Black Economic Empowerment 101

Black Inventors, Innovators and Entrepreneurs are still trying to innovate in 2011. We are th salvation for the Black Community. Our unique gifts must be developed and supported by the Black Community, because the government at every level has unwritten plans that limit African American Inventors, Innovators and Entrepreneurs access to capital. Where are our AT&T, Coca Cola, Google, Facebook and Apples? It's not because we don't have the ideas and innovations. Our Black Leadership often focuses on Non-Economic Empowerment Issues. They help maintain us within our current conditions of poverty as repayment for getting elected. Their actions speak for themselves.

We as Black African Americans have everything we need to empower ourselves, except the Collective WIil to do so. We remain divided by our religions, politics, ignorance, class and self hatred. All of this can be corrected within six months with the right leadership.

To do so, we must make Economic Development our number one priority. The Black Community should make an effort to identify inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs within their community and select those who agree to operate without GREED. They should collectively pool $5 and $10 to create a Venture Capital Company and provide seed funding for incubator space, design and patent fees and the manufacturing. They should form Economic Development Partnerships with African Colleges and Universities that have science, engineering and technology programs. They should identify and train inventors, entrepreneurs and innovators, regardless of their race, who will create businesses within their communities, hire their people first and build factories to manufacture, warehouse and retail the products and service.

A percentage of the taxes collected from the sale of those products and services and wages should be used to continue this "Economic Development and Empowerment Process". This must be done without GREED! 25% of Something is better than 100% of Nothing. The Inventor, Entrepreneur, Investor, Worker, Politician and Community must take a pledge to avoid GREED. Greed defined: When Enough is Never Enough.

Respectfully,

Charles E. Campbell, Inventor, Innovator, Entrepreneur and Lover of Human Kind
Founder & CEO of Allen Hydro Energy Corporation
http://www.ahecEnergy.com
wbsbpd88@hotmail.com

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Black people are the master builders and designers, when discrimination and predjudice takes place against us
tecnology slows down. look at how far America has fallen since this country has pushed the Black man back and allowed immigrants to take the place of the Black race in this country. The new wave of descrimination has caused America to fall behind in the world . China has taken our place. I have nothing against immigrants, it's just that the Black man is once again sitting at the back of the bus. The immigrants are bringing a new wave of descrimination to this country in the form of, we hire our own, and train them on the job, regardless as to how much you know. Immigrants do not hire American born Blacks. Rome, Greece,Egypt, and the White House were designed and built by the Black race.

Yes I have a brother that is a designer, he has designed more products than any one can count . Produces that you see every day in the stores... he is willing to display them.

There is no excuse for us to not know our history. With the internet available why are we waiting for someone to point out to us what we have done and are doing. I send out Black History tidbits every February to my email network. However, I also send out websites where they can see what Blacks have and are accomplishing. It's on you to learn and teach your children. Here's a website for starters. Peace and blessings my people. http://www.ls.cc.al.us/blackhistory/blackhistory.html

I love doing black history, and I agree with you. We have invented a lot of things or that we should be responsible for a lot of things.

It seems that some on here have the wrong impression of the video and the accomplishment that blacks contributed to this nation. Blacks are not the lazy dump people as most would love to say. The blacks have done a lot and they had to do it the hard way.

They came to this country not able to speak nothing but their own language and not the native language of this and because of that they were call called dumb and stupid. Once they learned the language and the ways of this country they became very good at it. It took smartness to outwit the master to learn to read and write without them knowning it. Every skill they learn from the white races, the improved on it and made it better.

Why do you think the master prefer the food of the slave woman over his own wife or the planting of the garden over their overseaer. Because the blacks found ways to make the work easier on them and their families. They learn how make tools work for different things better.

The more education they had acquired the more they contribute to this country, yes and there were other people who stole their ideas and used it for their own. This was done first because blacks could not be given credit for things they done so it went under the white man names. But as time went along things start changing and blacks begin to have more rights but it was not cool to say that blacks had invented anything and it got swept under the rug for someone else to take the credit.

But from under the rugs of long ago came evidence of who did what and put a lie to rest that a lot of people to this day will not except. Blacks are smarts and they can accomplish just as much to the country as their foreparents did right along side of the white race and other race.

Even today with all the crime and jails filled with black youth we still have that many more who are making it the right way and is doing things the right way. They are also inventing things that we are now using and creating ideas for people to follow and the world still don't know it. But as the electronic age continue more people will begin to learn the accomplishment of the black race.

The reason for black history month is not to bring up the past in a negative light but to do what our foreparents had tried to teach their families a long time ago. Never let the dream and the ideas of where their family came from and to teach them their history about their homeland here and faraway. Because the slaves were not born here they did not want their chldren and generations after them to forget their history. Some of you need to go back and look at ROOTs by the late Alexis Haley, he told the story so beautifully and it should make all race think instead of hating. We all have things in the past we wish we could forget but it is part of history and we must remember that.

Taken from http://www.factmonster.com/spot/bhmscientists1.html. "Some slaves, who were skilled craftsmen, did create devices or techniques that benefited their masters' enterprises. According to a decision by the federal government in 1858, though, neither the slave nor the slave owner could claim ownership rights to such an invention."

But I say to you, even though the federal government in 1858 stated that neither the slave nor slave owner could claim ownership rights to such inventions", slave owners could steal the invention from black inventors and patent them under their names. What slave would stand up to the slave master and accused them of stealing their invention? The punishment for that would have most likely been death. The history of Black Inventors is almost non existent prior to this time and well after 1858. Consider the source! America's history has voided most of the contributions of blacks because they had no regards for them as human beings. In 1870, blacks could patent, but how many do you think made it safely to the patent office? I don't doubt that there maybe evidence support ing the fact that certain inventions were not atributed to blacks, but does that mean that blacks were not the inventors.. If one did not control the pen that recorded the history, than most likely any contrabution made would have been attributed to whites because that was that time they lived in.

Being an inventor, I know there are laws giving me the right to patent any invention I invent now, but because it's an expensive process it's easy to be taken advantag of because of the desire to have ones invention in the market place. That said, inventions are still being stolen today that have been invented by blacks and anyone without the means to run the gamete of the patent process.