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The fear of Black skin by some whites and some blacks

I have seen white people who are as pale as a glass of milk, yet I have never heard someone white talk about how white and pale another Caucasion is. Yet I have heard a few whites as well as some blacks talk about how dark an athletic, model or celebrity is.

Some of you may be to young to remember how Negros in college sororities in the 50"s and 60's would be given the manila envelope test. If you were darker than the manila envelope then you couldn't get in.  A recent report by John Stossel on ABC 2020 showed that many producers of music videos primarily select light skin black females to be the devia's and dark skin girls to be the hoochies. On this segment, young black boys indicated their preference for light skin girsl. Our kids are to young to realize that they are the victims of brain washing. Ask the average African American teenage boy to describe a beautiful girl and you will see what I'm talking about. By having so few Beautiful dark and brown skin Black women who are displayed as beautiful in magazines ,commercials and movies, this allows someone else to impose their standard of beauty on you.What makes it worse is that so many Black men have bought into it...what do you think?

The Black Church And Some Ministers Who Lead Us Astray

As I've traveled across the US in recent years, visiting most inner city Black communities, the only new construction I see are Black Churches surrounded by run down neighborhoods. Yes there are exceptions, but there are few. I don't see new housing, retail stores, new play grounds. Don't these ministers think that the same financing that builds a church can be extended to these other services.  As I flip the channel on Sunday morning , I see more Black preachers in custom made suits, but few are talking about how we improve the economic, educational or physical condition of Black people. Many talk about what we must do to save our souls but even fewer talk about saving our children, our communities and ourselves with a real plan of action.

The Millionaire Pastors!

How Do You Feel About Properity Preachers?

Who profits from Black consumers & How much we buy?

African Americans are proportionately the largest users of mouthwash, deoderant , soap, toilet paper, cough medicine, laxitives and lotion. We spend over $10 billion yearly on our hair. We spend $60 billion on food in the grocery stores annually and this doesn't include fast food where we spend around $25 billion annually. Proportionately, we are major purchasers of athletic shoes and apparel. Yet, can you name for me any products sold in your local supermarket or drug store that come from Black own companies? Maybe 1 or 2. Lets look around our communities. Do you see any Black owned retail stores. Think about your average week. Do you spend any money with businesses that you know are Black owned? Even franchises, how many of those are Black owned, proportionate to what we spend. Very, very few. There are less than a handful of Black owned BMW, Toyota and Mercedes Benz dealerships nationwide, yet we love to buy these cars. Don't get me started about the diamond ear rings that young brothers like to wear in both ears.

Why do we love companies and their products that don't love us back? Our purchases create companies, jobs ,opportunities and wealth for everyone else but ourselves. Foreigners coming to America know that the easiest and cheapest place for them to set up a family business is in the Black community. They are told that African Americans really don't care who they buy from. We don't seem to really understand the basic principles of economics and survival. If we don't begin to do business with ourselves, then who will.  Now lets look at other minority groups. Every major city has a China town where many Asians shop. Furthermore these shops hire Asian employees. The same is true for Hispanics who are now the largest minority group in America. A recent survey in the Wall Street Journal says employers increasingly prefer to hire Hispanics over Blacks. This is only going to get worse....

Many minority groups are now using the power of the internet to help redirect their  spending and build wealth for themselves and their family. Please share your ideas for real economic emplowerment....

Black athletics and white coaches and white cheer leaders.

Lets look at the real numbers. In college division one football there are only 5 Black head coaches despite many of the starting players being African American. This is even more true for division one basketball.  Many of these coaches are making well over $2 million a year.

The University of Texas, accoording to CNBC, made over $63 million off of its football program this year. Its coach makes over $3 million a year. If you extended this over all the division one foot ball teams, then these colleges are making millions off of these Black student athletics. But they don't want to hire any of their former players as head coaches or assistants, once or if they graduate.

The college boosters concede that you need these young black bucks to be competitive, but they have told the schools, just make sure that this doesn't bleed over to the coaching ranks, because we are the one who write the checks.

The NFL is a little better better. 68% of the players are African American and they finally do have a handful of Black head coaches. But when they had 9 vacancies this season, most owners decided to hire all white first years coaches who never had NFL coaching experience before. The message seems to be clear.....Black man, you can perform on the field, but when your playing days are over, we have no more use for you...What do you think?

New Orleans clean up and other headlines

A recent survey indicated that over 80 % of African Americans who were flodded out of New Orleanswon't come back. Despite the willingness and generousity of blacks and white from across the country to help, it still takes money to start a new life. Money comes from jobs. I think knowing this survey, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was desperately finding a way to get more Black New Orleanians to come home:

In his speech, he said, "It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans." Nagin added, "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."

I think this is a comment that should have been kept at his dinner table. By stating this publicallythere will now be those who will want to make sure the demographics will never be the way they were. What do you think?

Hurricane Katrina - Hurricane Song

Million Man! stop marching and start doing. Time is running out.

I was deeply moved by the last Million Man March in 1996. As a Black man, I knew that the over 1 million Black men who decended on Washington DC came out of the hurt and pain they were feeling but more importantly they came with the desire for change. What kind of change? Economic.

All men, no matter what race, want to have the money to provide for their families. Earning a living is not easy for anyone, but it has been increasingly more difficult for many Black men. I watched CNN that day and heard all the speechs. I heard all the wolf  tickets about what whites need to do for us. But I did not hear a plan of what we are going to do for ourselves. There was no system in place to collect the names. address, phone, numbers or email address of every Black man that was there to follow up with a plan.

Who made money from the march? Let me see.....the airlines, bus, trains and gas stations made money from Black men who needed to get there . The hotels made money from the folks who needed a place to stay. The restaurants, street vendors and convenience stores made money feeding these hungry Black men. But after it ended what happened...NOTHING.

Jump ahead 9 years and there is another Million Man March. Do you think the organizers and the speech makers learned from the mistakes of the past and decided that this time we are going to offer a plan. Better yet an economic plan to help Black people better direct the $500 billion we spend in this economy toward impowering ourselves. Again, there were wolf tickets and chest beating but nothing came out of it.  And the same people who made money on the first march, were there to make money again.

Oh I forgot to mention, the shoes companies also made money from all the brothers who needed new shoes after marching...What do you think?