If you don’t know, Neely Fuller Jr. was an author and scholar on race relations. He had several insightful observations on global racism. His book entitled “The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept: A Compensatory Counter Racist Code” talked about the impact and confusion caused by systematic racism and the need to eliminate racism.
In his book he mentions how the people who have the ability to end racism don’t have the will do so and the people who have the will to end racism don’t have the ability to do so.
Neely Fuller wrote books, gave hundreds of talks, and answered thousands of questions for Black people about racism.
Fuller was born on October 6, 1929 and transcended on February 1, 2025.
Whenever mainstream media talks about race, and wants a Black “expert” to talk about race, they are selective on who they pick. They won’t pick a Neely Fuller Jr., John Henrik Clarke, Amos Wilson, Francis Cress Welsing, or Professor James Smalls.
But they have no problem getting Roland Martin, Van Jones, Marc Lamont Hill, Angela Rye, and it used to be Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. These are members of the mainstream Black intelligentsia who you see on mainstream television. And these speakers seem to either only talk about race on a surface level and don’t go as deep as the latter, more underground and less mainstream Black think tank that delves on race on a deeper level.
You’ll also notice that the mainstream Black think tank’s only solution to Black-specific problems is to urge Black people to just vote Democrat and hope the latest liberal star will rescue us. They also love using the fear tactic of telling us that the new conservative boogeyman candidate will bring a sociopolitical doomsday to all Blacks. “So y’all better vote.”
You’ll also notice that the mainstream liberal think tank just wants to have endless discussions on race where they give eloquent and thoughtful sound bites on race relations in interviews, and speeches, and just engage in circular debates that are as entertaining and melodramatic as they are enlightening and educational. Listening to them, I get the idea that they talk about race so they can get a job in politics working for the Democratic party, or just to be a famous celebrity who’s face, name, and race-hustling, Democratic party selling image will be known to the general population from television exposure.
So I don’t fully trust those mainstream speakers, even with the many brilliant surface level observations and points they make. But I fully trust a Neely Fuller, Amos Wilson, John Henrik Clarke, and the rest of them. They go deeper on race relations.
I didn’t name conservative Black think tanks because they don’t identify as Black- just straight American. Because in their eyes, racism doesn’t exist. Black people are just lazy criminals who don’t try hard. Their main agenda is to say degrading things about Blacks for their White conservative bosses so their White Conservative bosses don’t appear racist- or too racist, for making those same inflammatory statements about Black people. So the conservative bigot will find and bankroll a spineless, neutered negro who will disparage Black people while ignoring racism or making excuses for racism.
The conservative, neutered negro doesn’t even consider themselves to be Black leaders and many often claim Blacks don’t need a Black leader, Black union, or Black think tank. In their eyes, we need to just let our undeniable Blackness disappear and assimilate into mainstream American Whiteness, and trust our American legal and political system to support, not just us, but all Americans in the same exact way.
But the mainstream Black think tank who does identify their Blackness and identify as Black thought and cultural leaders, usually has only one agenda- and that’s to bring and keep the Black vote at the Democratic party- and to make money and become mainstream famous the best and only way they know how.
This is why a Neely Fuller is necessary. The mainstream news won’t allow someone like him to become a Black thought leader. You won’t catch a Neely Fuller on CNN or MSNBC.
Fox News used to bring underground, conscious community thought leaders on, only to demonize them as Black radicals, angry Blacks, and conspiracy theorists. And if a conscious community thought leader has too much knowledge, facts, receipts, logic, truth, and gift-of-gab debate skills to be defeated, misrepresented, and denounced, they simply won’t bring them on the show.
Mainstream Black think tank also has a more lenient and relatively more sugar-coated approach to criticizing racism then the underground, conscious community thought leaders.
Mainstream Black thought leaders usually don’t analyze racial history beyond slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, and the current era of subtle racism.
Many of those underground Black thought leaders, who can only be seen on social media videos, or grassroots lectures on street corners, and town hall buildings, and old DVDs, they go well beyond slavery. They talk about when Blacks ran dynasties around the world prior to global colonization, slavery, and Jim Crow, and talk about how Blacks civilized the whole Western world.
Those mainstream Black influencers’ Caucasian bosses won’t allow them to talk on that level so….yeah.
Anyways. Rest in peace, Neely Fuller. We should do more than just listen to eloquent speeches, interviews, and debates that give observations, opinions, theories, and psychoanalysis on races and race relations. We should be buildings institutions, cultures, and thriving communities. But if you’re going to listen to someone, ditch those mainstream talking heads. Listen to Neely Fuller instead- and any other Black thought leader on his wavelength.
