OUR specific message is that African Americans are now in a position to give long overdue reparations to ourselves.  Our ancestors will certainly applaud the 135+ years of energy and effort spent to secure just the proverbial "forty acres and a mule" promised to them or some modern day equivalent, but we suggest to you that if they were in the position we're in now, we and all of our descendants would never have to work for someone else ever again.

Our ancestors had the foresight, but especially the insight that their entire people were under seige.  Many understood that any liberation effort should be designed to alleviate the slavery and suffering from all of them - not just a select few.  However, they were not in the position we're in, but that didn't stop them from great and monumental attempts at liberation.  This they did under the most hostile, barbaric and inhuman treatment (physically and psychologically) that white America saw fit to inflict upon them.  Those extreme conditions do not exist today. 

Therefore, we dishonor them every minute we remain dependent and we dishonor ourselves every minute we remain divided and broke!

Whether we like it or not we were born on the African American team; the team that tragically descended from American chattel slavery and the team that still lags woefully behind as a result of the "slavery-to-Jim Crow-to-systemic racism/discrimination path and the twisted get yours-I'll get mine-forget about our wretched history mentality." 

Forty Million And A Tool is simply our attempt to call a huddle and suggest a play.  Accept it or reject it, but we're putting it in the playbook.  Any play, call it "razzle dazzle" or "hail mary," can produce a touchdown.  All we're saying is that the African American team as a whole are so far behind we can't afford to keep playing perpetual catch-up.