At this Point, Jubilee might be an enemy to Black People.

Credit: The Root "Screenshot from Youtube"

I used to want to trust media. To believe the stories presented as truth, the documentaries as honest depictions, and the conversations as authentic dialogue.

But thanks to my African American Studies class at the greatest HBCU in the World (#AggiePride) I learned about COINTELPRO. The FBI’s covert program didn’t just spy on and sabotage Black leaders—it mastered the art of manipulating narrative. And if they had those kinds of psychological operations in the 1960s, imagine what they’ve perfected today.

So when Jubilee, a YouTube channel known for “social experiments,” puts together episodes like Do All Black Men Think the Same? or pits Amanda Seales against 20 Black conservatives in a so-called “discussion,” my spirit doesn’t just see content. It sees curation. It sees agenda. And it begs the question: does this really reflect Black life—or does it further an agenda against Black masculinity, Black unity, and the true Black experience?

Amanda Seales vs. 20 Black Conservatives

As if political tension wasn’t already high, Jubilee recently dropped an episode of Surrounded, featuring Amanda Seales against a roomful of Black conservatives.

Three claims really framed the conversation:

1. Reparations are just and necessary

2. Black on Black crime is a result of underinvestment and over-policing

3. Systemic racism is not a theory, but a lived reality

   
   

Although outnumbered 20 to 1, Amanda Seales literally ate every one of them up through fact, data, and just overall common sense.

Claim 1: It is undeniable that reparations are just and necessary. 

It should be a no-brainer. Those descended from the TransAtlantic Slave Holocaust are due reparations. Period. To watch people brush off the blood, sweat, tears, and terrors of our ancestors is gut-wrenching. How can you stand on the soil fertilized by their bones and deny their heirs justice?

One of the conservatives’ main arguments was that White people shouldn’t have to pay for crimes their ancestors committed if they personally never owned slaves. But this is flawed on every level.

• Social & Economic Trauma: Black Americans still carry the social, systemic, and economic disadvantages seeded in slavery. Median Black household wealth lags at a fraction of White households, not because we don’t work, but because the game was rigged from the start.

• Burned Opportunities: Whenever Black people did build wealth—Tulsa, Rosewood, Wilmington—it was burned down by White rage, aided by government complicity. Where is our 40 acres and mule in every state?

• Cultural Degradation: Our primary image in media still circles around slavery archetypes—maids, criminals, hypersexualized caricatures—ensuring psychological chains remain intact.

• Genetic Trauma: Epigenetic research shows that trauma leaves biological imprints, meaning the terror of the lash, the auction block, and the plantation is still alive in Black DNA.

• Systemic Foundations: The police force itself began as slave patrols, designed to keep Black bodies “in order.” That DNA didn’t just disappear; it evolved into mass incarceration and state-sanctioned surveillance.

So, while we have to carry all the fallout from a system that raped, stole, and ate us–their descendants should get mercy? So yes—reparations are just. Reparations are necessary. And if you ask me, the reparations span far more than a check. (I’m coming for everything) 

Claim 2: “Black on Black Crime is a result of underinvestment and over-policing."

Yes, “Black on Black crime” exists—but crime has always moved in direct proportion to poverty. When communities are divested from, undereducated, and over-policed, violence fills the void.

And then there’s the media machine. Our highest-paid entertainers push destruction on repeat: drugs, murder, rape, the dismantling of the nuclear family. These images don’t rise organically; they’re funded, promoted, and broadcasted by an industry that thrives off Black dysfunction–the most evil type of sorcery.

Meanwhile:

• Prison Profiteering: Black people are disproportionately represented in prisons, not because we’re more criminal, but because of targeted policing and systemic bias.

• School-to-Prison Pipeline: From biased discipline in classrooms to literal police stationed in schools, the system fast-tracks young Black children into criminal records rather than college applications.

• Economic Reality: When you invest in education, trades, mental health, and neighborhood revitalization, crime rates drop—not just for Black people, but for everyone.

So to frame Black communities as inherently violent, without interrogating the system that manufactures that violence, is propaganda at its purest.

Read The Origins of Thug Culture.

Claim 3: Systemic Racism isnt a theory, it is a lived reality, backed by data and history.

To deny systemic racism is to live in delusion. It’s not an idea—it’s data, history, and lived experience.

Yes, some of us rise. Some of us become “Pharaoh’s favorites,” seated in high offices, praised on magazine covers. But even Pharaoh’s house is still Pharaoh’s house. The moment you step out of line, punishment is swift.

Take Kanye West. Agree or disagree with him, but when he began publicly claiming his Hebraic identity, they didn’t just argue against him—they tried to erase him. His character was assassinated, brand deals severed, and accounts frozen. The system works until you remember who you are.

Think of Joseph in Egypt. Honorable, gifted, yet thrown into prison until Pharaoh needed him. He saved the economy, yet generations later, his people were enslaved. Our contributions get celebrated in the moment but erased in the long run—leaving us under attack again, this time by capitalism itself.

Learn more about our first captivity in Jasher 65 - The Real Captivity.

The Problem with Jubilee’s Experiment

And here’s the kicker. Many of the conservatives in the video? When you dig into their lives, you see a montage of swirlers, immigrants, and non-Black American identities. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s misleading to present them as “the Black voice” of America. Black American descendants of slavery have a unique story, forged in blood and captivity, distinct from African or Caribbean immigrant experiences.

So what was this episode really? Not dialogue. Not truth-seeking. It was another narrative war. A polished stage for propaganda.

Beyond Pharaoh’s House

Politics will have you warring with your own bloodline. Rocking with propaganda harder than you rock with your people. But no system, no party, no man will ever save us.

And, Scripture already told us this (Deuteronomy 28:68). Our only way forward is repentance, mobilization, and realignment with the Most High, so that He overturns our captivity. Until then, these “debates” are distractions. Psychological operations dressed as entertainment.

The real question isn’t “Do all Black men think the same?” The real question is: How long will we allow outside forces to think for us?