Yeah I have my CISSP and CCNP Security. For my classes, I don't think I'd need much money, plus I'm pessimistic so I don't really expect people to put their money where their mouth is. So I'll probably just pay for everything out of my own pocket.
I'm a member of the UNIA, and if Garvey didn't accept money from Cac's, then I sure as hell won't.
Black Wall Street is just the most well known. There's also the Wilmington Insurrection, the 1st and only time the government was overthrown. This shyt happened to us so much over the course of our history it's disgusting.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_riot.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898
Read
Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells. She said the real reason for lynchings wasn't because of riots and revolts, it was to stop black economic progress.
I'm gonna remember this post when it comes time to ask for donations
Which is why Garvey said children of the diaspora need their own government. My long term vision is ultimately to work with a government on the continent (I'm thinking Nigeria, but who knows) and determine the feasability of granting permanent citizenship to all Africans who were victims of the transatlantic slave trade. But before we get there, we need to show and prove. In 5-10 years, I want to take a collection of blacks to an African embassy, and ask them to work with us in revitalizing that continent. I'm gonna show up with 100 well qualified, educated, and experienced black men and women with money to invest and tell them we want to invest in the continent. They'd welcome us with open arms.
And the concept isn't flawed. We've done it before. Before integration there was tons of thriving black communities (mainly because we had no choice). Some of those communities were destroyed by whites he hated the notion of Africans progressing. After integration, shyt went to hell because we chose to integrate with our enemy.
Claude Anderson talks about the reasons blacks are in the condition we're in. One of the reasons is the inappropriate behavior patterns of African people. We allow others to use us and we don't ethno-aggregate.