"White" criminals organized around ethnic lines. I put "white" in quotes because Jews, Irish, and Italians weren't considered white. They also had societal codes and strictures. Black folk are too divided to make group economics work en masse. Blacks also don't respect the chain-of-command if a black dude is in charge unless he's a pimp, preacher or rapper. Black women operate completely separate from black men and lowkey don't want to see us succeed because it would be at the expense of defacto matriarchal rule. See how they really thought they could push through Kamala and just bully the straight black man into voting for her. I was glad when she dropped out, it meant there was still hope.
The sad truth is smart black people like us need to divest from the sinking ship that is the so-called hood.
Prohibition really helped with that. It gave all the opportunity to reach a point of organizing (even if illegally). It would later evolve into organized crime and drug trafficking. I believe, as far as the black community is concerned, too many issues between bw run syndicates and black male run syndicates, caused more of a divide than say the italians or Irish.
I always find it interesting that we will blame black men, for the destruction of the community, for selling drugs, but will ignore blaming feminism for the alcohol temperament act by the league of women voters and how it led to prohibition which turned the organized crime and drug trafficking market into what it is today.
But, I digress, matriarchal oppression has maintained a divide among black people to the point where you will have to distance yourself from that community. You would have to, essentially, make a black male community, separate from bw. This is the only way we can organize and create the change we want. It’s one reason why feminism fails at some things and succeeds at others. They will scold wm patriarchy, but will kowtow to it to maintain the benefits of white supremacy. So, they never really distance themselves and, therefore, never truly accomplish everything they want, as rapidly as they want.
Black men that still maintain ties to the “community”, wind up kowtowing to bw and matriarchal oppression, ignore abuse (child abuse is huge in our community, but we right it off as “momma’s love”), and gaslighting. I’ve said for a long time that if both parties bm and ww could truly let go of their opposite gendered counterparts, we would make a great team. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen.