John Hope Bryant
@johnhopebryant
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Entrepreneur | Founder and CEO of @OperationHOPE , @promisehomesco , and Bryant Group Ventures. Bestselling author: Up From Nothing, THE MEMO, and more!
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I love my Black folks enough to tell you the TRUTH.
5,000 jobs in music..
5,000 jobs in pro sports..
10,000 jobs in entertainment..
Are NOT enough to save 48M Black people who need REGULAR skills.
#Engineering
#computing
#business
#healthcare
#realestate
#professions
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It’s time to make smart sexy again. We’ve been making dumb sexy, for too dang gone long.
👏🏽
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Slavery Facts
- The largest economy in the world was built by Black slaves
- The first millionaire in America came from financing cotton
- 1 out of 5 people in the world in the 1800s were involved or connected to the cotton industry which came from Black slaves
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First they will ignore you.
Then they will criticize you.
Then they will try to copy you.
And then, you win. 👏🏽🦅
When you decide to get into this race to win, call my team at
@OperationHOPE
as your backup.
We are the private banker to the working class.
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“If you hang around 9 broke people, you’ll be the 10th.”
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If you have a Range Rover, a Rolex, and rent in the same sentence — you've got your priorities mixed up.
Remember: for some people the more money they make, the broker they get.
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How to build Black wealth? We need to spend less money on jewelry and cars and start spending our money on stocks, owning homes, and appreciating assets.
Continuing my
#StraightTalk
conversation from yesterday — let's keep building Black wealth! 👇🏽
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This was a powerful interview segment on
@SquawkCNBC
yesterday morning, unveiling
@FL4_ALL
, and the 10-yr plan.. See the COMPLETE interview w/me and Ed Bastian, CEO of
@Delta
here.
Delta CEO and Operation Hope CEO on the need for financial literacy
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“Nothing changes your life more than God or love, than moving your credit score 120 points.” 👏🏽
Go see a
@HOPEInsides
#HOPEFinancialCoach
at
@OperationHOPE
today.
We are the private banker for the working class.
Make that appt today.
It just might change your life.
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I cannot promise you that being positive, will make you a success.
But I guarantee you, that being negative, will make you fail.
Get your mindset right and your wallet will follow. Read
#UpFromNothing
and sign up for financial coaching at an
@OperationHOPE
location. 👏🏽
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After World War II, in 1947, out of thousands of loans made by the gov to secure homeownership in Mississippi to war vets, only 2 loans — were made to Blacks.
This is, beyond sad.
And then we wonder why white net worth is more than 10x that of blacks. Here you go.
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Did you know that 50%+ of African-Americans have a credit score of below 620? This effectively locks them outside of the free enterprise system. NOT -- good for America.
We can actually FIX -- this problem!
HOPE 700 Credit Score Index
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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 🦅
When you’re ready for some, call my team at
@OperationHOPE
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We need…
A new generation of jobs, for those amongst the underserved, who desire to cash checks.
And a new generation of wealth, for those willing to write checks.
Part of this is executed through
@1MBB_2030
w/
@Shopify
@OperationHOPE
Let’s go.
#SilverRights
👏🏽
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Let’s make smart sexy, again.
It takes 20 years to change a culture.
In the last 20 years, we have made dumb sexy. We dumbed down, and even celebrated it.
It’s time to make smart sexy, again. Are you in?
I’m doing my part with
@OperationHOPE
and things like
#1MBB
👏🏽
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Fact: If you take metro Atlanta OUT of Georgia, the state of Georgia is poorer than Mississippi.
Diversity and inclusion is not a nice to have here in Georgia. It’s an economic necessity. For all.
The real color that matters most, is green.
👏🏽
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Boom! Front page of the LA Times...featuring the powerful and unforgettable moments during last week’s Bus Tour with
@OperationHOPE
to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Rodney King riots.
30 years later, we're joining hands and hearts to remember, restore, and reconcile.
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“There is a difference between being broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic situation, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, and depressed condition of the soul, and we must vow to never, ever, be poor again.”
JHB. 🦅
Take your life back.
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Boom!
“I believe that financial literacy is a civil rights issue for our generation.” And now we have a movement, behind it.
