The Lack of Entrepreneurship being taught in Public Schools.

by Staff January 2, 2013 33 Comments Business News Opinion Weekly Columns

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(ThyBlackMan.com) One thing that always annoyed me when I was in high school was how much I used to get lectured about the importance of speaking properly, dressing properly and having a resume prepared to just to get a job. Now I don’t have an issue with someone giving me advice on how to look and be a professional but what I do have a problem with is the fact that our youth are being taught to be employees instead of business men and women. I mean would it really kill the board of education to have an entrepreneurial program on how to start your own business?

I know some of these “dream-killer” negroes are about to comment and say that the youth today don’t want to own their business and instead just want to smoke, party and have unprotected sex and kill one another. But my question is why aren’t the youth that want to do something constructive are being denied the necessary information to be their own boss? Why aren’t our schools that are being paid with our tax dollars giving our children the option to decide if they want to be their own boss or not?

If the youth of today had more access to a program or a course in public schools then we could really boost our economy and get to what Booker T. Washington spoke about when it came to black ownership. I know that some public schools have a program teaching young people how to be an entrepreneur but that’s not enough. My suggestion is that parents and community leaders should attend these school meetings and demand that our children be taught how to not be dependent on corporate America for solutions to our communities’ problems and employment of our own people as well.

If the public school system doesn’t want to teach our children the necessary information then parents and communities should come together and teach them how lucrative it can be being their own boss. We must provide our children with the necessary tools they need in order to make sure that our communities prosper. With the right programs and resources it will no longer be rare to see a Cameron Clarke from these inner city neighborhoods by possibly raising money, researching internships or coming up with our own legitimate hustles to make ends meet.

By being independent we don’t have to worry about being politically correct when it comes to our people all of the time. We no longer have to bite our tongues just to get a check and feel secure financially. We would no longer have to sacrifice our integrity just to make ends meet and to provide for our family. I’m pretty certain that if Booker T. Washington was alive that he would agree with me…..

Staff Writer; Shawn Hudson

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33 Comments

Terrance Amen says:

January 8, 2013 at 5:24 am

I cover all this. Click on my name for the solution.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

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Mack says:

January 8, 2013 at 2:23 am

Interesting back and forth banter.

As I read the comments, one after the other I realized: here are all the answers right here! Every one of you contribute something different to the solution, which collectively makes up the solution.

Deeann speaks about the ministers taking advantage of the opportunity to set up their own schools. I can attest to this because until they closed down for lack of support…which is another topic alltogether… my own kids attended a private church run school in Jonesboro, GA for years. And they were light years ahead of the kids in regular elementary school both socially and academically.

Ramses speaks on the need for our sisters to take their roles more seriously as the gateway to the minds and spirits of our children; as well as the need for greater levels of financial literacy on a personal basis (Thanks again for the books bruh. There’s gold in them thar hills… 😉

Terrance speaks eloquently about the need to follow the paths laid out for us by leaders such as Marcus Mosiah Garvey; who in my opinion is probably THE MAN of the 20th century, as well as the most underrated. Think of the power we could have if we did follow his example…

Steph speaks about how each one needs to reach back and teach one, so that we all can come up together. Excellent point.

Sankofa speaks about the need for black men to assert themselves like leaders once again and to assume the position as heads of the home and community. As well as the need to break away from the controlling influence of those who consume us and teach us to become consumers indebted to them. My sentiments exactly.

Mr. Vessey speaks about the need to update our industrial age education to a post-industrial educational modality. And this is so true.

Finally we have Shawn Hudson, who blessed us with this thought provoking article which sparked this enlightening conversation. Like I said: the answers are right here on this thread. No one has to play the part of the whole movement by themselves; but we can each play our role. And in doing that, we bring forth the solutions.

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Outraged says:

January 7, 2013 at 10:42 pm

I agree 100 percent with Ramses although his comments could be softened a bit.

http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/senegal-president-wade-rethinks-aid-haiti

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Marcus Vessey says:

January 7, 2013 at 3:49 pm

I am late to this thread but I would like to add in my comments. The challenge is that we are still teaching industrialized education when we live in a post-industrialized economy.

Our system doesn’t meet the demands of a globalized technical economy. As Black folks, we need to be in mindstate of jumping ahead of everyone else instead of chasing them.

Right now, we are educating ten years behind, but we should be ten years ahead. This may mean creating after school programs that teach entrepreneurship and economics, while lobbying our urban schools to get with the program.

If you are interested in Black economics, and economic development, including economic trends, our buying power and our economic infrastructure, please visit http://www.yourblackeconomy.com

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Terrance Amen says:

January 7, 2013 at 2:36 am

@ Steph

This is the problem Steph, we know every bodies history but our own. It’s like we didn’t do anything except for being slaves, and fought for our civil rights. This is what they teach here in the public schools. You learn more about African history when you go to college, but this is the reason why we think the way we think, and this is a direct result of the negative programming that doesn’t allow us to work together like you mentioned about your Asian friend.

