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- Thought for Food © 2016
Poor Whites, Poor Blacks: Disturbing things in common?
• Both groups see themselves as victims.
• Both groups are easily led in the wrong direction.
• Both groups seem to gravitate towards hateful leaders and extremist rhetoric.
Black Beauty Supply
Before Lee’s Beauty Supply, and other Korean businesses became so dominant in the Detroit area, Superior Beauty Supply was the top dog. Superior was an African American company with several stores across the city. It eventually sold out to Lee’s.
A Lee’s insider revealed that the reason Superior Beauty Supply wanted to sell the company was because of constant employee thefts that was like being robbed. The same thing happened to the Super K-Mart on 7-Mile.
The best way to protest
Is it just me, or do most people think this is crazy? So many people protesting Donald Trump’s election never bothered to even vote.
So many young people, believing they have all the answers, failed to understand that his election was not a time to sit out, vote for a third-party candidate, or not vote for the most progressive candidate.
Republicans created a negative image of Clinton about emails of all things. Some people gave more importance to Hillary’s emails as a disqualification than Trump’s long list of red flags.
Easily Led in the wrong direction
It’s been said it’s nearly impossible to lead Blacks in the right direction, but it is so easy to lead Blacks in the wrong direction. When a new Michael Jordan sneaker dropped, hundreds of people wainted in line, some even camped out at stores. Or, thousands have showed up to protest on behalf of somebody they didn’t even know.
But to get them to vote, you almost have to do a classic James Brown imitation, “Please, Please, Please.”
Didn’t America win its independence from Britain?
In recent years, it seems Americans can’t get enough of the English. There’ one or two on nearly every reality show, gossip show, late night show, news program, commercial, sitcom, etc. Are Americans as prominent on British TV as the Brits are on American TV?
Malcolm X on the importance of economics
The economic philosophy of Black Nationalism only means that we should own and operate and control the economy of our community. You would never -- You can’t open up a black store in a white community.
White men won’t even patronize you. And he’s not wrong. He’s got sense enough to look out for himself. You the one who don’t have sense enough to look out for yourself. The white man -- The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anybody come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pretext that you want to integrate. No, you're out of your mind.
The economic philosophy of Black Nationalism only means that we have to become involved in a program of reeducation to educate our people into the importance of knowing that when you spend your dollar out of the community in which you live, the community in which you spend your money becomes richer and richer; the community out which you take your money becomes poorer and poorer.
And because these negroes, who have been mislead, misguided, are breaking their necks to take their money and spend it with The Man, The Man is becoming richer and richer, and you’re becoming poorer and poorer. And then what happens? The community in which you live becomes a slum. It becomes a ghetto.
The conditions become run down. And then you have the audacity to -- to complain about poor housing in a run-down community. Why you run it down yourself when you take your dollar out.