John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony and Jet magazines, staples in many black homes, died yesterday at age 87.
I was in South Carolina a couple of weeks ago and read my mother’s pile of Ebony magazines. Collecting them is a habit that seems to stick.
I would love to see more blacks start their own businesses. Talk about real empowerment! No person or government can raise your self-esteem the way blazing your own trail can. Self-employment, in my humble opinion, is the ideal way to experience freedom at its most basic level. Capitalism, for all its shortcomings, is the best system going and has made America as great as it is.
I’m sure Johnson “got” it.
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