Saturday, August 2, 2014

Some Numbers from Louis Farrakhan

Louis Farrakhan writes to his people:

Did you know this? Black people spend:

$3.3 billion per year on tobacco.
$3 billion per year on whiskey, wine and beer.
$2.8 billion per year on the non-alcoholic beverages.
$3.1 billion per year on leisure time.
$3.5 billion per year on toys, games, and pets.
$19 billion per year on telephone services.
$10 billion per year on buying gifts for one another.
$13 billion per year on gambling.
$29.3 billion per year on clothing.

And after all these things that we spend in the billions, do you know how much we spend on books? We spend $321 million.

We must follow the moral and financial guidance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to unlearn the behaviors that keep us poor, and the merchants of other communities rich.

2 comments:

  1. "Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
    Tug McGraw

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  2. Books are nice, especially used ones you can get for pennies, but internet is 1000x better and 1000x cheaper.

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