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Buy Black Wednesdays
The San Francisco Bay View - A National Black Newspaper ^ | May 4, 2011 | Paradise Free Jahlove

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.


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KEYWORDS: blacks; economy; moonbats; reverseracism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is a racist anti American program by black anti American racists. You cannot support this and support what America stands for.

LLS

21 posted on 05/09/2011 4:37:50 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Buy Black Wednesdays just haven’t been the same for me ever since “Your Black Muslim Bakery” closed.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_18002610


22 posted on 05/09/2011 4:43:03 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Just what is with these racists? Maybe some day our society will be beyond this foolishness.


23 posted on 05/09/2011 4:47:28 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“help level the world’s playing field for all.” Here you go-Obama’s (Marxist) economic policy in one sentence.


24 posted on 05/09/2011 4:50:08 AM PDT by Pat4ever
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To: 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.

Who in their right mind would go out of their way to risk their life and limb?

25 posted on 05/09/2011 5:02:07 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the Constitution, always. Allegiance to a party, never!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Great. So let 13% of the population see if it can carry their business during a depression instead of everyone who's interested in simply "doing business" regardless of race and color.

These businesses will rapidly become victims of racism - their own.

26 posted on 05/09/2011 5:17:35 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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

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.

27 posted on 05/09/2011 5:24:37 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


28 posted on 05/09/2011 5:27:13 AM PDT by Fireone (Heating the tar and readying the feathers.)
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To: sueuprising
I mean if it is indeed the bread basket, then why are so many Africans in dire need of bread? Oh, well, what can one expect from a San Francisco newspaper?

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.

29 posted on 05/09/2011 5:29:25 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: Rippin

“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!


30 posted on 05/09/2011 5:35:50 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character, and NOT the color of his skin.”


31 posted on 05/09/2011 5:42:33 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No it's not funny......

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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32 posted on 05/09/2011 5:56:03 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll attend a NY Knicks game on Wednesday. And listen to rappers to and from the stadium, thank you very much.


33 posted on 05/09/2011 6:04:55 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reread the story, change one word BLACK to WHITE. I wonder if the reaction would be that this is a story about “Racial Pride” or would it be labeled as a story about “White Supremacy?
34 posted on 05/09/2011 6:05:21 AM PDT by Tupelo
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To: Allegra

>>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.


35 posted on 05/09/2011 6:07:05 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Welcome to the new, post-racial America. Decades after MLK Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, “African-Americans” can rest assured that they will no longer face racial discrimination and may now freely discriminate against whitey all they want. The circle is complete.
36 posted on 05/09/2011 6:11:24 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"No, I do not think this is satire. "

It's kinda hard to tell... I still am not sure

37 posted on 05/09/2011 6:16:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Jackson and Sharpton are getting pretty old. The black community will be 100% better off when they are no longer consulted as the voice of "all things black"

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.

38 posted on 05/09/2011 6:22:11 AM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
you visit NYC and you might go to Chinatown...or Little Italy...or maybe the Russian markets...

but what non-black would visit Harlem?...

39 posted on 05/09/2011 9:49:35 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

President Bill Clinton, but he’s surrounded by men with firearms.


40 posted on 05/09/2011 11:49:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. (Proverbs 12:24))
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