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A Word From Tavis Smiley
I don't know whether you all have seen the Black Think Tank that Tavis Smiley hosts on C-Span every year, but it is powerful food for thought.
Here are a few of the things learned at the Black Think Tank this month.
Facts:
1. The first Americans or Native Americans going back to 13,000 BC were black Look up the Folsom people who lived in Arizona.
2. One of the best reasons to stop our use of the term African American and say Black. A white person who was born in Africa, who moves to America is An African American and qualifies for financial aid, etc., but will get the jobs/pay privileges afforded to whites, yet denied to Black African Americans.
3. Look up the Slavery Law of 1665 (which stayed in effect until 1968) and the Maryland Doctrine o f Exclusion (1638): both laws state that blacks must be excluded from the benefits afforded whites, and that blacks must remain noncompetitive with whites, except in sports and entertainment.
4. Two white men: Bill Gates and Larry Elision, combined have more wealth than the combined wealth of all 36 million blacks in America. Civil Rights did not change the economic landscape or the balance of power in America.
5. Asians received 80% of all government minority set aside contracts. Hello!!
6. Blacks eat more fish than whites by a 4 to 1 margin. For every dollar that whites spend on fish, blacks spend $9 on fish. Fish sold wholesale for $1 will retail at $2.50- $3.00. Guess what business we should be in as Blacks?
7. There isn't any black owned national cable, or major network television stations. Cathy Hughes, the black woman who owns our only black owned radio stations plans to sell to white owners after hearing the deal Bob Johnson received for selling BET. (Cathy Hughes is from OMAHA y'all!)
8. There are no black owned companies on the Wall Street Stock Exchange; where blacks own the majority or controlling interest of the stock.
9. Ninety-six percent (96%) of all black inmates are men.
10. Over the next two years 440,000 black inmates will be released from prison. The State has no place to put them as they re-enter society. A profitable business would be a Halfway house!
11. In 1860, 98% of all Blacks in America worked for White people. In 2001, 98% of all Blacks in America still work for white people.
12. In 1860, blacks in America had a combined net worth of one half of 1 percentage point. Guess what, in 2001, after Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson, Oprah, Shaq, NAACP, and Urban League, our combined net worth is half a percentage point.
13. For every dollar earned by a Jewish person, that dollar touches 12 to 18 Jewish hands before it leaves their community. For every dollar earned by a black person it leaves the community soon as he or she earns it.
14. The last week of April 2003 in Washington, DC black teenagers were arrested and booked for eating McDonalds on the metro subway. Cops cited recent 5-4 court decision as the permission to arrest law breakers even for minor offenses.
15. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of all hate crimes in America are against blacks.
16. After we get through being pleased that we have carpet in our office, a secretary, our name on the door and make six figures, we do not own anything.
17. What will happen if you miss 6 months of work without pay? All we've left for our children is debt not an inheritance. You cannot pass welfare or food stamps onto our kids as a nest egg! We are not even in the race.
18. By the way, the word "race" hit the English language in the 16th century when Europeans held a contest to see who will win the race to gather the lost wealth through exploitation of blacks.
19. You must read Powernomics by Claude Anderson. This is our blueprint to create wealth, not just have a job, but be a business owner, so you can hire people, be listed on the stock exchange, and develop businesses to meet our needs.
This is "Good Food" for thought. Share this with children, grand children, best friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, neighbor, e-mail buddies.
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Capitol Region Black Chamber of Commerce
A Response:
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, always said, “Until the African restores his motherland to its rightful place in the world, we will continue to face the challenges that we face as a people in America and all over the world”.
---< rdunson@msn.com wrote>
December 19, 2005
Dear Ed Davila
Blacks in America should seek better alternatives offered through the CRBCC other than continuing to build castles in the sand here in the America that cannot be sustained in many cases during our own life time not to mention afterwards. CRBCC has noted the backward slide of Blacks in the US compared to other favored minorities over the past 20 years, which prompted the Chamber to begin assembling resources and mechanisms that would provide a viable alternative.
CRBCC began that process 16 years ago, and it's being initiated January 2006 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and will be repeated throughout the continent of Africa through other targeted African countries that CRBCC is presently working with. As stated in your Black History 101 E-mail concerning 11 & 12, the CRBCC is rewriting the Black Capitalism World History Book in partnership with governments, local, and national stakeholders in natural asset rich countries in Africa.
As noted in your 16 points:
11. In 1860, 98% of all Blacks in America worked for White people. In 2001, 98% of all Blacks in America still work for white people.
12. In 1860, blacks in America had a combined net worth of one half of 1 percentage point. Guess what, in 2001, after Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson, Oprah, Shaq, NAACP, and Urban League, our combined net worth is half a percentage point.
In addition to reading Claude Anderson's Power Economics, Enterprising Blacks should join CRBCC to be part of the new markets and business development opportunities taking place through the Chamber now domestically and internationally. A Black economic revolution is taking place right now before your eyes unlike any thing that existed in the past. CRBCC over the past 16 year has structured a movement to wealth in mass for those that join and get connected.
The markets being developed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa(DRC) by the Chamber are opening up the whole of Africa to the global market place. American Blacks have the best opportunity to chart their own course without the competition in saturated US markets. There is a huge opportunity to build wealth and prosperity through these channels created by the CRBCC instead of wasting time begging for crumbs and trying to work through layer after layer of road blocks designed to keep Blacks uncompetitive with whites and other favored minorities diminishing the one half of the 1% going forward.
The Chamber's program offers ownership and equity in major industries and integrated access to distribution channels where most of the money. You just merely have to join and register your business and or organization to participate.
Learn More> http://www.crbcc.com/html/domesticbusdev.html
Ron Dunson, Chairman
Capitol Region Black Chamber of Commerce
Indus-Ujamma Global Energy
PO Box 333 - 116 Cottage Grove Rd Suite 210
Bloomfield, CT 06002 USA
(860) 286-8100 Fax (860) 656-7068
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