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Welfare Kings & Mosquito Power: Stripping the Mask Off the Trillionaire Illusion

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Welfare Kings & Mosquito Power: Stripping the Mask Off the Trillionaire Illusion Pull up a chair to the porch, family. Let’s have some real talk about the grand illusion being spun across the modern landscape. Right now, the mainstream media is throwing a festival, asking us to look at the screen and celebrate the arrival of the world’s first trillionaire. They want you conditioned to look at these tech titans as self-made gods who built empires out of thin air. But when you drop the weight of their false narratives, the reality is stark: these men are the ultimate Welfare Kings. They are propped up entirely on public dimes, multi-billion dollar government contracts, exclusive set-asides, and massive tax credits. It isn't wealth creation; it is the systematic looting of our collective economy while our elders struggle in neglected homes and everyday workers rely on public assistance to supplement corporate wages. To understand how heavy this burden is, we have to look at the m...
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Salute to Nommo X

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I have to start this by saluting the men who have blazed a path in my life. I will do this in order and then I will dive in to this tribute. First I have to give shots out to my grandfather Cleven Brown who taught me to care and take care of my family (RIP). Next in line I have to say thank you to the person who this article is about Nommo X. Nommo then introduced me to Dr. Moriba Kelsey the founder of APDS, and the Tawi Village. Through Dr. Kelsey and Nommo I met Dr. Lewis Dodley entrepreneur and the Baba of the Simba Nation. Through Baba Dodley I was introduced to Gaylord Thomas. These men have shaped me through the fire of their love into who I am today. You may never hear about these men but they are in my pantheon of greatness. When I needed fatherly guidance each of these men gave it to me in their own way. Nommo X was a historian, warrior, entrepreneur, and a all around great man. He was a mentor that accepted you where you were and helped moved you to where you needed to be. ...
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Sending Props to Seth Godin

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On this Journey you have to sometimes adjust your trajectory. You sometimes end up on a dead end trail, because the Journey is about gaining the experience so that you can share what you know. At these times it is good to humble yourself and admit that you are lost. What I have found in life is  that when you let your ego go and ask the universe for help, something always appears. Sometimes it's a book, a map, gift, and if you are lucky  a person. During one of my lost moments, I happened to be on TED.com looking for videos. This is when I ran into Seth Godin's presentation entitled " The Tribes We Lead ". He presented answer to questions I had been wrestling with. I suggested that those on the Journey check the video out. Now I want to send props for a few major things I learned from @sethgodin: 1. I was not trying to build organizations, but Tribes. It was something I had being doing but did not know what to call it. By being introduced to this idea, I have cha...
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