#FinancialLiteracy4All
👇🏽
Top Business Leaders Launch Movement to Embed Financial Literacy Into American Culture
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Don't react to life, that's emotional ❌
Respond to life, that's your personal power 👊🏽
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you choose to respond, what's your response going to be?
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One person (or three…) CAN make a difference. Here I focus on the efforts of
@VanJones68
@PrezGTFrench
and our work at
@OperationHOPE
for
@1MBB_2030
. 👇🏽
3 Black Men. $300 Million. A Time for Change. That Time is Now. .
FYI
@rolandsmartin
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To be clear, this was racist, and he was absolutely, talking about black people. And as my friend
@Bakari_Sellers
accurately said — ‘he made his own personal wealth, off the back of the same people he derides.’ So very sad.
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Boom! This is the
#NewBlackWallStreetwork
at
@OperationHOPE
Let's BUILD! We're all in this together!
The Tulsa Massacre and Black Capitalism via
@FacebookWatch
👇🏽
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Anger is not a strategy and frustration is not a business plan.
Instead of dwelling on how unfair the system is, we need to find ways to level the playing field of an unfair system!
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The life of an entrepreneur goes a little something like this...
While they’re sleeping, you’re working
While they’re partying, you’re studying
When they leave early, you stay late
When they spend, you invest
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable and build your DREAM!
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If poverty was rational, poor people would not be poor.
A payday lender across the street from an
@FDICgov
insured bank makes no sense — but this is in every poor community across America.
What we need now — is a radical movement of common sense. That’s
@OperationHOPE
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During my
#JuneTeenth2021
conversation with my friend, Dr.
@BerniceKing
, she challenged us to not build a residence in our pain, but to change our way of thinking.
Remember, we must learn to fight with our head, not our fists!
This is
#SilverRights
! 👇🏽
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Worth. Watching. Leave your politics aside, and just watch it. See if it connects massively to common sense. It should. Respectfully stated. 👇🏽
Chris Hayes with a masterful two minutes debunking GOP lies about the Texas power outages...
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Blacks need game changing ‘good debt.’ Yes — good debt. There is a difference.
Only one fifth of blacks have mortgage debt today (thus a home that they own), while half of white Americans have mortgage debt.
If we can’t qualify, then we can’t access, and we can’t own.
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We say we don’t like capitalism, but this is precisely why most people FAIL in pursuing dreams.
You are - human capital. You use your ‘human capital’ as employees, trading your skill for a risk/managed job.
Others take more risks, as business owners, entrepreneurs. 👏🏽
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News flash: Simply spending money daily is NOT a talent or a gift.
Folks continue to amaze me, bragging about how well they SPEND (and then floss on about it).
Want to impress me? Get an A in Math. 😂 😂😂
#FinancialLiteracy
and the work of
@OperationHOPE
is the key. 👏🏽
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What’s almost as toxic as racism? Systemic lack of access to credit and Opportunity.
54% of Blacks report having no credit or poor to fair credit score, or a score below 640, according to survey of 5,000 U.S. adults by Credit Sesame.
Half, locked out prime capital. 🙄
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The 2021
@HopeGlobalForum
matters — this is our moment.
Times are changing but our mission remains the same —to make the global economy work for everyone.
I'll be going live on my Facebook page during the event, RSVP as 'Going' today at
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"It's hard to get someone to agree to the truth, when the lie is paying their paycheck."
Deep.
President
@BillClinton
wisdom.
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It’s just so sad when crap likes this gets floated around.
@ChelseaClinton
is first class people, decent and honest.
Bill Clinton: Accusation that foundation paid for daughter's wedding a 'personal insult' - CNN
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“You cannot segregate your heart, and then want to integrate your pockets.”
Racism doesn’t work.
It’s scientifically stupid, and it’s an economic kiss of death for a person, a company, a community, a state, or a nation.
Every racist U.S. city ~ underperforms.
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I'm honored to be 'Meeting the Moment' with some of the best and brightest leaders from around the world during the 2021
@HopeGlobalForum
!
#HGF21
is an investment in you, you don't want to miss this!
