Guarding the Bag: Why Every FBA Space Must Prioritize Strategic Interest Over Sentiment

In the pursuit of economic empowerment and the securing of reparations, the Foundational Black American (FBA) community stands at a critical juncture. As our collective buying power grows and the conversation around our specific debt moves into the mainstream more and more that can't be hidden, we are seeing a surge of outside groups—ranging from corporate entities to international fake "allies"—suddenly knocking on the door.

While the optics of "connection" and "unity" look good on paper, we always have to ask the hard question: Do these communities truly want us there, or is the focus simply to extract our buying power?

To protect our community from being used, we must pivot from a culture of emotional openness to one of strategic vetting.

The "African Way" vs. The FBA Debt

A recent example of the misalignment we face came from an ex-president of Ghana, who suggested that keeping reparations specifically for the people they happened to (FBA) is somehow not the "African Way."

Respectfully, the "African Way" is irrelevant to a legal and moral debt owed to the descendants of those who built the United States under duress. The African Way has has long been leaders over there exploiting the hell out of their people, so why would be interested in being hustled so someone can up their bank account and call that unity.

FBA Reparations are not a charity fund to be distributed globally; they are a targeted settlement for a specific lineage, ours. When outside voices try to redefine our struggle to include themselves, it isn't "unity"—it is an attempt to dilute our claim and siphon off our economic future. They can't mold it into something else because that's exactly what it is.

Recognizing the Tactics of Extraction

To avoid feeling defeated or used, we must recognize the tactical maneuvers used to gain access to our spaces:

1. The "Guise of Connection": This starts with flattering rhetoric about "shared roots" or "community building." If the connection doesn't come with a reciprocal economic benefit or support for FBA-specific goals, it's usually a disingenuous act designed to get in and eat off us.
2. Moral Shaming: When we prioritize our own community, critics will often use terms like "divisive" or "not the [X] way" to TRY and make us feel guilty for protecting OUR interests. This is a distraction tactic intended to keep our resources flowing outward rather than inward. Shaming tactics like we owe them for surviving or for being here in the first place, and they're moving like this because it's a major money move they want to seize.
3. Snakes like Conscious Lee and Dr. Umar won't say that though, and neither will that disappointment (19 Keys). They might agree in one breath, and when your back is turned will say something completely different. I stay on mine, and since this includes/affects me I will speak on it.

1. My circle, FBA economic interests, and FBA protections are my focus. 

1. I can't make you pivot, but my circle is benefitting from the pivot. It's good to see more FBA making a pivot in some form, but for the ones who would rather learn the hard way, that's on you. Getting beat down in Asian beauty shops, and you were told to stay out of them? That's on you. Did you get beat down in an African Hair braiding shop because you refused to pay the new price they dropped on you? That's on you. They snatched your edges out? That's on you. If you choose to march to the words of people like Swollen Martin and Conscious Lee because you saw them on a TV or Radio show and they leave you ass out, that's on you.
2. The "Inclusion" Trap: Being invited to the table is meaningless if the only thing on the menu is our money. If a community or organization wants our presence, they must show a vested interest in FBA economic empowerment and they would benefit through business by way of what that yields. That's a mutually beneficial thing and doesn't have someone riding on our back, business is business and if you supply something valuable its worth consider, not how they can hijack it along with our Reparations.
3. Don't ever get it mistaken, these are not our elders or someone above us because they're from Africa either. We don't owe anything to them. A number of these countries were slave traders partnering with countries like Portugal. Ghana is charging Foundational Black Americans all up and through Elmina. From the castle, hotels, restaurants and everything else. You have to pay, and if your pockets are flat you have to come back home.
4. Under Section 8 of Ghana's Immigration Act, 2000 (Act 573), an individual who cannot show they have the means to support themselves or their dependents is legally considered a prohibited immigrant. Once you get that classification, you're considered "destitute and likely to be a burden on the public". Those are grounds for removal, especially if you overstayed your visa. They would issue a deportation order to send you back to your country of origin, which would be the United States. That's the African way too, right?
5. By the way, how many of these people are the descendants of the Ashanti and it's soldiers that sold our kin? You could be paying and tipping the family member of someone that led to your family member being lynched, raped, tortured, burned alive, ripped apart and any other unGodly act these GOD DAMNED demons pulled over here.

