I mention this before and it’s kind of funny – the first thing when my name comes around and what I’m handling is folks can’t handle it and start grasping for straws. They start saying they know “better” Black folks in this tech space than me trying to discount me by dick riding someone else. And the funny part is I don’t even know this person acting like that towards me – they mad you guys bringing my name up. I’m at the lounge talking to someone's baby momma and she laughing at my dull tech-orientated jokes while we drink and saying cheers as we clink each other glasses.

Let’s cut through the whole nonsense – first of all, they don’t know better Blacks in tech than me. These Black folks talking are narrow-mind race-identity obsessed clowns and have no footing in this tech game in this global economy. No one is elite in this tech game and Black goes around thinking who is the best “Black in Tech” – that’s some lightweight Blavity AfroTech amateur hour mindset right there. We all got our own zone, our own stories, our own crews, our own talents based on the journey we have chosen in life. There is no comparison because there is nothing to compare.

Keep in mind these weak characters talk around folks like me to you guys. I will shut the nonsense down and they know that. See, here is the thing – these are some cornballs in this made-up Black and tech thing. Real elite Blacks run into each other in elite circles and places around the world the average brotha and sista don’t even have access to. I can tell you right now, the average cornball doesn’t know who the hell is who in this game because the real ones don’t advertise themselves for low-level lightweight characters who comment too much over the Internet. I know who is who because I’m really in these spaces and in these streets.

I get these types of comments all the time and most of you brothas and sistas will get these comments if you don’t fit the stereotype or narrative the Black community try to impose. If you are a brotha that is making moves and you don’t look like one of these fake brothas at the club, these sistas will say stuff like they know another brotha doing better than you and making more money than you. This is all crab-in-the-barrel stuff that limited-thinking Black folks make up and don’t realize we live in a global society in the 21st century.

See here is the truth that I keep to myself. First, my Asian girlfriends, all of them from the past 10 years are richer and have more depth than these sistas out here but I don’t bring that up and put it in my sistas' faces. I just enjoy my better-than-chicks without needing to advertise or let anybody know. When it comes to business, I got a way better consumer base that will support my ventures out in Latin America, Asia, and Europe - a consumer base bigger than the entire African-American population.  Did folks forget I have reached in these markets while they sat around trying to compare one Black person to another out here, huh?

Seriously, how these people figure I don’t know anybody in places like Singapore, Taiwan, Brazil, India, etc.  – anybody who see my social media sees I had peers and colleagues and supporters all over the world, not a few Black friends that were at some lame-ass AfroTech conference 4 years ago. How the heck does they think I lasted nearly 28 years in this tech game and I don’t know anybody? Who is that stupid, for real?

My biggest source of support and opportunity for future growth is in Southeast Asia and Latin America is growing fast as we speak right now. In America, I’m reaching a new demographic of young adults who see what I’m pursuing and they also support me. I’m the one who keeps lurking around African-Americans when I don’t need to be – if anything, me talking Blackness does more to alienate me but no one non-ADOS is going to tell me I can’t love my people to get their support – thankfully, my target base that supports me don’t think like that and understand what I’m trying to do for my people.

So with that said and this is for the Early Adopters – don’t get caught up in this made-up Black identity trope, especially in this tech game. I been around enough to establish credibility and respect among the professionals and the true experts and elites. I have true reach in markets around the world and can go there and make things happen. We got too much ahead of us to be entertaining a broke-class of clowns trying to carve out a Black identity and try to tell me and you who matters and who doesn’t in that fake Black in tech stuff they made up on their own.

We are in a new era where brothas and sistas got the reach to global markets, digital-first business models, and diverse payment methods to get really rich and scale up fast. Let’s stick to the 21st century and the world of change we are in right now and get ours. Leave these fools and their crab in the barrel mentality at the fish market, we got the world in our hands. Because my platform, my customers and my roadmap is better than any of these Black folks talking up that bullshit, for real.