This is also why we need our own schools to teach what we haven’t learned in public schools. This is what the Jews and Asians do here. They have school after school. Until we deal with the psychological effects of slavery and colonization, I’m afraid we will continue on this path of not helping each other.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

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Steph says:

January 7, 2013 at 2:02 am

Ramses,

I know that Senegal assisted Haiti. They offered some Haitians to live in their country. You probably did not hear about it because you do not speak French. I do and it shows how we all speak western languages so there are a lot of information that we are missing. For instance, I observed that many Black French people do not know Black English heroes such as Garvey, Du Bois, etc. and vice versa for Black English people.

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Steph says:

January 7, 2013 at 1:51 am

Sankofa,

I am really glad that I decided to turn to other people to strive. Again about my Chinese friend, I sent her very late (it was about 1:30AM this night) an e-mail because I needed a business information. She e-mailed me back 15 minutes later even if she had to work the morning! She is like a sister to me. I never had this kind of support from the Black community or the White community. Both of them behaved in a very selfish way against me!

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Deeann D. Mathews says:

January 6, 2013 at 6:09 pm

@Ramses — Black people are business minded enough to start their own schools. At your leisure, check out the National Black Home Educators (http://www.nbhe.net/about-us/) and the Black Academy (http://theblackacademy.blackhomeschoolers.com/). Neither are perfect solutions, but they prove that Black people are not just sitting by while the public school system goes to pieces. It also shows that there are options if only people knew, and that there are enough Black people interested to keep these organizations going.

About your Scripture references, consider yourself invited to my Sunday School class. For today I will deal with your specific question about whether a whore was ever allowed to recover in Scripture. The answer is yes: you go read on your own time John 4:1-42 — and do not say that is too much, because you expect us to read your long posts. Pay attention to verses 16-19; that would class the Samaritan woman as a whore in her behavior. But fortunately, she was dealing with One about Whom it was said that He was “full of grace and truth,” per John 1:14. He confronted her with her evil, but for the purpose of her repenting and being redeemed — and an entire town with her.

Scripture actually sets forth a pattern. With your emphasis on law only, I imagine you will not have any problem with I Corinthians 6:9-10:

“9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

— but where we differ is that I know verse 11 is also in the Book.

“11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”

Scripture has been speaking of the salvation of sinners of all types for a long time — whores included. That is the truth I stand in. Black women and Black men and Black children are in a sad state right now; the facts are what they are. But not all are beyond redemption — and a right understanding of Scripture would let you know: people are saved by GRACE, not law (see Ephesians 2:8-9). I am a different kind of Black woman by the grace of God; I know that other Black woman and girls can also be what they should be if they are treated with grace. That is the truth in which I stand.

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Shawn hudson says:

January 4, 2013 at 6:00 pm

I have to agree with you Ramses and hood girl because just as bad as it is that programs about owning your own business aren’t in public schools we have to put the engergy into it. Like myself I’m a self published author and I had to do soem research on how to get my book out there and how to recieve money for it and how to promote it. If you want to be successful then you will be but you gotta work for it. I wrote this article to ask a rhetorical question though that’s all.

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Ramses says:

January 4, 2013 at 1:17 am

I love you hoodgirl!!!! and that’s no disrespeect to your husband…..this is why I hate these complaints all the time….most people are not gonna take the time to study and read the info that’s necessary to engage in business ownership. I put that 800 page book on here and I’m sure only a few have taken advantage of this book and it’s wealth of knowledge……it’s laziness….pure and simple….and I appreciate the info you gave me some weeks back….good look

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hoodgirl says:

January 4, 2013 at 1:05 am

Great Article. I don’t know if entrepreneurship is currently taught in public schools but I was introduced to entrepreneurship at my elementary school through Junior Achievement. After graduating from elementary school I attended a public High School with a curriculum designed to introduce inner city kids to business. In our senior year, we were placed with Corporate America where we attended school the first half of the day, worked the second half of the day and received business credit as well as monetary compensation for the work performed.

Many of us attended college after high school and majored in accounting, finance, marketing and management information systems. While most of my peers work in Corporate America some operate their own businesses and have incorporated similar internship programs that we were privileged to be apart of as high school seniors.

About 22 years ago I taught business to third and fourth graders at a public school through Junior Achievement and for more than 10 years I have recruited inner city public high school seniors through my internship program and trained them in taxation, financial planning and real estate sales procedures. Some of my former interns are business owners while many work in Corporate America which is not a bad move because entrepreneurship is not for everyone and most people do not realize the SACRIFICE entrepreneurs make to bring their businesses into fruition.

What I have observed through the years is that most people are not willing to put forth the type of ENERGY it requires to WIN!

