A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

 

Well look at Africa. It looks free but Europe and now China exploits all their resources and money.

Blacks want to focus on everything but economic development. Even if you want to have an collective economic program you need a plan.

You have to take care of your family and community - how can you do it without financial resources? That is why Africa and Blacks were used to build other people's wealth. In this country whites have 10 times the wealth of Black people. In the US whites own 100 trillion dollars in wealth to Blacks 4 trillion.

If you're not talking economic wealth for Blacks in the US and in Africa bruh you're just wasting your time. Blacks go to prison more than whites because many of us can't afford lawyers. 70% of Blacks in incarcerated are there because they can't post bond.

Are we serious? Let's Study economics fast. Log off social media and learn about business and economics. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Are Blacks Political Suckas?

Are Blacks Political Suckas?  A Black dude on Facebook claimed we are.  He cited that the new Biden/Harris Ticket was basically not going to do anything for Black people. 

In my opinion: Black organizations from broad perspective are putting pressure on Biden/Harris. People from established politicians over cabinet picks, progressives on social programs, and nationalist on reparations. So I wouldn't call us suckers. Really I think your assessment is off based.

Blacks are largely in the position they are in because we are less economically organized. It has less to do with politics. We need more economic focus and using our income to develop more viable Black businesses and institutions. The other side GOP is the party offering even less than the dems financially to Blacks. I bet if the GOP offered serious reparations to Blacks then Blacks would switch parties. But we both know that isn't happening right?

Good Things Comes In Pints

 

OMG! I just ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream before my dinner. I haven't ate a whole pint of ice cream in 23 years since someone explained to me you can work out all you want but if you eat a pint of ice cream everyday you're gonna be fat. Hahahahaha!

Increase Your Memory As You Mature

As you mature it is a good idea to practice memory exercises to compensate for the loss of short term memory. I try to remember people I met years ago, Facebook friends names, and phone numbers.

I don't use contacts speed dialing I try to remember all my contacts and even client numbers in my head. You'd be surprised how it will increase your memory.

I have friends who think I have an incredible memory. Little do they realize I do memory exercises. I have a client who is an expert on aging. He told me to do memory exercises. K@...

Should Blacks Stop Voting Since The 2-Party System Isn't Working?

I have to say I don't relate to not voting. The reason being is that Blacks in the US are forced to pay taxes.

Blacks are paying probably at least $300 billion dollars a year in taxes on $1.3 trillion dollars in income. With $300 billion a year being forced out of our community I don't see how we can write the government a blank check.

Too often we are positioned as consumers in this economic system to support or finance our own economic and social enslavement. We can't afford to write the government a blank check too.

Since we pay so much in taxes we need a ROI. Therefore politically we should use the political system to control government expenditures in our community.

When the government buys goods and services we should get the contracts and use the income to advance ourselves locally and nationally. I'm seeing this in NYC with progressive candidates like Charles & Inez Barron, Letitia James, and James Sanders Jr. being elected locally to challenge the status quo politicians.

On Complaints That Black Men Aren't Successful Enough For Black women

A complaint I hear often in the media purportedly from Black women is that there aren't enough successful Black men for them to have mates.  The following article alludes to this being an American problem especially in the Black community.

However I'd like both sides in the Black community of the gender debate to look deeper at this issue.  Could we be contributing to our own economic demise due to unwitting consumerism?

In the US they are predicting that the median income for Black families will be zero. Most of Blacks income is spent as consumers.

Who do we pay our mortgages too, student loans, phone, cable, utilities, food, computers, etc? How many of these firms are owned by us?

When Black people spend 98% of their money with others outside their community and only 2% of their income with each other why would we expect to be viable and able to sustain families? We have an economic dependency problem that impacts both genders.

For instance statistically Black women still don't make as much as Black male workers. Also although Black women entrepreneurs are over 50% of the business owners in our community 2/3rds of the business income is generated by Black men. Brothas and sistahs need to come together and figure out how we can use our combined incomes to get more economic leverage.

A convo with Lanee Javet

An insightful Black business thought leader Lanee Javet posted a video on Facebook that I recently responded too on Facebook.  She referenced convo I see a lot in reference to Black business by Black people.

That is Blacks don't support Black businesses more because too many are unprofessional.  Black business are unprofessional in ways like bad customer service, come in to work late, open up their shops late, workers have a bad work ethic etc.  I've seen these types of claims before online.

I listened to her whole video although it was hard for me to relate to because we have so many well run and professional businesses in NYC. I think there are about 250,000 businesses here and there are so many well run Black owned restaurants with good staff.

I have to say this is a important issue with me. With only about 2% support from Black people Black businesses employ about 1 million Black people and generates about $180 billion dollars. This means hypothetically if we could move our support from 2% to like 25% we'd have enough economic power to hire every Black person presently unemployed.

I understand the points Ms. Javet is making that some of our people aren't easy to work with but there of many like her and me who work very hard. But what I fear happens, and hope doesn't happen, is when we have bad experiences we stereotype our own ethnic group.

Lastly I'd have to say the negative experiences I get with major corporations and brands is much worst than what I get with our Black businesses in many larger respects. Look at these platform many Black people use now.

It stifles progressive Black thought and business but allows Black hate speech and trolls stealing elections. It is being sued for data breeches and pushes negative Black content over positive Black content. Google does bad things on our community too like favoring content from mainstream brands over Black content even on organic Black topics.

I could go on about the outsourcing on their customer services to places where English is a 2nd language and it is hard to get cogent customer service. It seems too often Blacks support bad service from mainstream businesses and if a Black business person does something a bit wrong they are ready to tear them apart and use it as a rationale never to support a Black business again while letting mainstream businesses fleece them all to often.