Request an invitation to
#HGF21
at
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Our WORK:
"Hello
@OperationHOPE
. Thank you for your support to help improve my financial status. When I started I had $0 in savings, and now I have $73,015.40 in savings, and my credit score is better. I will continue to use the strategies you taught me. Sincerely, Jackie"
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I'm honored to announce that
@OperationHOPE
has launched The Helping Hand Fund, a $500,000 commitment, to assist those renters who are facing eviction as a result of the pandemic and its economic impact.
Learn more at .
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To my wife, my secret weapon, Mrs. Chaitra Dalton Bryant.
Today is our 5th wedding anniversary, and we continue to get better, together. Actually, she MAKES me better. Her Butterfly, softens my Eagle. Our 2+2 is far greater than four, and my life is far richer because of her.
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On a mission to create 1 million new black businesses by 2030, powered by
@OperationHOPE
and
@Shopify
. It's time for a movement. Tell friends to sign up!
John Hope Bryant vows to create one million Black entrepreneurs, businesses w/$130 million fund
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Wow — national nursing home association just reported ZERO new cases of COVID-19, thanks to a smart vaccine implementation plan for seniors!
Reason for hope.
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Making money is different than building wealth.
Anyone ‘can’ make money. But that won’t last alone.
But building WEALTH is a mindset.
You also build wealth in your sleep. Through compounding.
What are YOU compounding when you sleep? Let it NOT be just stress & worry.
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44% of Blacks own a home. 75% of our White counterparts own a home. I’m the largest minority owner of single family rental homes in America with over 700 homes, and I’m encouraging you NOT to rent. The number one way to build wealth is through homeownership.
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“You cannot segregate your heart, and then want to integrate your pockets.”
Racism is not just wrong, it’s scientifically stupid.
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It’s never easy to do good. But you will never go wrong, doing right.
I cannot guarantee you that being good and positive will guarantee you success, but I absolutely guarantee you ~ that being negative and hurtful, will ultimately cause you to fail.
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Leadership is a learned art form. 😂😎👏🏽
Big brother knows there will be no treats until they both sit...
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Oh no.....
@JamesIngramsing
was a friend, someone I always admired, loved, respected. I knew he had some health issues, but this still hits, hurts. My heart goes out. R&B Legend James Ingram Dead at 66 from Brain Cancer
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Boom! Honored and excited to announce that
@NBA
Commissioner Adam Silver and
@NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell joined
#FinancialLiteracy4All
as founders.
Imagine for a moment, the cultural brand power of this alone, to do GOOD. 👏🏽
#FL4All
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Kudos here
@jack
. Proud of your leadership here. It is
#SilverRights
empowerment from the bottom up.
Jack Dorsey's Square just committed $100 million to boost Black-owned banks and businesses. Here's where the money is going.
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Struggling person, says they hate rich people, until THEY become rich.
Actually, struggling people don’t hate rich people. They hate a gamed system.
We need to OPEN the system if free enterprise and aspiration to all. This is the DAILY work of
@OperationHOPE
👏🏽
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Stop hitting your face against someone else's fist by going into debt for something that is nothing more than another bill. 👇🏽
Bills and Building: What Poor People Are Doing Wrong via
@FacebookWatch
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700 credit score communities don’t riot.
Only 500 credit score communities, riot. Of all races, political parties and places.
It’s not about — the credit score. It’s about the trending indicators of hope that undergird, define and produce — those credit scores.
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As we reflect upon the devastating effects that
#COVID19
is having on Black America, remember this also:
“African Americans have been doing so much, with so little, for so long, we can almost, do anything, with nothing.”
All. We will, get through this.
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Capitalism is a Gladiator sport.
Don’t expect folks to throw rose pedals at your feel, and trying not to hurt your feelings and such. It’s NOT personal. So stop taking it as such.
But — you were BUILT — for this time.
You were built — to WIN.
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I don’t believe in nonprofit competition. That's an oxymoron.
There is no such thing, as nonprofit competition. That's a sickness.
There is enough poverty, to go around.
We should be about collaboration, not competition.
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What, is wrong w/our humanity? Shoot and kill, a mother, grandmother, wife, an innocent soul. I knew Mrs. Avant. And her family. And I am soooo torn up by this news. My heart goes out. 💔
Whomever did this, there’s a special place reserved, in Hell.
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"Be careful the toes you step on in life. They may be connected to the rear end you have to kiss, later in that same life." 😳🙄😝
👏🏽🦅
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“I love math, because math doesn’t have an opinion.”