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Ramses says:

January 3, 2013 at 1:50 pm

Terence don’t get me wrong I feel what you’re saying…however we dropped the ball on a lot of things ourselves initially too. When Haiti freed themselves, where were the African nations with reinforcements? Nowhere because many of them were apart of the slave trade that produced the state of Haiti in the first place. How ironic these nations are being walked over now. Africans come here with an arrogance they adopted from those fucking Arabs and to be honest, they better be glad that European over their busting this desert nigger’s ass because if he wasn’t, Africa would be worse. Gadahfi had no Africans in any major positions of power at all. He used the name of Africa to hide the fact that his mission was to turn Libya into an Arab state, not hospitable for Africans. I do not kiss Africans asses at all for real because when a chick I dealt with went to one of their salons and this nappy headed negro was jealous of my chicks hair texture (she had that wet wavy natural hair) this chick braided her hair in such a way that when it came time to take out her braids she had to cut into her and my chick had ball spots in her hair. Now that was some hateful shit. African leaders don’t try to assist us. Yeah Ghanaians offer blacks the chance to invest in their country, but how about making some of us apart of the government? They are not trying to help us in terms of government are concerned. I didn’t see one African nation assist Haiti. Not one. They are just as guilty for the continuance of the slave trade as was the Caucasian from Europe and I don’t mean all Caucasians either, I mean the ones with the power. That power structure knew they had populations of poor whites who would have fought aliens to eat because they were so poor and were experiencing the dark ages. Thus didn’t make these people racists, it just meant they were hungry. They were ignorant too. We have to make the differentiation between poor whites, and elite whites because we think they’re the same. They are not. You think those Europeans who went into the tombs or our ancestors (and their ancestors too) in Egypt were of the same mentality in terms of intelligence as their poor subjects? Of course not. The poor ones would only see physical treasure in those tombs, while the elite white would see the spiritual treasure there. Big difference. The elite white just used the ignorant white to die for his cause in the name of nation (Patriotism). Most patriots are poor. Look at the top one percent. Are they patriots? Hell no!!!! They see the US in debt and they have no desire to assist it at all. Blaming whitey for everything is not getting us paid. And remember, Africa was not perfect before Caucasians came there as well. They did human sacrifices there. So when you want to go back to Africa, be careful of what you wish for. To me a lot of those Africans are no different than Arabs in their level of hostility and aggression. Look at what they did to Patrice Lumumba. I’m pretty sure some of your ancestors are enjoying the ass whipping those Africans are taking because they know what happened to them. Africans definitely don’t get a free pass from me. When a friend of mine used to wear an African medallion back in the day, this African asked him why was he doing it. He said because it was apart of his culture. The african chick replied “that’s not your culture. you’re not african.” While their dumb asses are servants to other people on their own land as they well should because of the shit they were doing back then. Moors were going through Africa taking off heads because of some of the filthy behavior they exhibited in past times. Just look at it like this. A black man, who occupies the white house, is sending drone strikes up the ass of those very Arabs who enslaved plenty of Africans in the past and do it today as well. A black man. Sometimes you got to take your victories best way you can. Obama not all bad he not all good. He just is. But I thoroughly enjoy seeing those arab monkeys, who burned all those books in Egypt, shit their pants as well. And any Africans who identify with them deserve to have a drone strike up their asses too because they get on planes just like the Nigerian did on Christmas a few years ago, and try to blow up our family members. Africans don’t feel sorry for us like that. These fuckers come here and be arrogant and try to take shit our ancestors fought for. However, I don’t blame them on that front when our people wanna coon themselves on tv or be professional pole dancers. @Sankofa my point exactly….at the end of the day, you want a woman that can you can take to a Ball, not the strip club!!!

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sankofa says:

January 3, 2013 at 7:22 am

@ Terrence Amen and Ramses…I mentioned in another thread about the street hustler who balked at the prospect of my suggestion he invest his ill gotten money into a legitimate business instead of renting a space to party for one night. I remember as A young man, a sister friend complained to me about a female she knew who laughed at her and told her she was an idiot, because while sister friend was busting her ass working, that female was sitting at home, with a couple of children and collecting welfare. This was the first time i heard of this…and this was at least 20 years ago. What Steph said about the Jealousy is true, and what both of you said about the willing ignorance is indicative of a people that has mental health issues, dying as a culture, yet keep doing the very thing that is killing them and wondering why they are dying.

I am not a fan of the Wayans coon clan, but this is one of my favorite scene in hollyweird’s his story as it sums up what and who we have come to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNBt4srCn84

This is the civil rights movement in a nut shell. If you noticed El Haj Malik Al Shabazz was murdered because he was going to take the US to the UN and get the other nations to condemn this nation for it’s refusal to extend Human Rights to the knee-grows…not because he called them the devil. Martin was murdered because he questioned European Imperialism in South Asia and questioned why is he leading his people into a burning building through integration. Black Wall Street was bombed because our success negated “Caucasian superiority”, scores of Africans were moved from Oklahoma and off of Southern farm lands at gun point and with violence because we decided to get our own forty acres and a mule. This is why knee-grows misuse integration for dilution and a job, because the values taught by our ancestors was valued less than the scraps that is fed us.