Major Participating Kingdoms by Region

• Bight of Benin (Modern Benin, Nigeria, Togo):
  • Kingdom of Dahomey
    : One of the most powerful slave-trading states, Dahomey’s economy relied heavily on raiding neighboring tribes to provide captives to Europeans at the port of Ouidah.
  • Oyo Empire
    : This Yoruba state used its military strength to dominate interior trade routes and capture people for export.
  • Kingdom of Allada
    : A coastal kingdom that served as a major trade hub before being conquered by Dahomey in 1724.
• Gold Coast (Modern Ghana):
  • Ashanti Empire
    : The Ashanti used their military to expand and capture thousands of people, who were then sold for gold and firearms at ports like Elmina.
  • Bono State
     & 
    Fante Confederacy
    : These groups acted as intermediaries or direct traders in the region's extensive slave markets.
• West Central Africa (Modern Angola, Congo, DRC):
  • Kingdom of Kongo
    : Initially a partner with Portugal, the kingdom eventually saw its own population targeted. However, its elites were deeply involved in the early stages of exporting captives.
  • Imbangala
     & 
    Kasanje Kingdom
    : Roving bands and established states in modern-day Angola that waged war specifically to capture people for the Portuguese.
• Senegambia & Upper Guinea (Modern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone):
  • Mali
     & 
    Songhai Empires
    : Long involved in the trans-Saharan trade (sending people north), these empires also facilitated the early Atlantic trade through coastal ports like Gorée Island.
  • Imamate of Futa Jallon
    : A powerful Islamic state that participated in the trade during its 18th-century expansion.
• East & North Africa (Modern Sudan, Tanzania, Morocco, Egypt):
  • Sultanate of Zanzibar
    : The primary hub for the Indian Ocean trade, where Omani Arab and local African traders sold captives from the interior.
  • Alawite Dynasty
     (Morocco) & 
    Ottoman Algeria
    : These regions were major centers for the trans-Saharan slave trade, capturing and selling people from sub-Saharan Africa.

FBA, I'm talking to us: We have to be more aware and more willing to hold our money. To hell with a want if that want comes by way of someone who has it out for us and that money/resource can be put to better use in your personal life or the lives of the collective. When I speak on the collective, that's where tithes comes to mind and there are too many untrustworthy off-code pastors with churches not doing a damn thing in the community except extracting that money. 

BIG MONEY that could provide BIG RESULTS in the community!

The Strategic Pivot

We do not have the luxury of time to be taken advantage of. To impact our community for the better, we must adopt a "Lineage First" framework for every partnership, invitation, and investment that concerns the collective:

• Audit Every Invitation: Ask, "How does this interaction tangibly move the needle for FBA reparations or economic sovereignty?" If there is no clear answer, decline if there isn't a way to strategically expose the true objective. Especially if they can't expound on it and you don't know how to draw out the truth.
• Reject the "Open Table" Philosophy: Our buying power is a life saver. We must stop giving it away to those who do not respect our right to be compensated for it.
• Focus on Internal Fortification: The more we build our own institutions and economic loops, the less susceptible we are to the "feel-good" traps set by outsiders.

Moving Forward

Protection is not hate; it is survival. By questioning the motives of those seeking to enter our space, we aren't being "difficult"—we are being disciplined. We owe it to ourselves, our ancestors, and Future FBA to ensure that every dollar and every ounce of energy we spend that benefits any collective goes toward the elevation of the FBA community.

We are not a global piggy bank. We are a lineage with a debt to collect and a future to build. We have to make sure that no one outside of our community has the right to speak on behalf of us either, that shit needs to stop immediately. Speaking like they're part of our lineage. Kamala damn near acts like she forgets she isn't FBA, but that's the problem with somebody getting that comfortable thinking they have the right to anything tied to us. Getting some FBA soul pole doesn't make you FBA, and some of these people will think they have a pass to be a pseudo FBA because of who they lay up with. Be who you really are. I saw a White chick the other day in a damn bonnet buying some blacks at the gas station, looking crazy as hell. That doesn't make them anymore FBA than they were the day before, but they desperately want that connection. That's almost what I get from Kamala, but she could blend better than Becky, and it was more beneficial for her to do so.

