10 Excuses that Black People Use to Not Boycott Starbucks Which One Is Yours???


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Blacks in America have about a $1.3 trillion gross national income. Only 2% of that money, about $26 billion, is re-circulated in the black community. The Black Star Project is working to change this narrative!

Think about the worst racial policies of America. Chattel slavery. Jim Crow segregation. Apartheid. Share-cropping. Mass incarceration. Ethnic cleansing. Education, housing and economic discrimination. Wealth gaps and health gaps. Now think of a way to re-institute the best elements of all these putrid ideas and you have the 2017-2018 proposed Tax Reform Plan!
CHICAGO INDEPENDENT BULLETIN, FEBRUARY 4, 2019 PAGE 7
Black History Feature:
Acknowledging Our Ancestors...
© 2019 by Samuel Mills
"WHO AM I?"
SAM'S INTRO: I was wondering who might begin our Black History Month "Ancestor" series, when he walked in...and THIS Chicago-based brother, I knew very well. He had the bespectacled, very intelligent appearance of a college professor, full of knowledge to share with anyone, especially young people of color, and it was obvious that he placed a high premium on education! The down-to-earth attitude of this community activist and civil servant relaxed me immediately...and thus we began our interview:
"I was born on September 22, 1950 in Chicago's Altgeld Gardens