In the past I was involved in African centered business, I watched as knee-grows by pass me to go to the Khazaars, the East Asian, The South Asian and the Caucasians, even when it came to ethnic specific items. What you two brothers are doing I hope the young people’s got your back, because the older heads of my generation has given up the funk and are just getting in the way. @Deena A Mathews..and @Steph, when your time comes, what Ramses is saying is to remember the African(Fanti) saying: “If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation)”…

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Terrance Amen says:

January 3, 2013 at 5:59 am

@Ramses

I agree with everything you said, except about slavery, and that’s the problem. We’re still slaves, mentally. The problem is we don’t know it. You said it yourself, we are sick people who forgot who we are. Anytime you give your best and brightest to the same people who enslaved you, spend a trillion dollars with every group but your own, that’s sick. In my opinion, this is and will always be the main reason why we don’t come together as a people. This is bigger then class. We didn’t have problems in relationships, working together, fighting together, worshipping together, and all the other problems we have in our community, before our ancestors came to this country. Until we have a serious conversation and remedy on an international level on the mental effects of slavery and colonization, because our African Brothers and Sisters are going through the same thing, with being colonized as well.

This is why they continue to struggle. They have to rely on the same people who colonized them for resources they already have. Can you see that the more we get farther from each other in terms of community, and the more we stay around these immoral, selfish people, the worst we get? This is not our culture. We function best as a community. That’s why they say it takes a village to raise a child. Individualism is someone else’s mindset, not ours. We are literally living in someone else’s identity, which we now believe to be our own. I know I’m going to get some flack for saying this but I’m not here to be liked, I’m here to tell the truth in order to help my people. We didn’t have a lot of these problems when we were segregated, at least not to the level they are today. I’m not talking about separation, at least not yet.

But what I am talking about is why we choose to do the things we do, when we know they are harmful to us as a community. You talked about the Indians who have businesses in our community, and yes they were colonized, but they have their language, culture, and history intact. So do the Asians, and Arabs who come into our community and start businesses. Here in the US, our ancestors were stripped of everything, so we are constantly trying to be people we are not. We really never had a foundation to build on except the spirit of our ancestors and knowing how to survive. When we were segregated, at least we knew that we could rely only on ourselves to make it, and we did. As I said earlier, we took the wrong path to freedom. We took the path of assimilation, integration, and their education. Now we wonder why we have the problems we have in our community, because we’re still not free.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

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Ramses says:

January 3, 2013 at 4:27 am

@Terence I do this for the ancestors like Hannibal, and Malcolm, Khalid Muhammad, Garvey and countless others who never got a chance to tell black people how they felt for betraying them when they were alive. So just in case they thought they would be able to sweep their betrayal under rugs, I am here to remind them that I’m on they’re ass like a pitbull out of the caves of Europe. I will not let their ways go unnoticed. My loyalty is to my ancestors first, not to the living because I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for those strong individuals. I know when a lot of black people read what I write, the demon in them shakes and that’s the response I hope to get. If negroes don’t like what I say, then i automatically know I’m dealing with a house negro. If you have nay sense as a person, and values, you should not get offended by what I say. My words are value driven, I just refuse to let black people slide by using slavery as the excuse for their degenerate behavior. Slavery is not why women dance on the pole. Slavery is not why young men sell crack on the corner. They do that because collectively, those around them didn’t learn commerce, and show them how to tap into their celestial estate and claim their riches. The lack of spiritual unity results in commercial failure. Always has and always will, no matter the people.

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Ramses says:

January 3, 2013 at 4:09 am

I meant ancestors who deserve it

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Ramses says:

