I won't call this advice, but these are my opinions on what holds a lot of black men back from our FULL potential:
- Learn to adapt. You might have to learn another language to make more connections in business. This gives you an edge. How many of you brothers can speak Chinese or Spanish fluently? So many black american men can only speak English. Knowing more than one language is useful in many ways.
- Stop whining about what's "fair". Other races of men are not obligated to "share" resources. Are you going to build, or whine about unfairness in the world? Nobody's going to just hand you their fortune, you have to invest and build your own. Life isn't some fair, magical Utopia.
- Have multiple streams of income. It's not 1961 anymore. One "job" is not enough and could be gone tomorrow. This should be common sense but unfortunately for a lot of us it's not.
- Stop putting these rappers and athletes on such a high pedestal. Only time they should be listened to is if they're bosses giving out good investment or business advice.
- Stop being a reminiscing "back in the day" ass nikka, unless you have something to show for what you were doing back in the day. I.e. back in the day i invested and i made this much money. Or back in the day i started a business and it's still going strong. Nobody cares about raggedy hoes you piped 15 years ago or shoes you wore. What do you have to show for it?
- Stop thinking that masculinity means being overly confrontational, emotional, angry and argumentative. It's not. Those are feminine traits, and will hold you back as a man. If you can't think critically and are a crybaby or hot head, how will you lead a company?
- Stop lying to yourself by saying, "money doesn't matter" or "money can't buy happiness" etc. The only reason why you're saying that is because you're trying to make yourself feel better about not owning anything or having anything to pass down to your kids. Money makes the world go around.
- Get your OWNERSHIP game right instead of chasing p*ssy all afternoon after you get off your shift at Radio Shack or Wal Mart. If you had some ownership, you wouldn't have to be getting bossed around by Mr Charlie for $12 an hour, just so you can pay the rent for a house/apt that you don't own.
- Stop constantly whining about "the white man". Not only is it a waste of time, but Asians, Arabs, and Latinos, pretty much all men except the black man, has managed to open businesses even in BLACK areas, so it's not just "white men" in business and real estate, other races of men are too. The "white man" excuse for why you won't start a business is getting old. If you have time to cupcake with hoes on twitter, you have time to figure out business ownership. Or at least be self employed in some capacity.
- Stop thinking sneakers, phones and cars are worth more than they really are. As soon as nikkas get a little bit of money, we go buy a Mercedes, that depreciated as soon as you drove it off the lot. Open a BUSINESS first, buy some property, then you can flex later.
- Stop spreading and believing that slave, archaic mentality that your single mother had. There's nothing cool about slaving for Mr Charlie and having nothing to pass down to your kids. Your mama lied.
- Stop acting like the Arabs who own the gas stations and stores, Latinos with the Mexican restaurants, Asians with the restaurants etc are doing something wrong. That's right, that's what you call entrepreneurship and group economics. Don't hate on them like they're doing it wrong. They don't care if you don't like them anyway. They care about what you should, BUSINESS.
- Learn to adapt. You might have to learn another language to make more connections in business. This gives you an edge. How many of you brothers can speak Chinese or Spanish fluently? So many black american men can only speak English. Knowing more than one language is useful in many ways.
- Stop whining about what's "fair". Other races of men are not obligated to "share" resources. Are you going to build, or whine about unfairness in the world? Nobody's going to just hand you their fortune, you have to invest and build your own. Life isn't some fair, magical Utopia.
- Have multiple streams of income. It's not 1961 anymore. One "job" is not enough and could be gone tomorrow. This should be common sense but unfortunately for a lot of us it's not.
- Stop putting these rappers and athletes on such a high pedestal. Only time they should be listened to is if they're bosses giving out good investment or business advice.
- Stop being a reminiscing "back in the day" ass nikka, unless you have something to show for what you were doing back in the day. I.e. back in the day i invested and i made this much money. Or back in the day i started a business and it's still going strong. Nobody cares about raggedy hoes you piped 15 years ago or shoes you wore. What do you have to show for it?
- Stop thinking that masculinity means being overly confrontational, emotional, angry and argumentative. It's not. Those are feminine traits, and will hold you back as a man. If you can't think critically and are a crybaby or hot head, how will you lead a company?
- Stop lying to yourself by saying, "money doesn't matter" or "money can't buy happiness" etc. The only reason why you're saying that is because you're trying to make yourself feel better about not owning anything or having anything to pass down to your kids. Money makes the world go around.
- Get your OWNERSHIP game right instead of chasing p*ssy all afternoon after you get off your shift at Radio Shack or Wal Mart. If you had some ownership, you wouldn't have to be getting bossed around by Mr Charlie for $12 an hour, just so you can pay the rent for a house/apt that you don't own.
- Stop constantly whining about "the white man". Not only is it a waste of time, but Asians, Arabs, and Latinos, pretty much all men except the black man, has managed to open businesses even in BLACK areas, so it's not just "white men" in business and real estate, other races of men are too. The "white man" excuse for why you won't start a business is getting old. If you have time to cupcake with hoes on twitter, you have time to figure out business ownership. Or at least be self employed in some capacity.
- Stop thinking sneakers, phones and cars are worth more than they really are. As soon as nikkas get a little bit of money, we go buy a Mercedes, that depreciated as soon as you drove it off the lot. Open a BUSINESS first, buy some property, then you can flex later.
- Stop spreading and believing that slave, archaic mentality that your single mother had. There's nothing cool about slaving for Mr Charlie and having nothing to pass down to your kids. Your mama lied.
- Stop acting like the Arabs who own the gas stations and stores, Latinos with the Mexican restaurants, Asians with the restaurants etc are doing something wrong. That's right, that's what you call entrepreneurship and group economics. Don't hate on them like they're doing it wrong. They don't care if you don't like them anyway. They care about what you should, BUSINESS.
