By Elgin Bailey
The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.
Season 4 of the Pageturners continues with a highly recommended and much-needed text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power".
Power, in the phrase buying power, is not what economists consider when assessing the economic health of a group or country. Buying power is not wealth, it cannot be invested at will and used to create more for its investors. Buying power is not stocks, bonds, or land, and is not even real estate, it cannot be built upon, renovated, or flipped. Buying power is not income, it is not earned in exchange for labor and it cannot be spent at will or used to pay one bill versus another. Buying power has its origins in government labor statistics meant to help assess where wages should be set relative to inflation but is now, today, mostly a phrase created and propagated by marketers in an attempt to assist the business community to govern its advertising revenue. Power, in the phrase buying power, strictly means the power consumers have to buy one available product over another. Put another way, power, in the phrase buying power, means only the power to generate wealth for one corporation or another.
This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!!
May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need.
#books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP
Season 4 of the Pageturners continues with a highly recommended and much-needed text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power".
Power, in the phrase buying power, is not what economists consider when assessing the economic health of a group or country. Buying power is not wealth, it cannot be invested at will and used to create more for its investors. Buying power is not stocks, bonds, or land, and is not even real estate, it cannot be built upon, renovated, or flipped. Buying power is not income, it is not earned in exchange for labor and it cannot be spent at will or used to pay one bill versus another. Buying power has its origins in government labor statistics meant to help assess where wages should be set relative to inflation but is now, today, mostly a phrase created and propagated by marketers in an attempt to assist the business community govern its advertising revenue. Power, in the phrase buying power, strictly means the power consumers have to buy one available product over another. Put another way, power, in the phrase buying power, means only the power to generate wealth for one corporation or another.
This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!!
May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need.
#books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP
The myth of Black buying power is dismantled by taking primarily two lines of argumentation: (a) as an issue born of a media environment itself well suited to the transmission of propaganda and, (b) as an issue of economics, or economics reporting, where substantive research and data on the economic condition of Black people is supplanted by more salacious and fallacious claims of economic strength.
Season 4 of the Pageturners continues with a highly recommended and much-needed text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power".
This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!!
May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need.
#books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP
For generations, Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," reading Dr. Ball's work, we come to see that is a flat-out lie.
Dr. Jared Ball writes...."Black people are not poor for having missed out on previous opportunities, or by choosing today, out of some form of cultural deformity, or intractable financial illiteracy, to, as Jay-Z suggests, foolishly give away potential communal wealth by shopping. Jay-Z, like most commercial artists and art, reflects racial and class politics often masked by talent and performance. Season 4 of the Pageturners kicks off with a highly recommended and much need text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power".
This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!!
May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need.
#books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP
Season 4 of the Pageturners kicks off with a highly recommended and much need text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power". In this episode, we dive right in, with a bio on the author Dr. Jared A. Ball, and proceed right into the text. For generations, Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," reading Dr. Ball's work, we come to see that is a flat-out lie.
This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!!
May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need.
#books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP
This episode begins with the host Elgin Bailey, expressing his frustration about others profiting off of Black folk's creative and intellectual properties. His decision to make a move that will protect and incentives his creative and intellectual properties. A change is coming.
Season 3 continues with episode 5 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 5, we CONTINUE reading chapter 9 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond
Season 3 continues with episode 4 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 4, we close out chapter 8, and part 1 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond, and start Part 2 "OUT", chapter 9 "Order some carryout" #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond
Season 3 continues with episode 3 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 9, we continue chapter 8 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond, and dive right into the text "Christmas in Romm 400", we discuss further landlord Sherrena, and her tenant, Arleen. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond
Season 3 continues with episode 2 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 9, we begin chapter 8 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond, and dive right into the text "Christmas in Romm 400", we meet landlord Sherrena, and her tenant, Arleen. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond
Season 3 premiere continues with episode 1 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 9, we finish chapter 7 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond, and dive right into the text "The Sick", we meet Scott the homosexual drug addict former Nurse and Teddy the homeless sickly hillbilly. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond
The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.