How come your militant leaders never actually pool their talents together?

[Carter G. Hoodson]

And I see Dr. Claude Anderson name being brought up. Men like Dr. Claude Anderson and Dr. Amos Wilson gave our ppl the Blueprint to free ourselves from these crackers on an economical level for over 30 yrs.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

what is he doing?

Here's a thread I made on it. It was discussed in a newsletter from his think tank the harvest institute:

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-harvest-institute-newsletter-dr-claud-anderson.248401/

In Lafayette, Louisiana, there is Cajun culture (White, French and Spanish) and Creole culture (Black, French and Spanish). Although the city has a predominately Black population, there is little evidence of Creole in the businesses, restaurants, or entertainment. But a change is in the making. JaNelle Chargois, state NAACP vice president and local radio host on KJCB-FM, was convinced that the Black community needed economic empowerment and a systematic plan to achieve that goal. Many in the community agreed with Ms. Chargois. She conducted a book study on-air with her radio audience of Dr. Anderson’s book, PowerNomics®: The National Plan to Empower Black America. After studying PowerNomics, the next step was to invite Dr. Anderson to speak at the local NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner, to meet with existing community and business owners, and to tour their city in order to give them guidance on how to implement some of the principles of PowerNomics. The first thing Dr. Anderson noticed was that in this heavily Black city, Cajun culture was quite evident but evidence of Creole culture was hard to find, even though there were a number of Creole owned businesses in the area. Dr. Anderson encouraged the group he addressed, to build their economic agenda around their Creole culture and existing businesses and to build a functional community -- a locale that has as its primary purpose, to be a place in which its members can pool their money and wealth, establish businesses, culture, history, schools, families, resources, churches, amass political power, and gain a sense of security.
Ms. Chargois and her group got busy. They formed the NACBLS Community Development Corporation, a collaboration of the NAACP, the Black Chamber of Commerce, the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Development Fund. These previously independent groups came together this time with a singular purpose: to work as a unit toward a new group goal -- Black economic growth and building a functional community. Chargois became director of the new group. Knowing that new and growing businesses would need capital, the group tackled that issue first. The group began meeting with local banks in hopes of convincing them to allocate some Community Development Funds for NACBLS to use to provide loans for African Americans to use to go into business. As a result of those efforts the group has now established a Micro-loan program with loans available from $1,000 to $20,000. To date, the program has provided loans to a chiropractor to expand his business, a female caterer to expand her business to mobile catering, and a young man who needed more acreage to expand his salvage yard business. NACBLS also established a second program for projects that range from $20,000 and beyond. While the bank makes these loans directly, NACBLS assists entrepreneurs to prepare the paper work and to navigate the loan process.


THE POWERNOMICS MOVE
Practicing Group Economics is a foundation PowerNomics principle. NACBLS is in the process of selecting a multi-block section of the city to develop as a Black business district and call “Creole Town.” Once established, Creole Town would give Blacks a physical community and an economy in which to they could re-circulate their disposable income, create business opportunities, jobs, commercial services, products, goods and a tax base for their own people. The CDC will use its loan dollars to fund projects in Creole Town which will be both an economic and cultural development.

Ms. Chargois said, "The very first thing the group will do after purchase of the parcel is finalized, will be to put up distinctive Creole Town symbols, to mark their community, a strategy recommendation the group has adopted from PowerNomics." NACBLS is currently having architectural plans developed and is seeking assistance from government and the private sector for funding this project,” said Ms. Chargois.

Black America, we are in a critical baseball game-like position. We are in the last inning, the bottom of the 9th, the game is tied. The bases are loaded with two outs, and the last batter is up to bat. The umpire has called three balls and two strikes. As the pitcher winds up to throw the ball, the crowd is yelling, “Let him walk you!” The batter’s instinct is telling him to hit a home run. Which voice will be heard and listened to? The batter is in the old fork-in-the-road position.

Black America is in a position similar to that of the batter. Which voice will we hear and what action will we take? Dr. Claud Anderson’s voice sounded the alarm for Black America to wake up because they were going the wrong way and in danger of being locked into a permanent underclass of beggars and criminals by the year 2010. In his media appearances, lectures, The Harvest Institute newsletters and his four number one best-selling books, Dr. Anderson uses graphic descriptions and time lines to show how nearly 100 percent of this nation’s businesses, wealth, resources, and political power were mal-distributed into the hands of the dominant society, and that Blacks will be locked into the lowest level of a real life monopoly game. It is now 2012. Did we listen?

