Great Day, Family!
This is Brother Ha2tim coming through with another blog—not just any blog, but one born from lived experience, cultural awareness, and unapologetic truth-telling. I'm experimenting with a powerful technique, and I invite you to take notes. What you’re about to read started while I was ironing clothes and recording my thoughts. Through technology, my words were transcribed, refined with the help of Baba AI (a digital extension of the Gye-Nyame mindset), and shaped into this message for the Journey.
Let’s get into it.
The Tool Is Not the Threat—Your Lack of Use Is
People keep asking, “Are robots or AI going to take my job?” Family, the truth is deeper: you won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll lose it to the person who knows how to use AI. The tool isn't your enemy. Your resistance to using it is.
I’m pushing out more content than ever because I’ve embraced the tools of the age. This blog, for example, started as a voice note. That's part of my system: I speak my truth, transcribe it, and refine it using AI trained specifically in the ways of Gye-Nyame. That’s efficiency. That’s evolution.
Let’s Talk Guilt and Growth
Now, let me confess—I’m guilty. Guilty of falling for one of the biggest myths that’s ever been sold to us.
When I was younger, I idolized the so-called “self-made men”—the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the JP Morgans. I bought into the story that they “got it out the mud,” that their success came from hard work and hustle. I repeated that same hustle mentality to my people. “Get yours,” I said. “Just follow the steps, and it’ll all come together.”
But now, at 57 years old, I see it clearly. I was misinformed—and I passed that misinformation along.
The Lie of Capitalist Merit
Let’s be real: capitalism was never meant to work for all of us. It is a system that requires an underclass. In fact, it can’t function without one.
The foundation of capitalism wasn’t built on hard work—it was built on genocide, enslavement, theft, and exploitation. That’s not poetic license; that’s historical fact.
Take it back to ancient Sparta. A small warrior class thrived because an enslaved underclass did all the labor. Sound familiar? The Spartans didn’t need to hustle; they inherited the structure. Just like the so-called “robber barons” of the industrial age didn’t “build” anything from scratch. They inherited capital, land, laws, and labor systems forged through blood.
And guess who paid that cost?
Family, they didn’t get it out the mud. They got it from us.
Our Blood Built the Foundation
This country—and by extension, the modern world—was built off our sacrifice. Indigenous genocide cleared the land. African enslavement built the wealth. The wealth built the corporations. The corporations created the infrastructure. And then, they turned around and told us to “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
Family, they didn’t get it out the mud. We are the mud.
What They Don’t Want You to See
The system doesn’t want you to have a historical context. Why? Because without it, you believe you’re deficient. That your struggle is personal failure. That your poverty is due to a lack of hustle.
But nah. Your only “flaw” is that you’re not a murderer, thief, kidnapper, or colonizer. That’s what the system rewarded to get to where it is now.
That’s why you can’t win at their game playing by their rules. Every path they used to gain power—once successful—was declared illegal or immoral for anyone else.
They got to sacrifice lives for wealth. We’re told to sacrifice our dreams for survival.
We Don’t Need a New System—We Need Our System
So what’s the solution? We don’t need to emulate capitalism. We need to replace it—with a system rooted in humanity, not hierarchy.
And for those afraid of what happens when Black folks start building new systems: don’t be. Because history has shown—we’ve always been just. Always communal. Always inclusive.
That’s why our young people don’t storm the streets seeking revenge. We carry pain, but we also carry perspective. What we build won’t just heal us—it’ll uplift everyone.
Capitalism Requires Inhumanity—We Don’t
To succeed in this current framework, you have to stop seeing people. You start seeing widgets, digits, and data. You reduce life to profit margins. You sacrifice humanity for hierarchy.
But family, that’s not us. That has never been us.
So let’s remember: to move forward, we must understand how we got here. Let’s reclaim our narrative, rebuild our systems, and redefine success in our own image.
This is Brother Ha2tim, signing out. Keep building. Keep learning. Keep living on purpose.
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