Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
FACTOR IN FINANCES
FACTOR IN FINANCES FOR FREEDOM
Numbers must be an integral part of any serious attempt to resolve the domestic matter of imposed isolationism of African Americans, from economic opportunity for all.
Trade imbalances bedevil our black trading people by any metric, be it foreign, national, internal, state and local. Or be it product-specific. The racist trade deficit is purposefully imposed by regulators, legislators, behind a facade of feigned equity, policed by persons employed to maintain the inequitable status quo.
The negative trade deficit that is imposed upon black people is designed, intended to engender: unemployment, underemployment; to depress wages, to blight neighborhood schools; to lower
communities' tax bases, frustrate ambitions; to isolate and exploit vulnerable ones occasioned by its implementation, and incarceration.
There are exceptions. Some get through this maze, its labyrinthine stockades, into which most blacks are herded, branded, sold, or killed.
One way to reduce the trade deficit is by getting an awareness of it. This is done, first, by examining one's own personal spending habits, in view of the trade deficit described above. Next make spending adjustments reflecting an awareness, or by saving money for future expenditures in deference to the awareness, would have a great impact on lowering the racial trade deficit in the short-term. Trade like oxygen, is life to individuals and to communities. Its absence is death.
Each, every person, family, church, sorority, fraternity, business, club , association, organization may perform this quietly, without injury to anyone. You are the boss as you have the money to spend that they want, advertise for; mass-mail for ! Recognize your position and power!
No need to enrich the adversary any more than necessary, whoever, whatever, your adversary may be!