This week I attended a conference in Washington, DC and learned SO much. One of the speakers spoke about “The Double Bottom Line”
Double bottom line is a business term used in socially responsible enterprise and investment.
While all businesses have a conventional bottom line to measure their fiscal performance—financial profit or loss—enterprises which seek a second bottom line look to measure their performance in terms of positive social impact.Wikipedia
A fellow blogger, actually she’s more than a fellow blogger- she played a central role in an important moment of clarity online that LITERALLY changed my life for the BETTER! *FLASHBACK* is now using blogging to sell organic produce and she also lists lot of healthy recipes. Lord knows know I need some healthy recipes because I was sitting in a seminar yesterday with the father of telemedicine and he made everybody who went to the dessert bar for cheese cake feel about yaaaaay small. He straight called us out . But anywho, She’s started the Healthy Habbits Produce Coop.
…[T]he entire presidential election inspired me to do something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while which is open my own organic produce coop. So I begin a little hoping to get 20 families to participate and we got 40 and had to turn away 12. Be sure to stop by and pick up a recipe or two. Healthy Habbits Produce Coop.
Now she didn’t ask me to do this, but with all this “green” money floating around, she ought to be able to expand so she can accommodate as many families as are demanding her services. She’s learned a valuable lesson, that the barriers to entry for online businesses are LOW I would argue that they are none existent. However, like any other business, the barrier’s to expansion are much higher. So if you know about some foundations, “green” venture capitalists, or some stimulus money that is available to our cyber Sister, speak up. You don’t have to leave a comment, send an email or use the contact form above.
To all of you who are worried about the economy, whether you’ve lost your job, are worried about losing your job, or not worried at all, one really easy way to regain some “control” and take the edge off is to start a side hustle. Just because it starts small, doesn’t mean it has to stay small. Not only that, but there is 700 BILLION dollars of stimulus money coming out of the pipeline and I want at least 100 Black women who read this blog to go out for your share of your taxpayer money. Just do it!
PS. Kim, when you make your first BILLION and acquire Whole Foods, can’t I get a gift card or a lifetime discount on unrefined shea butter?
Its amazing how ignorant folks can be about Black women and their hair in the year 2009. Yes, we can grow hair from the root without the assistance of yaki weave imported from southeast Asia. Any fool can see that Oprah is not wearing a weave right now and I say Hallelujah after getting tired of seeing the ringlette wig she’s been wearing since Halle Berry started that trend. So apparently people on Twitter were telling Oprah that they like her “weave.” She responds in this video “this is not a weave”
If you wear a weave, knock yourself out. If you like it, I love it. Ever since I chopped off my perm, I’m loving it, despite the near obsession certain folks now have with my tresses. There was universal cheering from the peanut gallery when I took my BPF back down to a TWA. Either that or the fire engine red color who knows.
Speaking of “Arks” and whatnot, here is a Black woman commanding lots of boats, except they are warships From WAOD reader Linda.
Hello,
I thought you and other readers might be interested to read more about Rear Adm. Michelle Howard. Who knew an African American woman led the task force to fight off the pirates.
While we were so focused on the captain of the U.S. cargo ship that was rescued from the Somali pirates, our attention was diverted from the very person that lead the charge to get him back to his family.
The Navy Times ran a story on Rear Admiral Michelle Howard who took command of the Navy’s counterpiracy task force only three days before the pirates attacked the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama and snagged the captain as a hostage.
The U.S. Navy hadn’t seen this type of action in a very long time and piracy hasn’t been something the Navy has had to counter attack in over 100 years. Howard’s expertise and illustrious Navy career showed her to be the perfect person for this mission. She is the first female graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy to be promoted to Rear Admiral.
In the article, she said, ““Right now, the policy is, fight piracy, and I am all about that policy … We are quite capable of staying out here and doing this mission.” This N That
Here is Admiral Howard’s Bio:
Rear Admiral Michelle Howard
Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group 2.
Rear Admiral Michelle Howard
Rear Admiral Michelle Howard is a 1978 graduate of Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. She graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982 and from the Army’s Command and General Staff College in 1998, with a master’s degree in Military Arts and Sciences.
