anderson - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T13:23:07Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/andersonNational Black Wall Street Supports Black Enterprise Call For "Black Small Business Saturday"https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/national-black-wall-street-supports-black-enterprise-call-for2011-11-26T15:17:07.000Z2011-11-26T15:17:07.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><h2 class="post-title">Leaders Of National Black Wall Street USA Support Alfred Edmond, Jr of Black Enterprise In Call For "Black Small Business Saturday"</h2><div class="post-meta"><div class="share-utils"><div class="social-buttons"><div class="tweet-button"></div><div class="fb-like-button"></div></div></div><div class="from">By <span class="author-name">Marksallen</span>, today at 8:51 am<br /> <br /></div></div><p>On behalf of Rev. Michael Carter, National President of National Black Wall Street USA and our local and national chapters, we are pleased to offer our full endorsement and public support for Alfred Edmond, Jr , Black Enterprise as well as others who have called for the Black community to use its powerful economic power in its local communities to on this nationally known "Small Business Saturday" as a "Black Small Business Saturday," by spending their consumer dollars to sustain and increase Black owned businesses and create desperately needed jobs in majority Black communities, many facing double digit unemployment.</p><p> </p><p>Today, Black Wall Street organizations will join Black Enterprise and other Black economic empowerment advocacy organizations in promoting physical as well as on line Black owned and operated businesses. And it is our hope that we all can collectively use this Saturday's example of how the Black community can endorse in 2012 what the National Black Wall Street organizations have declared as a united front for a Black Economic Revival. A united community economic effort like this can dramatically turn around the desperate economic conditions facing Black communities, just by the way that Black consumers spend their more of their own money in their own communities.</p><p> </p><p>Mark S. Allen<br /> Chief of Staff to Rev. Michael Carter, National President of National Black Wall Street USA and Interim Chairman of Black Wall Street Chicago.</p><p>Angela Williams, Interim Executive Director, Black Wall Street Chicago<br /> New Chicago Black Wall Street Chicago Center</p><p>4655 South King Drive, Suite 203, Chicago, Illinois 60653<br /> <a href="http://www.blackwallstreet.org">www.blackwallstreet.org</a><br /> _________________________________</p><p> </p><p style="font-weight:bold;"><font size="3">Support Black Entrepreneurs On Small Business Saturday</font></p><p>Use this campaign to support local enterprises to conduct your own "empowerment experiment"<br /> by Alfred Edmond, Jr. Posted: November 25, 2011</p><p> </p><p>Get paid up front. This sometimes depends on the nature of your freelancing, but it’s good to either get full or at least part of your fees up front. You can weed out serious inquiries on work that way and avoid wasting time and money in your freelancing efforts.</p><p> </p><p>Get paid up front. This sometimes depends on the nature of your freelancing, but it’s good to either get full or at least part of your fees up front. You can weed out serious inquiries on work that way and avoid wasting time and money in your freelancing efforts.</p><p>This Saturday, November 26, has been designated by American Express as Small Business Saturday for the second year. Observed on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, this is a campaign to get consumers to devote at least some of their holiday shopping budgets to spending with small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>As I did last year, I enthusiastically support Small Business Saturday and commend American Express for establishing this tradition and others for promoting it, especially because we are all looking to small businesses to take an even greater role in driving our economy and creating jobs. But I’m going to challenge you to go one better: Use Small Business Saturday as an occasion to spend with Black-owned small business. These are the businesses most likely to create jobs where they are most desperately needed, in the urban communities that are suffering from the highest levels of unemployment.</p><p> </p><p>The positive economic impact of spending more money with Black-owned businesses is well established, most recently by The Empowerment Experiment, the project of Chicago’s John and Maggie Anderson, who followed through on a commitment of devoting an entire year to spending only with Black enterprises. One conclusion of the experiment: If Black households with annual incomes of $75,000 and higher increased their spending with Black-owned businesses from 2 percent to 10 percent of their total spending, it could create up to one million new jobs in Black communities.</p><p> </p><p>For us as consumers, this represents a major opportunity to support Black entrepreneurship, which is predominantly comprised of small businesses. Don’t forget small businesses based in low-to-middle income communities in rural and urban areas. Be willing to spend in nearby neighborhoods that may have been hit hardest by the recession. I urge you to celebrate Small Business Saturday by spending as much as you can with small Black-owned businesses. Who knows? Perhaps you’ll be inspired to make this little “empowerment experiment” a new resolution for 2012.