Blackonomics

 by A. Peter Bailey  (TriceEdneyWire.com)—One of the most knowledge-expanding, challenging columnists, especially in the arena of collective economics, is Prof. James Clingman. Though illness has...

Black folks in America have been so successfully programmed that many of us are still psychologically enslaved to the point that we truly believe...

There comes a time in the course of human events for persons who have been mistreated to dissolve the political bands which have connected...

The Kenyan Proverb, “When elephants fight, the grass suffers,” is apropos to us, the grassroots.  Only in our case, we are fighting over elephants...

(NNPA)--You would think that since the end of slavery and through the ensuing years Black people in this country would be further along in our economic evolution than we are today. You would think there would be no need for the economic empowerment messages that other columnists and I write about on a regular basis. You would think Black children of the 21st century would be sitting pretty right about now, considering all we have been taught and all we have been through in our economic struggle since we were fired – I mean freed. As I read the powerful words of our ancestors, both men and women, I hear the very same messages coming from them over 100 years ago. I hear them saying to our people who lived during that time, “Let’s build our own businesses,” “Seek for ourselves,” “Save our money and work together.” “Be producers.” It goes on and on.

JAMES CLINGMAN   by James Clingman NNPA Columnist Many of us have heard the saying, “If you’re White you’re all right; if you’re...