"Why isn't there a letter "C" in the word black in "Blak Minds Collective"?

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As the story goes one of the co-founders, Sean G. Phillips, was sitting at a spoken word open mic at a coffeeshop called Java Noire in Minneapolis. As he awaited his time to be at the mic, he contemplated the fact that he had no interestingly cool pen name. As he sat and listened to poet after poet, each with a cool moniker, he ruminated on something to call himself once he got to the mic. He came up with the name "Blakverb" (unbeknownst to him at the time, maybe forgotten, there was a Schoolhouse Rock character with the same name) to signify a  "Black man in action".

                   

His last duty was to come up with something that added  "character" to the name so he removed the letter "C". Why? Because he thought "The word 'colored' (which African-Americans were called at one time) began with the letter "C" and he wasn't "colored", he was a proud black man so he removed the "C". Or as he's told others "Ain't no C 'cause ain't no colored in me".

 

Years later in thinking of a name for the company founded by he and Tony Scott he came up with the name "Blak Minds Collective" . The "C" was removed for the exact reason as that moment in the coffeeshop because these were African-American, not 'colored' men, on a mission; Determined to edify the existence of African-Americans by validating dreams unmet but seen, seen yet not felt, felt but in need of extra support to become tangible. Hence, Blak Minds Collective was born.