Janice Bryant Howroyd is recognized as the first African-American woman in the United States to own and operate a billion-dollar business. With a few hundred bucks in her own savings and a $900 loan from her mother, Howroyd became an entrepreneur in 1978. That year, she founded a staffing agency called ActOne in the office of a rug shop with a single fax machine. She built it into a powerful, $2.8 billion company with 17,000 clients in 19 countries, according to Fox Business.
Howroyd is also a graduate of North Carolina A&T University. The fourth of 11 children, she won a full scholarship to study there and eventually went on to earn a master’s degree and a doctorate.
Lonnie Johnson
You know Lonnie Johnson as the man who invented the Super Soaker, the No. 1 bestselling water toy of all time. But he’s much more than just some basement inventor who got lucky tinkering with a water gun and a pump.
Johnson earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Tuskegee University, as well as a master’s in nuclear engineering and an honorary Ph.D. An Air Force veteran, Johnson was acting chief of the Space Nuclear Power Safety Section at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. He later worked on the Galileo Jupiter mission, the Mars Observer project and the Saturn Cassini project as a senior systems engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
A prolific entrepreneur, Johnson founded two advanced energy and battery companies, Excellatron Solid State and Johnson Battery Technologies, Inc. Johnson holds more than 100 patents, including for the Super Soaker, which did more than $200 million in sales and was the bestselling toy in America
These 2 popped into my head
I wanted to avoid connections to entertainment or sports
The black overclass (preachers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, academia, billionaires, etc.) today for the most part have been very ineffective in improving black group wealth and self-empowerment. Also, very ineffective as a catalyst to deal with the worsening black pathologies across the country. "Fish fry" James Clyburn and other similar meritorious manumission negroes are just making themselves comfortable for death.
Blacks need to take control of their education. HBCUs and other schools depend on the dominant white society for funding with stipulations.
My wife and I were involved in a charity organization raising money to assist first-year black medical school students at a particular medical school in Southern California. We didn't accept money from other racial groups with stipulations.
The CEO secretly violated an agreement by providing money to rich Nigerian exchange students. We quit the organization, after doing most of the work of bringing in the money. Blacks tend to look out for everyone except themselves.
The Southern border needs to be shut down. In life, there are tradeoffs to better achieve the common good. Lol!
I sit on the board of an organization that deals with youth in high risk situations. The children just need to be told that they are valued. Being angry at parents who make bad decisions does not help the children. I also have connections to groups that focus on developing math skills for Black children. I don’t expect to see a major change in my lifetime, but you plant seeds. That is why I remain hopeful.
I note that the reason that there is a push to dumb down teaching Black history is that they don’t want the history of whites to be common knowledge. Rosa Parks was just a lady who was asked to move her seat, full stop. The Tulsa race massacre just happened out of the clear blue sky. White people will support teaching the nonsense.
Damn if I'm going to place the value of my life in groups of people who have hated and exploited me for the past 400 years. Self-hate and self-loathing is mental illness.
Meritorious manumission is anti-black as repeatedly proven by historical events. Whites for the most part aren't going to participate in generational genetic annihilation, to say the least, other groups. Racism is a competitive relationship between groups for ownership and control of resources for wealth and power---a never-ending team sport.
Power only respects power. Black group economics is the most effective way to fight racism. It's more permanent than the ever-changing political landscapes.
I commend your work. It's a sad situation. MLK related, "We got integration, but I feel I have led my people into a burning house." At 39 years of age, he was still evolving. Advocating for reparations led to his murder.
The white dominant group, including white media, has sanitized his messaging. He grew more disillusioned and militant before the end of his life ("My dream has turned into a nightmare").
No one can rescue black folks except for themselves. Blacks need to create their political party and vote for politicians as a strong union (regardless of race or party) who can deliver the most. Both major political parties are two birds on the same trifling bird.
