-----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 -----Original Message----- 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com <http://www.msn.com> <http://www.msn.com <http://www.msn.com> > <http://www.msn.com <http://www.msn.com <http://www.msn.com> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------