I lived for 16 years in the US, couldn’t take it anymore and moved back to Ghana.
Best thing I ever did! Ghana may not have all the so called benefits that the US has, but I did find that despite the ” benefits” a lot of my friends in the US were usually just 2 or 3 paychecks away from poverty

For people with a pioneering spirit, Africa, Ghana and some other African countries are the best.
One can liken this place to an unfinnished painting……. there are so many opportunities in every sense of the word. In Africa, the sky is the limit, especially for those who have skills and knowledge.

Yes we have problems, like very other country, but to me, there is no other place like mother Africa. …. and for the die hard bloggers, we have internet access too jus jokin!

Answer one question.

Would you have entered into the same deal if given the opportunity?

And if you say “no,” call your mama and tell her you a MF’n lie! Then slap the shit out of yourself for being about as smart as a sack of hair.

You know. Like Bob Johnson of BET if he hadn’t sucked up to HIllary. The Chenault reference was nothing more than a juxtaposition. A tool.

Perceived Establishment Success vs. Equity Success

I think it’s time smart black people revisit all of our assumptions.

White women aint feinting at Obama rally’s because ‘he went to college’.

White boys aint lip synching Fiddy in their F-150 triucks, because he’s a “Sambo”.

Those cats have tapped into something from which we could all learn.

You seem very hard on Chenault for his success but you call Obama a prophet. What makes Obama’s success in the white political world OK while Chenault’s success in the white business world makes him a bad role model?

a whole bunch of Negros go to Harvard. Very few moonwalk into the white house.

a whole bunch of Negros sell crack and rap. Very few parle $100M equity deals.

Ken Chenault could not win a seat in the Illinois legislature, let alone reduce Hillary Clinton to a political has been.

LL Cool J can rap his ass off, but he aint sell nothing more than Fubu.

Fiddy and Obama have more in common than Ken and Barack.

I’m not knocking education. I’m challenging the goal line.

Let that sink in.

DV, you and I are just wired differently.

Hey DV, check this out. I thought you might get a kick out of this:

“How can this Sambo…this uneducated street nigga have elevated to a level the CEO’s after whom I pattern myself and partners in my law firm will never even attain. There has to be a white man behind it. And even if he has amassed the type of wealth that it took Oprah 20 years to gain, he is still a fawking coon!” Prince Wayne

” 50 Cent might have done a lot with the Vitamin Water deal, but the content of his music and his being purchased for .0001% of Zionist, Inc. reveal him to be 100x more of a Sambo than your average corporate negro” -Big J

Envy is easy. Rise above it.

How is Obama rising to political success (and possibly becoming the CEO of the country) by going the same educational route through Harvard Law School any different than Chenault rising to corporate success with almost the same educational background?

They both moved up as attorneys and ended up in their profession of choice…being promoted (or voted in) by white people the whole way.

How is Chenault bad and Obama good?

Oh. Well, since you asked.

Barack Hussein Obama and Curtis Fiddy Cent Jackson - are the same.

Obama and Fiddy are both MC’s.

They are both Hip Hop artists. They both rap. They both make videos. They both thrill white folks. Different words. Same message. Their capital is their flow.

“Yes We Can” and “I Get Money” are the same chokras.

They both make something out of nothing, and then turn something into gold.

There would be no Barack Obama had it not been for Hip Hop.

Obama is hustling in the political world. Curtis is hustling in the business world.

Obama built a constituency, that could not be ignored. Fiddy built a fan base, that could not be ignored.

Their appeal transcends race. Nothing was “given” to Barack. Barack is taking what is his. He’s a hustler. His success is not the product of white largesse. Barack Obama is gangster.

But, ya’ll aint ready for this. Robyn might feel me. Big Wayne know’s what up. KP feels it, but aint gonna say nothing. Other than that, most of ya’ll won’t understand this until a white boy writes in Newsweek.
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“Contributing to the system that will continue to oppress and exploit millions, gazillions of African people all over the world is …” Cookie

Damn Cookie. That’s some heavy shit. You act like 50 Cent is the only Negro with a record deal. You surprising me today.

If your problem is with 50 dealing with Fox - say something to these corporate Negros who will be sitting their fat asses in front of High Def TV screens this fall watching Football on Fox Sports like their lives depend on it and playing Fantasy Football, like it’s real.

At least Fiddy has jumped from the ranks of consumer to producer.

Denzel Washington makes movies distributed by the same corporate behemoth - Is Denzel “Contributing to the system that will continue to oppress and exploit millions, gazillions of African people all over the world”?

I mean .. you know … damn.

What i like about 50 is that he is pioneering a new business model for black people: Talent in exchange for equity.

It’s about the BUSINESS MODEL Cookie. Not the man.