January 3, 2013 at 4:04 am

peace @Terence…I speak about the greatness as well. You know I’m like that electric shock therapy to mentally ill patients. Mentally ill patients are more real because their illnesses is recognized. What about these people walking around thinking they’re sane, but really psychotic!!!! That’s scary. I speak truth, give info on commerce, and give historical info as well. But you know what people focus the most on? When I critique the behavior about black people. You beat the drum of collective economics (and talk about Garvey like I do). When it comes to commerce, black people think that is white people’s responsibility. I noticed something about black chicks, over the years that I really never paid attention to, until I get into business ownership. I noticed, after hearing from black dudes over the years, how a lot of black women don’t respect brothers who owned their own businesses. I heard brothers lament the fact that they were not receiving the respect they felt they deserved. However, after pondering on this, it began to make sense to me. If your woman, thinks she has a better chance of eating with another man, will she support you? Chances are she won’t. Even a black chick I know said to me she noticed this phenomenon over the years as well (my friend is a C.P.A.). She can’t understand a woman who’s not willing to invest in a man who is business minded. This woman actually told me when she hears me talk about commerce it turns her on. But relationships are business, whether we realize it or not. I put a lot of long books on here and really I don’t expect women to read them. This is what men do for the most part. But, if you’re a woman, and you won’t read this, at least invest in a Man who’s willing to sit down and do it. Chick I deal with now, I’m working on putting her house in trust. And for the first time in 20 years or so, she will not have to pay a mortgage. The look on her face when I said it out loud to her was priceless. She is not gonna read what I read and I don’t expect her to. But she damn sure invested in a Man who would read it. You and I both know, that before God destroys a people, he sends them prophets right? In the twentieth century, our people didn’t have enough prophets? We are witnessing destruction right before our very eyes. Not only did we have ancestors enslaved, but then we had prophets who guided us properly, yet we didn’t protect them and honor them. When Malcolm died, our people should have torn these streets apart. Now the biggest war that needs to take place amongst black people is an internal one. This is a spiritual war that’s the issue in our community. A civil war is raging within the black community right now. You have the civil rights, problack generation at war with the Remnant. The civil rights dinosaurs are blocking the ascension of the Babes who are speaking the truth. How best do you show love than through collective economics? Our economic situation proves how much we don’t love one another. I get sick of seeing black people with this spoken word, “peace my brother my sister” fake black love bull. It’s not real. We don’t invest with each other at all. If white people stopped selling clothes to black people, how would they clothe themselves. I was at my old college and saw this Indian female on the computer. She had a picture of the flyer of her mother’s clothing store in Duluth, GA. Traditional women clothing and made with fine fabrics of India. This girl was a college student, yet still knew how to sew so she could contribute to her family business. What’s so hard about that? You have to have love to do that. That’s not even on a grand scale either. See we think we need organizations to have unity. No we don’t. We know what the issues are. It’s just our people are too stubborn to come together. Because Indians have a certain ethic (work, family, marriage) naturally they will be united. They will work in concert with one another. When you love yourself, it just comes naturally. Love ties into spirituality and whne you lack this, then everything you try to accomplish falls by the waist side. Especially when your men are weakened to the point, that when it’s time to lay down the law, men/women take heed to what is said. Every family needs a strong male figure that when he speaks, he commands and he has authority. I don’t care if it’s a father, brother, Uncle or whomever. That’s what I loved about “The Raisin In The Sun.” That mother knew she needed to give her son that authority and ultimately gave it to him. Indian men don’t have to fight their women and that’s why they can build businesses. I remember when I moved into this area of Georgia called Decatur Terence back in 91. There were Indians there but it was black people there too. Now, most of the areas businesses in this area are ran by Indians. Jewelry stores, banquet Halls, restaurants, and all types of other businesses ran by these people, while the black people I knew in the area, if you go through the neighborhood I lived in, doing the same thing they were doing in ’91: absolutely nothing. Not one of these people set up a business in this area. Not one. And they lived there before these Indians started moving there. I can only imagine how Garvey felt after he assembled all those ships and wasn’t able to sail to Liberia. My anger is for the prophets, not my own personal beefs with black people. I had to get wise before I let what happened to Malcolm and Garvey happen to me. I hurt for them, not for willing slaves because Malcolm nor Garvey were willing slaves. Garvey was about getting money. He talked about going to Africa and getting gold, rubber, diamonds and all other sorts of resources. Malcolm was about self-reliance too. We have to put a boot in black people’s ass in defense of our prophets because these are the answers who deserve to be defended the most. To have to go against an external enemy and an internal one. That’s what I call hell for real.

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Terrance Amen says:

January 3, 2013 at 3:14 am

@ Ramses

I don’t think Deeann disagreed with your point, just in how you presented it. I agree there’s no need to be politically correct, because we are trying to speak truth, find solutions to our problems, and wake people up from their nightmares. I go hard in my book as well, but I also let my people know their greatness in order to have a balance. But I will say this; no one can deny the truth you speak.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

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Terrance Amen says:

January 3, 2013 at 2:50 am

@ Shawn

You are absolutely right, but it won’t happen by going to schools and demanding to give our children the tools to have options. If that were the case, we would already have them. The public school system and even college was not setup to create entrepreneurs, or people to think for themselves. They were created to teach us how to be employees. If we are to be educated on the importance of doing for self, then we have to do it ourselves. Imagine if we continued the programs of the UNIA, (United Negro Improvement Association) founded by Marcus Garvey. We wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

In my opinion, our so called leaders took the wrong path after the civil rights era. Instead of building on the businesses we already had in the Black community, like every other group does which covered pretty much every business you can think of, Remember we were segregated back then, but we chose the path to go to school to learn how to get a good job, instead of learning how to create one. Forty years later, we wonder why we can’t find work or have to take a job that pays half of what we used to make. If we are ever to reach our full potential and be successful as a people, we have to start doing for ourselves. The government is not the solution and never was. We are the solution and always were.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

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Ramses says:

