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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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'Buy Black' will not solve economic enslavement! Vol.1

 

"Introduction- 'Buy black' is a limited approach to a greater problem." 

For those new to the blog, please read my other posts by searching under 'buy black'.  Thanks for all your support.

I will be writing an ongoing series on this subject. I am currently working on a book of similar title.

First let me tell you upfront that I am not suggesting in any way that we shouldn't support and patronize black businesses! What I am telling you is that this approach by itself will not deliver us from our economic enslavement.

Suggesting or believing that 'Buy Black' will create the number of jobs we need to be independent, self sufficient and cause the dollar to remain in the African American community is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

My mentor one day asked me the following questions. 

If you were going to buy rice for yourself, how much would you buy?

I answered about a bag or 2 lbs.

He then asked, "If you were going to buy rice for your family then how much?"

I answered him 5 lbs.

Then, he asked how much rice would you buy for the community?

The answer to this initially was huh? Then he asked again and I thought more and answered, “I guess I would buy 500 lbs."

He then asked me how much would you buy for the nation?

At this point there is a lot to learn from these questions and his point to me was that one person could be responsible for feeding the nation if they could produce enough rice!

In 'buy black' as an approach we are basically seeking to feed a nation with the amount of rice that could only feed a community. We don't have enough rice for it too work.

Yes, we have close to a trillion dollars in spending power as a community. We know this. However a major key to economic growth is the length of time the dollars remain in one's community not in how much spending power you have. Length of time is a far more critical factor because it creates an economic term in a local economy called "multiplier effect".

 IN closing, I know this is a controversial topic, however, if we continue mentally down a road that will only lead you to Florida and your true destination is CA. Then, know matter how many obstacles you overcome you will never arrive at your true destination of CA because you are on the wrong road.

'Buy Black' by itself is not the road that will lead to economic prosperity for African Americans.

 Stay tuned for more education around why it is the wrong road and to begin to learn about more robust vehicles that will put us collectively on the right path.

 

Rich Mind

For those new to the blog, please read my other posts by searching under 'buy black'.  All comments welcome and appreciated. Let's learn and grow together.