Alatron Observations:

  Don't Allow Other Groups To Shame Us For Finally Putting FBAs First Let me tell you what I'm watching right now because it is one of the most revealing things I have seen in a long time. We finally — and I mean finally — started saying out loud that we are going to put ourselves first. We started saying our dollars, our energy, our attention, our loyalty — all of it — is going to flow back into our own community before it flows anywhere else. And the reaction has been a meltdown. A full public, all-hands-on-deck meltdown from groups who have spent years pretending they were our friends. So let me be clear about what is actually happening here. The moment we said we are pulling back, the masks came off. Suddenly, we went from being the moral conscience of this country to being, in their words, the most racist people in America overnight. We did not change. Our position did not change. The only thing that changed is that we stopped spending, stopped centering, stopped ...

  What's Really Going on in Agriculture? What's going on in agriculture right now? Well, the financial picture for farms is completely different than it was a century ago. So let's dig past the headlines and figure out what's really happening. What does it actually mean when we hear about a "farm bankruptcy crisis"? First things first: Yes, farm bankruptcy rates are rising, up from historic lows in the last few years. Once you chart it out, you kinda see the trend. But here's the kicker— it's not just farms. Everyone's going bankrupt more right now, whether we're talking personal bankruptcies or business bankruptcies. This isn't just a farm problem; it's a "the US economy is in trouble" problem that's affecting everybody. It's wild to me that everybody knows farm bankruptcies are going up, but we're not talking about how everybody's bankruptcies are going up. There isn't a farm bankruptcy problem ...

  The Autopsy of Coalition Politics: Why FBA Spaces Are Moving Toward Clarity Let’s look at the autopsy report today. Something died, and we need to understand exactly what it was, why it died, when it died, and—most importantly—who kept it on life support way longer than it ever should have been breathing. Coalition politics is dead in Foundational Black American (FBA) spaces. It’s gone. Buried. We are not doing the eulogy, we are not sending flowers, and we are absolutely not hosting the repast. What we are doing is centering ourselves permanently, unapologetically, and with zero guilt. If a political conversation is not about Black Americans specifically, we don’t want to hear it. We are not interested in participating in it. And if anyone tries to drag us back into that tent, we are going to ask them point-blank: "Who is funding your microphone?" Defining the Death: What Do We Mean by "Coalition Politics"? Let’s be clear before anyone tries to clip this and tw...

  Hate is an intense, deep-seated emotional response of aversion, enmity, or extreme dislike, often fueled by anger, fear, or contempt Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter didn’t misspeak. He said the quiet part out loud. While defending the dismantling of Black political power in Alabama through racist gerrymandering, he openly declared that he hopes the Supreme Court overturns the 14th Amendment, the amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved Black people after slavery. Let that sink in. An elected official in 2026 is publicly expressing hope that the constitutional amendment recognizing Black people as citizens of this country will be overturned. And some people still want to pretend America isn’t racist. This is what Make America Great Again has always meant to the extremists driving it: rolling back the gains of Reconstruction, gutting voting rights, erasing Black history, dismantling civil rights protections, purging Black people from positions of power,...