What We Gon Do: It's Time for Leadership and Revolution

I've been watching. ICE kicking in doors. Women shot in the face. Lawfully armed gun owners killed live on our feeds. Men, women, and children harmed yeah, we're hearing the stories. I'm no journalist, but what I see with my eyes doesn't make me scared. It makes me angry.

We told y'all this would happen. And the ones that stepped in that voting booth and voted for the orange one only did it because of your bigoted bias against a Black woman. We're not even fully into 2026 one month in and so much has happened I can't even document it. Every other day is something done on purpose.

They've Done This Before

You think what's happening now is new? Let me remind you what they've done before and what they'll do again if we let them. The Nazis didn't invent this. They studied us.

In the 1930s, Nazi lawyers literally looked at American Jim Crow laws and immigration restrictions as blueprints for the Nuremberg Laws. James Q. Whitman documents this in Hitler's American Model  how they praised our racial classification systems, our anti-miscegenation laws, our ability to strip people of humanity through legal language. America wrote the manual on systemic oppression, and we've been running that same script for centuries.

See, these people are using the same playbook that's been used for years. Where do you think the Nazis got it from? It wasn't from Germany. It was from the atrocities of America. And those atrocities still run deep. It's a rabid disease that needs a cure, and the only cure we have for that is revolution. But this pattern didn't start in the 1930s either.

Tulsa Massacre, 1921. Black Wall Street the wealthiest Black community in America burned to the ground. Bombed from the air. Hundreds dead. Thousands displaced. Why? Because we built something they couldn't control.

Tuskegee Experiments, 1932–1972. The government let Black men die from untreated syphilis just to study what would happen. For 40 years. Told them they were getting free healthcare.

MOVE Bombing, 1985. Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a Black liberation group's home. Killed 11 people, including 5 children. Burned down 61 homes. The city didn't even apologize until 2020.

This is the pattern. When we organize, when we build, when we demand better they destroy it. By law, by violence, by fire.

They Destroyed Black Leadership on Purpose

Back in the '60s, the goal was clear: destroy Black leadership. And they did a damn good job doing it.

COINTELPRO the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program actively targeted Black leaders like Fred Hampton, Martin Luther King Jr., and organizations like the Black Panther Party. Fred Hampton was 21 years old when the FBI coordinated his assassination in 1969. They drugged him, then shot him in his bed while he slept next to his pregnant girlfriend. Martin Luther King Jr. was surveilled, harassed, and sent letters by the FBI telling him to kill himself. The message was loud if you organize, if you rise, we will neutralize you.

The Church Committee exposed all of this in 1975. Confirmed it. Documented it. And still, nothing really changed. They didn't want us to have the savior complex, so they did whatever they could to destroy our neighborhoods, our systems of living, the Black men, the Black women and our relationships between they want to keep all power and control to something they hold so dear: white supremacy.

Now that white supremacy is knocking on their doors, pulling them out, they're wondering what's going on. But it was never about white supremacy, fools. It's about the haves and the have-nots.

Why They Fear Us Organized

You want to know why they always come for us when we build? Because they've seen what happens when we organize.

Reconstruction (1865–1877): Right after slavery ended, Black people were elected to Congress, started businesses, built schools, voted. We were thriving. So they ended it. Violently. The Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow all designed to crush what we built.

Black Wall Street (1921): We created our own economy. Our own banks, hospitals, schools. Greenwood was proof we didn't need them. So they burned it down.

The Black Panther Party (1966–1982): Free breakfast programs. Free health clinics. Community education. Armed patrols to protect Black neighborhoods from police violence. They weren't just talking revolution they were living it. So the FBI infiltrated, arrested, and assassinated their leaders.

Every time we build power, every time we show we don't need their systems to survive they destroy it. Because an organized, self-sufficient Black community is their worst nightmare.

The Divide-and-Conquer Playbook

Here's the thing most people miss: it's never really been about race. It's about the haves and the have-nots.

This is a tale as old as the beginning of America. See, what I've learned from reading and it clicked really easy for me was once the rich figured out that if they separate people and make them feel superior to each other, they could create a divide.

After Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, when poor whites and enslaved Africans teamed up against the Virginia elite, the rich got nervous. So they invented race-based slavery to split us up. Give poor white folks a "psychological wage" make them feel superior and suddenly they're not asking why the rich are hoarding everything.

W.E.B. Du Bois broke this down in Black Reconstruction in America. Edmund Morgan documented it in American Slavery, American Freedom. The pattern is clear: the poor people of all colors were rising up against the rich people who were taking all the resources and living high and mighty while giving them scraps. So they created a divide. They made the poor white man feel more supreme than the black man. Enslaved the Black man, made him less than human, and took everybody's money. Then built generational wealth for generations so their families could live off it which is still happening to this day.

Funny thing about systems: if you don't break them, they will continue. Hundreds of years later, that system is still doing the same thing. People just don't see it because they're so boggled down inside their own hatred and divide that they don't know their rich man is in their pockets, taking their rights, their money, their housing, their security, their safety.

Before long, you're gonna be the new slave. That was the plan all along. Work for me. Do for me. Make me rich. Make me a trillionaire. I'll give you a bone here and there, and you'll let me because you think I'm cool, you think I'm superior, you think I'm something you wish to be and that's a sad place to be in 2026.

And They're Still Running That Plan Today

That system didn't just divide us. It built generational wealth for white families off the backs of enslaved Black people and then locked us out of every wealth-building opportunity that came after.

Enslaved labor built the foundation of American capitalism. Cotton alone was 60% of U.S. exports by 1860. Then came the GI Bill (1944), redlining, discriminatory lending all designed to exclude Black families from homeownership and wealth-building opportunities by design.

And now, centuries later, white families hold 10 times the wealth of Black families on average. But it's not just historical. It's happening right now.

