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tokes99 @D Nice
I believe that most of these organizations encourage the idea of things but don't really teach the tools in order to accomplish it. I find it disheartening that, to this day, financial literacy isn't a hot topic in our community. We know it's powerful and influential and yet we don't focus on it. Even when it comes to housing, we focus on stopping gentrification instead of arming people w/ the tools and resources to possibly become homeowners. Not saying that it has to be one way or the other but both are just as important.
I'm still learning about money myself in regards to investing, retirement accounts, etc so I don't feel comfortable with sharing half knowledge, but it needs to be talked about.
I've been to meetings and events where the surface was discussed solely and not the root cause of the problems that plague our communities.
i agree but i would also add that as a general matter, financial literacy (especially of the sort that your money makes money, understanding the machinations/risk of the stock market, or even dealing with routine forms of credit) is maybe lacking across the board? and gentrification in and of itself isn't/wouldn't be so negative if not for the lack of safe affordable housing options and economic opportunities, i don't know that any neighborhood is or should be sacred in that way if those two factors are good...
if i'm being honest, i don't know where the discussion needs to go beyond reparations, the issues are are known, the root causes are known; but then again when the issues are so disparate & diffuse it is probably really difficult to address all at once meaningfully? i feel like if you laid out all the issues that affect black folk on the table, you'd be hard pressed to get consensus on what the most pressing issue is, and i'm not sure it need to be agreed upon but to the extent you want to 'solve' some of these things it probably doesn't help to have people focused on different things...only thing that really is disheartening is when the discussion becomes centered around conspiracies or being (or not) 'woke'; like i understand that history has made this type of thinking plausible but it by far the exception rather than the rule...