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Maxine Hamilton
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Watch Out For Those "Self-Defeating Schemes"

I sometimes feel like I am a rock-climber looking down from the top of a cliff. And I’m dreadfully saddened by the realities of self-defeating schemes, which dominate our lives. The energy to increase self value is critical and crucial for growth and development. Enslavement of the mind…mental slavery is devastating and it exists at the core of most people. This is an acutely mind altering abeyance, particularly for people of African ancestry with un-resolved historical grief created by an atmosphere of despair and hopelessness: transmission of TRAMA which causes internal stress and severe depression that is trans-generational. The Civil Rights movement struggles are continuing but I am concerned about how much learning we actually cache.

One of the barriers I see from my perch is our mental house is not in order. Understand that "a house divided cannot stand." A stepladder to solutions can start with what we teach our young. Teaching comprehensive effective ways to build and maintain sustainability is fundamental. Desperately needed is a structure with a ripple outwards to move us. We have long held tyrannical attachments in the complex depths of our individual experiences none-the-less we can recover. Acceptance and patient reconciliation, not excuses, lead to growth. Home is the foundation.

Speaking of home, owning a home is a tangible sign of material success and social achievement. Because of this, home ownership has long held a place in the hearts and minds of many people. This is a basic start but vital to the wealth generating process. Predominantly and historically black neigh-borhoods and enterprises for one reason or the other are not always appropriately maintained. We appear to systematically lose focus of the pieces of information that ownership especially that of property, builds wealth in unexpected ways.

Some of the evidently must dos are:

• Build communities

• Properly maintain our property and business enterprise

• Use all resources available

• Dwell on making change, taking a proactive stance

Cooperate economics, jointly owned or managed, is a principle of agreeing to disagree for the greater good and staying the chartered course. Foremost, our economic situations are all different. The borrowing capacity of blacks is stymied by preconceived misconceptions. On this premise alone, having to create alternative ways to circumvent our situations is our bottom-line. We cannot be afraid of taking GOOD RISKS. Blacks are like roses; beautiful and enduring. It is vital to institute core values for continuum of empowering people so they can pass on a legacy. Prudent to construct a pillar upon which the success of our future rest. Using performance as teaching methods, hence the cliché "Teach by example," is more than tenuous to hurdling us from the conditions of suffering impoverish conditions. It is high time blacks scratch-out negative stereotypes and increase their size of middle to upper income working class. Do not get hooked on conceptual. Endure. Refuse to continue bending to in-terpretive protocols. There are challenges but there are also sustaining currents of capabilities of BIGNESS. Build working partnerships and proliferate the essence of cooperative economics.

Knowledge is power and there is power in knowing. I think of knowledge as the gateway, which opens to the estate where progress resides. We are still largely brainwashed, afraid to purge ourselves from parochial thinking and ills. My understanding is that until we rid our minds of the bacteria such as the discrimination of color and hair we are stuck.

How do we achieve super resilience when our pain is still going on? Gain knowledge. The lacerations of the past make us undeniably vulnerable and fragile. By building a bright future we will soothe the pain and eventually heal the wounds. Developing a discipline to focus over long periods is important. Learning is a fulfilling as well as an ongoing pro-cess. There are models of what we can achieve to inspire us, right under our nose. What you think is possible, must be expanding.

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