They are still our slaves

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.

Dee Lee, CFP Harvard Financial Educators Dee Lee

THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from the Blackswithout the effort of physical slavery Look at the current methods ofcontainment 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." Wenow live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read anybook on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet theyrefuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes& Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores thatprovide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have beentheir fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all. GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolitionof slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year theyspent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars intotal yearly income (2.22%). Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture wecare to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Beingprimarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continuallywant 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 seehuge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeeredthem, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend morewith him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other whilewe build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we marketto them. SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the majorways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that therewas an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. Hewas correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that hasachieved some "form" of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read thatthe "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented NinetyPercent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created anotherclass, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in acondescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow themto be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When theydo get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of theirgoal Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote theirname without making any real change in their community. They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, andtalk 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 steadfastlyrefuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM) They do not understand that they are no better than each other because ofwhat they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or twopay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens inour 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" theircommunities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than holdlavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry about any of themreading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!! (Prove them wrong. Please pass this on! After Reading it..)