Anderson’s book, PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America, offers a groupbased, socioeconomic empowerment plan. The book analyses Black America’s socioeconomic dilemma and lays out blue prints and road maps to guide Blacks to group-based, socioeconomic self-sufficiency and independency. All of Anderson’s writings are loaded with realistic, workable research-based solutions that revolve around having functional physical communities or at least a Black sense of community. Anderson invited Blacks from across this nation to come to Detroit and help build a Black business community in the same spirit of Detroit’s Asian Town, Arab Town, Hockey Town, Pole Town, Mexican Town, Cork Town and Greek Town. Over one-thousand Blacks attended his meeting. Approximately 20 Black manufacturers and product producers as well as 15 retailers pledged to relocate their businesses to Detroit to give the Black business community a foundation. At no other time in history have Blacks from other cities agreed to invest and relocate their business into one city to show unified support for Black socioeconomic empowerment. The Mayor’s office and city council took the wrong fork in the road. The Mayor’s office reneged on promises and the city council let itself be intimidated by the voices of Detroit’s media and white, Arab, Asian and Hispanic communities who did not want Detroit to take a new road. They insisted that building an economic business community for Blacks was racist. Dr. Anderson pulled the plug on the development. But his constant warnings were ringing in our ears — that we are in a race and in competition with every other racial and ethnic class to survive and prosper.

Other important Black thinkers have urged Blacks to place our own interest first and to choose a road built on group economic self-interest, just like every other racial and ethnic group. W.E.B. Dubois said: “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardship. Booker T. Washington said to us over a century ago, that: “Now is the time, not in some far off future, but now is the time for us as a race to prove to the world that we have the ability and the inclination to do our part in owning, developing, manufacturing, and trading. Let’s act before it is too late, before others come from foreign lands and rob us of our birth rights.” Even Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. reached the same conclusion nearly 50 years ago, saying: “The emergency we now face is economic.”

Which voice will you listen to? The ones that urge Blacks down the road to fight for economic rights, group empowerment, and taking their place in America? Or will you be tricked by the voices who say the fight is over, there is no more racism, we are all the same? If you choose the road toward empowerment, you will join the fight.

The two most important legal fights of our times are the Black Farmers discrimination lawsuit and the current Harvest Institute Freedmen Federation law suit (see page 1) against the federal government for not enforcing the 1866 Treaty benefits due Black Freedmen and Black Indians. These lawsuits represent an effort to recapture the billions of dollars that Blacks have been denied over the last 140 years.

How can you participate? You can contribute to the expenses of the Institute’s law suit. You can contact and pressure all politicians, ministers and civil rights organizations and demand they support these issues? Withhold your support from any politician or political party that fails to support the Black Freedmen and Black Farmers’ lawsuits. To find your representatives, visit www.911forblackamerica.com and click on How to Contact My Representative. Put in your zip code and your representative’s information will pop up.

Dr. Claud Anderson and other historical warriors have warned us and taken us to the fork in the road. Will we listen to them and act accordingly? Or will we turn a deaf ear and take the wrong fork in the road?

and why wouldnt they advertise what they do? Isnt the goal to create awareness and help more people?

Because the US government is still actively sabotaging black progress. Just look back at the history of this county and you'll say every single step towards progress we've made, the US government and private white citizens have gone out of their way to destroy anything we've attempted to accomplish.

It's not as simple as pooling our money together unfortunately and getting shyt done. You have to also actively guard against white supremacists and c00ns while you're trying to do shyt for your pepole.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Why is this Jamaican talking about black issues?

 

[Mowgli]

Im not trolling...this is a real ass question.

Im talking about the cats that are all up in Hidden Colors...the ones that are all up on twitter..the ones that have been in the black books store circuit for decades...
...why havent they put their "teachings" into practice?


Raise some money, pick a city, and implement the plans they/yall always talk about.

If they understand "White America" so well, why arent they able to navigate around it?
Whats the point of this "knowledge" if there is no plan of action?
Why waste time on msg boards/twitter/FB, when you can really make your life about action and?


Like in the business community there are people who always like to talk about doing shyt...but never do it...
Seems like the same thing in the militant community.

How do you know they arent? Because you didn't see it on cnn. None of them are rich so whatever they're doing is being done on a small non threatening level. Putting together organizations to hopefully make a difference in our economic and mental development.

What they're doing is waking our pepole up so collectively We can put their teachings into practice in our respective areas of operation.

Let's be real though. We need loans.

That's how white people came up after the depression. Loans. Uniting to pool money together without loans takes time and effort that the organizations will help facilitate

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

for asking questions?

