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Economics is Local - February 2010 By James Clingman Jr. The economic problems we face are right in our own backyards. Unfortunately, until our problems reach crisis level we are content to engage in spirited conversations and philosophical diatribes about the likes of Tiger Woods, a billionaire who could not care less about the economic plight of Black people. We live vicariously through super rich entertainers, many of whom would not even stop to shake hands with us if we met them on the street. We get lost in the euphoria of having a Black President, arguing about his issues and his battles in DC, rather than dealing with our own in hometown USA. FULL STORY > The BMDC is on the move! -- May 2004 If you have visited my website you know it is based on the life and death of Brother Marcus Garvey. As the site opens it is accompanied by the sound of a “Whirlwind” and photos of Marcus and his movement. One of our mailing lists is called the Whirlwind List, in keeping with those prophetic words of Garvey, “I will return in the Whirlwind.” The other mailing list on the site is the Blackonomics Million Dollar Club (BMDC). Little did I know when the BMDC was formed that our first nationwide assistance effort would be to send money to the Marcus Garvey School in Los Angeles, California. How appropriate. FULL STORY >
Using Our Money to Do More for Ourselves -- November 2004 In 1915, Crisis Magazine carried an article titled, The Immediate Program of the American Negro, in which W.E.B. DuBois wrote, "I thank God that most of the money that supports the NAACP comes from black hands; a still larger proportion must so come, and we must not only support but control this and similar organizations and hold them unwaveringly to our objects, our aims and our ideals." Isn’t it sad that we are still dealing with this same issue in 2004? Today we are faced with a dearth of Black owned and controlled economic resources, and our nonprofit organizations, namely, civil rights organizations, are perpetually engaged in fund-raising activities and, for the most part, are dependent upon the largess of white owned and controlled corporations. FULL STORY > |
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