Insight

Dee Lee, CFP
Harvard Financial Educators

Dee Lee

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 prov ide 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  Gucci  or  Nike, 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  Gucci  and Nike. ( Gucci  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 read, 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!!!!

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/2/38980580.pdf

Please Take a look at this link. Just read it. It will help equip you in the conversation of Universal Health Care.  Understand why we need Reform.  Spend a few minutes reading things like this a day and you will be able to have a constructive conversation about issues at hand.  Those in power dont want you to know the truth.   

“With education comes refinement,” Jay-Z observes late one Friday afternoon. He’s lounging on a couch in a studio at the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment complex on the far west side of Manhattan and speaking between nibbles of a takeout salad in a plastic container and sips from a bottle of water. In his everyday speech, as in his raps, Jay-Z is inclined toward aphorisms, the compressed expression of complicated ideas, delivered with rhetorical flair. It’s hard-earned wisdom, graced by a poet’s touch.

He is relaxing after a typically jam-packed day that included a photo shoot, an interview, and a meeting about his potential involvement in a forthcoming video game. He celebrated his 39th birthday the night before with the staff of his Rocawear clothing line, so a mild fatigue has set in. Slender and six feet three inches tall, Jay-Z is an imposing figure, even in relative repose. He’s wearing distressed jeans that hang loosely from the middle of his hips, black sneakers, and a long-sleeved black T-shirt that has replaced the pristine short-sleeved white one he wore before changing for his photo shoot. The look is studiously casual…until you glance at his left wrist and notice a diamond watch so thick it could pass for a weight band.

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5.Don’t Quit Your Day Job!

Best Tracks
1.Uncle Rahiem
2.The Good Bad & Ugly
3.Feel This Way
4.Night Night
5.Don’t Forget Em

4.Graduation

Best Tracks
1.Champion
2.I Wonder
3.Big Brother
4.Flashing Lights
5.Glory

3.American Gangster

Best Tracks
1.Sucess
2.Pray
3.Party Life
4.Say Hello
5.Fallin

2. Finding Forever

Best Tracks
1.Start The Show
2.I want You
3.Black Maybe
4.MisUnderstood
5.The People

1. The Cool

Best Tracks
1.Go Go Gadget Flow
2.Hip Hop Saved My Life
3.Go Baby
4.Gold Watch
5.Paris Tokyo

Honorable Mention*
FreeWay “Free At Last”
Ghostface “Big Doe Rehab”
TI ” Ti Vs Tip”

Now Nas is a well respected artist, but this concert was rather ”mediocre”. There were points when he not only performed half of songs, but slurred lyrics..and just appeared to be pretty off (maybe it was the bottle of champagne he came on stage drinking). Personally as a Nas fan, I’ve seen better, this past fall @ The NYC “Sneaker Pimps” showcase He headlined alongside EPMD & Slick Rick “and it was Great, I mean precise delivery, live and entertaining a classic performance. So wheres is the consistency?

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