Pro-LGBT, undocumented immigration, more symbolism, and white nationalism are worthless horizontal issues. Blacks need to focus on vertical issues instead of wasting energy and time on bullshit. The black group's wealth is trending on the downside compared to other groups.
FYI, my first cousin Dr. Harold Martin is the Chancellor at North Carolina A&T. A&T produces most of the black engineers in the country. Nevertheless, blacks as a whole are a permanent underclass. Only 2% own businesses. Social integration negatively impacted black-owned businesses. There are no real black communities apart from black neighborhoods. Social integration and more access to interracial sex aren't true economic improvements for blacks. Plus, whites all over the world, for the most part, are desperately protecting themselves from genetic annihilation.
Commentary here focuses enough on the plight of the poor Negro. There are pockets that exist that allow Black excellence. You realize the situation and adapt. We will have to teach our children their history and that Blacks dis not begin life as slaves to Europeans.
There are movements in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and African that realize a common connection. I am hopeful about the future. European civilization may be at the biggest risk. We have the white on white violence in Ukraine. We have Russians fighting Russians in Russia. We see Europe more dependent on non-Europeans to get things done. Been to London lately?
I've traveled extensively throughout the world (all continents) ---blacks are at the bottom. Have you visited South American countries where Hispanic racism is worst than white racism in the United States? Argentina eliminated most melanated people, and Brazil has death squads dealing with its blacks speaking out. The Hispanics (proximate to whites) in the U.S., for the most part, see you as inferior and want to replace you. I readily communicate with them. I've visited a number of Arab/Muslim countries, and they for the most part see blacks as inferior and as subordinates/slaves to achieve their cause.
Every region in this world is relevant. Lack of travel experience in the world and study plus cognitive dissonance isn't a viable option to better understand what's going on in the world. Have you traveled to Africa? I'm expanding my travel experience at the end of the year to Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and other countries in the area.
Of these HBCU graduates, who owns factories or manufacturing plants?
Janice Bryant Howroyd
Janice Bryant Howroyd is recognized as the first African-American woman in the United States to own and operate a billion-dollar business. With a few hundred bucks in her own savings and a $900 loan from her mother, Howroyd became an entrepreneur in 1978. That year, she founded a staffing agency called ActOne in the office of a rug shop with a single fax machine. She built it into a powerful, $2.8 billion company with 17,000 clients in 19 countries, according to Fox Business.
Howroyd is also a graduate of North Carolina A&T University. The fourth of 11 children, she won a full scholarship to study there and eventually went on to earn a master’s degree and a doctorate.
Lonnie Johnson
You know Lonnie Johnson as the man who invented the Super Soaker, the No. 1 bestselling water toy of all time. But he’s much more than just some basement inventor who got lucky tinkering with a water gun and a pump.
Johnson earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Tuskegee University, as well as a master’s in nuclear engineering and an honorary Ph.D. An Air Force veteran, Johnson was acting chief of the Space Nuclear Power Safety Section at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. He later worked on the Galileo Jupiter mission, the Mars Observer project and the Saturn Cassini project as a senior systems engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
A prolific entrepreneur, Johnson founded two advanced energy and battery companies, Excellatron Solid State and Johnson Battery Technologies, Inc. Johnson holds more than 100 patents, including for the Super Soaker, which did more than $200 million in sales and was the bestselling toy in America
These 2 popped into my head
I wanted to avoid connections to entertainment or sports
Your response is appreciated- thanks for introducing me to these leaders.
The black overclass (preachers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, academia, billionaires, etc.) today for the most part have been very ineffective in improving black group wealth and self-empowerment. Also, very ineffective as a catalyst to deal with the worsening black pathologies across the country. "Fish fry" James Clyburn and other similar meritorious manumission negroes are just making themselves comfortable for death.
We come from an educational system that taught Latin rather than Mdw Ntr. The results are not surprising.
Blacks need to take control of their education. HBCUs and other schools depend on the dominant white society for funding with stipulations.
