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Esther Kelly has lived through it all, 94 years, 1930 to present. She has seen the good, bad, and the ugly across nine decades. My mother is the wisest woman I’ll ever know. When I informed her, back in 2019, about the alarming prediction, that by 2053, African Americans are predicted to have zero media wealth, she didn’t dismiss it, like so many others want to do.   Given her longevity, experience, and wisdom, I asked my mother how , how   could this prediction persist, with so many African Americans among us, who appear to be doing well and wealthy. We have a whopping combined annual disposable income at $1.8 Trillion and growing.  Our intellectual prowess is indisputable. We are now well represented and contribute our genius to most every professional field. In my mother’s lifetime, she’s lived to see an African American President, and possibly a 2 nd ! How can we be headed toward zero median wealth? ARE WE MERELY POSTURING AND NOT PROSPERING?  My mother then said 4 words that

Good Morning! If you self-identity as "Black" (as in African descent, and aren't we all? ) or African American and live in the U.S., I humbly request that you consider... In the same way we support our HBCUs, we should support our African American Banks and Credit unions throughout the country. They are high quality by virtue of the fact they survived (while other banks were getting bail-outs) Perhaps an initial inconvenience, but find them and bank with them...if we are truly "Black and Proud". They offer competitive rates and have privy to investment options same as mainstream banks! https://blackownedbanks.us/ Also, it's no longer enough that we #BuyBlack . Until we begin to significantly "BankBlack", a majority of OUR $1.8 Trillion (2024) will continue, within hours of our deposit, to bankroll the economic base and grow the wealth of certain people (don't get it twisted, not all) that are proponents of #Project2025 , and opponents o

...because I believe in its value as a Communications Backup device. The Starlink receives direct Internet signal from the 6,350 Starlink satellites in orbit . Talk about redundancy!  I purchased and used a Starlink Roam during the Eclipse 2024 Niagara Heritage Tour event @ Niagara Falls in April 8th. Reception, even on a cloudy day was 4 out of 4 Bars. In the past, after weather disasters, many phone companies would set up COWS (Cell on Wheels) to provide complementary Internet when towers were down. How'd they do it? They had direct access to Satellites. I didn't hear mention of any COW deployments during recent hurricane seasons. I guess those days are gone. We're on our own. For that reason we must all have our own recovery communications plan. Consider investing in a Starlink device as a family asset. You can activate & pause service as needed. As a resident of a Senior building, I'm always ready to deploy Starlink for my neighbors & family should we l

Good Evening Prepare Our People at iPrep2Thrive friends. Spoiler Alert! We seem to place so many hopes on one Presidential candidate or the other. Yet, no matter who wins the White House, African Americans, young and old, will continue to experience incidents of physical, emotional, and economic bullying...no matter your celebrity, money, titles, beauty, neighborhood, etc. Who among us has gone unscathed? And now we face #Project2025 and the prediction of Zero median wealth by 2053 . The good news is that God is able to flip the script, if we keep calm and praypare. In my humble opinion, the following peacefully aggressive economic moves, by a critical mass of 1 0,000 African American families will flip the script... Make 5-10-10-75 our Common Core Math. It combines faith & old school economic wisdom to become financially resilient. Fortify, fortify, fortify  the family. Make Tier 1 Preparedness a year-round family goal. Be a merchant. and an idea producer in the prepare

  Update! As of 9-12-2024, the iPrep2Thrive™ MAG (Mutual Assistance Group) has been renamed as a MRG (Mutual Resilience Group)  to more aptly describe our mission to fortify preparedness   and most importantly  resilience  before, during, and beyond at-risk events. This description also distinguishes us from the traditional MAGs, some of which have a negative connotation. i.e. Take the "A" off MAGA and what do you get?  Also the "assistance" tag would have misconstrued that we are a physical rescue deployment entity, or that we "assist" in direct provision of recovery resources. As a primarily virtual group, that's beyond the scope of my founding intentions. We want to empower MRG members to be  self-prepared and fortified , as best they can, strategically and tactically.  We will keep the same focus on the 3 resource POWERS: *Water *Energy (for electro-mechanical activities) *Communications Join a new frontier of innovation and fellowship in the prepa

With regard to #Prediction2053, and the topic of wealth, Capitalism and profit are often "demonized" in the African American community, and particularly the Christian community. I grew up hearing "money is the root of all evil", or "if you go into business, start a non-profit", which to me, is a contradiction in terms! As a result we seem more inclined to get on the non-profit treadmill, rather than outright entrepreneurialism. However, it is profit, which is not allowed with a non-profit, that drives the majority of investment in actual construction of brick and mortar spaces that can benefit the common good. Blame Capitalism's "bad rap" on the profiteering-driven regime that has dominated the economy since 1619, that's right, since the first enslaved person become an unethical source of profit. That's the "system" we're still immersed in to this day, that profiteers from the financial unpreparedness and physical o