Claud Anderson

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I think it was with Dr. Claude Anderson.

He said, "Read the Book of Revelations." And that was B- Bob Marley.

He says, "Read the...

Um, you know, I certainly wanna try to attend.

But I wanted to also mention, uh, you know, we have a lot of brilliant, uh, brothers and scholars and elders and as well as ancestors.

Uh, just this past weekend, uh, you know, there was a film for Dr. Claude Anderson.

It's gonna be-- It was at the same location that you're gonna be speaking in, at the Pikesville Theater, and I appreciate, uh, the brother, uh, came down from New Jersey, the filmmaker, um, uh, to...

That's not a debate.

Dr. Claude Anderson has written many books studying it.

He could tell you what the price of a slave was in 1765.

This man has broken it all down.

I think they're just living.

And really, they're being human.

Because if you study human nature, and Dr. Claude Anderson talks about this, he says groups of people, they like to be around people that are like themselves.

They're going to, you know, that older white man is going to look at that young 25-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed white boy, and he's going to see himself in that kid.

But Bamboozleman says, we are criminals.

And you can go back and listen to Dr. Claude Anderson.

He said he researched some statistics from like the 1830s.

He said blacks wasn't even free and was the majority of the population in the penitentiary.

And we've had other great commentators.

You don't have to agree with everything they say.

But Dr. Claude Anderson has told us, if you don't own and control whatever it is you're trying to do, it's pure folly.

And he's absolutely right.

Like Dr. John Henry Clark has said, we have no friends.

Dr. Claude Anderson said a long time ago that when people immigrate here, they're not coming here to be your friend.

They're coming here to compete with you.

He said that.

And if we don't have that, we can't move forward.

Dr. Claude Anderson laid it out in his book.

I'm in DC today.

I'm acquiring properties.

You can check that on the page.

Oh, and I put a clip on Dr. Claude Anderson.

I'm going to share this next time because we're kind of over time today.

But Dr. Anderson, this is a great clip about how the slaves, when they were so-called free slaves, but they were financially desperate and they were made to be financially desperate because the system made them that way.

We had a solution, and we were able to multiply that.

replicate that so so when you have an extraordinary black person the worst thing we can do in terms of black leadership is to have a sort of this hero worship this sort of one-off super negro model like oh my god this person's so unique they're so special i'm gonna sit back and worship this person like jesus no you wanna scale that you multiply that so you say wow you know dr claude anderson's an amazing man which he is how do we create 100,000 Dr. Claude Andersons? We could probably, it'd be real hard to oppress 100,000 Dr.

Claude Andersons.

Or if you say, if you look at me and you say, wow, Dr. Boyce, man, you're awesome.

I want you to like figure out like, okay, what's the formula here? How do we do this with our kids? We got six kids in this house.

So that had been his meal ticket is, you know, join the circus and be the biggest clown.

And that's what you see a lot of times, unfortunately, in terms of how the black males are portrayed, because Dr. Claude Anderson actually speaks on this.

He did an interview that we did years ago where he said that historically black black people have been rewarded for being outlandish and loud and, and childlike.

That's why even little things, he even talked about a little old, this is kind of old fashioned, but he said like, for example, everybody else wears their baseball cap a certain way.

So my point is to say that one thing that we did accomplish is You know, together, all of us working together on this and, you know, for the last 20 years or so.

And even before that, Dr. Claude Anderson was doing that stuff in the 90s.

Right.

As we accomplished one goal, it's not uncommon now for me to bump into a black man who's talking about wealth, ownership, investing in women as well.