| Why are African Americans afraid of economic empowerment.; We as black people need to start businesses. | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 29 2010, 04:18 PM (1,801 Views) | |
| Black Pharoah | Nov 29 2010, 04:18 PM Post #1 |
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It seem black people respond to every social problem we have except ECONOMICS and building there communities and truely get involved with there children education but mainly ECONOMICS people we can't survive without any kind of foundation for our chidren to build on so put the cell phone down stay out of the clubs stop giving the Koreans all your money for hair products and support your own black businesses. |
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| Glenn D. | Nov 29 2010, 05:10 PM Post #2 |
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I dont think for the most part that Blacks are afraid of economic empowerment. I think they are too lazy to do it. |
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| Black Pharoah | Nov 29 2010, 05:38 PM Post #3 |
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But that is the only way we as black society is going to survive the reason we are poor is our own fault as a people we won't work together for nothing like other ethnic groups why is that. |
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| Truth95 | Nov 29 2010, 06:11 PM Post #4 |
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Marcus Garvey said that black people must unite and do for self, but black people didn't listen to him. Black people are sitting around here thinking that the Democrats are going to provide jobs for them.
Edited by Truth95, Nov 29 2010, 06:11 PM.
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| Black Pharoah | Nov 29 2010, 07:27 PM Post #5 |
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Why we don't listen to our prophets that is trying to give us the best advice. Elijah Muhammad,Marcus Garvey,Malcolm X,Dr.Ben,John H. Clarke,Amos Wilson,Frances Welsing,David Walker |
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| White Man | Nov 29 2010, 07:39 PM Post #6 |
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Most black people want a hand out |
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| Last Black man | Nov 29 2010, 08:50 PM Post #7 |
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It is not that blacks want a handle out or afraid of economic power, but the truth of the matter is some whites do not want blacks to be empowered. Most people do not realize that all throughout history, black have build great businesses only to have them destroyed by jealous whites. Most whites would not admit it but they believe that they should have more money than blacks, or a better life. Let us take a look at some of the success blacks enjoyed in past and see the results of why those places no longer exist. The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wall Street," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-Black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-Black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering--a model community destroyed, and a major African-American economic movement resoundingly defused. The night's carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could have been expected the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers. The dollar circulated 36 to 100 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community. Now in 1995, a dollar leaves the Black community in 15-minutes. ( We need to get black to do this if we want to be empowered). And when the lower-economic Europeans looked over and saw what the Black community created, many of them were jealous. When the average student went to school on Black Wallstreet, he wore a suit and tie because of the morals and respect they were taught at a young age. The mainstay of the community was to educate every child. Nepotism was the one word they believed in. And that's what we need to get back to in 1995. http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/The%20Story.htm Rosewood was settled in 1845, nine miles (14 km) east of Cedar Key, near the Gulf of Mexico. Local industry centered around timber; the name Rosewood refers to the reddish color of cut cedar wood. Two pencil mills were nearby in Cedar Key; several turpentine mills and a sawmill three miles (4.8 km) away in Sumner helped support local residents, as did farming of citrus and cotton. The hamlet grew enough to warrant the construction of a post office and train depot on the Florida Railroad in 1870, but it was never incorporated as a town. Some families owned pianos, organs, and other symbols of middle-class prosperity. Survivors of Rosewood remember it as a happy place. In 1995, survivor Robie Mortin recalled at age 79, "Rosewood was a town where everyone's house was painted. There were roses everywhere you walked. Lovely." The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed during what was characterized as a race riot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre |
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| Black Pharoah | Nov 30 2010, 12:15 AM Post #8 |
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That was almost 100 yrs ago we need to worry about the present and the future of our people and create businesses and jobs for ourselves. |
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| The SOLE Controller | Nov 27 2012, 07:46 PM Post #9 |
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Most White people recv a handout. Since 2009, $2-trillion in TARP stimulus & bail-outs went mostly, to White Americans. |
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| The SOLE Controller | Nov 27 2012, 07:52 PM Post #10 |
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More proof, that we need to accept how this racist nation/and it's Fed GOVT will never allow for any type Black Unity nor especially any Black Commerce ventures. |
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