-----Original Message-----
From: Karma Dixon
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:27 AM
To: Artis DuBose; Barbara Mumford; Ebrima Jobe; Melvin Veney; Paule
Elie; Rena McCutchen; Shirley Stocks
Subject: FW: 10 Things Black Folk Should Do NOW ! T. Smiley
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From: LHELMS [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 9:39 AM
To: 'Karma'
Subject: FW: 10 Things Black Folk Should Do NOW ! T. Smiley
Good morning Karma.
Subject: FW: 10 Things Black Folk Should Do NOW ! T. Smiley
> 1. Register to vote or ... shut up!
>
> 2. Take all that money out of those stocking
caps, tin
cans, bed
> mattresses, floorboards and invest your money
in
something. For
> starters,
> invest in the food you eat and clothes you
wear.
>
> 3. Learn another language-Ebonics doesn't
count.
>
> 4. Stop using the "N" word by the year 2000
...
especially since
> Merriam
> Webster has announced it ain't changing the
definition-you've got
a
> little time, but time is wasting.
>
> 5. Buy something each week from a Black
vendor.
>
> 6. Stop blaming white folk for 98% of your
problems,
while giving
> them 100% of your money.
>
> 7. Subscribe to Ebony, Jet, Black Enterprise,
Essence,
Emerge or
> Heart and Soul. Then subscribe to one of the
three
weeklies: Time,
> Newsweek or U.S. News & World Report. After we
read about
what's
going
> on in our world, how about knowing what's
going on
in
theirs? It
is,
> after all, your world.
>
> 8. Stop walking past each other and not
speaking.
>
> 9. Be on time for something-anything!
>
> 10. Get an annual check-up-herbs do not cure
everything!
>
> As recommended by Tavis Smiley
>
>
>
> Sher
>
>
>
>
>
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