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10/01/2025

Mr. Edward Exson, Sr, and Stanley Scott of the African American Economic Recovery Think Tank, LLC. 2019.

⁠⁠ As I write this great truth concerning apathetic African-American leadership, it causes me great pain! I proudly acknowledge that many African Americans have made enormous contributions to Jacksonville, America, and the world. Yet, as we look back on the past 52 years since the post-Consolidation in Jacksonville, Florida, research shows the miseducation of the Negro race. The self-inflicted miseducation of the Negro is homegrown. For 52 years, the Leadership's self-aggrandizement has been destroying nearly three generations' souls, minds, and even lives.

⁠⁠Edward Exson, Sr., Co-Founded the African American Economic Recovery Think Tank, LLC

We should not be surprised by our condition; Carter G. Woodson cautioned us in "The Mis-Education of the Negro," and Dr. Kenneth Clark's "The Dark Ghetto." The Moynihan Report, by Senator Daniel Moynihan, enraged African Americans with its unmitigated truth. American Dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy, by Gunnar Myrdal. Those men understood slavery's impact on us. However, Black leaders vigorously opposed their writings, yet they could not contradict their work, thus living in the comfort of their deceit while still denying all facts and truths. We, African Americans) could have been rescued from our designed destructive plight through education and ethnic unity, as exemplified by Dr. King's victories. However, our contemporary Black leaders chose self above all else and ethnic discrimination, which has severe consequences as de jure racial discrimination. The African-American community collectively is not suffering entirely from racism, poverty, and crime; it is the self-inflicted ignorance of allowing the present so-called African-American leaders to be in leadership positions. Accordingly, Blacks in Jacksonville have hardly any organization or group to date with more substance than folly (how sad). Most Black preachers are morally bankrupt and intellectually inept. Black elected officials are often selected by the white power structure and a Black constituency, where nothing can be done. Those public servants are so beholden to the benefactors that they should be made to wear jockey silks to see whose stable owns them. The local SCLC is dead, with no signs of revival. The local NAACP is floundering; it has no semblance of an organization dedicated to Civil Rights, as it did in the past. It puts a chokehold on any community initiative for change. The present African-American Leadership's folly, religious fanaticism, and politicians with their heads in the sand cannot decrease Jacksonville's pathology. Social scientists have started a subtle ethnic cleansing in this new world order. The final results will be hundreds of thousands of African Americans falling off the radar and walking off the face of the earth. The world is better off with few empathizing with their circumstances and others thinking about their demise. I believe that his people's commission, omissions, and pathology from various fronts have thwarted Dr. King's dream for America. What will you see within 50 years, notwithstanding President Obama's legacy (historians will appraise him as outstanding), little white boys and girls asking their parents what happened to Black people? The only way to improve our condition and change the paradigm is to get new, open-minded, cohesive Leadership. We must become involved in capitalism, slowing down our consumerism. Save, invest, build, develop, create, and own. That is the surest way for advancement, respect, and a death blow to racism!" Edward Exson, Sr.
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Stanley Scott

The African American Economic Recovery Think Tank has developed a comprehensive economic roadmap that influences the quality of life in the African American community. The AAERTT understands the methodology needed to impact these communities. AAERTT knows how to build a competent, goal-driven team to achieve that strategy. All the pathology in the African-American community directly correlates with misguided Leadership's failure to understand and implement civic and social Engagement 101. We have attached an economic strategy that can influence the North Bank's Quality of Life. AAERTT has four implementation components necessary to increase the quality of life index by 20 to 30 percent within five years in Jacksonville and nationwide.
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1. Rebuilding the Family infrastructure
2. Afrocentric Elementary Education based on the Arts, History, and STEM.
3. Preventive Health
4. Collective Economics - Community Ownership
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Stanley "Doc" Scott
Managing Director
African American Economic Recovery Think Tank
www.aaertt.com -
[email protected]
PO Box 2672
Jacksonville, Florida 32203
404-719-7188

AAERTT

10/01/2025

09/30/2025

Initiative and Leadership

Lesson Five is Initiative and Leadership. Both of these qualities are essential for achieving success. Hill defines initiative as "that exceedingly rare quality which impels a person to do what ought to be done without being told to do it." Once this habit is acquired, leadership develops naturally.

