This sent chills in my body. Watched a video on intuition last night. I will not let anyone tell me my desire to give more to my children BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. My life is worth more than $6500.
This is so powerful and smart. The idea of looking at the average net wealth of African Americans from 1861 to 2010. Tying the lack of economic power to the interactions that we have every day and how everyone can make a difference with the decisions they make at work or exercising their right to vote. Very nice.
I have a question after watching this. I really enjoyed her speech. My question is who is to blame for the average African-American families net wealth being $6,500? Would it be their own fault? Would it be the continual system? Are African-Americans responsible to do more to improve, and increase this? What are the steps that need to be taken to fix this individually, and as a community?
You've asked several very good, but complex questions. There are an infinitude of interlocking and interrelated factors at play here that keep the system moving forward in the same way. However, if I had to sum it up as succinctly as possible I would say this: Transgenerational Epigenetics. Inheritance extends so far beyond economic wealth. Experiences, memories, and our very identities are inherited from our ancestors and the people and environments that surround us.
This was really good. We will likely always face racism, prejudice, and stereotypes, but when WE are making more decisions because We hold the power (and power IS money) then it changes the dialog. It changes the interactions. The perceptions of worth are different based on what we are contributing. Who we are helping (if you own a company you have employees counting on you because this is how THEY feed their families). We can't even come to the table saying BLM if the cost of BLs are so low! Buy black. Support black owned business. Even if it costs a little more. Start a business. Don't waste all your money in schools that don't guarantee jobs. Put it towards capital. Biz plans are great, but don't waste time with all that, come up with a good plan for something you are passionate about... write the official plan later if you like (I just watched Magnus Walker's Ted talk yesterday, guy never had a biz plan, I'm thinking some of these things actually just hold us all back because its time consuming). Do those free webinars. Buy a few books. But above all DO THAT THING. Don't keep waiting. Our people say a lot of "wait on the Lord..." as an excuse to not move. Faith without works is dead. We are smarter than they know, stronger than they know. Think of all the inventions we were making during and AFTER slavery. these people had NO real education. now we HAVE all the education but make everyone else rich. I hope someone who is reading this was looking for a sign. THIS IS IT. Do it and do it now. Someone else got the same idea as you, are you going to let them move faster? Move on it now! Be blessed!
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I salute you Rukaiyah for a brilliant presentation! Proud to say I know you from my Portland childhood. This was amazing. 👏🏽👏🏽
This sent chills in my body. Watched a video on intuition last night. I will not let anyone tell me my desire to give more to my children BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. My life is worth more than $6500.
Rukaiyah Adams you are inspirational and so eloquent! Great topic.
Beautiful speech. Powerful, intelligent, and eye opening. God bless her for educating thousands of people about what really matters.
Inspirational, insightful, and spot-on!
Thank you for sharing, Rukaiyah.
Wow, I'd love to have a conversation with Rukaiyah Adams. Such a thought provoking speech.
VERY POWERFUL!!!
This is so powerful and smart. The idea of looking at the average net wealth of African Americans from 1861 to 2010. Tying the lack of economic power to the interactions that we have every day and how everyone can make a difference with the decisions they make at work or exercising their right to vote. Very nice.
Well done!
So, so good!
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I have a question after watching this. I really enjoyed her speech. My question is who is to blame for the average African-American families net wealth being $6,500? Would it be their own fault? Would it be the continual system? Are African-Americans responsible to do more to improve, and increase this? What are the steps that need to be taken to fix this individually, and as a community?
You've asked several very good, but complex questions. There are an infinitude of interlocking and interrelated factors at play here that keep the system moving forward in the same way.
However, if I had to sum it up as succinctly as possible I would say this:
Transgenerational Epigenetics.
Inheritance extends so far beyond economic wealth. Experiences, memories, and our very identities are inherited from our ancestors and the people and environments that surround us.
This was really good. We will likely always face racism, prejudice, and stereotypes, but when WE are making more decisions because We hold the power (and power IS money) then it changes the dialog. It changes the interactions. The perceptions of worth are different based on what we are contributing. Who we are helping (if you own a company you have employees counting on you because this is how THEY feed their families). We can't even come to the table saying BLM if the cost of BLs are so low! Buy black. Support black owned business. Even if it costs a little more. Start a business. Don't waste all your money in schools that don't guarantee jobs. Put it towards capital. Biz plans are great, but don't waste time with all that, come up with a good plan for something you are passionate about... write the official plan later if you like (I just watched Magnus Walker's Ted talk yesterday, guy never had a biz plan, I'm thinking some of these things actually just hold us all back because its time consuming). Do those free webinars. Buy a few books. But above all DO THAT THING. Don't keep waiting. Our people say a lot of "wait on the Lord..." as an excuse to not move. Faith without works is dead. We are smarter than they know, stronger than they know. Think of all the inventions we were making during and AFTER slavery. these people had NO real education. now we HAVE all the education but make everyone else rich. I hope someone who is reading this was looking for a sign. THIS IS IT. Do it and do it now. Someone else got the same idea as you, are you going to let them move faster? Move on it now! Be blessed!
Could someone say like an Oprah (mentioning her cause her status and power) do more to further something like this along?