During our sojourn here in North America we have experienced many harsh realities surrounding 'finance':

1) During the 1600s our people were introduced as 'property' via the form of chattel enslavement;

2) During 'formal' enslavement we worked from birth til death without compensation as our labor built one of the worlds most formidable economic, social and military mechanisms in 'modern' times;

3) During 'formal' emancipation and up to this day we have been scrambling to play catch up economically, financially and commercially.

It goes without saying that anyone attempting to succeed and triumph in a system not of their making or design, which also appears to be out of sync with their inherent ideological makeup, will be at a disadvantage under the best of circumstances. Notwithstanding our propensity to 'do the impossible' and 'make something out of nothing' we are strapped with generations of '$$' issues that often show themselves in peculiar ways.

One of those ways is our insistence on utilizing mimicry* (see definition below) in order to create and maintain viable businesses in the capitalistic system. It isn't working for us and it's time for us to examine why. . . . .

Traditionally Afrikan descendants are a communal people. With regards to child rearing, agriculture and economics we have always created from a standpoint of 'we' as opposed to 'I'. As a collective we must return to our mindset of 'we' when designing businesses AND financing, maintaining and elevating the community via our businesses.

I've been examining a way to pro-actively launch a 'Business-to-Business' buying club that mirrors the Afrikan practice of collectively supporting one business (or individual) at a time with a given 'pot'.

Anyone wishing to strategize or even provide successful models of this type of collective give me a 'shout out!' This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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*mimicry: [mimicry (also known as mimetism) describes a situation where one organism, the mimic, has evolved to share common outward characteristics with another organism,. . .Collectively this known as a mimicry complex. . . .The signal-receiver is typically another intermediate organism, e.g the common predator of two species, but may actually be the model (mimic) itself (such as an orchid resembling a female wasp). As an interaction, mimicry is in most cases advantageous to the mimic and harmful to the receiver, but may increase, reduce or have no effect on the fitness of the model depending on the situation.]