BLACK PEOPLE, PLEASE, READ & HEED. POIGNANT.
The sad thing about this article is that the
essence of it is true. The
truth hurts. I just hope this sets more
Black people in motion towards
making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black
comedian, even joked that
Blacks don't read.
Help prove them wrong! Read and pass on.
Please Note:
For those of you who heard it, this is the
article Dee Lee was reading
this morning on a New York radio station.
For those of you who didn't
hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy
piece and a Caucasian wrote it.

Dee Lee, CFP
Harvard Financial Educators
THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can
continue to reap profits from the
Blacks without the effort of
physical slavery Look at the
current methods of containment that
they use on themselves: IGNORANCE,
GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary
weapon of containment. A great man
once said, "The best way to hide
something from Black people is to
put it in a book." We now live in
the Information Age. They have
gained the opportunity to read any
book on any subject through the
efforts of their fight for freedom,
yet they refuse to read. There are
numerous books readily available at
Borders, Barnes & Noble, and
Amazon.com, not to mention their
own Black Bookstores that provide
solid blueprints to reach economic
equality (which should have been
their fight all along), but few read
consistently, if at all.
GREED is another powerful weapon of
containment. Blacks, since the
abolition of slavery, have had large
amounts of money at their disposal.
Last year they spent 10 billion
dollars during Christmas, out of
their 450 billion dollars in total
yearly income (2.22%).
Any of us can use them as our target
market, for any business venture we
care to dream up, no matter how
outlandish, they will buy into it.
Being primarily a consumer people,
they function totally by greed. They
continually want more, with little
thought for saving or investing.
They would rather buy some new
sneaker than invest in starting a
business. Some even neglect their
children to have the latest Tommy or
FUBU, And they still think that
having a Mercedes, and a big house
gives them "Status" or that they
have achieved their Dream.
They are fools! The vast majority of
their people are still in poverty
because their greed holds them back
from collectively making better
communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest
of their black media that often
broadcasts destructive images into
their own homes, we will continue to
see huge profits like those of Tommy
and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even
jeered them, saying he doesn't want
their money, and look at how the
fools spend more with him than ever
before!). They'll continue to show
off to each other while we build
solid communities with the profits
from our businesses that we market
to them.
SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their
minds through slavery, is one of the
major ways we can continue to
contain them. One of their own,
Dubois said that there was an innate
division in their culture. A
"Talented Tenth" he called it. He
was correct in his deduction that
there are segments of their culture
that has achieved some "form" of
success. However, that segment
missed the fullness of his work.
They didn't read
that the "Talented Tenth" was then
responsible to aid The Non-Talented
Ninety Percent in achieving a better
life. Instead, that segment has
created another class, a Buppie
class that looks down on their
people or aids them in a
condescending manner. They will
never achieve what we have. Their
selfishness does not allow them to
be able to work together on any
project or endeavor of substance.
When they do get together, their
selfishness lets their egos get in
the way of their goal Their
so-called help organizations seem to
only want to promote their name
without making any real change in
their community.
They are content to sit in
conferences and conventions in our
hotels, and talk about what they
will do, while they award plaques to
the best speakers, not to the best
doers. Is there no end to their
selfishness? They steadfastly refuse
to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES
MORE (TEAM)
They do not understand that they are
no better than each other because of
what they own, as a matter of fact,
most of those Buppies are but one or
two pay checks away from poverty.
All of which is under the control of
our pens in our offices and our
rooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain
them as long as they refuse to re
ad, continue to buy anything they
want, and keep thinking they are
"helping" their communities by
paying dues to organizations which
do little other than hold lavish
conventions in our hotels. By the
way, don't worry about any of them
reading this letter, remember, 'THEY
DON'T READ!!!!
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