12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself
I saw this on a message board and found it very interesting:
12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself
by Nannie Helen Burroughs (Circa Early 1900's)
1. The Negro Must Learn To Put First Things First. The First Things Are: Education; Development of Character Traits; A Trade and Home Ownership. · The Negro puts too much of his earning in clothes, in food, in show and in having what he calls "a good time." The Dr. Kelly Miller said, "The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he Needs." Too true!
2. The Negro Must Stop Expecting God and White Folk To Do For Him What He Can Do For Himself. · It is the "Divine Plan" that the strong shall help the weak, but even God does not do for man what man can do for himself. The Negro will have to do exactly what Jesus told the man (in John 5: to do--Carry his own load--"Take up your bed and walk."
3. The Negro Must Keep Himself, His Children And His Home Clean And Make The Surroundings In Which He Lives Comfortable and Attractive. · He must learn to "run his community up"--not down. We can segregate by law, we integrate only by living. Civilization is not a matter of race, it is a matter of standards. Believe it or not--some day, some race is going to outdo the Anglo-Saxon, completely. It can be the Negro race, if the Negro gets sense enough. Civilization goes up and down that way.
4. The Negro Must Learn To Dress More Appropriately For Work And For Leisure. · Knowing what to wear--how to wear it--when to wear it and where to wear it, are earmarks of common sense, culture and also an index to character.
5. The Negro Must Make His Religion An Everyday Practice And Not Just A Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Emotional Affair.
6. The Negro Must Highly Resolve To Wipe Out Mass Ignorance. · The leaders of the race must teach and inspire the masses to become eager and determined to improve mentally, morally and spiritually, and to meet the basic requirements of good citizenship. · We should initiate an intensive literacy campaign in America, as well as in Africa. Ignorance-- satisfied ignorance --is a millstone abut the neck of the race. It is democracy's greatest burden. · Social integration is a relationship attained as a result of the cultivation of kindred social ideals, interests and standards. · It is a blending process that requires time, understanding and kindred purposes to achieve. Likes alone and not laws can do it.
7. The Negro Must Stop Charging His Failures Up To His "Color" And To White People's Attitude. · The truth of the matter is that good service and conduct will make senseless race prejudice fade like mist before the rising sun. · God never intended that a man's color shall be anything other than a badge of distinction . It is high time that all races were learning that fact. The Negro must first QUALIFY for whatever position he wants. Purpose, initiative, ingenuity and industry are the keys that all men use to get what they want. The Negro will have to do the same. He must make himself a workman who is too skilled not to be wanted, and too DEPENDABLE not to be on the job, according to promise or plan He will never become a vital factor in industry until he learns to put into his work the vitalizing force of initiative, skill and dependability. He has gone "RIGHTS" mad and "DUTY" dumb.
8. The Negro Must Overcome His Bad Job Habits. · He must make a brand new reputation for himself in the world of labor. His bad job habits are absenteeism, funerals to attend, or a little business to look after. The Negro runs an off and on business. He also has a bad reputation for conduct on the job--such as petty quarrelling with other help, incessant loud talking about nothing; loafing, carelessness, due to lack of job pride; insolence, gum chewing and--too often--liquor drinking. Just plain bad job habits!
9. He Must Improve His Conduct In Public Places. · Taken as a whole, he is entirely too loud and too ill-mannered. · There is much talk about wiping out racial segregation and also much talk about achieving integration. · Segregation is a physical arrangement by which people are separated in various services. · It is definitely up to the Negro to wipe out the apparent justification or excuse for segregation. · The only effective way to do it is to clean up and keep clean. By practice, cleanliness will become a habit and habit becomes character.
10. The Negro Must Learn How To Operate Business For People--Not For Negro People, Only. · To do business, he will have to remove all typical "earmarks," business principles; measure up to accepted standards and meet stimulating competition, graciously--in fact, he must learn to welcome competition.
