African-American Majority Day: Celebrating the Black Entrepreneur

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated... [read more]

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."

Emancipation Proclamation - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/emancipa.asp



September 22, 2011: African-American Majority* Day - after 149 years, it's time to stand up for ourselves. It's time to be the employer, not the help. It's time to get a good education to be a good employer, not a job applicant. It's time to fight for the right of entitlement to grant favors, not look for them.


It's time to celebrate the Black entrepreneurs of yore, and create new one's for the future.

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