January 2, 2013 at 11:47 pm

@Steph The Law of Charitable Trusts

The Law Relating To Private Trusts

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Ramses says:

January 2, 2013 at 11:46 pm

Don’t think for one second weak dudes get a free pass Sankofa (Happy new Season). I went years going into the dudes and no doubt they have blame but when women are more sexually promiscuous than Men, it’s clear we need to address them because as long as they keep doing this, your taxes on your paychecks will continue to fund this non-sense. I told this black chick years ago, i said “why don’t black women get mad at the black women who steal grom their paychecks every paycheck?” She said ‘what do you mean?” I said if you aren’t married and work as a single woman, you are taxed at a higher tax bracket. I then said “where do your taxes go?” They go to support those sorry women on welfare. So for all that black men ain’t shit crap, weak black women get money out your paycheck before you do and you work for it!!!! She sat there speechless. Totally had no clue. Medicare is totally funded by working people only. It’s a rob Peter to pay Paul business model. Those in upper income brackets are fighting like hell to not have to pay this money into these programs and I would too. If I was a black woman, working hard out here trying to make ends meet, being responsible, I would have a serious problem with these miscreants dipping into my paycheck before I get a chance to touch my money first. This is disgraceful Middle income blcks in general need to speak on this because this money you could be making investments, yet your money is invested in ray ray and boo boo, keeping them alive so they can grow up and break in your car or house at a later date. Talk about funding your own destruction. I knew a chick who used to work at DFACS and said she had to quit because she was getting to a point where she was starting to hate black people because of how they would come in there and feel entitled to free stuff!!!! Imagine going to school, not getting pregnant, getting your degree, working at DFACS and helping a chick get benefits for her 5 kids, and then seeing that same chick move in your neighborhood because someone rented their house to her on section-8 and her kids eventually breaking into your house. Is that fair? I mean this is class, not race. I mean we have people in our families who we wouldn’t want to live around us or with us because of their poor mentalities. Chick I know ex-husband used to fry chicken, and because he grew up with a poor mentality, used to save the flour he put the chicken in in a cool whip container!!!! Dude you can die from that dumb shit!!!!! For real what you gonna do with that shit? Government is not changing that type of mentality. You think Warren Buffett makes excuses for poor white trash? Hell nah. He doesn’t even talk in terms of race. He talks in terms economics. I feel you with dudes in a lot of ways. But what holds more sway over these dudes; your or my words or vagina? If the vagina could stop thinking destructively then dudes would be forced to straighten themselves out. Pussy has power over bitch niggas you and I both know. And then what’s sad, is that after these chicks wallow in the mud with these dudes they choose because they are weak, then come to a brother like yourself and demand respect!!!! Like what? That’s why I go back to that virgin shit. When women start recognizing men out here won’t marry them if they aren’t virgins, then that will keep some legs closed for real. And you can’t hide that. That’s why i love virginity thing. A woman should be so disciplined that if she’s thirty, and hasn’t met a Man who she can grow with, she should keep that Power Universe tight. A woman is like an easel. One man can stroke her and paint something beautiful. But when you deal with many dudes, then your canvass looks like someone just took different buckets of paint on it and threw it on the canvass. A Man can paint a Masterpiece if given the right easel.

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Steph says:

January 2, 2013 at 11:26 pm

We need the exact titles of the books

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sankofa says:

January 2, 2013 at 11:15 pm

I hope this article is of a rhetorical nature and is not an honest question as to why the enemy isn’t indoctrinating our children the way we thought they would? @Ramses I have to include the failed knee-grow male in this mess, we can’t just leave it in the female’s hands, because a lot of these emasculated males have abdicated their roles as leaders in the house and in the community. I am talking about those that are actually living at home. In 2013 those of us who are on point better come together and start our own schools and do it with integrity. We need to separate from Yurugu, integration has killed our entrepreneurial and cultural spirit and we are left wondering why as a community of consumers we are not respected.

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Ramses says:

January 2, 2013 at 10:48 pm

If you go on google books and type in the names of the books it should pull them right up

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Steph says:

January 2, 2013 at 10:42 pm

Thanks for the links Ramses but it was difficult to have access. Is it possible to have the links from amazon (because a password won’t be required)?

