Kanye West's Future Brunch Posits There Should Be No More Black History Month: Declares 'Black Future Month'
Regardless of what's going on in his personal life, Kanye West is on a mission to help empower Black voices and lift up leaders within the Black community. That's why, this week, for the first time ever, Ye allowed media into his Sunday Service, so that he could declare that Black History Month should be about more than just Black history.
"If you wanna talk about Black History - who wrote that history for us? We need to empower vocal leaders."
That's why he declared:
"There's no more Black History Month. Every February, reminding us that we just BARELY can vote. We start by declaring Black Future Month."
Black Future Month: focus on successful Black people now
Black Future Month: out there being successful
West had several members of the congregation speak to this goal; the first was Prophet Walker, a young man who was tried and incarcerated as an adult for a crime he committed when he was sixteen. An engineer, Walker has since helped to get rid of the law that allowed him to be tried as an adult in the first place, and while he was still in prison he started a company that builds large-scale housing in LA, focused specifically on building a community - because, as both he and Ye pointed out, uplifting one another starts with building and strengthening that sense of community.
"We're told to get up and get outta the hood, not come back and reinvest," Walker said. He wants to change that perception, one perpetuated by redlining practices in the last century, and help others to see that Black communities are just as worth investing in as any other.
There were several other speakers at the Brunch discussing ways to uplift Black voices and empower others to build a stronger community, a stronger Black Future - you can hear what they all had to say in the video on Facebook.
