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- The Demise Of Emerge And The
Ethics Of Black Capitalism
- By Ron Daniels, The Black World Today, 29
June 2000. Keith Clinkscales, CEO of Vanguarde Media
Group, the publisher of Emerge magazine, and
Robert Johnson, President/CEO of B.E.T. Holdings, which
owns Vanguarde Media, have apparently abandoned
Emerge’s effective social criticism to
produce a watered down, more popular, publication in order
to maximize profits. The ethics of Black Capitalism.
- Black Capitalism, part I
- By Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 18 January 2001. About Black
capitalism ‘freeing us’ Black folks. This is
one brother who ain’t sniffing what they’se
defecating! Capitalism is a system of exploitation of the
poor and working people, and it does not matter that a
class of Black entrepreneurs have arisen to sell us
things.
- Black Capitalism: Part II
- By Lorenzo Combo Ervin, 19 February 2001. Many
misunderstood the point of Part I. The author is not
opposed to some individuals creating a business, but to
Black people being told that this as the only
way we can get free. This kind of argument chains
Blacks even more to the political plantation and lays us
open to exploitation by a new class of masters selling
fairy tales of economic riches.
- Black Elitism/Black Capitalism: Part II;
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- By Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 3 March 2001. What kind of
society do we really want? One which has classes of
desperately poor and excessively rich, one which has all
economic power in the hands of a white [or some day Black]
elite, or one where the needs of the people are met and we
are all on the same economic level?
- Black Capitalism: Part III
- By Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 2 March 2001. Because of the
transformation of the capitalist economy and more poverty,
we have to rethink many economic issues instead of just
accepting Tony Brown’s, the white
conservatives’, or the government’s own
arguments as to who is in the Black middle class and
therefore
doing good.