Still You Persist In Generalities. Use Your Platform And Your Intellect To Honestly Promote A Fix Or Join Someone And Promote Their Fix.

If you write articles to see how many “likes” you get, it is you who is the charlatan that I referred to in my original comments. You said, “And while you made these comments, dozens of other people liked this article.” You should write a disclaimer at the beginning of each one of your articles saying that you are writing for “likes” so no one takes your articles seriously. Folks who are looking for serious discourse in regard to the trials of African Americans will than respond appropriately to your pieces.

When it comes to resolving our issues; likes, and tweets ultimately carry about as much weight as an empty checking account at the first of the month when the rent is due! The actual measurement of success when it comes to resolving the critical issues of our day is not how many followers, tweets, and favorites you accumulate with a given piece. The true measurement of success is whether you helped in some way to unify our community to act upon a plan that will bring an end to the high rate of black unemployment, black on black crime and usher in black economic independence. It most obvious if you have an ounce of common sense that you can’t do to this with generalities.

When you say, “There are good blueprints to follow like Black Wall Street from 1920 Tulsa, Oklahoma,” you come off as appearing to be dismissive of the dire situation of many in our community today who find themselves being victimized by this oppressive economic system. I am not going to get into a back and forth conversation with you. I simply wanted to call your attention to what you are doing. We are in a war; some of us are on the front lines. There are others like yourselves who have yet to be engaged. I think it would be an indictment of the integrity of the brothers and sisters like myself who take our dilemma seriously, when historians look back and see we tolerated frivolity on the behalf of some when we encountered it, concerning this fight, without saying anything. Therefore, I spoke.

You see my dear friend, there is a bit of urgency about this economic fight we are in as we once again see the black unemployment rate beginning to rise.
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To you, these are generalities. But to others, this article is a starting point. And while you made these comments, dozens of other people liked this article. As for being more specific, do you really think all that can be done in one article? Obviously you have not read the dozens of other articles I have written on this site that also attack the problems and offer real solutions.

Ironically, I know all about the Federal Reserve and I was just in Jekyll Island weeks ago. But just because you know some things that others may not, that does not mean they can move at your pace – or you at theirs. Our mental and economic independence is a process that begins with de=programming our people from the slave mindset and increasing awareness that so many of our people have been programmed in the first place.

I can answer the questions you asked but that takes seminars and workshops of training (which I do offer), not just one article. But clearly this article gets the ball rolling for a lot of people. If you want a systematic, elaborative approach by the numbers, are you ready to implement it? And what are you doing to help right now?

There are good blueprints to follow like Black Wallstreet from 1920 Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you are ready to carry out a solid plan, then email me at brainstormonline@yahoo.com. But also be ready to tell me what you are doing now to combat the problems. If de-programming does not come first (as this article helps to do), many people will not hear anything else that is spoken or written.

There is a real need to shine light into this area; however, we must get away from generalities when we speak about remedies. You said, “Next we have to concentrate our dollars into a unified collaborative that will give us leverage to negotiate products and services while owning the businesses in our own communities. Money does talk but what has our money said when others come into our community and get it? Our people should at least own the gas stations, hair stores, franchises and grocery stores where we shop.” I have some questions – can you “help to understand your fix.”

1) What specific “collaborative are you referring to – how does it look on paper – who are the specific participants in this collaborative? Where does one apply?!

2) Leverage with what, whom and who is specifically going to be doing the leveraging and negotiating – will these folks have a certain meeting place and time? Can I directly get involve?!

3) Who comes into our community and how do they get our money specifically. Once knowing this; how do you specifically intend to stop it?

4) How will “our people” specifically come to own these businesses – are they going to build them or are they going to buy them – tell me how – I want to know. Where will they get seed capital or risk capital?

I do not ask these questions in a disparaging way because I know you are a gifted writer and a dedicated soldier in our war for economic freedom. However, come September 16th-17th , the Federal Reserve Bank through the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) may raise interest rates causing an already high black unemployment rate to increase from 9.5 percent. It is a real possibility many blacks will start losing their jobs. That brother or sister or bread winner for his family would rather see you stop generalizing and get more specific about how he or she is going overcome this new economic downturn. We have to start talking in specifics, if there is any hope of convincing reluctant black leaders to draft legislation that will lead to solutions. That is all I am saying! They have to know what to write! Look, we are in a crisis here, as we are literally being tore apart economically as a race. This is no fantasy. This is really, what is happening on the ground in cities across this country. I respect your intellect brother. I do not know about your community but black on black crime is increasing in many communities. We who have been intellectually gifted and can see the needs of our people really need to come together and agree on talking about specific solutions. In addition, we need to support those specific solutions that have promise. In this way, we drown out and fight the charlatans, who waste our time and misdirect our good efforts and intentions in this endeavor.

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