On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. Let's talk about America for a second. You know this country wasn't just built on the hard work of enslaved African Americans and innovation. Oh no, America was built on sayings. Yeah, sayings. We love a good saying. Like one of the most classic American sayings is pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
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What you need to do is pull yourself up by your bootstraps. That's like the national anthem of personal responsibility in America, ain't it. But here's the thing, it's not even practical, Like who came up with that? You ever tried to pull yourself up by your bootstraps? Physics won't even let you. You just standing there, You ain'ting on leather straps in the position that the Sisters had Andy Dufrain in in Shawshank Redemption. If you've never seen the movie,
you won't get the reference. Moving right, My point is due to gravity, it is not even possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Another saying in America the American dream. All we sold out one hard. If you work hard and.
Stay focused, you'll be successful. Right.
That sound good, but they never talk about that fine printice on the American Dream that says, unless someone decides that they don't like your success.
For example, Jack Holly, my man.
Jack was living out his dream, own businesses, land, part of a bank.
He was basically the Oprah of Slocum, Texas.
But then nineteen ten rolls around and instead of being celebrated, a white mob rolls in and says, nah, you've been having too much success, Negro, and they destroy everything. One of his sons killed, his businesses, gone, generational wealth torched. And yet somehow, the same folks who did all that are the ones still walking around today saying, why can't y'all pull yourselves up by your bootstraps?
Well, listen, can we tried?
Y'all stole the boots, the straps, and then burnt down the shop. Another saying that we love in America history repeats itself. All America lives by this one because Slocan wasn't the only time this happened. Tulsa's Black Wall Street, same thing, Rosewood, same thing. Look anytime a black community got a little too successful, somebody showed up with some matches and some insecurity, all in one more saying united,
we stand divided, we fall right. Coming from a country that's been divided since day one, that saying should also come with a disclaimer.
Terms and conditions apply. Side effects include systemic racism and selective memory. So while we remember these sayings, let's not forget these slings of families like Jack Holly and massacres like Rosewood and Tulsa. And we know America love is saying, But maybe it's time for some new ones. How About if you see someone thriving, let them keep surviving. How about that? Or here's a good one.
Stop burning up other people's shit. If you got some new sands we should add in twenty twenty five, hit me up on my social media at b dot t V.
That's B d a h t t V.
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