11. The Average So-Called Educated Negro Will Have To Come Down Out Of The Air. He Is Too Inflated Over Nothing. He Needs An Experience Similar To The One That Ezekiel Had--(Ezekiel 3:14-19). And He Must Do What Ezekiel Did · Otherwise, through indifference, as to the plight of the masses, the Negro, who thinks that he has escaped, will lose his own soul. It will do all leaders good to read Hebrew 13:3, and the first Thirty-seven Chapters of Ezekiel. · A race transformation itself through its own leaders and its sensible "common people." A race rises on its own wings, or is held down by its own weight. True leaders are never "things apart from the people." They are the masses. They simply got to the front ahead of them. Their only business at the front is to inspire to masses by hard work and noble example and challenge them to "Come on!" Dante stated a fact when he said, "Show the people the light and they will find the way!" · There must arise within the Negro race a leadership that is not out hunting bargains for itself. A noble example is found in the men and women of the Negro race, who, in the early days, laid down their lives for the people. Their invaluable contributions have not been appraised by the "latter-day leaders." In many cases, their names would never be recorded, among the unsung heroes of the world, but for the fact that white friends have written them there. "Lord, God of Hosts, Be with us yet." · The Negro of today does not realize that, but, for these exhibits A's, that certainly show the innate possibilities of members of their own race, white people would not have been moved to make such princely investments in lives and money, as they have made, for the establishment of schools and for the on-going of the race.
12. The Negro Must Stop Forgetting His Friends. "Remember." · Read Deuteronomy 24:18. Deuteronomy rings the big bell of gratitude. Why? Because an ingrate is an abomination in the sight of God. God is constantly telling us that "I the Lord thy God delivered you" --through human instrumentalities. · The American Negro has had and still has friends--in the North and in the South. These friends not only pray, speak, write, influence others, but make unbelievable, unpublished sacrifices and contributions for the advancement of the race--for their brothers in bonds. · The noblest thing that the Negro can do is to so live and labor that these benefactors will not have given in vain. The Negro must make his heart warm with gratitude, his lips sweet with thanks and his heart and mind resolute with purpose to justify the sacrifices and stand on his feet and go forward-- "God is no respector of persons. In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is" sure to win out. Get to work! That's the answer to everything that hurts us. We talk too much about nothing instead of redeeming the time by working.
R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R · In spite of race prejudice, America is brim full of opportunities. Go after them!
I posted this on my board and some found it offensive. I think it was intended to be an "in general" piece of writing. Nothing that is ever written about Blacks speaks to every single one of us. This list reminds me of the book, The Mis-education of the Negro. I didn't find it offensive, I found it more as a tool to do some self-evaluating...but that's just my opinion.
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12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself
by Nannie Helen Burroughs (Circa Early 1900's)
1. The Negro Must Learn To Put First Things First. The First Things Are: Education; Development of Character Traits; A Trade and Home Ownership. · The Negro puts too much of his earning in clothes, in food, in show and in having what he calls "a good time." The Dr. Kelly Miller said, "The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he Needs." Too true!
2. The Negro Must Stop Expecting God and White Folk To Do For Him What He Can Do For Himself. · It is the "Divine Plan" that the strong shall help the weak, but even God does not do for man what man can do for himself. The Negro will have to do exactly what Jesus told the man (in John 5: to do--Carry his own load--"Take up your bed and walk."
3. The Negro Must Keep Himself, His Children And His Home Clean And Make The Surroundings In Which He Lives Comfortable and Attractive. · He must learn to "run his community up"--not down. We can segregate by law, we integrate only by living. Civilization is not a matter of race, it is a matter of standards. Believe it or not--some day, some race is going to outdo the Anglo-Saxon, completely. It can be the Negro race, if the Negro gets sense enough. Civilization goes up and down that way.
4. The Negro Must Learn To Dress More Appropriately For Work And For Leisure. · Knowing what to wear--how to wear it--when to wear it and where to wear it, are earmarks of common sense, culture and also an index to character.
5. The Negro Must Make His Religion An Everyday Practice And Not Just A Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Emotional Affair.
