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(#MelanatedWealth) ! Paid off $120,000 debt in 2 years CONSCIOUSLY - with @TheUrbanFinance #Trini Rev. Khaden Nurse (#TheUrbanFinance) joins Tiniki Riddick (myEcon) and @SekoVarner to talk about politics and money, investing in Marijuana, using a Su Su to go to college, combining conscious-building and wealth-building, Amos Wilson, Black Power, how he and his wifey-4-lifey paid off $120,000 OF DEBT IN 2 YEARS, and how theWE can do the same. 

 (#MelanatedWealth) Making Thousandaires into Millionaires - A. Donahue Baker on #GetOnCode #GetOnCode - In this episode of Get On Code (The Fly Guys Show) we build with A. Donahue Baker of www.MoneyAve.com and Tiniki Riddick of myEcon. #PhiBetaSigma Brother A. Donahue Baker is a CPA, former Grammy-nominated music producer, and current real estate developer with a personal portfolio that includes over 500 units of residential/commercial properties nationwide. A. Donahue Baker recently co-founded a $10 million angel syndicate/VC fund to help theWE to create wealth and have access to capital. Tiniki Riddick: https://www.triddick.myecon.net 

 (#MelanatedWealth) Will Mingo will make you rich! Owns checking cashers, now opening a Bank! #GetOnCode - In this episode of Get On Code (The Fly Guys Show) we build with Will Mingo of HTTP://www.MoneyAve.com and Tiniki Riddick of myEcon. #PhiBetaSigma Brother Will Mingo - MBA, SHRM-SCP. Will Mingo has been Director, Global Infrastructure Consulting Services for a Fortune 50 Information Technology firm. Will had P&L accountability for an IT consulting business supporting $2B+ in enterprise hardware & software sales. He led a large global organization of engineers, consultants, project managers & operations support personnel. Previous to joining his current firm, Mingo worked at Mellon Human Resources & Investor Solutions where he was Vice President of the Business Integration function. Prior to Mellon, Will spent over a decade at Prudential Financial where he was a Director and performed leadership roles across multiple functions including Information Technology, Human Resources, Sales Operations and Corporate Risk Management. Additionally, Will previously served on the faculty of the Boston University Corporate Education Center where he taught project management courses in the Master’s Degree and certification programs. In addition to his success as a leader in Fortune 100 corporations over the past 20+ years, Mr. Mingo is an accomplished entrepreneur. Will holds a New Jersey Banking license as well as a New Jersey Bail Bonds license. Will also has an extensive background in real estate development and financing. He and his wife own The World of Beer sports bar in New Brunswick, NJ. Will has received numerous awards and honors for his academic, professional, & civic accomplishments. His successes have been featured in the New York Daily News and the Newark City News. Will holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University and an MBA from New York Institute of Technology. Will resides in Monroe Township, NJ with his wife Desiree and their sons James & William. He recently co-founded a bank to help theWE to create wealth and have access to capital. Tiniki Riddick: https://www.triddick.myecon.net

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Losing 19 - Judge Lynn Tolver

LOSING NINETEEN
B Y J U D G E L Y N N C . T O L E R

I lost Nineteen again today. Abandoning himself to that wasteland we offhandedly call ‘the system’, he just walked away - casually - like it was no big deal. Some claim I shouldn’t say I lost him, though, considering what I do. While I am a Black woman, I am also the person appointed to balance the books, which means, that, on this particular day, I am the one sending Nineteen to jail. I am a judge in an inner-ring suburb, a place where middle-class stability stands in the shadow of urban distractions. Here, Black, male and Nineteen is required to face the same dilemma every day; “Do I work and wait like momma said, or join the party down the street?” Forced to choose before the calm sets in, Nineteen picks the wrong one. Next thing you know, he’s standing before me, wondering what all the fuss is about.

It’s important to know that I am a municipal judge. Handling minor matters, I deal with assault, drug possession and carrying a concealed weapon charges. Unfortunately, the size of the cases I see occasionally confuses Nineteen. He views his mistake as a little thing that doesn’t warrant much concern. I, on the other hand, see it as a small down payment on an incredible cultural cost. “What’s with making me look for a job?” he asks. “Why do I have to go back to school in order to stay out of jail?” I’m fighting to keep the boy from becoming a statistic, and he doesn’t even care. So I plead, not for Nineteen to obey the law, but for him to do right by me. “You owe every Black woman who cares for you an obligation you won’t be able to repay if you’re working off some ill-gotten debt to a society you don’t owe,’ I tell him. Some listen. Most don’t. My successes are few; I decided to give up at least once a week. But I keep pressing because I don’t want to leave stranded the few I do manage to help. Those wins notwithstanding, my frustrations remain. Just yesterday, one asked me to stop bothering him. “You’re not my mother,” he said. “Why are you messing with me? Just let me do my time.” Lots of them, in fact, ask me to leave them alone. They tell me, “It ain’t no thing.” But, more often than not, the phrase that I hear is the chilling “I can jail.”