Howard’s initial sea tours were aboard USS Hunley (AS 31) and USS Lexington (AVT 16). While serving onboard Lexington, she received the Secretary of the Navy/Navy League Captain Winifred Collins award in May 1987. This award is given to one woman officer a year for outstanding leadership. She reported to USS Mount Hood (AE 29) as chief engineer in 1990 and served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. She assumed duties as first lieutenant onboard the USS Flint (AE 32) in July 1992. In January 1996, she became the executive officer of USS Tortuga (LSD 46) and deployed to the Adriatic in support of Operation Joint Endeavor, a peacekeeping effort in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. 60 days after returning from the Mediterranean deployment, Tortuga departed on a West African Training Cruise, where the ship’s Sailors, with embarked Marines and U.S. Coast Guard detachment, operated with the naval services of seven African nations.
She took command of USS Rushmore (LSD 47) on 12 March 1999, becoming the first African American woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy. Howard was the Commander of Amphibious Squadron 7 from May 2004 to September 2005. Deploying with Expeditionary Strike Group 5, operations included tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia and maritime security operations in the North Persian Gulf.
Her shore assignments include: course coordinator/instructor for the Steam Engineering Officer of the Watch course; action officer and Navy’s liaison to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military Services in the Bureau of Personnel; Action Officer J-3, Global Operations, Readiness on the Joint Staff from 2001-2003; executive assistant to the Joint Staff Director of Operations from February 2003 to February 2004; and deputy director N3 on the OPNAV Staff from December 2005 to July 2006; deputy director, Expeditionary Warfare Division, OPNAV staff from July 2006 to December 2006.
She was the senior military assistant to the Secretary of the Navy from January 2007 to January 2009 and currently serves as Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group 2. US Navy
I must admit that when I saw www.52weeks2findhim.com several months ago on Black Web 2.0, I thought that it was a mark of complete utter desperation, but now I am convinced that Neenah Pickett is a marketing genius and is likely doing a case study with plans to publish a book and launch a television series. Work that out. Why should ESSENCE magazine and the producers of the Soul Mates documentary be the only ones to profit off of the irrational fear that all Black women are going to die old and alone and be eaten alive by nine cats.
No, she’s not the newest bachelorette to feed America’s reality TV addiction. The New Jersey media consultant is the brains and heart behind “52 weeks 2 find him!” a Web site dedicated to the search for her husband.
“This whole process has been me really realizing I need to find new ways to be proactive,” said Pickett, 43, who might typically get roped into long hours at work or the embrace of a comfortable couch. “I’m past the stage of believing it’ll just happen.”
So she’s putting it all out there on her site. She’s blogging. She’s asking friends and strangers to weigh in with advice. She’s pushing herself to do things and act in ways she never has before.
And a little more than 14 weeks into the self-imposed challenge, she’s pretty exhausted.
“I can’t believe how hard it is,” she said of the journey so far, which has brought her more dates in two months than she’d had in two years. “But that’s why the deadline is so important.”
Its actually a pretty good blog and a well designed website, she goes through issues like arranged marriage, Christian men, dating. If I had more time, I can already tell that her blog posts have the potential to be addicting. It’s like watching the movie Titanic, you know how the movie is going to end, but the special effects are awesome
Because Black women, the reason y’all are single has nothing to do with demography, shifting social mores, equal pay-education-property ownership legislation, or any number of external reasons.. uh uh. The reason y’all are single is because you have not looked hard enough. They’re out there. You too can be just like Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White… if you go to enough balls, risk you life to leave your natural habitat, or get dropped off in the middle of now where with 7 strange vertically challenged men… or put a site telling the world that you want to find a mate within 52-weeks.
While I am irritated by the “marriage- supremacy” (yes, I said marriage-supremacy, the idea that single-hood is some unnatural state and to be truly evolved, you must enter into a legally binding contract with someone else to be fulfilled), the social media evangelist in me finds this fascinating. This sista is talented, goal oriented, and creative so I can’t knock her hustle.Even if I don’t agree fundamentally with what she purports to be her underlying motivation, its great to see her putting her talents on display- Can’t wait to read the book… and the divorce petition (just kidding ).