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Ramses says:

January 2, 2013 at 10:30 pm

Exactly Steph…you’d be surprised how those in the black community are the major withholders of information toward black people. That’s why I don’t play the blame whitey game anymore…the biggest enemies tend to be those with melanin in terms of advancing..here’s something that might interest you

http://books.google.com/books/download/The_law_of_charitable_trusts.pdf?id=nnwzAAAAIAAJ&output=pdf&hl=en&capid=AFLRE71hJlJPHx1sgMmddTtHuiF0jzZpCjcYrgKFx66-p3hulIW3wb6ODAsQKXEE-LKs-BYKxxIoR4ByJcXKNvnYtL2WzvjIfKexjzRskAbpeLE41XjMAMM&captcha=atedies

http://books.google.com/books/download/The_law_relating_to_private_trusts_and_t.pdf?id=ajo9AAAAIAAJ&output=pdf&hl=en&capid=AFLRE72GRWfCodJsj-KYbXG4oINeHuQIqAj42B0YjQVi2HE7otkiH8GrmvhKQ3DNQyxsLOtq66I0oF6dqsOS94f8NkqzmybKUxhF6cLWUrtAkloeRheDbGA&captcha=grani

However wealth building is a family endeavor..which is why I talk about family structure first….notice how most wealthy people tend to be married…when you’re grounded with the person you’re with, then it allows you to focus on how can you best you can express that love for each other in a commercial sense. When you can travel to Spain for your anniversary, instead of going to the Olive Garden, it tends to give you a much more rich life experience. You have a life experience that gives you memories to cherish. Instead of watching commercials wishing you could go there. But you have to envision yourself being there first, and then formulating a plan to get there after that.

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Steph says:

January 2, 2013 at 9:55 pm

This pathological behavior of not sharing information creates deep collective consequences. For instance, it is not a coincidence that we were the main victims for the foreclosure crisis. Even some Black celebrities were affected by it. Asians and Jews were spared. Nobody will make me believe that all the Black bankers, real estates and so on did not see these things coming!!!

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Ramses says:

January 2, 2013 at 9:06 pm

and I meant dgood sistas convinced men to leave the streets alone and pick up that word. The book just represents what’s in our mind…books are finite, minds aren’t unless willingly locked by the owner

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Ramses says:

January 2, 2013 at 9:00 pm

With all due respect i don’t buy that. Booker T talked about this problem way before public fool systems was a problem for “our” people. This is not an ax to grind just because what you say most don’t want to hear. Why do you think barack and Michelle refuse to put their children in public schools? With the money earmarked for “No Child Left Behind” why did they refuse to subject their children to the same school system? Because they have sense enough not to. If black people were business minded enough to open schools, then maybe they could take advantage of the voucher programs and allow these vouchers to fund the salaries of the teachers who teach at these alternative schools. Even Steph said that she had to get info from Asians. What i said about the women is based in law, not emotion. If you can’t teach your kids multiplication or hire someone you trust to teach them based on what you want them to learn, then you’re always gonna be at the mercy of this public fool system. It’s why children should be planned for, instead of sporadically had. You mean to tell me these women have no culpability in their own destruction? Steph didn’t even know that these schools were teaching young students through children’s books to embrace homosexuality. And hiding it by not allowing the books to be taken home by these students. This is why you organize so you never allow yourself to be eaten by wolves. I speak on the women aspect so much because this is how you destroy a people. Damn stop being so sensitive all the time. Some people don’t even know what the issues are. We all know chldren out-of-wedlock is a problem. Ok then what is the major factor leading into this; women not being smart enough to marry first before they have kids. Women have no control over who they open their legs to? I mean this is not rocket science. Some women might think they don’t need a man to help them raise a child but ask the many children in this land, if they had the choice, would they rather know their father or be subject to their mother’s “Independence” experiment. Two-parent homes clearly show through data produce children with more confidence, more self-esteem, and a better self-concept about themselves than single mother households do. When a boy is transitioning into that Manhood phase, he needs his father to usher him in when his penis gets hard so he will know what to do with it. Because technically, when you can reproduce a child, you’re an adult and if you do it unwisely, you can find yourself in court paying child support at 14. Your people are not in any position to have the truth told to them in a politically correct manner. As a collective, you and I both know, your people suck. Even in your scriptures, God talks about feeding His people bread mixed with their own manure. Do you know how fed up your God has to be with you to feed you your own shit? Bread mixed with your own dung. Black people are full of shit and they need to cleanse. Their only history they know of themselves was slavery, which was taught in the public fool system. Who wants to be a descendant of a slave? Nothing honorable about that shit. Just remember, there were ancestors who chose to stay alive, believing that the future would be brighter for the future generations and they decided not to kill themselves. If black people were gonna give this type of effort, they should have just taken their lives. If black people are so spiritual, and have a direct connection with God like they proclaim every Sunday, then why can’t they prosper? Why can’t they get God to spot them $10? Even the scriptures you quote speak about the “Kingdom of Heaven being within you.” So maybe because black people are so negative as a collective, they are blocking their wealth from manifesting itself in the physical due to the hatred they possess in the spiritual sphere? Black people love to think they are innocent in terms of the state of affairs the world is in. Your people act like they have never committed a sin and this is the biggest lie they believe in. 500 murders in Chicago suggest that your people have some spiritual debt they better figure out how to pay real fast or they will cease to exist. So when your sisters are not producing children under the right circumstances, then they are more than likely producing them in modes of lust instead of modes of love. I am a Man and even I know there’s a big difference when I make Love to a Woman I love and just fuck a Woman I lust for. And a child has this essence whenever that seed hits that egg. If his Dad and mother have a lust-filled with relationship, more than likely he/she will have some serious problems in forming longterm relationships moving forward. You’re debating me when I am only telling women to keep their legs and behave responsibly with their wombs? You would think I’d get credit for that but our people are so used to seeing their women “pop that pussy” to Luke songs that they can’t envision the black woman doing anything but presenting herself as a sex slave for the world to see. Any woman who strips on a pole is a sex slave. You sell it on the internet, you’re a sex slave. The reason why prositution has lost a lot of its appeal is because there are plenty of women giving away sex for free. They have no shame in having sex with multiple dudes (including orgies). This is an ancient science (no matter your religion) that a woman should never violate. Show me in your scriptures a Woman being allowed to recover from being a whore and please don’t say Mary Magdalene because we know the Catholic Church went out of it way to brand her a whore because of the legend being she was Jesus’ wife. Notice how the scripture doesn’t make rules for girlfriends because the scripture assumed that women would be under the covenant of marriage. There are no rules for boyfriends and girlfriends because those are things children call themselves when they are 14 or 15. Adult women and men make themselves look foolish when they refer to themselves under these terms. Notice how I get on the men too. Let me just leave you with this. A dude I knew said this brother was dating this Indian chick. He asked her “are Indian men virgins when they meet you’ll?” She replied “not all the times. That’s what the prostitutes are there for.” The brother replied “you’ll know these men deal with prositutes and you’ll cool with it.” She said “sure. She said when they want just sex, they go to them and when they want marriage they come to us virgins.” Just to shw you civilized women know that they should be a prize to their men (virgins) and make their men feel and know that they chose well. Why you think your black community is so screwed up? Women don’t present themselves as a prize. They present themselves as walking porno show and then produce under this negative spiritual energy that passes down generation, to generation, to generation. The reason why you see clown men out here is because there are plenty of clown women. If clownish women didn’t exist, then clownish men couldn’t either. Because back in the day, I remember seeing good sistas who saw potential in brothers and through their civilized behavior, convinced some brothers to leave the church and pick up that word. A Man meet that right Queen, he’ll do anything to be with her. When it’s easy to be with you, why would a Man value you. This goes against millions of years of ancient social customs. This will never change. So women have a choice, especially in America, to really be what they want to be. They can become doctors, housewives, or whores. That seems more than fair to me because in many places, the latter is your only choice. I mean take your pick Deanne. Would you rather be here or Sudan? Whre they still sell African women as sex slaves. Black women have it worse over here than they do? No they don’t. Out of all black women in the world, black women in the States should be the most successful. No excuses in 2013.

