I had to take a trip to Chicago last week which was late-notice. Yes, I was in a middle of a project and this came up but luckily, I don’t answer to anybody who tells me how to move so the new content platform had to take a back seat for the Chicago visit.

There were three things I had to take care of on this trip to Chicago. First, I had to honor the loss of an elder relative that was a staple of our family tree. Second, I visited my mother to see her grandson whom she hadn’t seen in a while. Third, I informed my mother about someone special in Japan and this lady means a lot to me.

While in Chicago, I ran into women that I do not get to see in Atlanta. I met this Puerto Rican lady and her body was off the chain and she can tell I was originally from Chicago, coming back to Chicago. Second, I miss the Italian women that was so nice and cool back in Chicago that I don’t see a lot down here in Atlanta. Then I ran into a huge amount of just White Midwestern women that were banging, especially at the Art Institute of Chicago growing up Black in Chicago, didn’t notice them but now I’m older and my own man, I noticed what I totally missed in Chicago and they were fine too.

Then I had an event at the White Castle on 35th and Michigan – back in the 1990s, that was an up-and-coming community with that condo unit just being built and from 17th and Michigan to 35th and Michigan was supposed to be this new upscale area like Brooklyn back in the 1990s but it didn’t turn out that way. At the White Castle on 35th and Washington, they messed up my order and the dudes working behind the counter were acting like they didn’t care how they were treating Black people in the Black community.

If you look at the photo of Chicago above – I personally took this photo from the Sable hotel located in Navy Pier where I stayed. This is not the same Chicago skyline I grew up and saw growing up in Chicago and even as a young adult. This is a new Chicago skyline that represents the skylines I’m seeing in emerging urban areas around the world from Shanghai, New York, Bangkok, and Dubai. New 21st-century urbanism and building a lifestyle around high-rise residentials for high-value residents.

I did not come back to Chicago as someone who had to go back to the West Side, I came back to Oak Park and North Riverside, and Hillside where I established myself after college as a career professional. I’m done with the South Side and the 35th and Michigan White Castle showed me that I’m not missing Black Chicago and they are stagnant holding on to whatever little piece of whatever they got left – that is the current state of Black America.

From my new perspective, I reflected and realized a bigger picture we don’t want to admit. The Black community hated their own and there is little left to love them back. Most Chicago folks move out to the Southwest like Los Angeles or Phoenix or Las Vegas. Chicago folks have recently moved out in bigger numbers to cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston. The Chicago that is shaping up as you see in the above picture, they don’t need to gentrify, they all fit right in this small block of skyscrapers and create their own tower cities within a city.

We are witnessing a transformation that the Black community, Black media, and the rest of the Black establishment have pretended is not happening while trying to sell us a cognitive dissonance of Black identity, an antiquated business model. Black people are moving to Dubai, moving to Shanghai, moving to Portugal, and elsewhere as digital nomads. Brothas are truly divesting becoming passport bros and looking for something new to marry and start a new life with overseas.

This is a new Great Migration going on in the Black Diaspora among the last of the holdouts – African-Americans. We are moving worldwide, setting up new colonies, new mandates, and forging new Black identities. The Black gatekeepers who work with White liberals to create a fake Black identity narrative are losing that battle to control such a narrative. We got Black people who thought they can move our people with made-up Black Hebrew and artificial racial-affinity unification rhetoric who also see they are losing control. All of them are losers to a new Black paradigm of self-driven pioneers with passports out there discovering new places and new experiences.

I visited my hometown from a different setup, and different perspective and is reminded the world is always changing, nothing stays stagnant. Anybody holding on to old and outdated artificial Black identity constructs will be the same folks I saw walking around 35th and Michigan, thinking that Blackness still matters and they can have a Black mayor like Harold Washington in a totally evolved city, evolved mindset. Not going to happen, the world moved on.

Now that I’m back – what is the takeaway? Our new platform was designed to be global-based in multiple language and localization formats. We are also accommodating artificial intelligence technology to create new realms of machine-assisted content.  Our ad tech is distributed just like our stories and we can deliver both personalized and localized ad serving on our platform as well as affiliate platforms and in physical and digital realms.

Just like Black people have moved on and Chicago has changed – Black entrepreneurship has changed with Black folks working as digital nomads in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Black people are forging their own path, not guided by that garbage Black Enterprise that thought they can pick and choose what Black person is worth talking about when Black Enterprise is a garbage magazine operation not worth talking about.

I have moved past 35th and Michigan Black identity – yall can keep that carcass. I’m going to stay moving in the same direction of the world and my firm and our global footprint will be aligned with the direction the entire world is moving my new perspective of Chicago, not going home but seeing the new paradigm of Chicago helped me realized my vision a lot clearer.