The Tank

The BMTT develops and supports Black institutions because they have the greatest potential to help most of us via employment, education, and health care. These three, once sufficiently realized, alleviate negative factors such as criminality, illicit drug usage, teen pregnacy, and disparate health issues. Our corporations, HBCUs, school districts, professional organizations, technology organizations, social service organizations, and churches, once highly organized and interdependent, allow us to express the greatest measure of intelligence—self and group determination. No amount of appealing to personal responsibility or moralizing will propel us forward more than group organization.

We welcome individuals and organizations of all sizes and types to work cooperative with us to advance opportunties within Black society and to ensure its continued prosperity.

Minimizing Race
By Marlon Aldridge, Sr.

While listening to the Tom Joyner Morning Show one day, as I usually do, I anticipated Tom’s response to a caller’s refrain, who, I assumed, was an African American man, about the show’s consistent use of racial overtones and its perpetuation of racial ignorance. The hosts were talking about Tom Brady (quarterback for the New England Patriots) and his girlfriend reportedly having sex in the private section of an upscale restaurant while cameras were rolling. Read more...

A Dubious Task
By Marlon Aldridge, Sr.

Central State University, Ohio’s smallest publically-supported university, proposes to increase its student enrollment by 240 percent from 2007 to 2017. The Ohio Board of Regents and five other Ohio public colleges and universities are collaborators of the plan called Speed to Scale. Central State, which is one of 104 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States and one of two in Ohio, had 1800 students enrolled during the 2007 school year. It wants to increase that enrollment to 6000 by 2017. Read more...