Facebook is a most masterful tool for any attempt to take the political pulse of the Black community at-large, to distract, or even to gauge the typical day-to-day goings-on of what some refer to as the “African-American” people [Raven Symone be damned].

Those who understand this resource tool and the way it works have used it for research, to field out story dialogue for fiction pieces, to churn over stories for journalists looking for a good salty morsel of drama, and it has proven to be a rich fertile piece of virtual real estate filled with plenty of “noise fodder” for those seeking to understand and write about Black folksways in the world. Plus, unlike other sources of information that require tons of money in order to eke out of Black people any small bits and bytes of data and information, Facebook is free, at least for its consuming public who don’t run ads.

However … the information received on all social media sites is only as trustworthy as the person giving it, and the social media global hemisphere is a den of snakes and pit vipers — mostly for those who like to fluff, floss, flip out, and spew venom behind keyboards that they would never meet you in a dark alleyway or a back parking lot spewing  about … much of it stuff that, in real life, they don’t really give a hang of a danged about.

We would be hard-pressed to say that, even though some folks tend to go dutifully undercover in social media havens, that they aren’t at least mostly honest when it comes to giving out their bountiful and endless cache of over-stuffed merciless opinions about anything and everything — as trifling as a lot of it is.

So we have attempted to put together a short random DNA sampling of what Facebook, The Top Cheese of The Big Three (including Twitter Cheese and Google+ Cheese)  have unofficially yielded to us in the form of societal improvements that can (and should) be made in the Black community.

Note: Certain white Americans who are in the monitoring and tracking business online have Black America, mostly the ones who are more than willing to pour out their little ol’ hearts to the world whether they know who is listening or not, packaged into a neat little concise scientific study. That is not to say that they’ve taken the time out to define exactly which particular sector of “Black” America they are talking about when they are talking … uhm, ‘text-talking,’ but when they are trying to sell us something or get in our pants … I mean business … in general, they know a lot more about our consumptive habits than we do.

So, we should take more time out to study ourselves, to take our own pulse, to listen to us and our own constituents as much as the ones who are trying to glean from us or sell us something take time to do. We should try harder to shed some light on ourselves for our own purposes for a change.

As they come up with white-defined ‘programs’ that have -so far- yielded nothing more than superficial and temporary solutions at best; we simultaneously seek to find out ways to change our own lives and the lives of those around us in meaningful ways, ways that don’t always have white persons coming up ‘smelling like a rose’ when it comes to championing our causes and issues amongst our own kith and kin.

We seek a new constitutional, a paradigm shift, and these are the Top Six unofficially unfiltered reasons why many Black people tell us that we have not progressed or advanced in the American economic and fiscal markets (whatever and wherever they are), not a smidgen as far as we should have by now:

[1] A lack of self-knowledge, self-definition, and lack of a wholesome and untainted awareness of Black world history, of who we are as a RACE of people in America; and with too many amongst us with little to no care of becoming aware of it and proceeding forward with our own “greater good” in full view.

[2] Mythologies and superstitions that take the place of spiritual awareness, spiritual proficiency, and a connection to the Greater Good that lives within and amongst us.

[3] Failure to take our proper position in the world around us; and to forthright and handily claim that which belongs to us and has belonged to us from the beginning of time – often due to the Lack as noted in #1.

*Note: Proper position is not the same as “stay in your place.” Stay in your place is giving in to white supremacy, proper positioning is to take ownership and to control the conversation about who we are, where we come from, how we got here, and what we are planning for in the future for ourselves and our Black posterity.

[4] Lack of political savvy and civic ambition; and an overwhelming willingness to make symbols more important than substance.

*Note: Sometimes the symbol has to go before the substance falls with it; but overall, they are saying that our character should be far more important than an insidious picture of a pale galt horse with the gait of death trampling about wherever it trods.

[5] (M.O.P.): Money over principles.

It’s not as simple as it sounds.

We have long had a rumor amongst us that white people will sell their mamas, wives, their children, and their dogs over money…however, the closer truth is that these are a lot of people who will check into a hotel if their cable TV goes out where we have learned to live (and cook and see) without lights, gas, and sometimes even without food and water–and we have always been ‘industrious’ enough to know where to get it if we don’t have it ourselves.

There is a reason why M.O.P. may work for them, but, conversely, there is also a reason why it will never work for us.

We, as a people, simply aren’t wired that way on origin.

Any move to defy and deny and slink away from who we are in this world always ends in complete disaster. No matter what else we do in this world, honesty, commitment and conviction with one another is imperative.

[6] Last but not least, a lack of physical resources and working business-oriented networking trusts to obtain the needed resources that we need to ‘gather our bushels and barrels’ back unto our own.

We haven’t taken much time out to recognize the inherent power birthed in the Original Creation of Earth; nor to understand that without Black people, this world, this nation in fact, would never have become a world superpower, or even as sketchily prosperous as it is now.

Wherever The Remnant of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah is and remains, the nations are blessed because of her.

So, if we pull the plug on white supremacy by refusing to work for it, refusing to indulge in it, refusing to turn our resources over to it any longer, and by refusing to buy another dime’s worth of goods or services from it, it’s as good as dead…with the death certificate and the proper burial services to go along with it.

Sayonara.