>>Okay, yeah. Great. Could you just
>>break down the ins and
>>outs of budgeting within a
>>Black context. For example, last

>>First thing, don't think about a
>"Black Context" merely think about
>your own personal financial context,
>race may influence it....but so
>may your gender, personal appearence,
>or any other number of
>factors.


Well, I've already told you all in previous posts that I am unconventional, with unpermed hair, and my wardrobe is 1/2 African, 1/2 European, approximately. I'm a woman. So. To the financial world, or like when I would walk in to buy a car, or search for a mortgage broker, other than wearing a European suit, how could my appearance, which is Africentric by the virtue of my coiled hair alone, be arranged in an acceptable way to get what I want/deserve/is my right?


>>Yes, Blacks have "general" financial issues,
>but when dealing with YOUR
>money, those aggregate issues have
>no relevance. Your racial identity
>and financial situation....although sometimes related,
>are not wrapped up in
>each other.

Hmmmm. How could the two be separated from one another in such a way that the former no longer continues to hinder the latter?


>>What you basically have to do
>is to evaluate your own
>personal financial situation and make
>your financial decisions accordingly.
>
>-More on that later.


Okay.


>> Blacks have less,
>so when the loan granter
>says they have bad credit
>and charges them a higher
>rate, denies them, etc, etc...they
>take it at face value.

But how can we gain confidence to the point of challenging loan officers, when we are not armed with the knowledge of what to challenge them ON?

>>I will say that the advantage
>Whites have with respect to
>"understanding" credit, is simply understanding
>the value of protecting it.

Okay...


>>Step 4. Read this: http://www.okayplayer.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=2823&forum=DCForumID1&archive=yes#6


Just tell me the title of this thread and I'll search for it in the Archives. The Olympics Update keeps coming up when I try to click on it here.

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