Prison labor: The 13th Amendment still allows slavery as punishment for crime. Companies like McDonald's, Walmart, and Victoria's Secret have used prison labor. Mostly Black and Brown people locked up for nonviolent offenses, working for pennies while corporations profit.

Wage theft: Low-wage workers disproportionately Black and Brown lose billions annually to wage theft. More than all other property crimes combined. (Economic Policy Institute)

Corporate tax breaks vs. social programs: Billionaires get tax cuts while programs that help poor people get slashed.The looting never stopped. It just got legal.

The Playbook in Action Right Now

Every other day is something done on purpose. And it's the same playbook.

Flood the zone with chaos. Steve Bannon literally said "flood the zone with shit" as a strategy. Overload people so they can't keep up or organize. You can't even document it every minute, every hour, a distraction. Distraction from the atrocities they're doing in the dark. Revenge, hate, control.

Scapegoat immigrants. Same tactic used against Black people during Reconstruction, Chinese immigrants in the 1800s (Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882), Japanese Americans in the 1940s (internment camps). Blame a marginalized group, distract from the real thieves.

Dismantle oversight. Fire inspectors general. Gut agencies. Remove accountability so the looting can happen unchecked. This isn't new. It's just obvious now.

Call Out Who Benefits

The puppeteers pulling the strings aren't Agent Orange. I don't even believe it's so much Steven Miller. It's the billionaire buddies.

Jared Kushner got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia right after leaving the White House.

Elon Musk gets government contracts while cutting programs for poor people.

Private equity firms are buying up housing while homelessness rises.

Health insurance CEOs make millions while people die from denied claims.

And as you hear all praise, just look who's in the middle of this. Who has special privilege. That tells you exactly who's running it.

America has no control. You wanna know why? Because you gave your control to a man who will sell you for a dollar just to profit himself.

Why Black People Are Always Expected to Save America

So let's go down into some history. Because it's time for a revolution. It's time to speak up, speak out.

Black people just want to be left alone. Going about our lives, having the same opportunities, living our lives with our children and our families, trying to do the best that we can. But certain people have made it so difficult for us that we are blamed for the suffering they caused and put on us generation after generation.

And now their karma is coming back to smack them in the face, and they're looking at us like, "Aren't you gonna do something"? Why do we have to always do something?

Black voters literally saved democracy multiple times. 2020 election. Georgia runoffs. Alabama Senate race with Doug Jones. Black women are the most reliable voting block for progressive policies, yet get the least investment and support.

The Civil Rights Movement did the heavy lifting to expand rights for everyone, women, LGBTQ+ folks, disabled people, immigrants. But Black people are still waiting for full liberation.

We've been carrying this country on our backs since before it even called us human. And now they want us to save them from the monster they fed?

Nah. Not this time. Not unless everybody shows up.

The same people who went in there and voted for this man are looking at us to fix it. The same people that need to try to figure out how to stand up and start this revolution. That's what I believe.

But what I know is we all have to do this. It's not just up to one person, one group. Because eventually, they're all gonna have to face the sword. We'll just be the first ones to be struck down. And we already know if the others don't suffer, nothing's gonna change. And they're waiting for us to do something.

What Revolution Actually Looks Like

Do I believe it's time for us to stand up and make a revolution? I go back and forth in my mind, saying maybe yes, maybe no. I don't feel the call just yet. I think as a collective, we'll find that call. And when we hear that call, we'll do what we do best: save America from her head on the gravel.But waiting for the call makes sense too.

Revolutions require mass consciousness  not just a few people ready, but a tipping point. History shows successful movements happened when conditions got so bad people had nothing left to lose. Haiti. Russia. France. (Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy) But also waiting too long means more people get hurt in the meantime. That tension is real. I don't have to resolve it. I'm just naming it.

Still, revolution doesn't always look like storming the gates. Sometimes it looks like:

Mutual aid networks. How communities survived during the Great Depression and COVID. Not waiting for government help. (Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Labor organizing. Workers are waking up.

Community defense. The Black Panther Party's survival programs free breakfast, health clinics, education. That's revolution without waiting for permission.

Digital organizing. How movements like Black Lives Matter spread globally. The playbook isn't just physical anymore. You don't need permission to start building.

What They're Afraid Of Right Now

You want to know what scares them the most? It's not the protests. It's not even the riots.

It's when we stop asking for permission.

When we build our own food systems and don't need their grocery stores.

When we teach our own kids and don't need their schools.

When we take care of our own communities and don't need their police.

When we create our own economies and don't need their jobs.

That's what terrifies them. Because the moment we realize we don't need them to survive we're free. And free people can't be controlled.

That's why they flood the zone with chaos. Keep you scared, broke, distracted, and divided. Because if you ever stopped long enough to realize your neighbor Black, white, Brown, whatever is going through the same struggle you are? And y'all linked up?

Game over. The question is: What are we gon do? Together?

The Ones Who Voted for This

It's such a sad sight to see. There's so many pieces and parts and moving things going on right now you can't even keep up.

But let me be clear: the same people who voted for this man, the same people who enabled this your turn is coming too. White supremacy isn't loyal. It'll eat you next. And when it does, don't look at us like we owe you salvation.

You made your choice.

What Cha Gon Do?

Because waking up and seeing the same playbook being used that was used on our ancestors is old. And it's time to burn it down along with the people, systems, and organizations involved in it.

So what are you gonna do? Right now. Today.

Learn your history so you can't be gaslit.

Build with your neighbors mutual aid, skill shares, networks.

Stop waiting for politicians to save you.

Protect each other when the system won't.

Even small actions disrupt the machine.

The revolution won't wait for you to be ready. It's already here.

The question is: are you gonna show up?

Or are you gonna keep waiting for someone else to save you?