By :Eboni Jones 

 

 

Dr. Claude Anderson is a black to commemorate. You may recall instances like Ferguson, the shooting of Michael Brown or the riots in Baltimore.

Dr. Anderson believes and stresses in the black community that blacks will never receive the civil respect they deserve because of their lack of economic clout. Because of his work in reconstructing downtown Detroit and elsewhere in the country, we are profiling Dr. Anderson in honor of Black History Month.

With money comes respect. Anderson says blacks must invest in themselves in order to build up economic clout. Increased economic clout is believed to help build political representation for blacks in America.

Anderson calls these outlooks “PowerNomics.”  Powernomics is a new concept he developed to examine race and explain it to those who seek truth from unvarnished historical perspective.

Cut off from land, religion, families and cultures for over 400 years, blacks still struggle with who they are and what they are to do in this new world of captivity.

“Blacks may be free from chains but are still slaves of a system. The American system,” says Anderson in his YouTube video.

Two words: “Black enterprise.” Black enterprise is the goal of the century for blacks in America.

Citizens of North America are free but the best they can do for themselves and family is to get a job or collect government funded dollars. Don’t grow, don’t dominate. Stay still at work and go home. Don’t invent, don’t invest, don’t invite. Just work and go home.

That is the American plan, the American dream. But the people in America have a different dream. The people in America have a different plan. Where it will lead them, one can only estimate.

There will be more rebellion, there will be more protests and there will be more war. Anti-hate groups like Not In Our Town, Call to Action, NAACP and more understand that slavery still exists in America and they understand that old habits die real hard.

“If we do not know our history we do not know our mistakes,” Anderson says.

Anderson is a teacher of economics. He understands that history has put blacks in their current economic state. And it is our job as future history makers to change the course. Take the time out and listen to Dr. Claude Anderson. You can find him using a simple search engine like Google.

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