Hey what’s good it’s ya boy, A.B. I haven’t blogged from
this page in a hot minute, just because I have been so busy with other ventures
and trying to get my ducks in a row. Even though I am running the Black Omaha
blog, I will still continue to bless y’all with gems on this page. So don’t
sleep on me.
The end of last year I came up with an idea for a company so
I am making the necessary behind the scenes moves to make the idea come to
fruition. I am taking the time out to address what’s been going on with this Thug
Toddler fiasco. I spoke on the police department’s agenda, but now it’s time to
address the mentality of some of my folks down north.
Life is much more than Sorenson Pkwy to Lake St. I really
need for y’all to expand your horizons. Quit making city blocks your world. I
feel as if there is an invisible fence around parts of northeast Omaha and folks are scared to leave that area to do
their business or to handle their business. Step outside of your comfort zone,
we are too damn comfortable with bullsh*t. We need to tap in to our potential
and be all that we can be. Self confidence will get you very far when you dive
in to unfamiliar territory. I see a lot of folks that speak on being
uncomfortable if they have to go in to a suburb of Omaha. They feel as if the
whites there have never seen a black person before and it’s true I have suffered
from that same feeling. But as I have gotten older I enter in that area with my
head held high because inside I know that I have just as much right as they do
to be there. Why can’t we have our spot at the table instead of settling for the
scraps? Don’t lose your sense of self in those uneasy situations. And do not
hinder your star to make those in power feel more comfortable in your presence.
Do not become a domesticated animal. Learn the game that the infrastructure has
put in place so that you can master it and break the rules the right way.
Let’s face it, it’s hard being a person of color, even with
the president being a minority. Stop and Frisk out east, every night some
brotha is being portrayed as the boogeyman, our women are fighting not only
racism but sexism as well. I could go on
and on about the problems that minorities face, but the simple fact is this,
turn off the tv, educate yourselves, and make your dreams come true. My
favorite quote is from Chris Rock and it goes like this, “See the black man
gotta fly to get to something that the white man can walk to.” Let that sink in
for a bit…Once you realize that you have to work twice as hard as someone who
resembles those in power, you then understand how important it is to learn the
game and break those rules. You can take artists like Jay-Z and his wife
Beyonce, they really did step out of the box with their respective albums. Not
musically, but how they sold the album. Jay went to Samsung and had them
purchase 1 million copies before even hearing the album. His wife just dropped
her album out the blue with no marketing and she let her fans do the marketing
for her, good ol fashioned word of mouth via the web. Those are examples of
infiltrating a system, learning it, mastering the game, and changing the game.
Those are extreme examples, but examples to say the least. Another example is
becoming an entrepreneur; do you really need a business degree to open up your
own? No. You do need to take some business classes to learn trade laws and
such, but a degree isn’t required. College is the new hustle for the federal
government, decades before you could work your way up through a company, today
you have to have a piece of paper that proves you know how to take tests. And
this is coming from a full time college student so keep that in mind. If you don’t want to go to college to take
those business classes to become an entrepreneur due to costs, a library card
is free. Self educate. Learn all that you can in that library and pick the
brains of the higher ups at your 9-5pm, soak up that game. Note that being an
entrepreneur is not easy, the concept is: provide a need to consumers. I feel
like I’m rambling but I hope I am motivating at the same time.
I know only my FB friends and twitter followers read my
blogs, but maybe just maybe if this is shared by you, then it could reach that
little boy or little girl who can see past Ames Avenue. And it will fuel their
dreams just that much more.
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