Comments on: What Is Your Cause? http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/ Bangin’ and Scorin’ Every Trip Down the Floor Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:11:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: origin http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8973 origin Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:04:59 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8973 Great post sista Miranda. Great post. Great post sista Miranda. Great post.

]]> By: MODI http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8925 MODI Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:51:28 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8925 Miranda, I just caught up to this post which I wanted to thank you for. Very insightful... and unfortunate... Miranda,

I just caught up to this post which I wanted to thank you for. Very insightful… and unfortunate…

]]> By: Miranda http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8857 Miranda Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:55 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8857 MODI, Not necessarily, unfortunately. Decades ago, the HBCUs fed the community the best and brightest to create and strengthen the Atlanta Life's and Citizens Trusts and Booker T. Washington Ins Co and the like. Physicians and educators and the business leaders of places like Auburn Avenue in Atlanta were pipelined from the HBCUs. Students were socially conscious because it was a sixth sense, it was innate..there didn't need to be a call for action because life was a call for action. But now, the HBCUs have been producing some of the best and brightest and handing them over as gifts to the Bank of Americas and Wachovias and Citibanks.......meanwhile Citizens Trust in Atlanta and Douglass National in St Louis still trudging along, still dwarfed by the banks and firms that were created 25 years after they were. The School of Business at FAMU's goal (or it was when I was there), was to product the perfect corporate middle manager. Golf was a required class. We had to dress in the strictest of requirements, perfect our speaking skills, we did everything that we believed was required to assimilate as perfect corporate middle-managers. From the top of our heads to the tips of our shoes we were the perfect little black drones. Building and/or strengthening business in our own communities was never discussed. Hell, it was never discussed what the corporations we were interning at, and eventually hired permanently, did FOR our communities...that might have been grounds to go see Dean Mobley....we were perfect black corporate robots for Wall Street...social consciousness was not well-received. MODI,
Not necessarily, unfortunately. Decades ago, the HBCUs fed the community the best and brightest to create and strengthen the Atlanta Life’s and Citizens Trusts and Booker T. Washington Ins Co and the like. Physicians and educators and the business leaders of places like Auburn Avenue in Atlanta were pipelined from the HBCUs. Students were socially conscious because it was a sixth sense, it was innate..there didn’t need to be a call for action because life was a call for action.

But now, the HBCUs have been producing some of the best and brightest and handing them over as gifts to the Bank of Americas and Wachovias and Citibanks…….meanwhile Citizens Trust in Atlanta and Douglass National in St Louis still trudging along, still dwarfed by the banks and firms that were created 25 years after they were.

The School of Business at FAMU’s goal (or it was when I was there), was to product the perfect corporate middle manager. Golf was a required class. We had to dress in the strictest of requirements, perfect our speaking skills, we did everything that we believed was required to assimilate as perfect corporate middle-managers. From the top of our heads to the tips of our shoes we were the perfect little black drones. Building and/or strengthening business in our own communities was never discussed. Hell, it was never discussed what the corporations we were interning at, and eventually hired permanently, did FOR our communities…that might have been grounds to go see Dean Mobley….we were perfect black corporate robots for Wall Street…social consciousness was not well-received.

]]> By: thebrotherreport http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8852 thebrotherreport Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:36:13 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8852 Talk about irony; think on this. In 1980, the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Games because Russia had invaded Afghanistan now 28 years later the U.S. is in Afghanistan and we're beginning to hear rumblings of a boycott of the Beijing games by the U.S. Talk about irony; think on this. In 1980, the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Games because Russia had invaded Afghanistan now 28 years later the U.S. is in Afghanistan and we’re beginning to hear rumblings of a boycott of the Beijing games by the U.S.

]]> By: MODI http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8841 MODI Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:23:42 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8841 Miranda, I was dissapointed to read your post. I always assumed that an HBCU's produced less "fools"... at least from a social consciousness perspective... would you modify the statement to SOME HBCU's... what about Howard? "I’m not saying that Marbury is the greatest guy in the world, but when it comes to issues that need to be addressed, at least he’s in the mix." Marbury is more than in the mix. He is the truth! I don't give a shit what went down with Isiah this year, there is not even a close second when it comes to athletes who contribute and see the big picture... it's a damn shame that MSM is too busy hating than praising... Miranda, I was dissapointed to read your post. I always assumed that an HBCU’s produced less “fools”… at least from a social consciousness perspective… would you modify the statement to SOME HBCU’s… what about Howard?

“I’m not saying that Marbury is the greatest guy in the world, but when it comes to issues that need to be addressed, at least he’s in the mix.”

Marbury is more than in the mix. He is the truth! I don’t give a shit what went down with Isiah this year, there is not even a close second when it comes to athletes who contribute and see the big picture… it’s a damn shame that MSM is too busy hating than praising…

]]> By: Miranda http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8838 Miranda Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:25:10 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8838 T3, "There is no such thing as a good school for a free-thinking Black person if you can SUCCEED and GRADUATE without knowing a thing about your self." Amen...and lets not think somehow that the HBCU's are doing so much more than any other school. I'm a graduate of Florida A&M University and I can attest that just as many educated fools are graduating from that institution as there are at Florida State. T3,
“There is no such thing as a good school for a free-thinking Black person if you can SUCCEED and GRADUATE without knowing a thing about your self.”

Amen…and lets not think somehow that the HBCU’s are doing so much more than any other school. I’m a graduate of Florida A&M University and I can attest that just as many educated fools are graduating from that institution as there are at Florida State.

]]> By: Temple3 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8833 Temple3 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:28:29 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/what-is-your-cause/#comment-8833 Miranda: I know you know this - but it is imperative that we understand and begin to operate from the fact that non-blacks actively work to ensure that blacks DO NOT know the complete story. If we knew our story, it would be a wrap. These athletes are duped into believing that they go to good schools. There is no such thing as a good school for a free-thinking Black person if you can SUCCEED and GRADUATE without knowing a thing about your self. These institutions are designed to miseducate - designed to mislead - designed to falsify information and also to falsify information about information. Our children CANNOT be expected to defend themselves and thrive in these institutions when it comes to self-knowledge. If we passed out grades in that category, most of our so-called "brightest minds" would be abject failures. Miranda:

I know you know this - but it is imperative that we understand and begin to operate from the fact that non-blacks actively work to ensure that blacks DO NOT know the complete story. If we knew our story, it would be a wrap.

These athletes are duped into believing that they go to good schools. There is no such thing as a good school for a free-thinking Black person if you can SUCCEED and GRADUATE without knowing a thing about your self. These institutions are designed to miseducate - designed to mislead - designed to falsify information and also to falsify information about information.

Our children CANNOT be expected to defend themselves and thrive in these institutions when it comes to self-knowledge. If we passed out grades in that category, most of our so-called “brightest minds” would be abject failures.

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