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The Tank
Our mission is to develop and support industry among Black organizations and professionals.
We develop and support Black institutions, mainly, 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, unemployment and under-employment, 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.
What is industry? Industry is organized, standardized, widespread economic activity that provides these benefits to society: income, higher standards of living, education and training, health care, retirement benefits, arts and culture, leadership, advocacy, policy formation, foundations, think tanks, associations, innovation, and scientific research to name a few. Industry also builds relationships among people and strengthens families and communities. Lack of industry has been scientifically linked to many human ills. Should Blacks do more to develop and participate in industries of all types? We say, yes. It should be our utmost priority.
If you believe as we do, we welcome you to work cooperatively with us to advance opportunities within Black society and to ensure its continued prosperity. Read more about the "Tank".
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The Black Man's Think Tank is developing a full-service speaker's bureau and is presently welcoming public speakers of all types to join for FREE. Hurry because this offer will not last long. Join now before April 1, 2010 and get a six month membership for FREE. We are currently redeveloping a Web portal to offer a fully functional speaker's bureau with search capability and front page sections with featured speakers, new arrivals, and more. Help us spread the word. Share
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Requirements:
- Please register first, it's free. Once you verify your email address log-in to the web site and update your user profile by clicking on your username in the upper righthand corner of the home page below the search box. Click manage profile. Include your contact information. Step 1 is mandatory.
- Email us one photo, no larger than 40 KB or 200px X 400px, and your biography, no more than 500 words. Do not include your contact information in the biography. Include your contact information in your user account profile. See step 1.
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Stimulate and Inform
The Black Man’s Think Tank is looking for experienced writers to contribute informative, stimulating articles on issues that affect Black society at home and abroad. We will consider all experienced writers regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, gender orientation, or disability. We will give preference to writers with interest in the following areas: economic development, business, education, health, healthcare, and criminal justice.
To be considered, email us your resume and links to recently published articles.
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Currently, there is no compensation, but each Blog contributor receives a FREE BMTT membership. See our membership page for benefits. As our organization grows, this arrangement is subject to change with preference given to exemplary writers. |
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BMTT Mii Haiti Fund
Black Man's Think Tank Supports Haiti
Due to a major earthquake, the people of Haiti have suffered terrible loss of life, loss of property, and loss of ability to sustain themselves. All people regardless of race or ethnicity are supporting the survivors in a show of humanity. However, we in the United States, who share a common African ancestry with Haitians, must not be underrepresented in our show of support. Therefore, it is for the dual purpose of supporting our brothers and sisters in Haiti and for showing solidarity with them that the Black Man's Think Tank has created this page. We urge you to donate through our trusted partner, Oxfam America, to assure that the funds go directly to Haitian survivors. Donate now!
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Adult Males Needed to Mentor Inmates
 Dayton, OH - Dec 31, 2009 - The Black Man’s Think Tank (BMTT) has partnered with Goodwill Industries of Miami Valley and PowerNet of Dayton to recruit adult males to mentor local inmates. Goodwill and PowerNet will oversee all aspects of this program, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Justices’ Second Chance Act. The BMTT will help recruit mentors. Read more...
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The Connection between Industry and Assimilation
By Marlon R. Aldridge, Sr.
I often speak about the development of industry among Black organizations and Black professionals and about assimilation. I will show later that there is a connection between industry and assimilation, but first I will construct characteristics of good industry and broaden current understandings of assimilation.
These definitions about industry come from MSN Encarta:
1. large-scale production: organized [emphasis added] economic activity connected with the production, manufacture, or construction of a particular product or range of products.
2. widespread [emphasis added] activity: an activity that many people are involved in, especially one that has become commercialized or standardized [emphasis added] [e.g.,] counseling industry.
The current mindset among many Black Americans especially educated ones is (1) to be hired and work within mainstream (White) industries and (2) to establish relationships with mainstream organizations to develop single business entities that are Black-owned or controlled. In short, Blacks want to assimilate into the mainstream. It is very normal for minority groups to assimilate into the larger societies of which they are apart. For Blacks, it is even practical given our recent history (e.g., Black slavery and dependency on non-Blacks). Regretfully, our collective mindset has not been to develop industries that are organized, standardized, and widespread among Black organizations and Black professionals for the purpose of economic benefits. There are currently no or very few efforts to establish said industries. Read more...
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The Health Care Debate, Racism, and Media Propaganda
By Marlon Aldridge, Sr.
On September 9, President Obama during a joint session of Congress presented these words regarding health care reform,
I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last…. It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform…. And ever since, nearly every president and Congress, whether Democrat or Republican, has attempted to meet this challenge in some way…. Our collective failure to meet this challenge year after year, decade after decade, has led us to the breaking point. Everyone understands the extraordinary hardships that are placed on the uninsured who live every day just one accident or illness away from bankruptcy…. These are [primarily] middle-class Americans…. We are the only democracy, the only advanced democracy on Earth, the only wealthy nation that allows such hardship for millions of its people…. There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage. In just a two-year period, one in every three Americans goes without health care coverage at some point. And every day, 14,000 Americans lose their coverage.1 Read more...
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Black Labor in America: Emerging Opportunities Amid the Economic Crisis
Dr. Steven Pitts debunks the believe that immigrants are taking jobs otherwise reserved for Blacks. Moreover, he opines that the current job creation mindset is focused on individuals (e.g., their job training and education) rather than on making current jobs better through union activity and creating favorable public policy.
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The Black Man's Think Tank is a 501-c(3), non-profit organization that develops and supports industry among Black organizations and professionals.
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