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Blacks own the same amount of wealth in America that we did in 1860, or half of 1%. This is the legacy of slavery and its reverse transfer of wealth, the unfinished work of the
#FreedmansBank
, and us NOT getting
#TheMemo
on wealth.
Why I founded
@OperationHOPE
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My vision for the next decade, and what the private sector can do to help reset our nation to achieve its greatest potential.
This is social justice through an economic lens.
Let’s begin THIS conversation. 👏🏽
The Third Reconstruction
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Nearly 1 in 100 Americans now have COVID.
It’s time we knock off the dumb stuff, and everyone go get VACCINATED. It means:
1. You don’t die.
2. You don’t clog up hospital emergency rooms with no beds.
3. You handle COVID at home, like a mild flu.
Knock it off.
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In a taping now w/one of my heroes and friends,
@BishopJakes
- he said ‘if you don’t read, you cannot LEAD.’ That is sooooo true.
Stop complaining, stop just watching social media feeds on your phone. Take an hour and READ A BOOK!! A BOOK!
😳🙄😝😂👏🏽
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This is a BIG deal. Need to make sure that the black banks can handle this, so we need to insure the operational software upgrade of how we do business also. Bravo
@netflix
.
Netflix to Shift $100 Million in Cash Into Black-Owned Banks
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When you invest in black business and the black community, and grow American GDP, even the racist wins.
👏🏽
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Redemption. Very cool.
Former gang member is named Missouri's Teacher of the Year
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“Black folks basically vote in large numbers twice — when we are proud, and when we are pissed.”
We were (very) proud when
@BarackObama
ran.
But we were downright P.I.S.S.E.D off in 2020.
We felt duped, and flipped off. W/both hands.
@JoeBiden
got that benefit
😳🙄😂👏🏽
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We don’t need to Defund the Police, we need to re-imagine the ALLOCATION of current funding TO/FOR our policing, and possibly add more; focused on 1) greatly enhanced training, 2) 100% requires cameras, 3) proven community based policing, 4) community oversight etc
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At
@OperationHOPE
we see ‘social justice through an economic lens.’
We are sitting in a moment in history. Right now.
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- Black slaves worked for free for 270+ years
- Black slaves were worth 2x more than railroads, which was arguably the most valuable asset
- Black slaves were agricultural genius – no one understood land like Blacks
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There are three primary mindsets in life.
Surviving.
Thriving.
Winning.
Winners are BUILDERS. Thrivers are the American middle class. We need more of both.
The problem is, we have WAY to many folks who are STUCK w/a survivors mindset.
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This is sooooooo deep. Now how many people, knew THIS important fact of our shared history? Crazy. And yes, the broken chains, are still there.👇🏾
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts
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This. This. This. 👇🏾
“Why must you always concentrate on color?”
(“Why must you bring race into this Rittenhouse trial?”)
James Baldwin had a few thoughts…
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Okay, this is funny. I absolutely didn’t know that ‘Room Ratings’ were A Thing. 😂
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From The Wall Street Journal: John Hope Bryant’s Grassroots Fight Against Racism and Poverty. An entrepreneur is trying to narrow the racial wealth gap through a nonprofit that teaches financial literacy, improves credit scores and facilitates loans.
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Timeless! These have to be the coolest photos EVER! This is what 92 years old and cool looks like with a timeless wife. The amazing global civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young and his wife, Carolyn.
#Love
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Bless you Steve Kerr. I feel your pain, and of course, he is completely right. US Senators refuse to vote on the most basic background check for guns. That said, we really just need to ban the rampant availability of GUNS.
This is just, nuts. My heart goes out 🙏🏽.
Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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“If you want to stop the crime, or start the economic climb in our underserved communities, do these 4 simple things:
- Jobs
- Businesses and entrepreneurship
- Capital access
- Homeownership
The same things that stabilize and grow, everyone else, everywhere else
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@kimKBaltimore
That’s interesting.
@rolandsmartin
is one of the top 10 media voices in Black America today based on data, and I know of three media company deals he has turned down. He’s a great guy. I trust him. Many follow. 💪🏾
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You know, America use to speak softy and carry a VERY big stick in the world.
