Why Black Unity and Infrastructure Are Non-Negotiable

“The noes appear to have it.”

And with that, seventeen million Americans lose their health care, just so billionaires can stack more gold. This is not a democracy. This is an auction.

Let’s get to the core of it. The United States Congress had a simple choice: save healthcare for millions or protect tax breaks for people already making over $100 million a year. A single amendment proposed something even more reasonable—just say no to tax cuts for anyone making over $1 billion. Still, the answer from the Senate was clear: No.

What does that mean for everyday Americans, especially Black Americans already facing unequal access to care, unstable housing, low-wage jobs, and failing infrastructure in their communities? It means the system is working exactly as designed: to keep the poor sick and struggling while the rich get richer, on our backs.

Politicians—mostly wealthy, mostly white, and overwhelmingly disconnected from the realities of working-class life—will get on television and say, "We can't afford it." They’ll cry about “entitlement programs” and “the national debt.” But behind closed doors, they’re handing out quarter-million-dollar tax cuts to billionaires like Halloween candy.

This isn't mismanagement. It’s manipulation. They’ve convinced poor and working-class white folks to vote against their healthcare, their wages, their schools—just so the rich can win again. They do it with dog whistles, Southern strategies, and fear tactics.

They use racism as a tool to advance classism.

We are not collateral in this system—we’re the target.

The truth is, if they’re willing to sacrifice 17 million lives for a billionaire’s tax break, what do you think they’ll sacrifice to keep you poor, powerless, and dependent?

If the system lets a grandmother die in a nursing home, if it lets a child go without insulin or a family lose their home just to protect a billionaire’s bottom line—how will this same system ever work in our favor?

It won’t.

And that's why Black unity is not a dream—it’s a damn necessity.

That’s why Black-owned infrastructure isn’t a luxury—it’s our lifeline.

Some of our wealthiest Black brothers and sisters now sit in silence with the very elite that hold our people hostage. We celebrate every Black billionaire like it’s a win for the entire culture. But is it?

If you're rich and Black and not investing in Black-owned schools, banks, media platforms, tech, or health clinics, what have you really built? We’re not mad because you made it. We’re mad because you left the rest of us in systems designed to starve and kill.

You could:

• Build entire ecosystems of ownership
• Buy tech companies and protect our digital future
• Create national land banks and affordable housing funds
• Fund alternative education rooted in truth, not whitewashed lies

But you don’t. And that’s not neutrality—that’s betrayal.

We’re not powerless. We’re not helpless.

BIC isn’t a nonprofit or a government grant.

It’s a people-powered, ground-level strategy for building from the bottom up.

Here’s how it works:

Five people with $20 is $100. Ten families with $50/month is $6,000 a year. We use collective economics like we used to. Let's be honest, most people spend $20.00 like it's nothing. A fast food meal for two is more than $20.00.

To the poor and working-class: Don’t wait on miracles. Be your own infrastructure.

Start a BIC. Feed a family. Build a co-op. Fund a school. Share the risk. Multiply the reward.

Congress chose billionaires. We choose each other.

Stay Woke. Stay Building. Stay Beyond Survival.

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