The same chick that said no to FBA when it came to our betterment. Anytime somebody tried to speak on her and slight us like we were some simple Simon negroes, as Swollen Martin would call us, I'd drop something like this:

Fast forward to today, and Kamala was talking differently at the National Action Network's (NAN) annual convention. In an interview with that old bird Al Sharpton on April 10, 2026, Kamala Harris encouraged us to be more "transactional" and stated it is acceptable to expect something in exchange for our vote. That's exactly what some of us have been saying for years while getting called bots and agents.

I wonder why she really said that though, could it be because those of us tired of the same old off-code snakes and old civil rights promoters are coming through the door?

They can't ignore the change, and no one can sit up and say changes aren't being made even if they push back, call it bad or lie to your face. I will say this though, if we want to see some other serious changes, pull the money out of these churches and put it where it needs to go. 

Tithe by helping FBA people in need, FBA businesses and those pending FBA businesses, and the endeavors of the FBA grassroots. Watch how that change would further impacts us for the better, not someone else's community and what they got going on. Our support keeps them on their feet, time to get up on ours and open doors for our people even more.

The Reparations Hijack: Why Ghana’s "One Pot" Strategy is an Attack on FBA Claims

The argument that Ghana and the African Union’s "one-pot" strategy is an exploitative overreach rests on three main pillars: lineage-based debt, historical accountability, and sovereign rights.

1. The Erasure of Specific Lineage

The debt for reparations in the United States is a specific legal and moral obligation owed by the U.S. government to the descendants of those it enslaved. By attempting to submerge this claim into a "Global Reparation Fund," Ghana effectively blurs the line between a domestic debt and international humanitarian aid.

• The Point: FBA are not just "people of African descent"; they are a specific group of American citizens with a unique claim based on centuries of stolen labor and Jim Crow exclusion within the U.S. borders. A global pot treats the FBA plight as a generic racial grievance rather than a specific legal liability.

2. The Issue of Historical Complicity

A major ethical hurdle in the "one-pot" strategy is the role of certain African kingdoms in the Atlantic slave trade.

• The Argument: It is logically and morally inconsistent for nations whose ancestors may have profited from the sale of FBA ancestors to now position themselves as the primary "managers" or "champions" of the compensation for those crimes.
• The Exploitation: For Ghana to lead a claim that includes FBA looks less like solidarity and more like an attempt to leverage the specific suffering of the diaspora to secure developmental aid and debt relief for the continent.

3. Identity and the "African Burial Ground" Critique

The renaming of sites like the New York African Burial Ground is often viewed by FBA advocates as a "rebranding" tactic.

• The Reality: The people buried there were not "Africans" in the modern geopolitical sense; they were people who had been stripped of their original identities and forced into a new, distinct group.
• The Plot: Calling these sites "African" instead of "Black American" or "Freedmen" sites allows modern African nations to claim a "stake" in American soil and history that they did not build. This acts as a foot-in-the-door for them to claim they represent the interests of the dead—and by extension, the living descendants—to the UN and other global bodies.

4. Direct Interference in Progression

FBA advocates have spent decades building the specific case for U.S. reparations (through HR 40 and local initiatives).

• The Attack: By introducing a $777 trillion global demand, Ghana risks making the entire movement look "unrealistic" to Western legislators. This "one-pot" strategy creates a massive distraction that allows the U.S. government to point to international "development goals" as a way to avoid cutting checks to the actual people who lived through and descended from the American system of slavery.

In this view, Ghana’s move isn’t a helping hand—it’s an appropriation of a specific American struggle to serve the geopolitical needs of African states.

Defending FBA Businesses Against Noise Ordinance Violations

To defend your business against false noise complaints and potential racial discrimination, you must shift from a defensive posture to an offensive one by building an undeniable "wall of evidence." As a strategist, I recommend a three-pillar approach: Third-Party Verification, Legal Notice, and Political Engagement. In this case, we will use the Hidden History Museum, but you can apply this to your business and tweak it to the location. Since I don't see Black lawyers coming through on this situation, I will. Let's keep growing and reinforcing the things we build.

