“George Washington was a third-generation slaveholder, who with Martha owned more than three hundred slaves. He prized them particularly; as a signal of wealth in his world, such property exceeded gold and real estate. he had once wrote to a fellow planter urging that he send him strong slaves in good health who were not […]
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Quote Of The Day
“It was ironic, I thought, how America’s finest and supposedly most legitimate financial institutions had rigged the treasury market (Salomon Brothers); bankrupted Orange County, California (Merrill Lynch); and ripped off grandmas and grandpas to the tune of $3oo million (Prudential-Bache). Yet they were all still in business- still thriving.” -Jordan Belfort Tweet
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DISCIPLINE: “Discipline is having the courage to do what needs to be done before you are forced to do it.” -From, “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up” By: Iyanla Vanzant Tweet
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Engineer/Inventor Lonnie Johnson explains how he came up with the idea for his goldmine invention, The Super Soaker. Tweet
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“The crypto-Machiavellians who serve as the perennial stewards of American public affairs understand that people on the whole are about as malleable as their history can be made to be.” -Randall Robinson Tweet
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“‘Listen,’ I said softly, ‘I know it’s hard for you to make sense of all this craziness around here, but trust me, there’s a method to my madness, especially when it comes to spending. It’s important to keep these guys chasing the dream. And it’s even more important to keep them broke.’ I gestured over […]
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.” – Akan Proverb Tweet
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In his tome “The True Meaning Of Malcolm X,” Don Steele lays out a blueprint of how Black people can invest in Black people. He uses the city of his residency, Lexington, Kentucky as an example. “There are about 32,000 (or, 32 K) Blacks in Lexington. Real leadership would establish a capital fund goal of […]
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“Malcolm X’s, Marcus Garvey’s, and Martin Delany’s position was that Blacks must financially and economically invest and work for themselves. The results would be profoundly, profoundly, profoundly different. Just today, instead of abandoning Blacks, African Americans are fully capable of investing one billion dollars a week into themselves. That’s 52 BILLION dollars a year. Without […]
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