These days, it sometimes feels like we are speaking very LOUDLY, and carrying a relatively little stick. That can’t be good.
What do you think?
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Now THIS — is what leadership looks like. My friend Ed Bastian, CEO of
@Delta
said this: ‘The right to vote is sacred.’ We spoke last night, but this...is simply beautiful. A statement of radical common sense. Read, and be inspired.
@OperationHOPE
, this is our partner. 👏🏽
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Did you know that Dr. King got a C in public speaking from one college, and preaching from yet another?
Never let anyone tell you — what you cannot do. The world just may not be ready for you yet.
Keep charging. Forward.
👏🏽
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We need to make smart sexy again.
It takes 20 years to change a culture, and for the longest time, we have been making dumb sexy in this country. And in our culture. We have dumbed down and celebrated it.
It’s time, to make smart sexy, again. 👏🏽
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Some advice I’d give my younger self:
1. Don’t be concerned what anyone thinks about you
2. Be your own best advisor - I like what I’m doing, much better than what other folks are NOT doing.
3. Get toxic people out of your life and become comfortable in your own skin!
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Nothing will stop us. NOTHING. No one. No virus. No enemy. No foe. No headwinds. No financial, economic, political, health or emotional challenges — shall stop America, and Americans— all of us — from reaching our potential as a people.
This is a marathon. Let’s go.
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Did you know that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once received a C- in public speaking from Crozer Seminary?
Translation: Never. Ever. EVER. Give up…
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Every person, should read this. Slowly, and with intentionality for the unvarnished truth.
How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans | HISTORY
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A good man, passes here. He will be missed. He contributed. He changed things. He’s been Promoted. Gone on, to a better place.
Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader, dies at 98
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“American cannot to be our best w/half the country high school educated ONLY, and expect to be a world class leader, to banish racism, advancing opportunity for all, and to be the leader of the free world. We need a country priorizing K-College education.”
JHB
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America needs Blacks, Latinos, women, everyone to start businesses and to be apart of the economy. There’s not enough college educated White men to drive the economy for the next 30-40 years. This is not a racial comment - it’s demographics. We’re all in this together.
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This is — brilliant.
@CityofAtlanta
@KeishaBottoms
@ATLairport
heads up. A brilliant idea here. 👏🏽👇🏽
Here’s how you get people to use the steps instead of the escalator.
Wait for it...
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Ja Morant, if you want to relate to the ghetto, secure the bag then go open a foundation. Start a financial program, a literacy program, a mentoring program, an internship program, a bball camp, whatever.
We’ve been making dumb sexy for too long. We need to make smart sexy again
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Honored to be associated with the likes of
@BishopJakes
. Follow him, and my various channels as well.
Watch this deep conversation between us.
And of course, get your copy of
#UpFromNothing
. It's now Top 25 globally in its best seller category on Amazon. 💪🏽
In
@JohnHopeBryant
's latest book, "Up From Nothing: The Untold Story of How We (All) Succeed," he reminds us that winners are built by failure.
Subscribe to and watch the full interview now.
#TDJOnline
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Over it.
Around it.
Through it.
One way, or another. We MUST commit to get TO it.
Success, and the finish line, I mean.
👏🏽
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Go buy a house in the hood, rehab it & rent it. Take the equity from that home, buy another house, rehab it (use a Black vendor) & rent it. Buy 3 homes & you’re set for life. That’s what you call generational wealth. Stop renting uptown to impress people & buy downtown.
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News flash. Those who say that ‘you don’t own the home because the bank has a loan on it,’ are just wrong. Respectfully stated.
Every smart capitalist uses good debt to leverage their returns, and to build wealth.
NET WORTH ~ is the number to focus on growing.
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Look our world — here comes my new friend Sarah Bond, making change and growing the space for opportunity within
@Microsoft
and
@Xbox
. Only 2% of coders in gaming are black. She aims to change that.
Xbox executive calls for more diversity in gaming
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Yep. If she were black....well, we would be talking about church services, not court services. Unbelievable.
This is crazy. And if she were Black she’d be very dead.
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Love is work. That’s it. That’s all of it.
Because whatever you love. Whomever you love, it or they will drive you a little crazy sometimes. But it’s WORTH it. Because, love is everything.
Don’t push away from it. Embrace it.
👏🏽
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