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The sad thing about this article is that the essence of it is true. The truth hurts. I just hope this sets more Black people in motion towards making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black comedian, even joked that Blacks don't read.

Help prove them wrong! Read and pass on.

Please Note:

For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn't hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.
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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 provide 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 Tommy
or FUBU, 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 Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger 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 endeavour 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!!!!

(Prove them wrong. Please pass this on After Reading it.)



Regards
lexzy_real

hmm
but i beg to differ....Blacks read a lot now & read real good

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In Life's Pursuits, Never Outrun God [Prov. 19:21]
1luv...

jiggo man

This write-up was actually sent to me from a friwnd in UKa and its actually a serious mata. actually, not all black man dont read, but u know the population is so small.

See ya

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

I hope d reading u r talking of isnt Education

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In Life's Pursuits, Never Outrun God [Prov. 19:21]
1luv...

Off course not Education.
Take for example, some people don't take time to even read instruction when writing an exam, filling a form or when you just bought a new electronics. They'll just skip thru and jump to the conclusion/end.

so my broda no be EDUCATION ooo

I am talking about education/learning/self development and not schooling
Confusion?
Anyway whatever we called it I know we are talking the same thing.

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If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today .
......Mike Bertola.

Sure, i feel U guys
Laziness/over sabi/non-challance/....are some of d causes/roots of dis backwardness...we gats to battle it

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In Life's Pursuits, Never Outrun God [Prov. 19:21]
1luv...

Hi all,
I think lexzy_real as made the point. I read an article in one of the international publications. that reads "if you want to keep information away from the blacks put it in black and white becos they will not read it even if the information is about them" .That is too bad an habit, i strongly believe that most of the world power todays will always move far ahead of the blacks because they read and reserach more on what they have.There is a qoute that says "a nation wealth is not the geographical advantages of the location such as natural resources etc but the intellectual properties of the people that makes up the community".
That is clearly proved in this cases:
1.Bill gates is one of the richest person in the whole world but does't really on any natural resources like Nigeria but more richer than Nigeria with enough resources.
2.Singapore those not have a single deposit of oil but they make money more than Nigeria in the oil sector because they have one of the largest refinery in the world.
So where are we moving to.
Lets read and encourage others to read to be able to solve the problems of our immediate envoronment.
Thank You