Leaders exercise initiative, have a definite purpose in mind, and possess self-confidence. This emphasizes Hill's main point: successful people make use of all 17 lessons. In this lesson, Hill warns of the dangers of procrastination, and gives a detailed formula for using autosuggestion to overcome this initiative killer.
Hill states that to become a person of initiative, you must form the habit of aggressively and persistently following the objective of your definite chief aim until you achieve it — regardless of how long it takes.

Imagination

Lesson Six is Imagination. Hill states that imagination is the key to mastering all of the other lessons in the course (i.e., Definite Chief Aim, Self-confidence, Leadership, etc.). He debunks the notion that daydreaming is useless and gives several examples of how daydreaming led directly to concrete actions and results.
After reading this lesson, it becomes clear that virtually all great accomplishments began in someone's imagination. Imagination can do the impossible.

The key idea of this lesson is this: use your imagination to rearrange old ideas into new combinations. For maximum achievement, you must mix effort with imagination. This is an area where your master mind group is constructive.

09/30/2025

Profiting by Failure

Lesson 14 is Profiting by Failure. Hill offers a different perspective on the concept of failure. He states that failure is normally a negative word, but he distinguishes failure from temporary defeat, and temporary defeat can be a blessing in disguise. Hill also tells us that sound character is often the product of reversals and setbacks, and temporary defeat should be looked upon as a teacher of some needed lesson.

Hill lists several examples from his personal life about succeeding and then experiencing setbacks, and describes the correct mindset for overcoming these setbacks. In retrospect, he was thankful for experiencing so much defeat, since it had the effect of giving him the courage to attempt things he wouldn't have tried if his early life had been easier. Quoting Hill: "Defeat is a destructive force only when it is accepted as failure. When accepted as teaching some needed lesson, it is always a blessing."
The message of this lesson can be summed up as follows: There ultimately is no failure. What appears to be failure is usually a minor setback in disguise. Ensure you do not accept it as permanent!
Tolerance

Lesson 15 is Tolerance. Hill begins by describing the destructive effects of intolerance. According to Hill, intolerance clouds the individual's mind and hinders their moral, mental, and spiritual development. He urges us to question the foundation of our beliefs – to ensure the foundation is sound and based on reality and truth.
Hill outlines a plan for the abolition of

04/25/2025

ARTICLE: EIGHT WAYS to STAND OUT FROM the CROWD – written by Charles M. Marcus



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Sometimes, we may feel that we have to do the big things in life to stand out from the crowd and make a difference, but in my experience, the little things that we do consistently are usually the most powerful. I would like to share with you 8 ways that I have found to help you stand out from the crowd. Some are based on my own personal and professional experience, and some I have observed in other people who I admire and respect.

Please make your list and compare it. The exercise's main point is to integrate the points into your daily life, and the key to its success is implementing them.

1. Make it a habit to follow up with people promptly. It sounds simple, right? In my experience, and surveys regularly back this up, 67% (amazingly!) of people do not follow up in business. Did you know that most sales are not closed until the sixth, seventh, or even eighth attempt; very few deals are achieved on the first few attempts, and yet only three percent of salespeople follow up more than twice. Whatever business you are in, if it involves making a sale, signing that contract, or building relationships, the best way to stand out from the crowd is to follow up promptly, follow through, and be

persistent and determined. Don't give up if you are initially rejected, keep following up! Somebody once said, "A no is only a request for more information!"

2.. Equally as important as following-up is taking the time to respond to people who leave you messages. This is only common courtesy. How often do we not find the time to follow up with someone who has emailed us or left a voicemail unless we know specifically why they have contacted us? Even then, we do not always take the time to respond. Not only is this bad manners, it is also bad business. How many vital relationships have you missed out on by not responding to a message? The people who stand out from the crowd take the time to respond.

3. When you are speaking to people, give them 100% of your attention, and I mean 100%. There is nothing more annoying or obvious to people than you having your own agenda and only waiting for the other person to take a breath so that you can jump in to get your point across or to turn the conversation around to yourself. Develop your listening skills, most people are not truly good listeners. I have found that you gain much more from being a great listener than

from being a great talker. Be interested in other people and their point of view. Ask lots of open-ended questions. Dale Carnegie once said, "To be interesting to other people, you must be interested in them first". These are wise and true words from a great and wise person.

