** Please visit our website: http://www.africanassociation.org ** Actually African Americans have the largest percentage of our population who not only read but who purchase books as well. This is trash and my take is that I don't forward/promote hurtful materials. >From: "Wilmot B. Valhmu" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)" ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: LAWISCONSIN READ AND WEEP! BLACKS DON'T READ. >Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:42:09 -0700 > >Nathan, > >It's a always a dangerous thing when people wrap some truth in a lot of >falsehood. This article is no exception. The negatives cited about black >people are highly exaggerated, and the positives are downplayed, if cited >at all. So, how does one respond? I say, be the best you can be and don't >buy into the put-downs. Learn from them however and know that all is not >well in this world. If you know the truth about yourself and your people, >then you have no need to allow others to define you, especially to >yourself. > >Take care, > >- Wilmot > > >nat sam <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >READ AND WEEP! BLACKS DON'T READ. > >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 and true! BLACKS DON'T READ. This is a > heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it. > > > 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 the American 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 is 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 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 of what they own in fact, most of those Buppies are but one or >two paychecks 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!!!! BLACKS DON'T READ" > > > (Prove them wrong. Please pass this on! After Reading it) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > >--------------------------------- >YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > Visit your group "LAWISCONSIN" on the web. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [log in to unmask] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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