</p></div>The murder of James Andersonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-murder-of-james-anderson2011-10-04T04:35:14.000Z2011-10-04T04:35:14.000ZToivo Asheekehttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/ToivoAsheeke<div><p>How far has the United States of America come from its violent, racist past? What evidence do we have today that minorities, especially black people, have a better chance of being treated equally by a society dominated by wealthy white elites? Why are there still so many deaths and disappearances due to the color of a person’s skin? Many people believe that the United States has moved on from slavery and Jim Crow segregation to an era where one is judged by the content of his/her character and not by the color of his/her skin. Today, we tend to view racial tensions or frictions as minor aftershocks to an earthquake which has long passed. According to research conducted by Professors Maria Krysan and Nakesha Faison, for the Institute of Government and Public affairs on racial attitudes in the US, “fewer whites… acknowledge that African Americans are adversely affected by past and persistent discrimination.” In other words, today, a number of whites tend to see racism as a personal problem that some people have and reject feeling personally responsible for what others do or how their ancestors acted; which, naturally, they do not agree with. According to the same article, many blacks tend to view the problem of race in America as very real and institutional which influences their daily movements and actions. In all this black-white discourse, Hispanics, Asians, homosexuals, women and the general poor of America tend to be forgotten and pushed to the background as a sideshow. But, the truth of the matter is that race is still something one can die for in this country and about three months ago, someone did.</p><p>On June 26th, 2011, seven white teenagers from Jackson, Mississippi, murdered a man simply because of the color of his skin. According to a CNN report their victim, a 49-year-old James Craig Anderson, was targeted because he was black. The same article also reports that these young teens were at a party when they decided they wanted to search for “a nigger to fuck with”. In two separate vehicles, they drove sixteen miles across Jackson to a predominately black, western area, where they found their victim, James Craig Anderson. The teenagers jumped out of their car and proceeded to beat Mr. Anderson, and, while beating him, they yelled out racially charged slogans, like “White power!” After some time had passed, a few of the teens left, and the teen that remained got into his car and ran over the beaten James Anderson, killing him instantly. After this murder, the elated teens met at a McDonalds and celebrated their victory. What the jubilant white teenagers did not know was that the beatings and murder were caught on a surveillance camera pointed at the parking lot. Currently, only one teenager, Deryl Dedmon Jr, is facing two life sentences in connection with the murder. The only other teenager to be charged in connection with the crime is John Aaron Rice, and he is facing a simple assault charge.</p><p>Is this the society that is so free and just? Can this possibly be the country whose Declaration of Independence states, “…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”? Was James Craig Anderson given these rights? Was justice truly served when only one young man has been charged with murder when they ALL decided to go out and “fuck with a nigger”? There are many layers to this question, and one article will never do it any kind of justice, but I wish to share my own personal beliefs on who is responsible for this death. To begin with, every single one of the teens who left the party and participated in the beatings of James Craig Anderson must be charged. What they are charged for comes down to the particularities of the law, but they all must be charged with something. Secondly, society as a whole is responsible for the attitudes of these young men, and this is an important point because some might try to solely blame these misguided teens. Furthermore, others might say, because it happened in the “South,” this type of action is understandable, which, in effect, separates them from the emotions, feelings and intentions behind the crime. All these counts are false. The fact that it was okay for anybody to believe that it was fine to find a “nigger” and kill him and even celebrate it afterwards shows that we as a society and human race have a problem. This problem is not restricted to the “South” or the US, so arguments articulated in this manner need to be discarded, and we as human beings who care for one another, need to take responsibility for the crimes we commit against one another.</p><p>In conclusion, I confess that I have much anger in my heart due to this event. That could have been me out there being beaten up and killed. It was not, but it could have been…. And in order for me to keep hate out of my heart, I must use love as preached by Dr. King because, when you love someone, indeed you can still reprimand and punish them for their mistakes, but you will never hate them. I wish nothing but blessings on the young people who murdered James Anderson and hope that as time goes by they see the error of their ways and make a change in their lives. The real killers and enemies’ humanity faces are hate, ignorance, selfishness and uncontrolled anger. Once we convict those criminals, then, I believe, we as a society can build a truly better world that embodies some of the ideals expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence.</p></div>