4. Get into the habit, and that is all it is, of sending a handwritten note or card to someone who has given you an order, a referral, or has been nice, courteous, or helpful to you. It takes a few minutes, but it means a lot to the recipient, especially in this day of impersonal and easy e-mail messages. I don't know about you, but I appreciate it when someone goes to the time and trouble of handwriting a letter or card to me, puts a real stamp on it, and writes out my name and address on the envelope instead of a computer label. It personalizes it for me, making me feel like I am more than just a

prospect in a list of many for that person. I may be making a big deal out of this, but from the response I get from people when I do this, it is appreciated.

5. People expect the best of you. Could you do the unexpected? Do you acknowledge people who, for whatever reason, do not give you that order, where you didn't get the contract or make the sale? Remember, they let you do the presentation? Do you acknowledge the person who didn't hire you for that job, but at least gave you the interview experience? Most people don't take the time or have the discipline to do this, and yet, a sale or a job lost or a contract given to one of your competitors today does not mean it is lost forever. Do not give up, think long term, think about the relationship you may be developing, the connection you are building for the future, and not about the lost sale or your bruised ego!

6. Get involved if you belong to an association or a group in your personal or professional life, including a church, synagogue, mosque, etc.. Please don't get involved because you want something in return, but because you want to contribute. People will respect and acknowledge you for it, look at you, and treat you differently. And this is just an added bonus to the personal

satisfaction of getting involved and contributing to something you believe in. In the process you learn to become a leader instead of just a participant.

7. Invest one hour a day, at least, in your own individual personal and professional development. You can take the one hour at once, or break it into segments, whatever fits your lifestyle and schedule. During that time read a book, maybe an autobiography of someone you admire or a business book, listen to tapes and the words of wisdom from the experts in the fields and areas of your life that you want to improve, subscribe to a daily e-zone with wonderful quotes or ways to motivate you, inspire you, and to challenge you. We can all say we can't find the time, but this is important to your personal

growth. For many years, I only read the sports pages of the newspaper when I was growing up in England. What a waste. I wish I had devoted more of that time to my development. I am not saying you should not read the sports page or a good fiction book, or whatever interests you; we all need that downtime for ourselves, but don't do that at the expense of opening up your mind to new ideas and areas for improvement. Do not look at your education as an expense of time, but as an investment of your time. Knowledge is wisdom when applied correctly. Never stop learning.

8. Stretch your comfort zone; do one new thing every day. Take a chance on something you have always wanted to try. Don't be afraid of rejection, of people saying no to you, or of failing. The people who stand out from the crowd are the ones prepared to take that chance. I am not saying do something radical or fool hardy, but you can become a sensible risk taker. We all have choices and decisions to make every day. We all know the things we want to do and the things we need to do. Take some risk, defy conventional wisdom and make your own wisdom come true. My old boss, when I was a sales professional, used to say

After every sales meeting: "Do you want to stay safe and be good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"

The choice, my friends, is yours, every single day.

About the Author Charles Marcus is a professional speaker, trainer, and facilitator. He works internationally with companies and associations that want to inspire excellence in their people. If you would like more information, please don't hesitate to contact his office. For contact details, visit his website at http://www.cmarcus.com or call him at 416-490-6744.

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** ARTICLE: EIGHT WAYS to STAND OUT FROM the CROWD – written by Charles M. Marcus**
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Sometimes, we may feel that we have to do the big things in life to stand out from the crowd and make a difference, but in my experience, I have found that it is the little things that we do consistently that are usually the most powerful. I would like to share with you 8 ways that I have found help you stand out from the crowd. Some are based on my own personal and professional experience, and some I have observed in other people whom I admire and respect.

Make your own list, compare, but the main point of the exercise is to integrate the points in to your daily life and the key to its success is by implementing them.

1. Make it a habit to follow up with people promptly. It sounds simple, right? In my experience, and surveys regularly back this up, 67% (amazingly!) of people do not follow up in business. Did you know that most sales are not closed until the sixth, seventh, or even eighth attempt; very few deals are achieved on the first few attempts, yet only three percent of sales people follow-up more than twice. Whatever business you are in, if it involves making a sale, signing that contract, or building relationships, the best way to stand out from the crowd is to follow up promptly, follow-through, and be persistent and determined. Don't give up if you are initially rejected; keep following up! Somebody once said, "A no is only a request for more information!"

2 Equally as important as following up is responding to people who leave you messages. This is only common courtesy. How often do we not find the time to follow up with someone who has emailed us or left a voicemail unless we know specifically why they have contacted us? Even then, we do not always take the time to respond. Not only are these bad manners, but they are also bad business. How many important relationships have you missed out on by not responding to a message? The people who stand out from the crowd take the
Time to respond.

