Nurah Speaks

There is no biblical commandment directing us to SPEND-SPEND-SPEND to honor the birth of sweet baby Jesus.

However, year after year, the season has become less religious and more commercial.

Clever advertisers know the perfect strategies to persuade us to buy.  So then what should we do in this season of spending?  This episode I share tips that will benefit your wallet and your community.

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Did you know that more hair care products containing toxic ingredients are sold to Black women and in low income communities?

Did you know that 50 percent of products advertised to Black women contain chemicals health hazards compared to only 7 percent of products advertised to white women?

Did you know that Black women develop the most aggressive breast cancers and have the highest breast cancer death rates?

Did you know that parabens, phthalates and formaldehyde contained in these ‘beauty products’ are not only linked to cancers but other chronic health conditions such as diabetes, infertility, preeclampsia, cardiovascular disease and obesity?

What changes will you make, now that you know?

To learn more:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/dangerous-hair-products-more-commonly-sold-in-black-low-income-neighborhoods/

https://www.safecosmetics.org/chemicals/

https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/breast-cancer-death-rates-are-highest-for-black-women-again.html

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When we are out of touch with nature or misunderstanding the inherent qualities of what makes us who we are, our decisions and behaviors will be misguided. 

Black women have been trained to perceive reality through a lens that falsely colors truth and gives us permission to act based on what we ‘want’ truth to be, rather than what truth actually is.

This has been the cause of many errors and miscalculations that we simply cannot afford to make.

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This election showed what others are prioritizing as their interests…it is time that Black Women do the same as we are long overdue. 

Let us re-center our attention and energy on self, which includes our men and our communities.  Truly it is a shame that it comes on the heels of a political disappointment but perhaps this is the wakeup that we have been needing.

We must:

1. Reassess our collective needs

2. Establish our agenda 

3. Work collectively 

4. Stay unified

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My belief demands that I think five times before speaking.  This principle is a marvelous tool when under a barrage of hateful written and verbal attacks.  It commands one to pause and perform an assessment of the worthiness of one’s antagonist and the substance of the attack.

It also serves as a prompt for one to be critical and self aware of one’s own language, behavior and reactions.  And ultimately one must determine what, if any, retort is advised under such circumstances.

Often, in the critical analysis, one finds responding in kind levels the playing field and puts one on par with characters and personalities that may be quite unlike your own.  It is better to be discerning, disciplined and say nothing than to impinge one’s own character by responding in kind to individuals whose only gain is in spoiling one’s reputation.  

There is discipline in silence.  It is a skill that is practiced by the wise.

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I am pleased to welcome Councilwoman Cindy McCoy to Nurah Speaks.  Councilwoman McCoy is on a noble mission to end hunger in her community and she is working on that via her non profit ‘McCoys Stop the Hunger Food and Mobile Pantry’.

McCoy's Stop the Hunger is a 501(c)(3) organization functioning as a food and mobile pantry that works with the community to address food insecurity and provide nutritious options to residents in need.  Councilwoman McCoy will be hosting her first Walk/Run-a-thon November 9, 2024 to not only bring the community together but also fundraise to continue the work.

On episode 244 of the podcast, Councilwoman McCoy shares how she first began working in service to her community and her upcoming event.

To learn more about McCoys Stop the Hunger Food and Mobile Pantry and to register for the Walk/Run-a-thon see the links below:

Walk/Run-a-thon: Donate:https://go.dojiggy.io/stop-the-hunger/Campaign/Details

Location:

Cooper River Park, Intersection North Park & Airport Drive, Pennsauken, NJ 08109.

Date:

November 09, 2024 @ 09:00am – 1:00pm

McCoys Stop the Hunger Food and Mobile Pantry:  https://mccoys-stop-the-hunger-food-and-mobile-pantry.webnode.page/

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In the absence of unity, we have no control or ability to establish a direction for our community.  Rather than directing ourselves, we are directed by those who do employ unity to materialize their goals and agendas.  And they return to us every few years using our persistent challenges as their platform to petition for our votes and endorsements.  But since we are not self determining in any substantial sense, we remain in the vulnerable position of need and dependency.  

We are so much more empowered by the power of our unity and actualizing our needs.  With unity, we can set our own agendas rather than be a mere agenda item for those who really practice unity.

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This 2024 election season, one thing is guaranteed and that is the flood of propaganda penetrating via television ads, punditry and social media.  Not unlike that which occurred during the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, the information reaching us will be, in large part, manufactured deception to sway our ideas and leanings. 

In this time, it is important for us to stay anchored to what we know is the truth via our own experiences so we are not riding a wave of propaganda ourselves.  We must be intellectually curious, rational and very discriminating from who and where we take in information.

If the revelations about Cambridge Analytica has taught us anything, it is that things may not be truly as they seem.  Visit this link to learn more:  (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-scandal-fallout.html)

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This is the concluding episode in the series: Unity, Faith & Leadership.  I have heard more than now than ever, conversations by our people, rejecting the need for leadership.  As social beings co-existing in the world, not only must we work cooperatively, but we should also recognize there is a natural requirement for leadership.

The observation of nature demonstrates just how ordinary it is that there is leadership amongst bodies or group.  The sun leads the planets, the silverback leads the troop and the bee hive is centralized around the queen.

Our dismissal of leadership is a miscalculation we cannot afford to make. 

Our needs are too great and the change we need is too massive that we dismiss the ordinary convention of leadership.

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Of our greatest handicaps are our lack of unity and faith in ourselves that we can effectively tackle the most significant needs of our people.  Confidence and the fervent belief that we can change the conditions of our people for the better is a must if we are going to take a serious look at improving the lived experiences of our families and communities.  

Without faith in ourselves, we are hopeless to do better.  It is an essential quality for establishing a promising future and achieving any goals we set for ourselves.  

If you would like to engage with the Nurah Speaks podcast, submit your listener questions or topic suggestions to [email protected].  Listeners can also learn more about Nurah by visiting her website:  NurahSpeaks.com.

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Remember, don’t just Join the Movement, Be the Movement!