Of course, I know I only see the problems. Nineteen represents himself, well, in large numbers
everywhere. I have seven I claim outright, you know - not currently Nineteen - but Black and male. One I married; four came with him, and two I produced on my own. The older ones have already been Nineteen. They’ve had their troubles, but they’re all okay now. The ones I made myself, however, are still young; they have a lot to learn. Living well in a world that does not always see your clearly is a difficult thing to do. My boys must be able to ignore those who ridicule their efforts to do well in school while remaining strong even among those who find that strength intimidating. Tough lessons, these, but they must learn them if they are going to do Nineteen the right way. I don’t want them standing before some judge who may see them as
a statistic. If they mess around and get before the wrong guy, then where will they be? Jail, of course, is the answer to that question. The very same place that I wound up sending Nineteen
today. Frustrated because I can’t fix the world, and Nineteen won’t let me help him live better in it, I shake my head, but must move on. I have thirty more cases to hear.

“To jail or not to jail?” that is the question. How hard am I supposed to try without his help? Doesn’t he see how so much of the harm he causes lands right in some sister’s lap?
That is why I told Nineteen he owed me. “Consider the sisters in your life,” I say. “It isn’t always
about you”. Then I remind him that, whether or not he understands it, when you jail, we in jail too.

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The Million Man March Pledge of 1995

15 Years ago
The Million Men Marchers took this pledge:

I PLEDGE that from this day forward I will strive to love my brother as I love myself. I, from this day forward, will strive to improve myself spiritually, morally, mentally, socially, politically and economically for the benefit of myself, my family and my people. I pledge that I will strive to build businesses, build houses, build hospitals, build factories and enter into international trade for the good of myself, my family and my people.

I PLEDGE that from this day forward I will never raise my hand with a knife or a gun to beat, cut, or shoot any member of my family or any human being except in self-defense. I pledge from this day forward I will never abuse my wife by striking her, disrespecting her, for she is the mother of my children and the producer of my future. I pledge that from this day forward I will never engage in the abuse of children, little boys or little girls for sexual gratification. For I will let them grow in peace to be strong men and women for the future of our people.

I WILL never again use the ‘B word’ to describe any female. But particularly my own Black sister. I pledge from this day forward that I will not poison my body with drugs or that which is destructive to my health and my well-being. I pledge from this day forward I will support Black newspapers, Black radio, Black television. I will support Black artists who clean up their acts to show respect for themselves and respect for their people and respect for the ears of the human family. I will do all of this so help me God.




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I Write This as a Warning to the General Assembly

08.10.09

Question? What do Arthur Whitfield and Nat Turner have in common? They are forever to be remembered as 2 VA Negroes made famous by important milestones that flared into American consciousness in the historically heated month of August. And like many men of the colored and enslaved class both Nat and Arthur were ... are part of a system that has always positioned particular people of certain hues and views to be bred, borne and broken from cradle to grave and beyond. Furthermore, because this system of government took its first breaths on the shores of Virginia in the year 1607, 400 years later, doesn't it make sense that it here in Virginia where the leadership must be found to guide the nation in understanding how to move forward in the work of giving all citizens the right to share in the American Dream?

Answer No. 1: The first battle to claim victims in the Civil War was named after Nat Turner who lived from 1800 and died by hanging in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat was called "Prophet." In 1831 the town of Courtland, VA was known as New Jerusalem It was said that Nat taught himself to read with the only book that would be found on a farm in 17th century America and he traveled from farm to farm preaching fire and brimstone. He often spoke of hearing God's voice commanding him to prepare for the time to slay slaveholders. It is very important to understand that back in the year 1800 when Nat Turner was born the United States of America was only 13 years old!

Additional Background: The Constitution was signed and ratified on September 17, 1787 after a raucous month of August that marked the birthing pains of the world's greatest democracy. And even today in 2009 America is still a young country. In the days of Nat Turner she was an infant. In 1831 if a household of any of the 60 men, women and children who died by Nat's command between August 21 - 23, 1831, had one book in it that one book would have been the Old Testament. The only other printed words to be found on those 19th century farms would have been a newspaper copy of their new nation's birth certificate which started with the following 38 word preamble: We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings in liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Answer No. 2: Arthur Whitfield is a 52-year-old Black man currently in need of health insurance. Six years ago in 2003 Mr. Whitfield was released from the Commonwealth of Virginia's prison system after being wrongfully incarcerated for 22 years. During the special convening of the Virginia General Assembly on August 17, 2009 the issue of compensation for Arthur Whitfield will be taken up by that august body.

Additional Background: The Virginia General Assembly dates back to the House of Burgess es that first convened in Williamsburg and gave voice to early leaders like Patrick Henry who is most famous for that rallying cry, "Give me Liberty or Death" in those first battles that began to define what we, in the 21st century, have come to know as the American Dream. And during the upcoming special session it is hoped that our leaders understand that their leadership is needed far beyond fixing a dollar amount to Arthur Whitfield's pain and suffering. The State needs to make right the wrong that stole a man youth. The Commonwealth of Virginia needs to lead the nation in healing the wounds left by injustice and oppression.

Solution: The JuneteenthVA Commission's mission will be to guide audiences in the work of looking back without shame or blame as diverse communities come together in the goals of reconciliation and progress. The time to do this is now. JuneteenthVA is doing this work now. Just like Health Reform is being addressed on the federal level in this August 2009, so should be the establishment of a JuneteenthVA State Commission.

Evidence: Please see the following community discussion with members from Sons of the Confederacy, a descendant of one of the victims of the Nat Turner Insurrection and the cast members from this February 21, 2009 presentation at Riddick's Folly Museum located in Suffolk, VA of my play "Abolitionists' Museum." www.youtube.com/juneteenthva

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