3. When speaking to people, give them 100% of your attention, and I mean 100%. There is nothing more annoying or obvious to people than you having your own agenda and only waiting for the other person to take a breath so that you can jump in to get your point across or to turn the conversation around to yourself. Develop your listening skills, most people are not truly good listeners. I have found that you gain much more from being a great listener than
a great talker. Be interested in other people and their point of view. Ask lots of open-ended questions. Dale Carnegie once said, "To be interesting to other people, you must be interested in them first". These are wise and true words from a great and wise person.

4. Get in to the habit, and that is all it is, of sending a hand written note or card to someone who has given you an order, a referral, or has been nice, courteous or helpful to you. It takes a few minutes, but it means a lot to the recipient, especially in this day of impersonal and easy e-mail messages. I don't know about you, but I really appreciate it when someone goes to the time and trouble of handwriting a letter or card to me, puts a real stamp on it and writes out my name and address on the envelope instead of a computer label. It personalizes it for me, and it makes me feel like I am more than just a
prospect in a list of many for that person. Maybe I am making a big deal out of this, but from the response I get from people when I do this, I know it is appreciated.

5. People expect the expected of you. Why not do the unexpected. Do you acknowledge people who for whatever reason do not give you that order, where you didn't get the contract or make the sale? Remember, they did let you make the presentation? Do you acknowledge the person who didn't hire you for that job, but at least gave you the experience of the interview? Most people don't take the time or have the discipline to do this, and yet, a sale or a job lost or a
contract given to one of your competitors today, does not mean it is lost for ever. Do not give up, think long term, think about the relationship you may be developing, the connection you are building for the future, and not about the lost sale, or your bruised ego!

6. If you belong to an association or a group either in your personal or professional life, and this includes a church, synagogue, mosque, etc., get involved. Do not get involved because you want something in return, but because you want to contribute. People will respect and acknowledge you for it, look at you, and treat you differently. And this is just an added bonus to the personal
satisfaction of getting involved and contributing to something you believe in. In the process, you learn to become a leader instead of just a participant.

7. Invest one hour a day, at least, to your own individual personal and professional development. You can take the one hour all at once, or break it in to segments, whatever fits in to your lifestyle and schedule. During that time read a book, maybe an autobiography of someone you admire or a business book, listen to tapes and the words of wisdom from the experts in the fields and areas of your life that you want to improve, subscribe to a daily e-zone with wonderful quotes or ways to motivate you, inspire you, and to challenge you. We can all say we can't find the time, but this is so important to your personal
growth. For many years, the only thing I ever read was the newspaper's sports pages when I was growing up in England. What a waste. I wish I had devoted more of that time to my development. I am not saying you should not read the sports page, a good fiction book, or whatever interests you; we all need that downtime for ourselves, but don't do that at the expense of opening up your mind to new ideas and areas for improvement. Do not look at your education as an expense of time but as an investment of your time. Knowledge is wisdom when applied correctly. Never stop learning.

8. Stretch your comfort zone; do one new thing every day. Take a chance on something you have always wanted to try. Don't be afraid of rejection, of people saying no to you, or of failing. The people who stand out from the crowd are prepared to take that chance. I am not saying do something radical or foolhardy, but you can become a sensible risk taker. We all have choices and decisions to make every day. We all know the things we want to do and the things we need to do. Take some risk, defy conventional wisdom and make your own wisdom come true. My old boss, when I was a sales professional, used to say
after every sales meeting: "Do you want to stay safe and be good, or do you want to take a chance and be great."

The choice, my friends, is yours, every single day.

About the Author Charles Marcus is a professional speaker, trainer and facilitator. He works internationally with companies and associations who want to inspire excellence in their people. For more information please contact his office. For contact details, visit his website at http://www.cmarcus.com or call him at 416-490-6744.

Charles Marcus ranked by hunger2succeed on their list as one of \"The Top 60 Motivational Speakers in the World\". Charles Marcus is a highly sought after international motivational keynote speaker and success strategist. His dynamic and highly entertaining presentations deliver real results in the....

04/09/2025

Greetings family, to the CEO and staff, please help me understand the logic of giving a damn about the social media drama. Unless those rednecks are messing with your money or life. Why invest time, intelligence or words with a fool or fools? Every time you waste energy with their foolery you are hurting everyone else in your circle. Don't be a part of the drama by not responding to the evil. African American Economic Recovery Think Tank, LLC