Angela Benton from Black Web 2.0 interviewed Bob Johnson about his current scheme to manipulate telecommunications law and acquire an unfair business advantage of other minority broadcasters.
We all know that Bob Johnson likely lying through his teeth is likely exaggerating, but his description of Urban Television is a great fictional monologue if you need to be entertained.
Bob Johnson explains how he has bribedEbony and ESSENCE into silence with the promise promised Ebony and ESSENCE that he MIGHT carry their content on Urban Television. He describes the “vetting” process for programmers. Angela asks him specific question about bloggers getting their content on his channel. He says that it is possible as long as there is no signal degradation. He then purports that he may not charge non-profits as much as for profits. BWAHAHA! Well great, then he won’t mind putting those not-for profit rates in writing
Proving that traditional Black media has one foot in the grave, this podcast is the most in depth explanation of what Urban Television would end up being if its application wasn’t going to be denied by the FCC due to overwelming opposition from mobilized angry Black women Hey, if Bob Johnson can dream so can I! There are two more segments to the interview that will be posted later.
So have you noticed I haven’t had one of my fabled Hip Hop/ CRIC/ BEE rants in a while? I’ve been focusing on other long term strategic goals in combating the War on Black Women. So the least the Regime of Bullets Booty and Bling could do was leave me to my long term strategizing. But OH NO!
I’m minding my own business plotting the demise of The Regime when all of a sudden this verboten piece of email cyber sewage lands in my inbox courtesy of Russell Simmons PR handmaiden. For the RECORD, while I have a generalized contempt for all things Russell Simmons, I don’t recall any recent criticism of Russell Simmon’s “Rushcard” on this blog, so I don’t know why I was on the list to receive this foolishness from Russell Simmons’ PR Flack, telling the critics of Russell Simmon’s predatory pre-paid debit card to Kiss his @$$ and demanding that critics offer up an alternative. I shan’t be getting anywhere near the hind quarters of a septuagenarian, but I shall be offering an alternative. The entire letter and my response after the jump. Continue reading →
Okay so I was curious about the box office take for “American Violet” it barely broke $250,000 but here is the clincher, it only played on 61 screens. WTH?
Neely Tucker of the Washington Post did a lengthy article about Princess Tiana, who will be the First African American princess in a Disney cartoon. I vaguely recall Brandi playing a Black Cinderella in a television version. I am looking forward to the movie, however,there were a number of quotes in the article that had me giving the side eye to Disney. First the Disney honchos in charge of the project said that Princess Tiana will be “the strongest” Disney Princess EVER!
Tiana will be one of the “strongest” Disney heroines yet. The criticisms the film got over the character’s name in early drafts (“Maddy,” short for Madeline, was perceived by some to sound like a “slave name”[some ppl are so ig'nant- what does a "slave name" sound like? Why don't you complain about Tangaray and Alize and Christa]) were only hiccups on the way to a finished product.
And how about this tidbit that Tiana is learning…
The message that Tiana learns in the film — Disney characters always learn something by movie’s end — is that balance is important in life. Jazz Age woman that she is, Tiana needs both love and a career to find happiness.
Memo to Disney, can we please let go of the concept that Black women are inherently “Strong” in the words of Sojorner Truth:
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Sojourner Truth,Ain’t I a Woman
Why can’t we be as helpless as Belle or as dimwitted as Ariel? Never mind!
The most glaring issue of concern is Disney stating that they consulted with African American”leaders” about this portrayal which likely explains why Tiana apparently is goign to be chastened for pursuing a career:
John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, who is overseeing the project. “But we have also worked very closely with a lot of leaders in the African American community, all across the nation, to make sure we’re doing something African American families will be proud of. It’s very important for us to do it right. We’ve been very careful and cognizant about what we’re doing.” Washington Post
My question is WERE ANY OF THESE LEADERS BLACK WOMEN? We have a pretty good ides what SOME Black “leaders” think about the appropriate portrayal of Black women if the number of red carpets they stroll to celebrate the Regime of Bullets Booty and Bling.
The Washington Post article then goes on to quote a bunch of African American noteables about Tiana’s significance and remind us that the average Disney Princess brings in $300 MILLION dollars. Of course we get some foolishness thrown in for good measure.
