"Non-White" ECONOMICS?? (About: Money & Choice)
A "special blessing" from a long life, is "Grand-Children". As a grandfather, I often reflect on my own; one I knew well, learning a lot of my life skills; the other, stayed in the "shadows", appearing at times like some "phantom" , and seen by few.
Both were born in the late Nineteenth Century; both were businessmen. One provided well for his wife and children; the other did not. My father had to quit school at the age of 12 to become the "man of the house", in 1918. His father deserted the farm that year to take up a life made possible by the Volstead Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act. What money he made (it was rumored to be substantial) did not flow down to any of us.
My mother's father opened his Haberdashery and Dry Cleaning business in 1907, on the side of Main Street reserved for "Negro" businesses in a rigidly segregated town. He struggled, battling both black and white enemies, to stay in business for 50 years. His sister, Mattie Bridgewater, and her husband, Tyler, were key participants in the "Black Wall Street" phenomenon that occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1920s.
My mother, along with her sister and brother, lived privileged lives in the 1920s, that included college educations. I learned my work habits and my financial management skills from those grandfathers: directly from my mother's father, and indirectly (through my father) from his dad.
Our national economy (and global economy in many ways) is passing through a phase unlike any we've seen before. We all may have to study closely what my parents and all citizens in this nation did to survive the Great Depression. Community, in many manifestations, served them all well, regardless of race. We won't be that fortunate. The pernicious social and political conditions today result from deliberate assaults on the concept of "community" in any form except "financial". Religion has abandoned its historical role in the lives of the citizens of this nation; preferring to follow the politicians as they grub for money and power.
All the more reason to re-visit tried-and-true methods of attaining economic security. Those economic methods may become more important now than ever before. Things like: not funding your enemies, know where your money goes, manage your money closely, delay material consumption.
Above all, know who you can trust to be honest, and who can be trusted to handle money well.
Stay Vigilant! Know who gets "paid" for what you "watch"!!
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