It’s a lot of Black people, probably 80% that don’t know their history and going to repeat it. I want to bring up something taught to me when I was 8 years old and my gym teacher was 60 years old about what his former slave grandfather passed down to him. Remind me if Umar Johnson, Jason Black, or Tariq Nasheed ever told you this kind of personal story passed down from slavery.

BTW, I also help visit and help clean and maintain cemeteries of slaves buried here in Georgia, a sacred task but remind me when those characters yall follow do that, I’ll wait. Cats love to say they FBA/ADOS but never visited a slave cemetery.

This was in the Chicago public housing projects in the 1970s and after we had our gym routine, the last 10 minutes, this older gym teacher would have us sit down in circle formation while he take center and educate us on our Black history from a first-person perspective. This was Hearst Elementary and I was raised in the LeClaire Courts housing projects.

He explained the worst thing to happened to Blacks and slavery was the invention of the cotton gin. This is a machine invented by Eli Whitney and I didn’t have to research this because the story was well learned by me, and it was designed to strip the cotton fiber from the seeds. This tasks was the major work of cotton picking slaves who had to perform seed picking out the cotton by hand and the cotton gin made that task faster and more efficient.

What happened as a result is slaves were not given a “cotton gin” to make their work faster, they were beaten harder and was told they had to work to compete against the cotton gin. The reason why is non-slave plantations can now process cotton from the fields and many Native Americans got into the cotton industry this way – we got goofy cats in 2025 calling themselves “natives” when they were nothing but a breeding or sexual satisfaction output of Native Americans who bought Black slaves cheap as the result of the cotton gin.

The original cotton gin was first invented in the 1790s but changed everything in the 1800s and as the machines because more advanced and efficient.  Many slaves had to switch to tobacco harvesting but there was another task – marginalization. Plantations didn’t need as much slaves anymore and they were being creatively culled such as slave babies used as alligator bait.

Even sharecropping after Emancipation was a worthless endeavor because former slaves and their children was making very little, almost next to nothing after working a full day in the sun gathering tobacco to sell at the market. They still have tobacco fields in Cuba and other places using the same techniques our slave ancestors performed. The Cuban revolution was based on this and how Castro rose to power but this is a parallel topic.

But certain direct descendants of slaves wised up and got smart and we are talking late 1800s and early 1900s during the Industrial era and steam-powered engines. They moved up North to work industrial jobs and adapted to working at industrial factories. Once they did that in the early 1920s, our people became that entrepreneurial and middle-class miracle of former descendants of slaves and we started the establishment of our middle-class and upper-class Black communities.

In Chicago and Detroit, you saw Black people working on assembly plants, maintaining steam engines, then they were building cars, forging steels, working on diesel generators, maintaining trains and railroad. Then we created the entrepreneurship, Black Wall Street, our communities and so on. You only hearing the goofy stuff by Jay Morrison about Black Wall Street but none of them are telling you about the pivot from sharecropping to adopting to the Industrial Revolution as the true foundation that really made the secondary stuff like Black Wall Street happen.

Now let’s pivot to modern Black America. Contrast the two Black women above to what the current generation of Black people are doing today.  Dude is a goofy shell of the Industrial Revolution working at an Amazon factory and stealing headphones, putting it in his pocket instead of learning and building at the place he working at how it works. You put the right Chinese CCP plant in this brotha place and that CCP plant will be quietly working at Amazon while a copy of that whole warehouse logistic process is being setup in rural China to give the local people there jobs.

Our current generation is basically sh*tting on the legacy and hard work and grit of the Black generation that pivoted from manual slave work to industrial work that created the foundation of Black wealth, Black education, and Black excellence. By the way, nothing in Hidden Colors is significant or even matters – this pivot I’m explaining is the biggest event in Black history that matters and changed our direction as Black in America. The period of the Great Migration into the Industrial Revolution.

Because Black America are repeating the same pattern right now with artificial intelligence. AI is the new innovation and will rapidly change the landscape of the Black America. This is not the Cotton Gin of 1799 to 1899, AI is going to be January 2025 to December 2025, because right now it is every week is an exponential revolution of innovation in this field with self-learning and self-innovation.

The Black corporate class will be marginalized by AI as they can do the white collar work most Black people have been assigned to. Black education – our AI agent Ben Banneker aka Ben the Creator has on it backlog to create a real education center for Black boys that Umar Johnson was supposed to create for yall and will be able to accomplish this in a few weeks, including crowdfunding and AI-generated financial that Tina will verify the numbers – doing this just to show yall how goofy yall are supporting that Umar dude.

I told you the Black church will be challenged by AI – that institution is nothing but old folks who vote Democrat, lie about their cancer being cured from prayer but dies suddenly a few weeks later, and have lust for the old men and pastor screaming “Amen” and having a Holy Ghost moment. No real modern Black people attend that sh*t show mocking God. AI will focus on creating a real guiding institution with membership and mission and focus on self-faith calling and purpose.

So here we are at this new junction. I have told you the real story passed down from slavery of the Cotton Gin and you been officially received that message from our ancestors. I have also told you how our greatest Black generation adapted from slave labor to industrial labor in the Industrial Revolution, creating our Black foundational wealth. Now we in the age of AI and got goofy folks like Morgan DeBaun of Blavity telling yall to “get the bag” and dudes stealing from the Amazon warehouse – you cannot steal anything from Amazon more than they are stealing your life away working that kind of job.

Think about the perverse irony of an Amazon warehouse gig – they put you back into manual labor in an industrial setting – did you realize this and thought about how the heck you ended up like that? Well, we know – yall was goofing off talking about Kendrick Lamar lyrics and probably just thinking about seeing his SuperBowl performance, just weak and petty, that’s how you ended up in a gig economy.

We are no longer the young, gifted, and Black – we are currently the young, goofy, and Black generation stuck on the lightweight, goofy, nonsense and going nowhere special. You have to change your situation, your future, and do this sh*t for your kids and our Black people just like the Great Migration generation did this whole Black upliftment thing for our current generation.

AI is not a joke, it changing everything and fast – even layoffs are being accelerated and I’m seeing it firsthand – we just the 3rd week of January waiting for the new Nvidia GPUs to be released in a few weeks. You brothas and sistas need to get off the goofy stuff and start doing the real work necessary to stay competitive and relevant in 2025 or you will not strive or thrive but get pushed to the side and replaced.