In the Spirit of Malcolm X: Musing about Issues of the Day: February 2026 — The Y's 1

Over the last few days, I have had random ideas that have been permeating my mind, and some require documentation and reflection that future readers (decades from now) will find as stepping stones toward advancing racial equity and community engagement. One of the benefits of writing on Medium.com is that it is a subscription-based platform that has censored some African Americans in the past, as indicated by African Americans who jumped ship and got better financial platforms, or complained about the white folk's control. Last year, Medium hosted a media event, and I posted a couple of questions, but they kicked me out of the event. I did not use profanity, but it was a simple question for simple minds. Many African Americans have lost millions of dollars in the media and sports industries for expressing their ideas. This also reminds me why Malcolm X., in the city of his birth, is reduced to show-and-tell exhibits and tour guides at the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation. There are a few events where scholars are invited to share and promote Malcolm's teachings. As we request documentation and numbers, there are no reports or webpages, and there are continued donations to the do-nothering board members who lack the intellectual capacity to read about Malcolm X's teachings.

For example, about a couple of decades ago, a wealthy former Nebraskan gave the University of No Opportunity (UNO) a million dollars to promote his teaching in the state's industrial prison complex. To many chagrins, the white racists at the university foundation hired one of the most cognitively challenged Negro who was a friend of the system to run the program in the ground. Moreover, they purchased hundreds of books on the Autobiography of Malcolm X for the inmates. But what they did not consider was that most of the convicts were members of the school-to-prison pipeline, graduates of the Omaha Plantation Schools.

They were, for the most part, functionally illiterate. And the books were a waste because the inmates were addicted to television and sports.

One of the recent brave African Americans, Candance Owen, one of the highest paid and rated podcaster, has taught us that we can go against the Zionist cartel and the media elites who spend an inordinate amount of funds controlling what people read, getting people fired, or having their income banded and mining their Facebook and other social media and friends for advertisement kickbacks. There are too many events in Omaha, where African Americans handcuff themselves because of similar issues. The local white supremacy or concerted attacks by Zionists or white supremacist groups indicate these challenges. Other African writers have jumped from the Medium platform because of white fragility. We live in a capitalist-dominated society where money often drives decisions across all echelons of society. However, one shouldn't speak of all, since our provincial scope is often limited to the circle of influence or the talking back to Facebook chatter. A few of our board members do not use that platform for various reasons.

1. On Medium.com, I recently discovered a white writer who spent some time in prison and wrote a piece. His tag line is JourneeMan (Malcolm). What caught my eye was his title: I want to confess something difficult to admit, but important to say: I miss my prison cell. After reading it, it reminded me of how Malcolm X transformed into the international status that he acquired before he was murdered by the Nation of Island, with the cooperation of the FBI, C.I.A., and the New York Police Department decades ago. What was the smoking gun?

The Netflix program, documented by an African American lay filmmaker. The title is: Who Killed Malcolm X. Also, after reading the book The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam was behind the murder, based on circumstantial evidence and the so-called or poorly redacted information in the FBI files. Muhammad Aziz, Kaalil Islam, and Thomas Hagan were charged, and after Hagan's release, they were exonerated. Meanwhile, the FBI had an undercover FBI agent, John Ali, suspected of being an informant.

What was significant about this is how the level of buffoonery and dysfunctional mentality of too many in leadership in the African American community continues such travesty by their clown shows, Native Omaha Days, Juneteenth Parade, Kwanzaa, buffoonish parades, coalition, so-called Negroes coronation balls, debutante balls, "Beautillions", Banquets, semi-bourgeoisie, of Aunt Jemima. These Coon events have no long-term measurement or documentation of outcomes to improve the outcomes of oppressed African Americans. According to the local apartheid racist media, 17,000, primarily African American, participated in the Native Omaha Days. During the celebration of Terrance Bud Crawford, the National Boxing Champ from Omaha, the media reported that more than 20,000 people participated. Yet, when we host an open-to-the-public annual event about African American history in October, we can only get about 35–50 participants.

