What Black People Should Do Now (One Suggestion)

Shout to Ralph Wiley with No Ill will towards anyone

'bumpyjonas…
5 min readJun 28, 2022
Screenshot — Interview with Ralph Wiley, journalist, Credit: Detroit Public Television

Exodus

In mass, slowly and methodically, many African Americans should migrate east to the DMV or the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area.

DMV stands for District, Maryland, and Virginia. It is a major metropolitan area in the country and it is where minds are more open and where history is on the side of freedom and democracy. Geographically, it is Washington D.C. and its suburbs. Six million people.

I was born in D.C.; it is cool to be living here right now. Really cool.Things are not perfect here but if you live in a backward state, a state swimming in guns and historic racist hate, anti-gay rhetoric, and a white supremacist GOD religious geographic tract, get out.

Leave. Let it rot.

Let it turn to sawdust and tumbleweeds. It deserves itself at this point but you should not live in an area swimming in hatred and backward views and values. Do like LeBron when he took his talents to South Beach from Cleveland. Take your talent to the DMV. Move.

I am serious. Your country is in a death spiral. Despite evidence of this death spiral, due to white male supremacy mostly, it is doubling down. When it falls further apart, you…

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'bumpyjonas…

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