In my Intro to Mass Communications class we watched a short video on this guy named killer mike, and his goal was to live completely black for three days. These are the three points I took from it.

1. Killer Mike talked about keeping the whole dollar inside the black community, and not allowing outsiders to keep taking the money we as black people should be putting back into the entrepreneur’s of our community.
2. The second point I took from the video was the chart stating how long a whole dollar last within the different ethnic households, and in a black household it only last six hours. That showed me that black people as a community are not investing their dollar, and aren’t looking to save a put the dollar to something more beneficial than a quick need.
3. The third point I took from Killer Mike was when he said that it’s an obligation that as black people we need to start buying black. We need to start getting more involved and seeing who in the black community are owners of the things that we need as suppose to going for something known through media that the white man has made.

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