6. The Negro Must Highly Resolve To Wipe Out Mass Ignorance. · The leaders of the race must teach and inspire the masses to become eager and determined to improve mentally, morally and spiritually, and to meet the basic requirements of good citizenship. · We should initiate an intensive literacy campaign in America, as well as in Africa. Ignorance-- satisfied ignorance --is a millstone abut the neck of the race. It is democracy's greatest burden. · Social integration is a relationship attained as a result of the cultivation of kindred social ideals, interests and standards. · It is a blending process that requires time, understanding and kindred purposes to achieve. Likes alone and not laws can do it.
7. The Negro Must Stop Charging His Failures Up To His "Color" And To White People's Attitude. · The truth of the matter is that good service and conduct will make senseless race prejudice fade like mist before the rising sun. · God never intended that a man's color shall be anything other than a badge of distinction . It is high time that all races were learning that fact. The Negro must first QUALIFY for whatever position he wants. Purpose, initiative, ingenuity and industry are the keys that all men use to get what they want. The Negro will have to do the same. He must make himself a workman who is too skilled not to be wanted, and too DEPENDABLE not to be on the job, according to promise or plan He will never become a vital factor in industry until he learns to put into his work the vitalizing force of initiative, skill and dependability. He has gone "RIGHTS" mad and "DUTY" dumb.
8. The Negro Must Overcome His Bad Job Habits. · He must make a brand new reputation for himself in the world of labor. His bad job habits are absenteeism, funerals to attend, or a little business to look after. The Negro runs an off and on business. He also has a bad reputation for conduct on the job--such as petty quarrelling with other help, incessant loud talking about nothing; loafing, carelessness, due to lack of job pride; insolence, gum chewing and--too often--liquor drinking. Just plain bad job habits!
9. He Must Improve His Conduct In Public Places. · Taken as a whole, he is entirely too loud and too ill-mannered. · There is much talk about wiping out racial segregation and also much talk about achieving integration. · Segregation is a physical arrangement by which people are separated in various services. · It is definitely up to the Negro to wipe out the apparent justification or excuse for segregation. · The only effective way to do it is to clean up and keep clean. By practice, cleanliness will become a habit and habit becomes character.
10. The Negro Must Learn How To Operate Business For People--Not For Negro People, Only. · To do business, he will have to remove all typical "earmarks," business principles; measure up to accepted standards and meet stimulating competition, graciously--in fact, he must learn to welcome competition.
11. The Average So-Called Educated Negro Will Have To Come Down Out Of The Air. He Is Too Inflated Over Nothing. He Needs An Experience Similar To The One That Ezekiel Had--(Ezekiel 3:14-19). And He Must Do What Ezekiel Did · Otherwise, through indifference, as to the plight of the masses, the Negro, who thinks that he has escaped, will lose his own soul. It will do all leaders good to read Hebrew 13:3, and the first Thirty-seven Chapters of Ezekiel. · A race transformation itself through its own leaders and its sensible "common people." A race rises on its own wings, or is held down by its own weight. True leaders are never "things apart from the people." They are the masses. They simply got to the front ahead of them. Their only business at the front is to inspire to masses by hard work and noble example and challenge them to "Come on!" Dante stated a fact when he said, "Show the people the light and they will find the way!" · There must arise within the Negro race a leadership that is not out hunting bargains for itself. A noble example is found in the men and women of the Negro race, who, in the early days, laid down their lives for the people. Their invaluable contributions have not been appraised by the "latter-day leaders." In many cases, their names would never be recorded, among the unsung heroes of the world, but for the fact that white friends have written them there. "Lord, God of Hosts, Be with us yet." · The Negro of today does not realize that, but, for these exhibits A's, that certainly show the innate possibilities of members of their own race, white people would not have been moved to make such princely investments in lives and money, as they have made, for the establishment of schools and for the on-going of the race.
12. The Negro Must Stop Forgetting His Friends. "Remember." · Read Deuteronomy 24:18. Deuteronomy rings the big bell of gratitude. Why? Because an ingrate is an abomination in the sight of God. God is constantly telling us that "I the Lord thy God delivered you" --through human instrumentalities. · The American Negro has had and still has friends--in the North and in the South. These friends not only pray, speak, write, influence others, but make unbelievable, unpublished sacrifices and contributions for the advancement of the race--for their brothers in bonds. · The noblest thing that the Negro can do is to so live and labor that these benefactors will not have given in vain. The Negro must make his heart warm with gratitude, his lips sweet with thanks and his heart and mind resolute with purpose to justify the sacrifices and stand on his feet and go forward-- "God is no respector of persons. In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is" sure to win out. Get to work! That's the answer to everything that hurts us. We talk too much about nothing instead of redeeming the time by working.
