Dear Editor:
Webb Evans called for Blacks to turn in another direction
in order to solve our problems in the millennium. He
stated that we must turn from only protesting to
production, from just looking for a job to creating jobs,
from looking to get all our blessings after death and put
forth more efforts to get what God has for us on earth
before death, stop being satisfied looking to get a
mansion in heaven while living in a hut or one room or a
shack on earth. He stated that those who create jobs will
be working. Blacks must stop feeling that if they get
some wealth it will cause them to go to hell. It is
certain if we don't get hold of some wealth, we are going
to catch hell on earth. Many people with nothing, satisfy
themselves by saying that money does not always bring
happiness. That is true, but it is better to be unhappy
with money than to be unhappy without it.
Webb Evans is the one who
started the Million Dollar March. He says he has never
seen in the Bible where God gives us wisdom to get
poverty. But, he has seen in the Bible where God gives us
wisdom to get wealth. When we had the Million Man, the
Million Woman, and the Million Youth Marches, they all
said the real success of the marches would be what we do
when we got back. We are now asking all the million man
marchers, million women and the million youth to join
with us in the Million Dollar March.
The Million Dollar March
is a movement started in Chicago, IL - November 1997, to
get a million people marching with their dollars to
Black-owned businesses. This is a process we feel will
stop Blacks from losing businesses and encourage more to
prepare and go into business. Through this process, being
successful in Chicago, we feel the spirit will catch in
other cities and Blacks throughout the world. It is a
process that can one day enable Blacks to own more radio
stations, publishing companies, television stations, bus
lines, airlines and eventually own our ships to sail on
the ocean in international trading. It can be done. 1999
can be our time to really make a start.
Webb Evans stated that he
has gotten several letters from South Africa asking him
to keep them informed about the Million Dollar March.
With privatization taking place, affirmative action being
done away with, over 50 million jobs have left the
country, foreigners coming in getting what jobs left, if
we don't go in the direction I have outlined, I don't see
much future for Blacks in America. The future of African
Americans must be centered on ownership. You can't
control what others own. Those who own will always
control those who do not own.
Webb Evans-- President of
United American Progress Associations
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