Williams said that “dedicating our lives to getting money just to return someone's mark on our body, when we have spent centuries praying with marks on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for the brands on our bodies” (these brands are mostly owned by white people). This correlates with Walker's argument towards blacks who seem happy to shine more shoes instead of having a better job, living a better life, not beneath whites in inferior job positions. Both men spoke about the exploitation of black people, particularly their bodies. Williams further preached about how white America “uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and humiliating our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our geniuses then trying them on as costumes before discarding our bodies like strange fruit peels.” When Williams talks about how the white race is gentrifying and taking over, even damaging the potential of black intellectuals, Walker's statement in article 2 ties in: "it is a known fact that most white Americans, since we among the whites, they have tried to keep us in ignorance" (36). Walker also supports in article 3 the mistakes made by the Europeans in which "they have made a commodity out of us, and it seems that they take this dispensation to help them. in their hellish depredations against us" (37). Both men, once again in their own ways, understood the importance of education and that blacks are punished by being educated/uneducated, in both positions America white preys on them. Therefore, our ingenious statement is about the gentrification of colonizers appropriating black bodies and things created/made by blacks