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Economics is Key. Choosing to spend out money on maters that benefit our greater social, political, educational, needs will trickle down to our recreational and legacy needs.
>There are fewer than 30 black-owned banks in the country, >according to the Federal Reserve, compared with about 130 such >institutions at the turn of the 20th century. You’d think >black people would be seeking more community-oriented banks as >alternatives to the big Wall Street firms that ripped them off >during the Great Recession. > >Black-owned businesses are the second largest employer of >black people, next to the federal government. But only 7 >percent of small businesses are owned by blacks. How >unfortunate that the president must go hat in hand to >Corporate America, asking for $200 million to help black men >and boys stay in school and get jobs. > >The program is called “My Brother’s Keeper.” Better we >start more businesses and hire these black men and boys. Let >the brothers keep themselves. > >“As shoppers, African Americans are influencers and >trendsetters whose purchasing habits affect others,” Target >Market News said. “They set trends in their purchase of >apparel, autos and food and in their use of social media.” > >Surely we can influence more than that. > >The Atlantic article cited a speech by the black scholar >W.E.B. Du Bois, given more than 80 years ago, titled “A >Negro Nation Within a Nation.” In it, he declared: > >“The peculiar position of Negroes in America offers an >opportunity. . . . With the use of their political power, >their power as consumers, and their brainpower . . . >Negroes can develop in the United States an economic nation >within a nation . . . ” > >At the very least, we could stop expecting people who hate us >to save us.
. . . "America, stop turning our Court Houses of Justice into Dens for Justified Murderers."
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