The Gantt Report:<\/p>\n
By Lucius Gantt
\n I hope Gantt Report readers enjoyed the Juneteenth and July 4th holidays. I hope my people did more than eat, drink and act happy!
\n The people in power in the United States are quick to give you a day off work, a commendation, a medal, a certificate, a trophy or a holiday but they are slow to give you equal rights, equal votes, justice, peace, access to money and capital, freedom or 40 acres and a mule!
\n I know you and your children will never be taught what our ancestors thought about the July holiday because of opposition to Critical Race Theory but go on the internet, find and read Frederick Douglass\u2019 message about \u201cWhat to the slave (or ex-slave) is the Fourth of July?\u201d.
\n I\u2019ve written about that famous speech before.
\n Today, I want to talk about our most elusive freedom, economic freedom!
\n I grew up on the tough streets of Atlanta, Georgia. My early years were spent in one of the city\u2019s most famous housing projects, old \u201cCarver Homes\u201d. Later, I lived in my grandmother\u2019s neighborhood, Fourth Ward.
\n Everyday I would walk through \u201cButter Milk Bottom\u201d to get to C.W. Hill Elementary School.
\n Once I got to David T. Howard High School I started spending time on Auburn Avenue, that\u2019s where the hustlers and pimps used to be. That\u2019s where my paternal grandmother lived just two houses from Daddy King and MLK Jr.
\n No, I didn\u2019t know Martin but I went to a different high school, Grady High, with King\u2019s daughter Yolanda.
\n Back to Auburn Avenue, more than pimps, pick pockets, puppets, pirates and panhandlers frequented \u201cSweet\u201d Auburn, there was two of Atlanta\u2019s most famous Black Churches, there was Atlanta Life Insurance Company, The Atlanta World was a Black newspaper that was published daily and the Brunswick stew was the best in the world served at The Auburn Avenue Rib Shack.
\n In other words, back in the day, Black people in Atlanta, in Harlem, in Tulsa and in other cities had jobs, businesses, banks, insurance companies, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants and more.
\n What do we have today? We have holidays and a so-called called Negro History Month.
\n I knew at a very early age to be successful in a capitalist society you had to have capital!
\n At age 19, I was married and had a wife and child I needed to support. I\u2019m single now but you never stop being supportive of your children.
\n I\u2019ve come a long way from the housing project and the pocket of Fourth Ward once called \u201cBucket of Blood\u201d.
\n As you would expect, not many believed I would amount to anything. Growing up in a poor neighborhood, getting arrested multiple times, being shot and stabbed before and clapping back and shooting at people that shot at me.
\n But I believed in myself. I believed in my Black friends and neighbors. I believed in my education and my training and I believed in God\u2019s plan for Lucius!
\n Year after year, I would hear people say \u201cLucius ain\u2019t gon\u2019 be nothing, all of his friends are drug addicts and criminals\u201d. They also said my company, All World Consultants would never make any money.
\n Well, in my opinion, naysayers were terribly wrong! I think I\u2019ve done some things in my life that the politicians, imperialist press members and so-called Black community leaders can\u2019t go to sleep and dream about doing.
\n I make and take my own holidays, I\u2019ve managed to make significant amounts of money and I talked about the beast while I was doing good things for my people and my community!
\n I encourage Gantt Report readers to believe in your God, believe in yourselves and to follow your dreams.
\n The black stones that the builders refused will one day be Black community cornerstones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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