Crucial information.THE DECEMBER 2003 ISSUE IS SERIOUSLY GREAT--EVERYthing from the tax information ["Avoiding Year-End Tax Traps"], to black representation and control on television ["Big Time on the Small Screen"], to the seriously informative black wealth initiative ["Reaching for Financial Success"], and the Newspoints item on the political candidates ["Sizing Up the Candidates"]. The information contained is crucial for our community, and I have been telling everyone they need to pick it up. I had to take to heart much of the information, as it applied to my professional life as well as [the lives of] many other 20- and 30-something individuals of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color . Many of the issues contained therein are not discussed by most of us and, unfortunately, the "most" I am referring to are the upwardly mobile. Keep the information coming. [New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Mayor Michael] Bloomberg Bloomberg A major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. and [President George W.] Bush continue to operate as if things are OK. Especially for people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important , things are obviously not. The National Urban League's report The State of Black America 2003 [shows that] we have been taking major hits, as America has gone overboard o·ver·board adv. Over or as if over the side of a boat or ship. Idiom: go overboard To go to extremes, especially as a result of enthusiasm. with capitalism and free enterprise without a safety net to catch the inevitable fallout fallout, minute particles of radioactive material produced by nuclear explosions (see atomic bomb; hydrogen bomb; Chernobyl) or by discharge from nuclear-power or atomic installations and scattered throughout the earth's atmosphere by winds and convection currents. . How bad does it have to be before it is truly too bad for the common man? I could go on and on, but I will stop here. You all are really hitting the nail on the head. Brook Stephenson Rolling Out Urbanstyle Weekly Brooklyn, NY Brook@rollingout.com |
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