the precursor to STEM, Agriculture & Mechanics was another fumble. The modern education was specifically created by Black America to help future Black Americans thrive in places not even White’s and Non Blacks understood the value. By the 1920’s the Red Summer was proof Black America’s social framework could withstand even the Great Depression. And that was the first steps to the abandoned plan of moving away completely away from White America’s disorganized “sign with an X” system to a fully innovative society involving banking, gender neutral voting/workforce, education, and sustainable infrastructure we see today as “visionary.”

The Asset

When the Entitled Descendant brings up a point, it is imperative for America to listen. They are the canary in the coal mind and the result of a cultural body in America, evolving into a spoiled circumstances once the stability is brokered. In Hispanic communities, there are already showing signs of their mindset matching the Entitled Descendant using the prior sacrifices of the “hard working” illegal ancestor as the identity for themselves while, being really lazy, and not creating a realistic or legal stability for the next generation. The Entitled Descendant highlights legitimate issues of what’s wrong in America but, most state and local budgets have been created for over 50 years based on Black elder standards that can’t really function today, especially if the current generation is not investing towards the next generation’s growth.

There is a low level of awareness and Extreme compromised reality.

The Weakness

These types see anything Black as competition, even within their own community. Yes, you hear about racism from Latinos or Black Immigrants being disrespectful but many of the Entitled Descendant’s really haven’t contributed shit to the community. They feed off of others sacrifices, steal Black enterprise, rip off any upward mobility, and many of them spent time murdering and drugging the community in their youth, only to now re-brand as religious leaders and community activist. They despise the Black educated, the Pan Hellenic, and everything they dismissed as valuable in their youth, as the Illuminati or bitter takes of “The Boule.” Are there Black elitist? Sure but since the times of the Boule, uneducated Black celebrities and nepo-based Federal worker culture has become it’s own gate-keeping system, blocking rightful access to Black America. Before they even engaged with foreigner’s they blocked out many Black America’s trajectory. Seriously, Black people had campaigns, AGAINST Whitney Houston when she came on the scene, not Mexican’s or Zimbabweans. There really is deep hatred for carefree Blackness. Interesting.

The excessive gate-keeping of Black America by other Black America’s has really contributed to this seemingly erasure and imbalanced priority of America’s love for non Black America. There is also a sentiment by the American Infrastructure that feels the elders asked for specific deliverables and got what they wanted and now the next generation wants to erase those request and replacement with new proto-concessions. Overall the mindset of America towards Black America is that they gave the community want they wanted during the civil rights era because the elder’s knew taking to much would come with penalties. They purposely left things on the table because they kept the Red Summer in the back of their minds, quiet success was the only way to win. Taking too much are factors the Entitled Descendant want to rescind, damn be the consequences.

Overall

If the Entitled Descendant can think about what they want for their next generation to strive for, it begins with sacrificing something they know won’t be accomplished in the moment. The entitled “me, myself and I” mindset might need to be abandoned for realistic goals. A goal that might become clearer of why they want compensation/reparations now.

Black erasure has had help from within. It comes from systemic infighting and sabotage that other communities utilized to their advantage. All they did was pick up the fumbled and abandoned bag. Understand, community unity wasn’t really about peace and harmony, it was a strategic weapon against those who fought for generations to destroy and murder Black people in America for over 200 years. This is why Black Americans are at an impasse. To see everyone else as an “Opp” will not recoup lost time but, like elders in the past that knew it was too late for them to go to college or reach their fullest potential, they would spend whatever life left, giving who they saw as a testament to legacy, a chance to move forward. And the reason the fight is still occurring because of the self sabotage that de-legitimized gains during the Pan-African movements in the late 1970’s. People forget how Black America was anti America for much of the 70’s-90’s, giving way to Pan African-ism and any good thing done in America as a betrayal. How times have changed.

If there is plan beyond selfish gains, even if something close to reparations is provided, would there even be any money left for the next two generations to even be comfortable, with no real plan? How do you build if children eventually have to fight with their sorta white relatives, a clowder of baby mama’s filing child support lawsuits, and for women, student loan sharks and bad faith investments chasing down any meager gains. Not even Black pro athletes and celebs collectively have a complete post-generational plan. The idea of reparations covering up a lifetime of selfishness won’t slather on respect anymore. Using immigrant as scapegoats for disrespecting the core values of Black America won’t explain when the ancestors and the family starts asking “where did all of the gains of our elders go”, especially when the prior gains aren’t used as tools to translate to the legacy of Black America in the future.