10 Things Black Folks Should Know

2. Take all that money out of those stocking caps, tin cans, bed mattresses, floorboards and invest your money in something. For starters, invest in the food you eat and clothes you wear.

3. Learn another language — Ebonics doesn’t count.

4. Stop using the "N" word by the year 2000 ... especially since Merriam Webster has announced it ain’t changing the definition you’ve got a little time, but time is wasting.

5. Buy something each week from a Black vendor.

6. Stop blaming white folk for 98% of your problems, while giving them 100% of your money.

7. Subscribe to Ebony, Jet, Black Enterprise, Essence, Emerge or Heart and Soul. Then subscribe to one of the three weeklys: Time, Newsweek or U.S. News & World Report. After we read about what’s going on in our world, how about knowing what’s going on in theirs? It is, after all, your world.

8. Stop walking past each other and not speaking.

9. Be on time for something — anything!

10. Get an annual check-up — herbs do not cure everything!