Posted on 07/11/2016 7:16:33 AM PDT by bgill
Black Americans are not poor. Black Americans are among the wealthiest people on Earth. According to Hollywood’s number one rating and advertising standard, Nielsen- African Americans will spend $1.3 trillion dollars in 2016. That is an amount greater than the total economies of Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland combined. These are three of the wealthiest countries on Earth. This amount of cash alone makes Black Americans the 19th wealthiest “nation” in the world out of 230 countries that the CIA ranks. This places us in the top 8% of countries as a global economic super power. We spend so much money that our consumer spending dwarfs the economy of the entire continent of Australia. So why do we “think” and insist that we are poor while everyone else on the planet KNOWS we are rich?
(Excerpt) Read more at thyblackman.com ...
Good read.
We also have the world’s fattest poor people.
There are no poor people in America. Folks in Haiti are poor. The “poorest” American is still better off than 99% of Haitians.
How much of that is OPM (other people's money)? There is poverty other than pure financial poverty...
They even have BET tv network to whine on.
Yep, there’s that. But at least employment is there. On a deeper level, though, it’s the poverty of living on handouts. I’d feel lousy doing that. The loss of self respect...much worse than having little money.
I sometimes love not working as well...but only as a balance to work...LOL. Yeah, I know there are leaches and they’re fine with that.
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