(NNPA)—“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.”—Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
I often wonder if most Black people in America really understand the across-the-board impact economics has on our daily lives. Or, have we just been beaten down so badly that we have fallen into a state of apathy when it comes to our collective pursuit of economic empowerment? The above quote by Rothschild always reminds me of the kind of nation and world in which we reside. It also makes me even more aware of Black folks’ economic position in this country, and our lack of emphasis on what’s really important vis-à-vis real power.
What are the messages being given to Black people by many of our leaders? Well, they run the gamut from “civil rights” to “voting rights” to “gay rights” to “immigration reform” to someone calling one of us or all of us a name we don’t like. Many unsuspecting Blacks are riled about issues that do not and will not affect us one iota when it comes to being able to obtain power for ourselves; and we spend an inordinate amount of time caught up in nonsensical discussions that only keep us from devoting ourselves to self-empowerment.
Maybe we are simply unwilling to “pay the cost to be the boss,” as B.B. King likes to say. Or, maybe the “cost of doing business” is just too high for us. Maybe we just want to continue to buy everything and anything other folks make and distribute rather than do those things for ourselves. Maybe we are just content to be the primary consumers in this nation.
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