By Lucius Gantt<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recently, rapper, actor, producer and businessman Ice Cube, or O\u2019Shea Jackson, said he would talk to \u201canybody\u201d who had a solid plan to create African American wealth and generate economic development, or something like that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m somebody and I know how to address his wealth building concerns!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve been wanting to have a conversation with Cube for months because I like his desire and I enjoy his music and movies but his current economic and political efforts are flawed and doomed to fail!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whatever Black person in the United States Ice Cube thinks has the key and a path to Black economic wealth, he should bring them with him to talk to me if he thinks they know more about how to build wealth than me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line them up and let the people decide who has an economic and\/or a political plan that works.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you like Dr. Claud Anderson, or Dr. Umar Johnson, Dr. Cornell West, Dr. Eric Dyson, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Honorable Ministers, Imams and religious leaders, famous female economists and business people? No problem! Bring all of them with you Cube to meet with me and let\u2019s get a workable wealth building plan cracking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who am I, a poor boy, wanting to talk to a \u201crich\u201d rapper, so called scholars and reported money-making celebrities? I\u2019m just a guy with a pen, a sword, a spear, a gun and a brain!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Google \u201cLucius Gantt, The Sword of the Black Press\u201d or ask the white man to find out who I am. They know if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But this isn\u2019t about me. It\u2019s about Black progress, worldwide, not just in Compton, or in America.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019ll let me, let me just talk about some Black history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ice Cube is not the first Black \u201ccelebrity\u201d that has sought understanding, support and economic assistance from government.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Before and after every election, some Black people are invited to meet with political perpetrators and government devils. They meet politicians in hotels, in restaurants and politicians even meet Black \u201ccelebrities in The White House.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The teachers, preachers, singers, dancers, actors and athletes, meet with the politicians, eat stale donuts and sip cold coffee. They all leave the meeting and say, \u201cThose politicians are all right.\u201d But they never get any serious money and they never get any real wealth building help or advice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you don\u2019t realize it, Black men and women in America that truly know how to generate wealth are disavowed, disparaged, denied, fired, arrested and\/or assassinated or killed!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For example, Marcus Garvey\u2019s Universal Negro Improvement Association had Black stockholders around the world that invested in international shipping companies, schools, hospitals, media companies and other companies. What happened to Garvey?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And, Yaweh Ben Yahweh\u2019s Hebrew Israelites in Miami, had universities, clinics, hotels on Miami Beach, affordable housing, transportation companies and other businesses. He even met with me to discuss the acquisition of telecommunication satellites 40 or 50 years ago so he could speak to and communicate with his followers around the world. I don\u2019t have to tell you satellites way back then could cost about $40 million.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, brother Cube, I won\u2019t go into detail about my plan for wealth building and economic development in this column but I will give you details and answer any questions you have in a private meeting with pre-screened and vetted meeting participants. I don\u2019t want informants and infiltrators like other Black groups have sadly experienced.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But I will say, my economic plan involves going back to go forward. My plan can and will generate wealth and spur economic development here, in African and in Black communities worldwide.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Does it require ALL Blacks to get together or work together, no. Does, it involve begging governments, never. Could it involve some measure of \u201cpublic\/private\u201d partnerships, possibly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will it require Ice Cube and\/or others to give me money? No, but it does require real financial knowledge and wisdom.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If my plan is fake, false or frivolous, Ice Cube can write a rap song about me and tell the world political puppets and clowns like Jared Kushner has a better idea about how to generate Black wealth and create Black economic development than I do.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t need any publicity from the imperialist press, I create my own publicity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I just want to help Ice Cube, \u201cKiller\u201d Mike Santiago and other \u201ccelebrities\u201d who want to generate Black wealth and I\u2019ll put my reputation as a \u201cworld class\u201d journalist and political advisor on the line to prove I can help them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black \u201ccelebrities\u201d can be bamboozled by politicians just like any other Black person can be tricked, trapped and led astray!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2020 Black bamboozlement is not better, it\u2019s SOS, the same old sheet!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Lucius Gantt \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recently, rapper, actor, producer and businessman Ice Cube, or O\u2019Shea Jackson, said he would talk to \u201canybody\u201d who had a solid plan to create African American wealth and generate economic development, or something like that. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m somebody and I know how to address his wealth building concerns! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57,866,6,1],"tags":[228,230,201,226,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}