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Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream of equality for all people, his aspiration and vision were derived from the understanding of his spiritual mentor Mahatma Gandhi whom faced the same inequalities toward his people in south Africa and India, in his time.

Dr. King learned though his studies of this great man Mahatma Gandhi, is that to assure true equality. It must be done through the channels of economic empowerment and self sufficiency. Their thoughts were that if just social change is occur, it can only be gained if economic wealth is distributed with an emphasis again on self sufficiency. African Americans represent an annual spending power of over (1 Trillion) Dollars. Yet, our neighborhoods are in despair, poverty is escalating and, there are no foundations being set into place to assure a future for our youth. This is happening because our dollar is not circulating within the black business community.

Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.

If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.

In one case he may provoke contempt and derision, but in the other he is an affront to pride and provokes malice.

”Frederick Douglass”

September 25, 1883**