You think I care about a website forum?
Yall dont make me any money...being off of here would increase my productivity

Good that will make things go pretty damn quickly.......................................................

 

[↓R↑LYB]

How do you know they arent? Because you didn't see it on cnn. None of them are rich so whatever they're doing is being done on a small non threatening level. Putting together organizations to hopefully make a difference in our economic and mental development.

What they're doing is waking our pepole up so collectively We can put their teachings into practice in our respective areas of operation.

Let's be real though. We need loans.

That's how white people came up after the depression. Loans. Uniting to pool money together without loans takes time and effort that the organizations will help facilitate

Ehh, it wasn't loans breh. The US government gave money to whites and gave the finger to blacks. We don't have that same benefit

 

[jilla82]

Here's a thread I made on it. It was discussed in a newsletter from his think tank the harvest institute:

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-harvest-institute-newsletter-dr-claud-anderson.248401/





Because the US government is still actively sabotaging black progress. Just look back at the history of this county and you'll say every single step towards progress we've made, the US government and private white citizens have gone out of their way to destroy anything we've attempted to accomplish.

It's not as simple as pooling our money together unfortunately and getting shyt done. You have to also actively guard against white supremacists and c00ns while you're trying to do shyt for your pepole.

I like what the Claude guy is talking about.
I think people need to focus on movements like that, and less on trivial media stories.

The part your speaking on is a little much for me. In the past yes...but money talks.
There are black people in business striving, and nobody is trying to tear them down.

The bolded is interesting to me though...
...it seems black folks have a love/hate relationship w/ the government.
They love to talk about how it shyts on them...yet want large government (liberal policies). Those ideologies dont really match...and it confuses me when I talk to folks.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Threads like this just show how mentally sick some of you nikkas are. The assumption that black people are doing nothing but sitting around and complaining being fake militants have been used a lot in the last couple weeks.

 

[jilla82]

Good that will make things go pretty damn quickly.......................................................

youre an emotional guy huh?

 

[Mowgli]

Ehh, it wasn't loans breh. The US government gave money to whites and gave the finger to blacks. We don't have that same benefit

Loans AND handouts

 

[jilla82]

Threads like this just show how mentally sick some of you nikkas are. The assumption that black people are doing nothing but sitting around and complaining being fake militants have been used a lot in the last couple weeks.

no...if you go into 98% of black communities in these cities youre not going to see a mass movement of progression.
Thats just reality fam.

 

[jilla82]

Ehh, it wasn't loans breh. The US government gave money to whites and gave the finger to blacks. We don't have that same benefit

youre talking about things like the GI bill etc....
That was like 60yrs ago.
You cant constantly live in the past.

Whats stopping anyone here from creating a business?
Absolutely nothing.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I like what the Claude guy is talking about.
I think people need to focus on movements like that, and less on trivial media stories.

The part your speaking on is a little much for me. In the past yes...but money talks.
There are black people in business striving, and nobody is trying to tear them down.

The bolded is interesting to me though...
...it seems black folks have a love/hate relationship w/ the government.
They love to talk about how it shyts on them...yet want large government (liberal policies). Those ideologies dont really match...and it confuses me when I talk to folks.

Breh, there's tons of movements like this going on right now in your own community. Are involved in any organizations where you live? I'm going to assume the answer is no because if you were you'd see black people are in every community trying to organize and get shyt done for other black people.

Black people have a love/hate relationship with white people, it's part of the mental sickness that black people suffer from (and it makes getting shyt done that much more difficult).

As to the bolded, what are you basing your assumption on? Here's an article from 2 years ago

http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/12/real_estate/wells-fargo-lending-settlement/

Granted it's in the private sector instead of the public sector but the point still stands. It's still incredibly difficult as a black person to get loans in this country even when we're obviously qualified. Our oppression never ended. nikkas think just because the whites only signs came down that shyt somehow magically became better for us.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

youre talking about things like the GI bill etc....
That was like 60yrs ago.
You cant constantly live in the past.

Whats stopping anyone here from creating a business?
Absolutely nothing.

Breh, how much research have you done on this subject?

And did this fakkit just say stop living in the past ?

 

[No_bammer_weed]

Breh, how much research have you done on this subject?

And did this fakkit just say stop living in the past ?

Dont bother. This "brotha" is a fox news worshipping idiot, who only understands issues as long as it excuses racism and bigotry as being irrelevant to the convo, and paints the black condition as being controlled by laziness, violence, irresponsibility, a lack of agency, hostility towards intelligence, etc. Regardless of what his true race is, he's simply your garden variety internet racist, or one that loves parroting their rhetoric.