An Online Platform for the Black race
with amazing features & Citizen benefits
dreamed of by Marcus Garvey a century ago
| Became Supporter: | April 9, 2016 |
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| Achieved Honored Afrikan: | November 25, 2019 |
| Time To Honored Afrikan: | 3 years, 7 months |
Billy Lee Felder from Hempstead, New York is the first person in the history of the Buy Black Movement to achieve the level of Honored Afrikan. Before Billy, achieving Honored Afrikan seemed like a nearly impossible goal that would take decades to achieve. Then Billy began supporting the movement by purchasing aggresively each month. With determination, Billy purchased over 10,000 points worth of Black-made products from Black-owned businesses in the movement in only 3 years and 7 months.
He is a hero, source of pride and inspiration to Buy Black Movement members all over the world.
I was born in a small town in the South, Bamburg, South Carolina. It was all Black. As a child, I went to an all-Black school. The stores were mostly owned by whites, however. Us Blacks were the consumers. There were only two stores owned by Black people. One sold all the cookies and sweets, and I loved going there! Seeing those few Black-businesses is where I got my inspiration from.
I heard about the Buy Black Movement from a good friend of mine. She told me that a friend of hers had told her about this movement. Then, a few weeks later, I was listening to the radio and I heard the founder of TAG TEAM Marketing, Delxino Wilson de Briano being being interviewed. He was talking about the Buy Black Movement. I said, "That's what my friend was talking about!". I was so exicted! Delxino was going to be speaking in Brooklyn, New York a few days later. I decided, "I've got to go see this Brother!".
So, I went and heard him speak and after that, I was IN! Since then, I have been committed to do whatever it took to make this thing go.
I became a Supporter because I LOVED the movement and what it's all about. When I saw that it was about freeing our people, I got behind it 100%! Who can say no to that?
Supporting Black businesses and seeing Black businesses grow, is what I'm all about. This is what we MUST do to take care of ourselves. If we do, we can create future jobs for our children. Eventually, we can create our our own society, have our our own money, have our schools, and govern ourselves. WE can have everything that Marcus Garvey talked about and wanted to do. I want to see it happen. And if I don't see it in my lifetime, I want to make sure my children see it in theirs.
It takes all of our efforts to continue to support these Black businesses. We could have freed ourselves many times over with the trillions of dollars have have spent with other races. We already make the money. All we need is the right mindset.
I know it takes a lot to do this. I want to see true freedom for our people, so I'm committed.
I would say to become a Citizen. We have been supporting others, but we haven't been supporting ourselves. We've supported the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and THEIR families, and we see the state we are in as a result.
Why support another family when our Black family is hungry? How do we support others who aren't doing anything for us? If you say you love your family, prove it, by supporting them. Buy 1, 2, 3 or 4 products and month if you can.
I realized I was going to work every day, to make money to support another family, and my family wasn't benefitting from that. I had to change. I had to get involved. You should, too. Our family will continue to grow, if we support them.
Don't just buy for a certain amount of time and stop. We've got to keep going until we hit the finish line. And as a people, our finish line is when our businesses are billion dollar businesses!
If we want to govern ourselves, this is how we do it. We have to build our industries by supporting these businesses.
Also, I want you to know that you should love yourselves so much, that you support our own people. Never stay away from supporting your own. Continue supporting your own! Love yourself. When you love yourself, you love your people. Continue supporting your people, because that's true love.
"The time has come for the Black man to forget his hero worship of other races and to create and emulate heroes of his own.
We must canonize (declare a saint) our own saints, create our own martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honor Black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history."
