Posted on 05/09/2011 3:18:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Please join our national and worldwide movement to support Black businesses and Black people financially by going out of your way on Wednesdays to spend your money in the Black community. The goal is to support our own businesses every day, but especially on Wednesday! On Black Wednesdays, let’s try not to spend one red cent outside of the Black Family Circle. And, almost as important, let the Black business person you’re supporting know that you support Buy Black Wednesdays.
On Black Friday, we literally trample over each other to give our money to others and build up their communities at the expense of our own. Let us run to each other and build our own communities on Black Wednesday! There is no reason we should be a poor Trillion Dollar Nation, which is about how much African Americans make annually. The problem is we integrate our dollars too swiftly when we would be better off segregating them; i.e., keeping it in the family!
Why Wednesday? Because Wednesday is Hump Day. Also because Wednesday is the fourth day of the week, and Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) is the fourth principle of Kwanzaa. So you can also call this Sikujamaa or Cooperative Economics Day.
And in order to include everybody, you can also call it African Reparations Day – a day to give reparations to ourselves – Give Back to Black Day! – but also a day that allows and encourages any non-Africans with a sense of human decency, who realize that Africa is the heart, birthplace and breadbasket of the world and she and her people have been disproportionately disenfranchised, taken advantage of and abused, to give back to the Motherland and her people and help level the world’s playing field for all.
Also, as you may know, economics is one of the major issues in the Black community. Most Black male/female relationships are broken up or strained because of money problems. Most Black on Black crime and homicide is related to money.
The reason why we have so little clout in the world community is because of lack of unity and funds. Black artists who could uplift the whole community often languish in an obscure purgatory of poverty and desperation. Africans around the world suffer and die because of lack of money.
And we Africans in America who have money rarely keep it in our communities long enough to change our impact on the world and our living conditions. So let us begin to change all that through this coming financial revolution called Black Wednesday – and INTERNATIONAL Buy Black Wednesdays!
Celebrate this new International Black holiday and Black History Month every week on this Black History Day: Black Wednesday! Do it in association with Paradise’s Summer of 2012 Cultural World’s Fair in Oakland.
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Paradise is president of the International Black Writers & Artists in Oakland, Local 5, and was recently honored by the City of Oakland with “Paradise Day,” on Oct. 6! He may be reached at oaklandworldsfair@yahoo.com Paradise also facilitates the Buy Black Wednesdays Facebook page and group, hosts the Black Wednesday Show every Wednesday at 6 p.m. on www.harambeeradio.com and will soon be posting a blog.
LLS
Buy Black Wednesdays just haven’t been the same for me ever since “Your Black Muslim Bakery” closed.
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Just what is with these racists? Maybe some day our society will be beyond this foolishness.
“help level the world’s playing field for all.” Here you go-Obama’s (Marxist) economic policy in one sentence.
Who in their right mind would go out of their way to risk their life and limb?
These businesses will rapidly become victims of racism - their own.
Africa is NOT the heart of the world. And it's definitely not the breadbasket.
It is however the basketcase of the world. Africans have proven themselves to be remarkably inept at self rule. The only time the continent was orderly and prosperous was when every country on it was a colony of a European power. So is teh author telling us that Africa should be taken under receivership?
and she and her people have been disproportionately disenfranchised,
Black people here already have the franchise. Do black people in Africa not get to vote? Then they should take that up with their governments. It's not my problem.
taken advantage of and abused,
Well D'uh. Everyone's been taken advantage of and abused, it's how the world works.
to give back to the Motherland and her people and help level the world’s playing field for all.
The playing field is already level. Those with talent, ability and perseverence eventually fight their way to the top. Those that wait for stuff to be handed to them remain slaves.
Back in the ‘60’s, my naive Mother called a trash hauling company listed on a “buy black” flyer that came to the neighborhood. They picked up the pile of old bicycle parts and other trash she showed them and she paid them $60, twice the going rate at the time.
When my Father returned from work, he noticed that half his tools and most of the meat from the freezer were missing.
Buy black, my A$$..... Buy American.
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa 30 years ago or so. North Africa was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire, but only while Rome was running things there.
“I have a dream.....except on wednesday! On wednesday, don’t buy from Cracker, or Beanie or Ricey or Dottie....”
The content of character....lol.
Looking forward to “Bye Barack 2012”....and his little dog Holder, too!
“I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character, and NOT the color of his skin.”
2 House ethics attorneys suspended (includes lead attorney on Maxine Waters case)
Blake Chisam, the chief counsel and staff director for the ethics panel, initially sought to fire Kim and Sovereign on Nov. 19, but was unable to do so.
It is unclear if the decision to place Kim and Sovereign on paid leave was related to the Waters’ case or another matter, although they were placed in that status on the same day that Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the chairwoman and ranking member of the committee, announced the Waters’ trial was delayed. The committee announced that it had new information, including e-mails from Mikael Moore, Waters' chief of staff, that would have an impact on the Waters’ matter.
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I’ll attend a NY Knicks game on Wednesday. And listen to rappers to and from the stadium, thank you very much.
>>I buy from businesses that have good service and competitive prices.<<
Oh for heaven’s sake! I fully agree with you! And to add to it, I am not going to take the time to think, “Is this a black business because I see a black face behind the counter?”
We have a new book store in the area. The owner is black but isn’t always around. His kid’s friends are working there. Some white, some black, some Arab. If I didn’t know the kid, I would NEVER know it’s a black owned business.
Too much research time for me.
It's kinda hard to tell... I still am not sure
If I was black I would be outraged (OUTRAGED~!!!) that these buffoons are trucked out any time they need "the black" opinion on anything.
If the black commununity should be outraged (OUTRAGED~!!!) at anybody, it should be at the democraps for the filthy 'projects', illiteracy, and 2/3 unmarried familes.
but what non-black would visit Harlem?...
President Bill Clinton, but he’s surrounded by men with firearms.
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