DO IT OURSELVES-DIO

With all that we have learned and have always been able to do, why don't we create, run and operate whatever we need to secure and stabilize a future for ourselves here in this place? We have people that can do it all, so why don't we do-it-ourselves?

Why are we still hoping to get them to give us something like a good job when they had to be forced to do so, like with affirmative action?

Why are we still so dependent on the whim of some white man?

Why don't we have healthcare, taken care of by our own physicians who have been known to be the best in their field? There was a time when we were not allowed in their hospitals for care, who knows more about us than us.  It’s a battle to get paid as much or more than whites doing the same work. It happens from the lowest paid jobs to the highest. </p>

IMAGINE Mr. & Mrs. Brown

If, fifty-years ago, a Mr. & Mrs.  Brown convinced all of us to only wear the most comfortable shoes, they come in kid and adult sizes, various colors and styles and the cost is very affordable, and everyone, at least all of us owned a pair or two. All of these Business Management degree majors just want to be business owners deep down inside. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were Business Management degree majors who couldn’t find jobs anywhere but the local grocery store and one of the country’s biggest retailers, both of their earned incomes together didn’t total enough to buy, a house, a good car or hope for their future. They always looked for better jobs that would allow them to use the skills they were still paying for in student loan debt.  They did this for a while, then they decided they needed to take a different route in their pursuit of happiness so they started the shoe factory.</p>

<p>In this country that we live in, we were never appreciated for more than our hands and our backs which we used as part of it's development. 

IMAGINE Mr. Brooks

<p> I imagined, that Mr. Brooks would own a publishing house, or newspaper or magazine, and I could get a job as a writer or reporter, and my neighbor Jamal who likes to draw, would have a graphics art degree and design signs and advertisements for all the businesses, in our town that are owned by blacks, and my cousin up north in Chicago would run a manufacturing operation, he was able to start with his degree in Business Management, that made clothes designed by black designers. The factory that makes the shoes, that we all wear keeps the neighborhood employed and is a sort of place to work and get money, knowledge and training for various professions while you complete a degree or decide what you want to do with your life, which is so short and precious. </p>

<p> You can take your time and earn while you grow and learn more and more and are able to open a new location for the factory in one or two or more countries in Africa, where a lot of our lost ancestry hails from. 

MONEY

I  am visualizing a world where we can receive whatever we need from one another to do our life's work. Our young people are disappointed in our older people because we are not able to do this for them. In all this time, we have not bothered to prepare a path for them to take to pursue happiness. I think they have a point? We haven’t developed our earning potential to work for us and our families. We have not risen above and beyond the realm of worker.

MONEY

I’ve earned very little since I received my B.S.  I am one who owns nothing and I am currently not employed. I was a part-time worker for the last three years at one job where I earned 8.25 per hour working approximately 3 hours a day 3 to 4 days a week never totaling more than 20 hours over a two week period. I also worked as a part-time math tutor for about five months earning 14.00 per hour working 10 hours per week, with both jobs I earned less than 300.00 a week.  The last check I received was for 45.00.  We still work jobs for them not for ourselves and then give all of what we earn right back to them. This is why our young people are so disillusioned.

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<p>Are we are not, thinking about the future?  Why? Is it impossible? Will it cost too much money, has anyone done the research?

I've read statistics that say we spend billions in one state alone every year in the United States economy.  Is it thinking too big, way out of the box to think that we could take that money and change our world?  The money keeps a line of separation among us, we get some to take care of ourselves and, we feel sorry for and maybe give a little to those who have nothing. Wouldn’t it be more effective to at least try another way, honestly, what ever we earn working could not be as rewarding as working for and focusing on ourselves as a whole for a while? </p>

TIME

<p>It seems that we are still asking the “white man”, 60+ years after civil rights, to “give us opportunities please!" What about securing our future, Asking for help is a good thing, there is not much one with or without can do without the help of others. Why don’t those of us who can think and build and create and heal and nurture and teach and train help to secure our future for ourselves by providing those opportunities ourselves for ourselves?  We have since been employed for them in their institutions, corporations, private, federal, state and local governments, where we have learned what to do to establish our selves, haven’t we?</p>

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<p><h1>Timeline</h1>

In the 1950's and 1970's why didn't all of us that were educated in various fields build and develop a way for our people to have jobs and work and learn from each other so that we could sustain our selves and not have to go to the "white man" for anything? Was that the plan all along?

Maybe, it seems that we tried it, by tackling one thing at a time, with education first. Once we were educated we had to look to affirmative action after so many of us were educated, but could not become gainfully employed at a level high enough to avoid poverty and provide a secure and promising future for our children. Looking for a job was, it seems, the only way to do that. Now, we realize that that may not have been the answer.</p>