Murray says she was pleased the studio is portraying Tiana with skin of a “darker hue” and slightly full lips. Tarshia Stanley, says that the character’s hair — straight and pulled back in early images released by the studio — seems to be the appropriate, middle-of-the-road bet, too.
“They might as well make it straight so little girls can comb it when the doll comes out,” she notes, wryly. “We as African American women haven’t fully dealt with how sensitive the subject of our hair can be, so I certainly wouldn’t expect Disney to know what to do with [that issue].”
(Prince Naveen, for the record, is neither white nor black, but portrayed with olive skin, dark hair and, need we state the obvious, a strong chin. The actor who plays him, Bruno Campos, hails from Brazil.) WAPO
The comments over at the WAPO are of the type I would have predicted. Black people complaining about the Prince not being “Black” and others complaining about political correctness.
The mission of New leadership Charter School is to develop young people in the sixth through twelfth grades morally, mentally and physically, and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty.
Graduates will be academically prepared to attend a college or university of their choice. They will embody three cardinal principles of leadership: vision, integrity, and compassion. NLCS
Field Negro asked “Why Isn’t Anyone Out Protesting for Him.”Oh yes, the why isn’t anyone marching question-I’ve asked it so many times here, I’ve just stopped asking completely. I know the answer.
Field is asking in regards to Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover and in case you haven’t heard his story, he was an 11 year-old boy who hung himself after being teased for engaging in outrageous things such as being a Cub Scout, volunteering and going to church. Continue reading →
Oops Jamie dear, didn’t you get the memo? You only get to dehumanize BLACK women and girls in the name of “humor.” Surprised you didn’t blame this on the al-al-al-al-a-alcohol.
After taking a call on his Sirius satellite radio show The Foxxhole Sunday, the Oscar winner and his zoo crew lashed out at tween dream and reigning box-office champ Miley Cyrus, referring to the 16-year-old as a “little white bitch” and advising her to alternately “do some heroin” and “make a sex tape and grow up.”
The 41-year-old’s foul outburst was prompted by a caller to the show who brought up a month-old story in which Cyrus pledged to “ruin” Radiohead after the rockers rejected a request to meet with the Disney star backstage at the Grammys.
“Who is Miley Cyrus?” an incredulous Foxx, who has a teenage daughter of his own, said. “The one with all the gums? She gotta get a gum transplant…S–t.”
The insults didn’t stop there. Or get less personal.
“She’s gonna ruin Radiohead’s career? The same Radiohead that gets paid a million dollars just to sample their songs?
“Make a sex tape and grow up,” he continued. “Get like Britney Spears and do some heroin. Do like Lindsay Lohan and start seeing a lesbian and get some crack in your pipe. Catch chlamydia on a bicycle seat.
<sarcasm>There you and your crew went and got out of pocket and left the safe confines of Black woman and girl bashing and went after Miley Cyrus.</sarcasm>
Miley’s dad, Billy Ray, is particularly upset, according to the source.
“He thinks Jamie was out of line and didn’t find any humor in it,” the source told me this afternoon. “He doesn’t understand why he would do that to Miley, especially since he has teenage daughter himself.” E Online
Foxx noted to Jay Leno that he was doing a routine, saying: “Sometimes as comedians, you know, we go a little too far.”
Oh I LOVE IT!The Apology begins at 6:37. I’m adding that time stamp so you can avoid all of Jamie’s shucking ,jiving and soft shoeing.
How in the Heck is Jay Leno going to get an apology out of Jamie Foxx for making inappropriate comments about a teenage girl in another forum, but didn’t demand an apology out of DL Hughley who insulted Black women everywhere on Jay’s couch?
Somebody help me to understand! Oh never mind.Folks watch and learn. Jamie Foxx knows who butters his bread. Boundaries- Get them-enforce them-keep them!
In other news,<sarcasm> DL Hughley announced that following getting fired leaving his CNN gig for “family reasons” he’s decided to star in a revival of Birth of a Nation…because he thinks that will be funny. . . And that’s all that matters. </sarcasm> Ha -ha-hey-el!
. But anywho, She’s started the Healthy Habbits Produce Coop. 