My wife and I were involved in a charity organization raising money to assist first-year black medical school students at a particular medical school in Southern California. We didn't accept money from other racial groups with stipulations.
The CEO secretly violated an agreement by providing money to rich Nigerian exchange students. We quit the organization, after doing most of the work of bringing in the money. Blacks tend to look out for everyone except themselves.
The Southern border needs to be shut down. In life, there are tradeoffs to better achieve the common good. Lol!
I sit on the board of an organization that deals with youth in high risk situations. The children just need to be told that they are valued. Being angry at parents who make bad decisions does not help the children. I also have connections to groups that focus on developing math skills for Black children. I don’t expect to see a major change in my lifetime, but you plant seeds. That is why I remain hopeful.
I note that the reason that there is a push to dumb down teaching Black history is that they don’t want the history of whites to be common knowledge. Rosa Parks was just a lady who was asked to move her seat, full stop. The Tulsa race massacre just happened out of the clear blue sky. White people will support teaching the nonsense.
Damn if I'm going to place the value of my life in groups of people who have hated and exploited me for the past 400 years. Self-hate and self-loathing is mental illness.
Meritorious manumission is anti-black as repeatedly proven by historical events. Whites for the most part aren't going to participate in generational genetic annihilation, to say the least, other groups. Racism is a competitive relationship between groups for ownership and control of resources for wealth and power---a never-ending team sport.
Power only respects power. Black group economics is the most effective way to fight racism. It's more permanent than the ever-changing political landscapes.
I commend your work. It's a sad situation. MLK related, "We got integration, but I feel I have led my people into a burning house." At 39 years of age, he was still evolving. Advocating for reparations led to his murder.
The white dominant group, including white media, has sanitized his messaging. He grew more disillusioned and militant before the end of his life ("My dream has turned into a nightmare").
No one can rescue black folks except for themselves. Blacks need to create their political party and vote for politicians as a strong union (regardless of race or party) who can deliver the most. Both major political parties are two birds on the same trifling bird.
Pro-LGBT, undocumented immigration, more symbolism, and white nationalism are worthless horizontal issues. Blacks need to focus on vertical issues instead of wasting energy and time on bullshit. The black group's wealth is trending on the downside compared to other groups.
FYI, my first cousin Dr. Harold Martin is the Chancellor at North Carolina A&T. A&T produces most of the black engineers in the country. Nevertheless, blacks as a whole are a permanent underclass. Only 2% own businesses. Social integration negatively impacted black-owned businesses. There are no real black communities apart from black neighborhoods. Social integration and more access to interracial sex aren't true economic improvements for blacks. Plus, whites all over the world, for the most part, are desperately protecting themselves from genetic annihilation.
Commentary here focuses enough on the plight of the poor Negro. There are pockets that exist that allow Black excellence. You realize the situation and adapt. We will have to teach our children their history and that Blacks dis not begin life as slaves to Europeans.
There are movements in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and African that realize a common connection. I am hopeful about the future. European civilization may be at the biggest risk. We have the white on white violence in Ukraine. We have Russians fighting Russians in Russia. We see Europe more dependent on non-Europeans to get things done. Been to London lately?
I've traveled extensively throughout the world (all continents) ---blacks are at the bottom. Have you visited South American countries where Hispanic racism is worst than white racism in the United States? Argentina eliminated most melanated people, and Brazil has death squads dealing with its blacks speaking out. The Hispanics (proximate to whites) in the U.S., for the most part, see you as inferior and want to replace you. I readily communicate with them. I've visited a number of Arab/Muslim countries, and they for the most part see blacks as inferior and as subordinates/slaves to achieve their cause.
I did not include South America. I do note things like Barbados speaking about about the ravages of British rule.
Every region in this world is relevant. Lack of travel experience in the world and study plus cognitive dissonance isn't a viable option to better understand what's going on in the world. Have you traveled to Africa? I'm expanding my travel experience at the end of the year to Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and other countries in the area.