2. The Board of Directors and traditional agencies and organizations serving the community used to be directed by African Americans. Now, most of those organizations are controlled by great white saviors. In what is considered the Near North Side, or North Omaha, African Americans have traditionally been locked in a segregated community. As demonstrated in local city and county documents on redlining, there are public records that illustrate these factors. My mother had a close friend who lived in the path of the freeway and was able to move out of the ghetto to a northwest site where predominantly white folks lived. During the 70's, when the government officials were offering cash settlement or eminent domain dollars many so-called Negro families moved out of the hood for a myriad of reasons, and one can't be mad at folks who did not want to be held hostage to poor government services, over-policing of the community, high crime rates, and other nefarious means associated with ghetto life. Yet, if we look at Habitat for Humanity, EnCap (formerly known as Greater Omaha Community Action), a federally funded government anti-poverty program, has gone to white carpetbaggers, or great white saviors who couldn't care less about African Americans, the poor, or People of Color by their inactions, board minutes, and other lack of engagement. The recent directorship of the Omaha Plantation Housing Authority, which had at least two or three African American executive directors, was hijacked by some clowns who live in Council Bluffs. One of my students informed me that it's called Council-Kentucky because of the poor whites and "trailer trash". I had to correct students in college for using the term in my presence. Most of their white board members have been historically appointed by (the white mayor and white city council members), and senior staff might be members of the Daughters of the Confederacy or other white supremacist groups or clans.

3. Lack of transparency and accountability in the African American community or other communities of Color. In the past few months, I have had butt-necked conversations with folks whom I normally trust to bounce ideas around, which I consider powerful and ah-ha moments. One issue is that sometimes folks share ideas that can be attributed to them, and they attempt to be the spook behind the door or to throw rocks while hiding their hands. As one of my female friends told me, there are conversations that Black folks have in the basement, but we must understand that for many reasons, those conversations cannot be had upstairs in the public light because they could get remanned or often lose their source of income for challenging the good-for-nothing white supremacy in this state. The other conversation that I had is our inability as African Americans who achieve some semblance of wealth or standing not to associate with low-income African Americans. As I confessed, it is difficult to have a meaningful relationship with some folks who drink alcohol a lot, spend their funds on certain wasteful things of pleasure that do not help improve their own or the collective community's socioeconomic status.

4. As I reflect upon the countless correspondences I directed over the years to so-called appointed black leaders, Omaha Plantation School Board members, dumb as rock Omaha City Council members, or Douglas County Commissioners who could not respond to written correspondence or phone calls, I question if former State Senator Chambers got it wrong with district elections to get Black elected to various government bodies in Omaha. Based on racial data, conditions have worsened in 2026. Many decades ago, my mother asked Ernie Chambers whether he received Christmas cards for all the work he did ($10,000 annual salary as a state senator, and he is not a Christian, according to past comments). He acknowledged that he received little to none. A few years ago, during a Zoom interview with the current State Senator in the district, I asked who or where he gets the most correspondence from, and his answer was inmates members of the Department of Corrections or convicted convicts and "returning citizens." Folks like to use euphemisms to talk about their past, by which they served their time.

We have Black Agency directors who are to serve predominantly Black folks, and these directors frequently got their employment because the gatekeepers, family members, or white wealthy folks in Omaha help steer them into such positions because they attended a few coattail parties or had some sexual or nefarious connections to those saltines.

Meanwhile, African Americans are going backward because those Negroes tools are not into continuing education or studying our local and national history and real Black Studies instead of these sanitized versions that can pass the Trumpism test of not mentioning ideas that might hurt their white frailty friends minds. It appears there is an increasing infertility where they can't produce real African American advocates, but only bankrupt political parties or clones. The University of Nebraska Omaha's Black Studies program has traditionally hired former educators from other educational systems who have been vetted as safe to serve as adjuncts. One of them must use a walker to enter or move around the classroom for several reasons. We suspect that the individual is so old that they ran out of their supplemental social payments. Some of the so-called Negro teachers frequently give out easy grades and love the paradigm of grade inflation. One of my siblings took a class in the Black Studies department and told me the teacher used Jet and Ebony Magazines as her primary sources for Black Studies. In another case, an adjunct member with a master's degree served as the department's acting director and hired her white therapist to teach about W.E.B. Du Bois. Another example was a class where a person was clearly unqualified to teach the class on slavery.

Need I say more?