1. Execute Professional Sound Testing & Certification

You need a "Certificate of Compliance" from an accredited third-party to silence false claims.

• The Test: Hire an acoustical consultant to perform a Noise Impact Assessment or Sound Survey. They will measure decibel levels at your property line while your music is at its maximum "safe" level.
• The "Cap": Have the technician identify the specific decibel limit at which sound becomes audible outside. Use this to set a physical "limiter" on your sound system so it cannot technically exceed that volume.
• Local Experts: Contact firms like Noise Monitoring Services or eNoise Control, which specialize in Los Angeles Noise Code compliance.

2. Issue a Formal Legal "Notice of Compliance"

Once you have the certified report, do not just tell the neighbors; put them on legal notice.

• Cease and Desist: Have an attorney draft a letter to the complaining businesses. This letter should include the third-party sound report and state that further false reports will be viewed as harassment or defamation (slander).
• Discrimination Warning: Explicitly mention that because your business is in full compliance, targeted complaints against a Black-owned business may constitute a violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which protects against arbitrary discrimination by business establishments in California.

3. Neutralize the City Council & Authorities

Prevent the city from taking action based on lies by being the first to provide the facts.

• Submit the Record: Proactively send your certified sound report and a log of ambient noise in the Arlington/Jefferson area to the Los Angeles City Council and the local LAPD precinct's non-emergency line.
• The "Ambient Noise" Defense: Your report should highlight that the "noise" neighbors hear is the existing high-activity environment of the area, not your business.
• Log Everything: Keep a daily log of your music volume levels and any external noise you hear from other sources to contrast with their false claims.

Draft Letters

• Strategic Notice to City Council & LAPD
• Formal Notice to Neighboring Businesses

FBA Don't Owe Non-FBA Our Attention and Money

There are a number of spoiled people out here still pissed off that FBA didn't go hard in the damn paint acting like die hard fans of people we don't listen to like that. To hell with the super bowl, if FBA don't own it. I still haven't heard a Bad Bunny song in my life, I let his fans have that. We don't force them to listen to our music, and a number of people listen to copy it. You can hear somebody riding buy with a trunk rattling because they don't know how to set it up right, and the music sounds like a version of an FBA rapper in Spanish. Same flow. We don't go at them, but they can't say they aren't sitting up eating off us. Our creation changed Fat Joe's life and instead of moving like Big Pun, this dude tried to shit on us.

One thing they can't do though is force us to support them. Listen to the way that some of these people talk, they think we owe them something and are pissed that we don't bow down. Then you have people out here who look like us, who might be cosplaying like tethers would, trying to shame us. I don't know one Latino who offered me or anyone in my family a lane to go into business with them to open a grocery store. You can look at Fat Joe and point out that he's doing a podcast with Jada, but Joey's clinging on to relevancy after pushing the line. Why didn't he go do a podcast with Math Hoffa or Busta Rhymes? He didn't want to be on that side, because that represents the outside. Last time I checked, he humbled himself quite a bit didn't he?

God don't love ugly, look at what happened to him:

He tried to lie about Latino's contribution to Hip-Hop in August 2022, then turned and sued BDO USA, a company founded by immigrants in September 2022. They were accused of brazenly stealing millions from this dude. That wasn't FBA.

He said what he said about FBA in 2024, that would be his last time hosting the BET Hip Hop Awards, and he essentially killed the award show. They wanted to bring in someone from the outside on a discount and saw the interest dwindle like crazy, but if we can't identify with it, we're out. We don't have to watch and support it.

Look at what happened with Fat Joe's ex-hypeman and the accusations. I don't know how true it is that Joey was laying up with 15 and 16 year old girls, but he was coming at us. He's had all types of stuff come down on him, a number of things were from us. Big Pun's family, Cuban Link coming at him. He said this man left them in a bullet storm.

Look at what happened with Essence Fest, tethers were talking all types of shit about FBA, and wanted us to keep that running off our support. They owe money after turning it into Immigrant Fest. Any smart businessman would know that it's a horrible idea to fix something that isn't broken. Do a Fest for your people afterwards on a smaller scale if the turn out won't be as strong and get some of the residuals from that. It would trickle down and the immigrants who are loud and proud when it comes to us and ours can put their money where their mouth is. Tethers are good at talking, but won't build shit in their homeland, and won't support shit to either in their homeland either. Regardless, we can go a different route when it comes to a festival. 

