How Many Black People Living In American Cities Think About Starting A Co-op?

[Hardworker]

1. Purchasing Co-op.

2. Recycling Co-op.

3. Gardening Co-op.

4. Community Help Co-op.

Security is based on how much of what you need is consistent. Food, clothing and shelter is a immediate daily goal.

We as black people MUST start working together if we plan on really surviving... "God blesses the child that has its own"... Black people on a overall basis have nothing. We don't grow, manufacture, produce or control any resources that we NEED.

In most instances we are at the door begging... no matter how much money "Kobe Bryant" , "Lil Wayne" and "Beyonce" have.

How can we hope to get help if we don't try and help ourselves?

Get together with people of like minds, if it is only to get together in someone's backyard and start a vegetable garden.

We must start working with each other to improve our own lot... start small and build it up... don't try and get everybody at once... start with a few and let others join based on need... the NEED to unify.

If that is not understood on a genuine basis... then those who participate will NOT grow... it is a must that it must be done on a straight and narrow path.

Turn off the stupid television sets and think about our future that we write today by the action we do today... if we don't do anything we will not lose anything... and what do we have to lose?

America is falling... all that we think that we have is based on a devils standard which will soon be no more... In order to take our rightful place we must prepare ourselves OR at least be in the act of GENUINELY preparing ourselves... because none of us know the time of the complete fall... it may be tomorrow.

Mindset... prepare your mindset... and set your mind to do Righteousness and to Separate yourself from the devil.

Everything is real.




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[Hardworker]

Are there ANY doers here?

[G1deon]

what's the blueprint??

[Hardworker]

Originally Posted by G1deon

what's the blueprint??

The blue print is NEED MORE.

NEED MORE is what makes those who NEED MORE develop a blue print.

We have been WANTING... and we have received all of our WANTS.

We WANTED to be with white people and we have been allowed to be with white people.

We can go to their schools, their churches, their stores, their parks, their hospitals, their parties.

We have WANTED to do that and we have. We have wanted to work on their "good" jobs and they have let us... ALL that we have WANTED the white people (devils) have let us.

Now that is all we have... thoughts of only doing it with the white man (devil).

We have been found WANTING and we are WANTING now.

What we need is UNITY... and that we have not had and the white people don't endorse it... so we don't do it.

We think that when we NEED something it is not important as our WANTS... so we are found WANTING... pretty soon our NEEDS will be our WANTS... cuz we have done nothing to prepare ourselves for our NEEDS.

A blueprint is preparation... what is our NEEDS?

Let us prepare for what we NEED... and our blueprint can develop.

A people so strong... four hundred years of hatred and injustice poured upon us... and we still trying to satisfy the white man (devil)... cuz we WANT too.

[Hardworker]

Originally Posted by G1deon

what's the blueprint??

Get with some people in your immediate community and do something together based on what yall need.

Who has a backyard? Co-operate with one, two or more people and prepare that backyard for some vegetable gardening.

Pool your resources and get the stuff yall need to be successful.

It may sound uninviting, but this is a basis for learning how to work together.

Everything is grown from a beginning, we must start somewhere.

Look at a apple seed... now look at a apple tree... now bite into the apple... now look back at the seed.

UNITY.




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[Hardworker]

The Ant and the Grasshopper


In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant walked by, grunting as he carried a plump kernel of corn.

"Where are you off to with that heavy thing?" asked the Grasshopper.

Without stopping, the Ant replied, "To our ant hill. This is the third kernel I've delivered today."
"Why not come and sing with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of working so hard?"

"I am helping to store food for the winter," said the Ant, "and think you should do the same."

"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; "we have plenty of food right now."


But the Ant went on its way and continued its work.

The weather soon turned cold. All the food lying in the field was covered with a thick white blanket of snow that even the grasshopper could not dig through. Soon the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger.

He staggered to the ants' hill and saw them handing out corn from the stores they had collected in the summer.

Then the Grasshopper knew:


It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

[Hardworker]

He tells US... "Don't worry about it, I will take care of YOU"

And WE still believe him... and WE continue to sleep soundly.

SMH




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[chillz]

These here are great words. I like many are searching for ways to get involved in pulling us from out of our murky sleep. This is something I will at the very least try. For many it will be a start off point towards effectivly helping our nation come to fruition. However large or small... One step is still a step in the right direction... Thank you Harworker!

[Hardworker]

Originally Posted by chillz

These here are great words. I like many are searching for ways to get involved in pulling us from out of our murky sleep. This is something I will at the very least try. For many it will be a start off point towards effectivly helping our nation come to fruition. However large or small... One step is still a step in the right direction... Thank you Harworker!

Thank you... there is no unity without a "U" and a "I"... and there is not a little "U's" or Big "I's" (or vice versa).

If you have a backyard or access to one get some seeds go for it... everything is grown even our new attitudes must be grown.

Here is some spinach that I sold earlier this year grown by a brother...

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Here it is in the growing state...

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We better learn.



"The following blueprint shows the way:

Recognize the necessity for unity and group operation (activities).

Pool your resources, physically as well as financially.

Stop wanton criticisms of everything that is black-owned and black-operated.

Keep in mind -- jealousy destroys from within.

Observe the operations of the white man. He is successful. He makes no excuses for his failures. He works hard in a collective manner. You do the same.

If there are six or eight Muslims with knowledge and experience of the grocery business -- pool your knowledge, open a grocery store -- and you work collectively and harmoniously, Allah will bless you with success.

If there are those with knowledge of dressmaking, merchandising, trades, maintenance -- pool such knowledge. Do not be ashamed to seek guidance and instructions from the brother or sister who has more experience, education and training than you have had. Accept his or her assistance.

The white man spends his money with his own kind, which is natural. You, too, must do this. Help to make jobs for your own kind. Take a lesson from the Chinese and Japanese and go give employment and assistance to your own kind when they are in need. This is the first law of nature. Defend and support your own kind. True Muslims do this.

Because the so-called American Negro has been deceived and misled, he has become a victim of deception. He is today in the worst economic condition of North America. Unemployment is mounting, and he feels it most. He assisted in reducing himself to his present insecure economic condition. You, the black man, are the only members of the human race that deliberately walk past the place of business of one of your own kind -- a black man -- and spend your dollars with your natural enemy. The so-called American Negro has never in the history of America been known to boycott or criticize the white man as he does his own kind. He thus shows love for his enemy and hatred for his own kind.

A true Muslim would never boycott the place of business of his fellow Muslim or black brother. A true Muslim is proud of the success of his black sisters and brothers. He recognizes that their success is his success. He recognizes the law of Islam. If one brother has a bowl of soup you have half of that soup."

~Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah~


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