We fell the hell off. The gun caught off guard but we let our petty infighting keep us off guard.
Steve Cokely said numerous times when he was living that these secret societies is how we fell off. He said that the White power structure chooses the Black people who are most desperate to sellout from these groups and place them in as many of the leadership positions or big Black businesses as possible. Obviously, there are exceptions. They are blackmailed because of the BIG dirt they have done. Examples are Oprah, Tyler Perry, Will Smith, Bob Johnson, etc. These people don't want to lose their nice lifestyle as well so they ensure the status quo doesn't change. This is why folks who join these secret society groups who are good people and not a sellout don't get anywhere (unless they go get it out of the mud) because they didn't realize that the groups were originally started to find sellouts. Many people have admitted this who left those groups.
The same thing applies to White people. Most of their very successful people joined a secret society group and are bound because of their BIG dirt as well.
We can turn this around by being aware of the sellouts and promoting people who are truly for our advancement. We have to protect our non-sellouts who advance in society from being murdered or sabotaged. We are on a positive trajectory since it appears we are entering into more industries. When we start making progress, we gotta get some real power (and protect it) with our own militia where we make our weapons, intelligence and counterintelligence agencies, media platform (such as 6zeros), competent leaders, stores, distribution/trucking, independent food and water supply, communication network, positive Black propaganda, etc. We have some of these pieces now. Let's get back our power!