R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R · In spite of race prejudice, America is brim full of opportunities. Go after them!
I posted this on my board and some found it offensive. I think it was intended to be an "in general" piece of writing. Nothing that is ever written about Blacks speaks to every single one of us. This list reminds me of the book, The Mis-education of the Negro. I didn't find it offensive, I found it more as a tool to do some self-evaluating...but that's just my opinion.
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Matthew Lynch
About the Author
Mr. Lynch has experience as a professional educator, grant reviewer, grant writer, and author. He is currently employed as an Exceptional Education Teacher at Sykes Elementary School and is the CEO of Lynch Consulting Group, LLC. Lynch Consulting Group, LLC, is a comprehensive consulting firm that provides innovative educational & business consulting solutions to K-12 & Higher Education institutions, nonprofit organizations, various levels of government, as well as members of the business sector.
He is also a Doctoral Candidate at Jackson State University majoring in Early Childhood Education, with a cognate in Educational Administration. He is also the author of Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap, and an upcoming children’s book, entitled Matthew and the Money Tree. Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap has a publication date of April 28, 2006. Mr. Lynch is a contributing columnist for the Mississippi Link, one of only three African American Newspapers in Mississippi and Emerging Minds, an online magazine devoted to uplifting the African American community. He is also the founder of Project E.P.I.P.H.A.N.Y, a research based mentoring program. Born and raised in Mississippi, he currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi.
The following are workshops that are available to be presented along with Mr. Lynch’s book Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap.
Workshops
1. The Factors and Statistics that Contribute to Black Student Underachievement
2. Role Call: Who’s Accountable for the Academic Failure of African American Children
3. Responding to Misbehavior and Academic Failure
4. Culturally Responsive Instruction
5. Upholding High Expectations for African American Children
6. Parental Involvement
7. Homework S.O.S. for Parents
8. Closing the Racial Achievement Gap
9. Educating African American Children in the Age of Technology
For additional information about Mr. Lynch, Lynch Consulting Group, LLC, or his workshop rates please visit the following websites:
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Book Description
In Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap, Matthew Lynch presents theories, research, and suggested practices that can be used to instruct, discipline and motivate African American Children. This book is intended for educators (pre and in-service), administrators, parents, etc., who are charged with the duty of cultivating the minds of African American children. With the arrival of the No Child Left Behind act, the so-called "RacialAchievement Gap" has attracted more concern and controversy than ever before. According to this timely analysis, the myth of the racial achievement gap has nothing to do with genetics—and everything to do with a host of embarrassing yet reversible social and pedagogical failures, including low teacher expectations, unrealistic timetables for learning goals, irrelevant curricula, ineffective teaching methods, careless administrators, poor parental involvement, negative peer groups, and self-esteem issues. For every problem raised, the book offers a level-headed solution, culminating in a plan for closing the supposed racial achievement gap for good.
Mr. Lynch also points out that teachers and administrators will no longer be allowed to let children of color fall through the cracks without facing serious repercussions. Therefore, teachers, parents, and administrators need to be increasingly aware of the latest research in multicultural education in order to help African American children realize their full potential, an arduous task for children of any race, and this book seeks to assist them in the realization of this goal. Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap, is a must have for teachers, administrators, parents, etc.