The Brown Sugar Festival in Clewiston, FL was something we went to growing up. We just have to make sure that while we open the door for others to enjoy our festivals and support them if they choose to, it's never a wise thing to start giving up spots for people to start filling slots because that's when they try to flip what we've created.

This happens a lot of the time because they want representation and want to see more of themselves in our events, but the problem is its OUR event. They have the ability to go and do their own, but they usually want to try and funnel us and our money into their stuff. That's not our job, and that's where you see a lot of this anger coming from Non-FBA people about this half time show shit. 

Our people have bigger fish to fry and a bitch cannot and will not make us sit down and watch something we have zero interest in because they feel like we need to support as non-White people.

What race is listed on Bad Bunny's license while they try to play that game?

They want us to be their audience, their customers. Meanwhile, we're focused on getting to this money. I'd just say don't go blowing it, stack your bread and invest in things that will grow even more of it for you. Stay safe out here, don't let someone convince you that you're better off not carrying something, and stay on code. Keep praying the worst on our enemies, and pray that their weapons have no effect on us, pray for our health, pray for our success, pray for the betterment of our lineage as I continue to do daily. This only takes a shot at the opps who want to affect us in a negative way. Everybody else, just leave us be and stay out of our way or you know what it is, that's a choice to insert yourself.

Look at what happened during the 19 virus and people started avoiding Asian restaurants, they tried to force people into those restaurants. I believe Jason Black covered that at the time. They don't pour into our businesses on GP, so keep this in mind.

We're seen as competition to a number of these people. Look at how a number of them lost it over Black Panther and them wanting representation. Acting like a desperate hoe trying to get attention, but when they got Blue Beetle, they didn't get that energy from us. We didn't care, and they didn't either because it was the lowest grossing film in DC Extended Universe. They want us to make their shit hot.

Look at how they got caught in the Los Angeles City Council, those weren't allies, those are opps. They're no different than the Mexican Mafia who firebombed Black people in Ramona Gardens out there in Los Angeles to get Black people out of the neighborhood. Might be tied to them too. These eight anti-Black Mexicans will be release between 2026 and 2037, and they should be deported soon after for their terroristic hate crime.

I continue to call for Tithes to be shifted away from these slimy pastors and into FBA businesses and endeavors. We will see and feel in a positive way. A number of people are finally catching on, and I can't wait to see when this happens. Speaking of slimy, I'm lumping Dr. Umar into this too. This clown is STILL trying to get us to split up our reparations with these other people.

This damn fraud has already taken advantage of a number of people, he's everywhere else except working on that school. He's never been married, has kids out of wedlock, but he's always preaching and begging like these damn pastors.

This dude has abuse allegations, allegations of misconduct, got labeled a conman and pimping "culture" for personal gain, and the list goes on. Now he's trying to create a group to RIVAL our FBA lineage because the Foundational part has gained a lot of traction. Why? It's usually the same with him, he's trying to get money out of someone, but we don't owe him our attention and money either.

Just last year a woman with a special needs child, said he took advantage of her and got her to take care of mom. I won't say that intentional demonization isn't real, but do your research on this dude. Listen to the way he talks and don't line yourself up to get played by people like him either. We don't owe him, he owes his children and he owes the investors of that school. He wants our reparations dumped on non-FBA and where is the crowd of non-FBA to help him finish that school? If he's entitled to any reparations, he can split his up just like anyone else who feels the same way he does.

Watch How This Plays Out: Illegal Oscar Vasquez-Lopez killed Dr. Linda Davis while fleeing ICE

This criminal goes by the name of Oscar Vasquez-Lopez. He wasn't supposed to be in the United States, but he thought he was above the law. You can't just go set up a new life in any other country without doing it the right way, and the same people defending him and others who aren't here legally, would argue us down if FBA ever tried to go to another country this route.

A passport bro would catch hell before Oscar Vasquez-Lopez, and they have passports moving within the laws of the countries they move to. They aren't in these countries illegally, and they aren't committing other forms of crime in these other countries in the process of being there. Furthermore, they aren't evading capture, and they aren't killing the citizens.

