Today I would like to dissect Cerulean Grey's plan for the black american. I find it interesting that Cerulean Grey has finally decided to stop being just a lackey in the BGS IBMOR hangouts and has finally decided to advance his own ideas in his own platform.
Cerulean Grey's videos on his channel usually have a dark color theme and they start with Cerulean Grey speaking in a deep and somber tone, addressing the long lost faithful of a decayed community with a sardonic call to discipline and action. When you listen to Cerulean's beginning speeches they are low key inspirational in a way, however they are also kind of heavy handed when it comes to rhetoric. Cerulean Positions himself as a pro-black in his videos, and as someone who has listened to him in the last couple years to tell you the truth this is a rather new thing for him. I remember a long time ago he was pushing pro-socialist talking points a lot. He still does this to this day, the only difference is the pro-black rhetoric, which is a new thing for him now. He goes on to implicate the usual enemy to black progress, the ever elusive "White Supremacy". He blames the shadow hand of white supremacy for many of the evils and social ills of the community. He makes the claim that blacks are being defeated by white supremacy because of their inability to organize as a community against it. He prescribes various social strategies and actions (that will be discussed below) to fix it. He cites various social ills as hindrances to the black community, and prescribes new behavior strategies that he believes will remedy these issues. All in all Cerulean does seem to be legitmately concerned with the black community and seems to have alot of passion concerning his cause. Because of this I believe that cerulean Grey's plan deserves an in depth dissection and analysis, Cerulean Grey has put a lot of time, energy, and effort into getting his views and stances out there, so without further ado I will begin.
If you listen to Cerulean Grey's explanation of his plan on the The Great Liberators channel, he has a two pronged strategy for the black community going into the future, this two pronged strategy goes as follows:
1. Put 100,000 black boys a year into the military, another 100,000 into police departments and another 50,000 into fire departments.
2. Let young black women go into political leadership in the community, let them go into municipal and federal governments, and let them go into municipal and federal governments and let them go into the field of law.
I will start with the first point of strategy, that of putting 100,000 black boys into the military a year. According to a 2018 NY times article the US Army is having a hard time attracting new recruits because of a booming job market. Many young people are opting not to join the military and instead to persue more lucrative careers that are coming online in the job market. The army cannot reach it's quota and is suffring recruitment shortages akin to what they experienced at the height of the Iraq War. The military including the army markets heavily to the African American community because they know that the African American community historically lacks jobs. Many young black men and women in previous decades since the US military has been an all volunteer force have been forced to join the military due to lack of opportunity in the hood. Many are assigned clerical jobs, and non combat positions. Many go to take advantage of the college tuition programs, yet even with all these perks, the US army still cannot reach it's quota. The trend is true for the entire military as a whole. So the legitimate question for Cerulean Grey becomes, how do you market military careers to young black men who have better options at their disposal. Cerulean Grey has yet to explain his strategy for this in my view. His theory relies on the concept of a large number of young African American men facing economic hopelessness in the inner city but this view is simply not the reality. Many young African American men have the opportunity to go to college after high school due to scholarships due to via academics or sports related, and many others have the ability to pursue trades such as plumbing or auto body from which they have the opportunity to build lucrative businesses for themselves. Also there is a growing number of black people in general who now want to pursue entrepreneurship as a means of community empowerment and this is a factor Cerulean Grey has not addressed in this thesis either.
The second major point of Cerulean Grey's plan, that of putting young black women into politics and law as a means of empowering the black community also has major questions with it. One of the major things that I always noticed about when African American's go into politics is that the black community does not seem to get better when they are in office in most cases. In many cases it seems to be corporate interest, or outside political interest who get the benefit. I don't care if it's Bradly in Los Angeles, Coleman Young in Detroit or Mosby in Baltimore. When black politicians get elected the black community does not get the benefit. Mayor Bradley was the mayor in LA in the late 70's, 80's, and early 90's, he oversaw the proliferation of poverty and gang culture in Los Angeles and did not address it. Coleman Young oversaw the destruction of the auto industry in Detroit and many blacks slipping into poverty and becoming homeless. Mosby in the 2010's over saw the Baltimore riots in the wake of the Freddy Grey police killing. For some reason there is massive incompetence associated with black elected officials. This is why I am skeptical of any black empowerment movement that involves politics. Black female politicians have shown themselves susceptible to corporate interest just like any other politician. Also many of these so called congressional black caucus members now preside over districts that are majority non black, just like Maxine Waters in southern California. Maxine Waters has been seen loudly addressing the interests of the Hispanic and immigrant portion of her district now because they now make up the majority of her districts. The concept of black congressional leaders has become very much a fiction. It is something that does not exist. It is an empty phantom concept. Because of gentrification and black flight to suburbs blacks no longer live in concentrated enough districts to have strong voting blocks any more. I have yet to hear Cerulean Grey come up with a valid address of these concepts.
The other point, that of black women going into law is one however that I do think has some feasibility. Black people have been effective in law, just look at Johnny Cochran (OJ Simpon's fameous attorney) and Bill Cosby's attorney was instrumental in getting him to counter sue his accusers who kept coming out of the wood work against him, something that his former white attorneys advised against. I ultimately think there needs to be more black attorneys period and they need to organize themselves into bar associations to represent black defendants in all aspects of law. This is something that we don't see enough of. Black attorneys need to work as a team. If black female attorneys can organize themselves into bar associations and work together to provide black men legal representation in various fields it could be potentially very effective. However black women would have to learn to put aside their egos and work effectively as a team. This is going to be a big challenge in the long run since most black Americans have been trained to operate on individualism. Cerulean Grey however has addressed black individualism and the need to curb it, maybe he will present more strategies against it in the future.
Cerulean Grey's plan though heavy on militarism does have some valid points of interest. I will continue to analyze Cerulean Grey and his plan as it develops in the future and will provide updates, until then, signing off.