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ISBN: 0974900060, 150 pages
Publication Date: April 28
Publisher: African American Images
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Book Excerpt
Excerpted from Chapter 1: Factors and Statistics
Although the civil rights movement fought for equal treatment under the law and equal educational opportunities, African American Children as a whole are still under- achieving academically. The question of the hour seems to be why? In my humbled opinion, in order to fix the problems of Black Student under-achievement, we must first identify the many factors that can influence the behavior and hinder the academic success of African American Children. I have identified 15 stumbling blocks (factors) that can stop African American children from realizing their full potential and they are as follows:
Institutional Racism
A. W. Boykin theorized that intellectual subjugation stemming from oppression and racism is a major problem in American schools. Boykin states that White and Black school authorities manifest this cycle of racism and oppression through their actions and demeanor toward Black students. When American values are juxtaposed against African American values, American authorities perceive their own as superior.
Self Sabotage
Many African American students believe that the American Dream was not meant for them (and to a certain extent they are right). Black parents tend to teach their children to strive for the American Dream and adhere to social rules of conduct, but they also teach them to be careful and vigilant when dealing with “whites,” “sambos,” and “decent negroes” who serve as puppets for the establishment. This perpetuates cultural dissension and an atmosphere of mistrust.
Family Influences
In the United States today, more than 63 percent of African American children come from single parent homes, most of which have the mother as the primary caregiver. Having no positive male role model, the boys in the home are particularly at risk to fail in school and get into trouble. As the mother’s time is stretched so thinly, the girls in the family are at risk for teenage pregnancy. As a disclaimer, I wholeheartedly believe that a Black woman can successfully raise an African American male on her own, but why should she have to complete such an assiduous task by herself?
Low Socioeconomic Status
African American children, unlike their White counterparts, have a greater probability of coming from a family with an income at or below the poverty level. They tend to live in poorer neighborhoods that provide fewer resources for learning and even fewer role models of educational and economic success. The vast majority of children in such environments are led to believe that no other way of life may be possible for them.
Failing Schools
Unfortunately, failing schools go hand in hand with life in poor neighborhoods. These schools do not have the resources to compete with affluent areas that have more money for books, computers, salaries, etc. As a result, poorer schools have difficulty attracting well-trained teachers and administrators. Students in such situations may be written off, forgotten, or simply passed from grade to grade. Those who do stay around to graduate are generally ill prepared for college or the working world.
Cultural Gaps
The uniqueness of African American culture sets it apart from other cultures and consequently is often viewed as negative. African American hairstyles, dress, music, body language, and verbal communication styles can be disconcerting to a society that is based on conformity. When defining or identifying behavioral problems among a group of children, it is important to consider the influence of culture on the definition and perception of the behaviors.
Crime and Drug Abuse
It is no secret that the majority of those incarcerated in the nation’s prisons are primarily young African Americans males. We may think that law enforcement has a racial bias, but the fact is that the stage is set long before the handcuffs ever go on.
Drug abuse and the commission of crimes are the all-too-frequent outcomes of the inability of young people to overcome the risk factors of single-parent homes, poverty, failing schools, and cultural gaps. As vulnerable young people begin to feel confused and alienated by the world around them, they seek physical and emotional control in the only ways they believe are available to them—through drug use and crime.
Lack of African American Teachers
When school systems were officially segregated, Black children attended schools that were run mostly by experienced Black educators. These teachers and administrators were actually better qualified and more experienced than their White counterparts (Southern Education Reporting Service, 1959). African American teachers are vital in the lives of Black children because they often play the role of missing parental figures by acting as disciplinarians, counselors, and role models.
Lack of Parental Involvement
Parental involvement is actually the best predictor of a student’s educational achievement. Parent involvement demonstrates to the student the importance of school, resulting in improved student attitudes, morals, and academic achievement. Parents’ active interest also results in increased attendance, lower dropout rates, fewer discipline problems, and higher aspirations in life. In contrast, children of parents who are not involved in their lives are more likely to struggle academically and experience behavior problems
Resistance to Middle-Class School Norms
Instead of surrendering to the typical standards of a school environment which many African American students view as cruel and oppressive, some students end up rejecting European American speech patterns and devaluing high academic achievement, therefore unintentionally limiting themselves (King, 1993; Gobo, 1990). On the other hand, there are African American students who respond in the opposite way. These high-achieving students cite their awareness of racism and prejudice as a motivation to do extremely well, thus preparing themselves to fight these evils (King, 1993). I applaud the fact that many of our African American males refuse to assimilate into the dominant culture, but sometimes it may be better to play the game. This does not mean becoming a sellout or the “Decent Negro” that Nas talks about on his latest album, Streets Disciple; it means that you are a very sagacious individual.