I can't say the same for Oscar Vasquez-Lopez, who killed a Black woman after he was stopped by ICE. Instead of staying there and complying, he decided he'd flee the location where he was stopped to escape capture and possible deportation. Big bad Oscar Vasquez-Lopez was flying at a high rate of speed disregarding every single life on that road to continue living life under his illegal status in our country.

While running the red light at a high rate of speed in a pickup truck without a valid drivers license, he crosses the path of Dr. Linda Davis who was on her way to work in the Savannah Chatham public school system. The crash that this illegal was able to walk away from with non-life-threatening injuries, resulted in this Black woman being pronounced dead. The principal said she was killed just outside of the school grounds, meaning big bad Oscar Vasquez-Lopez could've ran into a bus and could've killed children walking to school, riding the bus, or being driven to Herman W. Hesse K-8. It could've been a booster seat in the image below or your child's backpack.

Dr. Linda Davis was a Wife, and a Mother of Four children. They want her killer to get a slap on the wrist because he's an illegal who was avoiding capture.

While they protest ICE and make excuses for him, they're also glossing over the fact that his ass shouldn't have been here in the first place. That's the first domino. They weren't behind him attempting a PIT maneuver, and unlike us, when he was driving away they didn't unload a pistol on him claiming self defense. They look for any reason with us, even when they can't find one they try to weave a lie in to justify it. He had time to back up and everything. I would've rather them do Oscar Vasquez-Lopez in, than him doing her in.

Would I put it past them to have sat up and watch this woman die instead of saving her? Not at all, especially if she was on the organ donor's list, but if he weren't here she wouldn't have been in this damn situation in the first place. If he were here legally, he would've had to take a drivers test and do things the legal way. When things are done the illegal way, one bad turn leads to another, and in this case it was a first-degree vehicular homicide.

Look at the videos for yourself: https://www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/savannah-teacher-killed-crash-by-man-fleeing-ice/

Watch how this plays out. Watch how they try to pacify us while talking around Dr. Linda Davis, until they can USE HER to take aim at ICE and the Trump administration. I'm not here to defend ICE or Trump, but I will not sit up and defend an illegal doing things like this.

She will never make it home again to see her family, because he refused to take his ass back home.

He tipped the first domino by being here illegally, no matter how they try to spin it.

If they say that he wanted a better life, tell them that we built this country and are still fighting to get a better life without it being sabotaged.

Will Maxine Waters pop up at the funeral of FBA victims and tell their family that they better not blame people like Oscar Vasquez-Lopez? Oscar's wife didn't show any sympathy for Dr. Linda Davis. She wouldn't give a damn if these bootlicking tap dancers were the ones killed by her husband either.

Will Lamonica McIver pop up at the funeral of FBA victims and put her hands on the victims family if they blame people like Oscar Vasquez-Lopez? She's looking at a bid for crashing out at an ICE detention center. All types of horrible things happen in prison, but how many times has she put her freedom on the line to make sure the conditions up to par for Brothas and Sistas locked up?

They're here because of what they can get, things that FBA don't get without a fight. Mayor Karen Bass like many others see it in their heart to sacrifice our tax dollars to help out illegals because we are expected to understand that they need money and food to live her, illegally. Meanwhile, there are homeless FBA out here. The same people smiling in her face wanting you to bless them with a job that gives them access to shit on you and your family, want you to shut the hell up when it comes to things you need. They crash out for people who shouldn't be here though. Don't give them room to lie in your face, and don't give these God Damned pastors the ability to push them in your face either. These are NOT our leaders, they cosplay as such, but they're anti-FBA with a black face.

They're out there protesting now, talking about some damn "ICE OUT". Illegals need to get out.

"Abducted by ICE Families torn apart! Shame", meanwhile FBA families have been torn apart for the longest. In this situation Oscar Vasquez-Lopez tore Dr. Linda Davis' family apart, and SHAME on everyone trying to gloss over her death like it's law enforcement's fault that he's here illegally. It's his fault, but everyone fighting to let it go on are just as much to blame.

For the record, to hell with Kate Oakley who thanked God this Black woman was there to take the hit for her and her child. That was a tacky and nasty thing to say.