Black People dont read

[Ms DD]

Salaam aleykum

 

This morning i have received the following by email. It saddened so much that i decided to do a little bit of research as to who the author is. As the emails claims, this peice was not written by a white female as the article claims, but rather a black male comedian and radio host from St. Louis. There is grain of truth of what he wrote though.

 

Here is how i received this article:

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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, Dee Lee, CFP, Harvard Financial Educators wrote

it.

 

 

Dee Lee

 

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 e ven

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 endeavor 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 re ad,

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!!!!

 

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[Ibtisam]

Someone sent me this a few years back, i cna't believe it is still going around.... hmmm