The government’s back in bidness. It only took 43 days… The stress and disruption this shutdown caused was ridiculous and unnecessary! Of course, this happened just before the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Now we’re supposed to go out and, what, spend money and pretend this never happened?!
Category: Your Money and Your Life
When the Left Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand is Doing (Yeah, Right…)
Governor Gavin Newsom’s left hand passed some bills related to a study of some studies of reparations in the very near future for descendants of slavery in California. His right hand vetoed all the bills that would put money into the hands of descendants of slavery in California by way of cash restitutions for people…
Federal Employees and All Those Affected by the Federal Government Shutdown: Watch Y’all’s Time (Lines) #Day 17
Who, among us, works for the feds? Anybody affected by the shutdown? Furloughed? Recently Retired? Fired? SMH… This is Day #17. Just marking time as we cross the halfway point into Month 1.
To Be Read | The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** Some spring/summer reading about systemic financial malfeasance and fraud committed against Black America: Emily Flitter’s book The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America “connects the dots between data, history, legal scholarship,…
To Be Read | The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made by Calvin Schermerhorn
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** New reading material for the start of ’25. Frederick Douglass called it P-L-U-N-D-E-R and author/historian Calvin Schermerhorn explores how and why Black America is approaching Z-E-R-O wealth in the book The Plunder…
To Be Read | The Black Tax by Andrew W. Kahrl
***This post contains affiliate links. The B Board will receive compensation if a purchase is made after clicking on the graphics and links shown.*** The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl. Published this month by UC Press and is next on the ole reading list. Anybody who’s…