The Black community will celebrate the athlete, the entertainer, and the hustler before it celebrates the thinker. That hierarchy was not self generated. It was installed by a system that needed Black intellectual power to remain socially undesirable within the community
The Black intellectual man is the most misread person in his own community. Too Black for white spaces. Too articulate for street credibility. Too thoughtful for the masculine archetype. He exists in a gap that nobody built infrastructure for and navigates it mostly alone.