Did Our Ancestors Die for the Right to Vote?
This is a common phrase many brothas and sistas use to convince themselves to only vote for one party as
Category: History
A Key Voting Issue – The Black American Economy Needs a Real Agenda Now
So to those dummies who keep saying “slavery was a long time ago, get over it and desire to succeed,” you fail to comprehend this extreme, devastating destructive policy. What happened in the 1921 Black Wall Street Tulsa case, where the state government “promised” reparations but deliberately made sure the clock ran out via the statute of limitations, is a perfect example of what ALL of us have had to endure. We never got financially restored, and when some of us were able to overcome these great obstacles in the late 1870s through the early 1920s, here came both the government and private corporate interests masquerading as the KKK to do many acts of ethnic cleansing of our forefathers that forced them to flee their properties or get killed. The bloody ethnic cleansing terrorist acts of 1919 are a perfect example of that.
Ever Wonder Why You Value Your Cash?
You probably hear a lot about paper money being replace by “digital currency” in terms of bitcoins, cash apps, RFID chips rammed into the hand, or debit cards. There’s a strong push by governments around the world to outlaw cash. But why do we even value paper or digital cash? We hear Black leaders complain that Black dollars don’t circulate within our community enough. We hear our favorite entertainers worship cash. Politicians corrupt themselves for it. Big Business and Big Banks grab more of it for themselves and give us a tiny fraction of it in the form of salaries.
And for the descendants of slaves, the institution of slavery raped it from our ancestors, and increased the resulting net worth for their children and grandchildren. But on the flip side of that, that unfair transfer of wealth left us with next to no net worth generation after generation, making it much harder to pass on a financial legacy. This means we have a greater chance of being employees (wage slaves) than bosses and businesspeople. With cash from our jobs (instead of businesses for most of us), you and I spend money every day, and will get mad if someone steals it or cheats us out of it.
But why? Who told us to value digital or paper cash in the first place?
More Black Voices Say It’s Time to Improve Our Business and Political Agenda
In this video, both Ice Cube and the host Phil Scott bring up two things about the sad state of
Nick Cannon’s Dilemma Exposes the Problem of Not Owning Black Media
For those who may not know or remember, billionaire Robert Johnson sold BET to the non-Black media empire Viacom, which
100 Years Ago She Said ‘Buy Black’ – Are We Listening?
Hey! Hopefully you’re enjoying the first full weekend of October all across the land of Dallas Ft. Worth. Just wanted
Is There An Imposed Limit on Black Wealth?
Image courtesy of Forbes By John “the CEO” Conley If you haven’t heard by now, there has been a quiet
An Independence Day Flashback to the Black Elite of 1898 Wilmington NC
As the nation continues to celebrate the Declaration of Independence into the weekend, where Americans jog their memory to remember
Some Interesting Developments Since Starting the Reparations Series
By John the CEO Hopefully you had a chance to read the inaugural post regarding the US Congress hearings on
Affluent Blacks of Dallas 