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Shawn hudson says:

January 2, 2013 at 6:46 pm

Steph you hit it right on the head the reason blacks are never successful as acommunity is because we never share info with one another.

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Deeann D. Mathews says:

January 2, 2013 at 6:14 pm

Very well said. I count myself very blessed to have found Black folks who are into business and are willing to share… and planning on passing on the knowledge! But there is not much to be hoped for from public school. When you get time and want to be angered, check and see what model our public schools are built on, and what kind of population those schools were meant to produce. Look up Otto van Bismarck as well as the better known Dewey: either way, the public schools were not meant to build strong, independent people — and that was before Black folks were even considered worthy of public education!

That said, the majority of our Black children are in public schools… that’s why, as a minister I respect said today, it is going to fall on the church and other community organizations to fill this gap for now.

Ramses… when “a woman gives her children” to the public schools, it may be because she thinks that’s what she is supposed to do (because, after all, look how hard Black people struggled for the right to be in non-segregated public schools), OR because the situation in the family actually requires two incomes. I wish that you would not have to bring the axe you have to grind with certain women into every conversation. Even homemaking Black women have had their kids in public school in times not too far back; it is going to take time for us to just accept that something we fought so hard for 60 years ago may not be worth the support now — and it will be accepted faster, which will be better for everyone, if the people letting Black women know they need to pursue other options in terms of the education of their children don’t start the conversation with an insult.

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Steph says:

January 2, 2013 at 4:19 pm

There are people in our community who have all the information required to create successful businesses. However, the difference between them and the entrepreneurs from the Asian or Jewish community is the fact that they share the knowledge. We are super selfish and as long this status quo remains, things won’t change! Right now, I am building my business and all the information I got so far to help my enterprise thrive, I got it from an Asian friend. Nobody in the Black community so far gave me valuable information which can help me strive!!!

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Ramses says:

January 2, 2013 at 2:28 pm

Or we could take advantage of No Child Left Behind, start our own schools, and use the vouchers to pay for their attendance in these private schools. Ultimately entrepreneurship should be taught by family first….always… the public fool system makes fools….incompetence….whenever a woman gives her children to the public fool system to educate, it’s an admission that she is to incompetent to raise them herself…this is trust law all day…when you display incompetence you get treated as a child by law

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