Lack of Priorities
Let’s do a little role playing. Pretend you are a 15-year-old African American teenager and you have one of two choices: watch BET (Black Entertainment Television) or do your homework. The typical African American will probably decide to watch television and do homework later, but it never seems to get done, does it? If you have your priorities in order, you will probably do your homework first and watch TV later. Then your homework is complete and you get a chance to watch 106 & Park.
Unfortunately, many African American children do not realize that school should be their first priority.
Low Teacher Expectations
African American children are especially susceptible to teacher expectations. Teacher expectations, even when based on erroneous information, can influence the academic performance of children. In today’s society, according to Janice Hale-Benson, when African American children exhibit poor reading skills, psychologists say it is because the children have inferior cognitive capabilities or do not value education. When White middle-class children exhibit poor reading skills, it is seldom suggested that they are unable to learn or that they are deficient in any way. Psychologists generally say that the problem is in the method of instruction or inappropriate matches between curriculum and the child’s level of development.
Low Effort Syndrome
This phrase was coined by Jonathon Ogbu in his monumental book, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb. It simply means that some African American pupils are not adequately engaged in their academic endeavors. The time that most African American children spend actively engaged in learning, studying, and enrichment is not conducive to the acquisition of intellective competence and perpetuates the myth of African American intellectual inferiority. In layman’s terms, most African American students do not work hard in school.
Anti-Intellectualism
In Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America, John McWorther chronicles the trend of anti-intellectualism in Black America. He argues that although Black children are not banned from doing well in school, they are culturally conditioned to exacerbate a “cult of victimology.” This phenomenon leads many scholars to aim solutions at victimhood rather than admit that this problem of poor academic performance is a cultural norm. In my opinion, anti-intellectualism is one of the most pernicious factors that contribute to the achievement gap.
Social Services
In order to effectively assist African American students, the majority of social services should be placed within the school system. This would provide schools with the resources needed to alleviate a broad spectrum of problems. It also would provide valuable resources for African American children and their parents, and provide a support system capable of addressing their problems and creating solutions that have long-term viability.
Author’s Biography
Matthew Lynch is an Exceptional Education Teacher at Sykes Elementary in the Jackson Public School District. He is also the owner of Lynch Consulting Group, LLC, an educational consulting firm. He is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree at Jackson State University majoring in Early Childhood Education, with a cognate in Administration, and the author of Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap
For additional info, visit his 2 websites:
www.lynchconsultinggroup.com
www.matthewlynch.bravehost.com
Matthew and the Money Tree
When Matthew’s father tells him a chimerical tale of a legendary money tree, Matthew decides to venture out into the woods in search of the money tree and the adventure begins. Please join Mathew on his entertaining quest, in which above all he learns the true meaning of happiness. Matthew and the Money Tree is a wonderful tale for children and adults alike.
ISBN: 0-9779608-5-4
Format: Hardcover
Price: $14.95
Publishing Company: Lynch Publishing
Publication Date: July, 2005
Distributors: Baker&Taylor/Quality Books
Genre: Children’s Books
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Contact Information
Matthew Lynch
2324 Princess Pine Dr.
Jackson, Ms 39212
(601) 506-0382(W)
(601) 373-1552(H)
Lynch39083@aol.com
Matthew,
Thanks...great information!
First of all I'd like to say that I am loving your blog. Second, I don't think this article is the least bit offensive. I can agree totally. We as a people always focus on this that don't make any sense. We always want an escalade or a hummer but don't have a pot to piss in. I am tired of hearing people keep blaming the white man for everything that is happening in their lives. Don't get me wrong, white people have put us through it for the last 400 years and we should never forget it, but don't use the white man as an excuse not to do for self. Every other group is passing us while we stand by looking for handouts. Most of our so-called "leaders" are leading us to the road to hell and we can't see it. We need to stand up and stop being sheep and create businesses for the future generation.
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