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It is the same thing that happens in the Asian community. So, in my Spider
Web Economic Doctrine, when a dollar enters a community, it does not escape
from that community. It circulates within that community, and that is where
truly what economists call the "multiplier effect" is classically practiced.
Asians, especially Indians from India, are the greatest practitioners of the
Spider Web Economic Doctrine. When a dollar comes into their community, it
doesn't leave it. It circulates within their community, because the Indians
believe in patronizing one another. They don't eat other peoples' food. They
eat theirs. Their women hardly wear anything other than clothes made in
India, and even the suits their men wear are made in India. The Indian, and
other Asians, will travel hundreds of miles to patronize one another. 
Let me tell you what this has done for the Indian community in America. When
they arrived in New York, long after continental Africans, they bought one
newsstand in New York City, and eventually took over all the major
newsstands in the City, including Grand Central, Penn Station and Ports
Authority stations. You have to pay them $3,000 just to get your newspaper
into those locations. From this, the Indians set their eyes on the taxi and
limousine industry of the City. They took over 90% of the medallions, and
now control most of the taxi and limousine services in the City. 
Then from there, they set their eyes on the motel business. As has been
expansively written by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune Magazines, plus a plethora of
television network newscasts, the Indians control over 85% of the motel
business in America. According to the same sources, they are now poised to
take over most major five star hotels. In Silicon Valley, as has been well
chronicled, Indians control more than 750 high tech companies in the Valley,
with the result that several Indians are now billionaires. And are using
their wealth to create incubators in universities throughout India and
Pakistan to train future leaders in the high-tech age, for even now more
than 50% of the professional visas awarded by the United States each year
are given to Indians. India, which got its independence barely nine years
before African countries, possesses nuclear power and exports a great deal
to Africa. 
The Spider Web Economic Mentality of the Asians have brought them enormous
wealth, respect, and insulated them from the idiotic vagaries of the white
man. It is the only economic doctrine I believe that is capable of rescuing
us out of the abyss of our present economic doldrums. Unfortunately, you and
I, as a people, have always believed that whatever a Black man produces must
be inferior. It is ingrained in us. We may not be conscious of it, but we
believe it nevertheless. For example, if we were to have two people, one
black and one white, open a store offering the same quality of goods and
service. We will not patronize the black store; rather we would go to the
white store, because we believe it is offering a superior product and
service just because of the color of their skin. 
You can't pretend you don't do it. You do it, and I do it. It is even
reflected in how we see our professionals. Just go to doctors' offices. When
you go to a Black doctor's office. All you see are black faces. But, on the
other hand, go to a white doctor's office, and what do you see but black
faces more numerous than even white faces. The Black race must abandon its
current path to oblivion and total annihilation, its current practice of
wearing its success on its sleeves. As I said earlier, you don't chase after
a mouse when your house is on fire. We prefer to run before we walk, and
prefer the best things in life when we hardly have a penny in our bank
accounts. We prefer the Lexus, the Mercedes Benz, buying a $300 pair of
snickers for our grade school children, when we haven't put one dollar in
their education fund. 
Rather than provide simple amenities to the people, African leaders prefer
to buy palaces in Europe, spend $10,000 a night at hotels around the world,
and ride in luxurious limousines. Unfortunately, Africa owes the world more
than $375 billion, and there is no place in Africa you could point to as
evidence of that money being used. That $375 billion translates to $5000 to
pay back for every African in a continent where the per capita income is
less than $500. In fact, you have more Mercedes Benzes in Africa than in
Germany itself. 
My brothers and sisters, my message to you today is that I want the younger
generation of the Black Race to understand that they cannot carry the same
baggage the older generation has carried for so long: the notion that
somebody owes us something. 
Well, let me be ruthlessly frank with you, my friends, nobody owes you
anything. Don't carry our baggage of whining, complaining and begging.
Nobody is willing to give up what they have. This world is about survival of
the fittest. If you want something you have got to get up and get it. We
must develop the same Spider Web Economic Mentality of the Asians, and the
killer-instinct and devil-may-care attitude of the Caucasian. 
As I rightly observed in my book, we are as endowed as any other race of
people. We have to believe in ourselves. We have to believe in solving our
problems ourselves. We cannot continue to depend on others to do everything
for us. We have to become intelligent consumers; we need to become a
productive race. We must become economic warriors. As the general who led
his men into enemy territory did, we must destroy the transportation that
brought us into the enemy's territory. We must fight our way to victory or
perish. 
Let me honestly say this to you, my brothers and sisters: self-preservation
is not a sin. Look at the person next to you. We must think of ourselves as
superior individuals. There is nothing inferior about you or me. We must
adopt the Spider Web Economic Mentality: we must trap the dollars that come
into our community so that they could circulate within us. 
As I charged in my book, if you and I were to be charged to the court of
public opinion, we would all be shot for the serious economic crimes we have
committed against the Black Race. We must atone for our sins. Therefore,
when you leave here today, resolve to buy black - it is a dynamic virtue. 
We must stop wallowing in the feaces of slavery, colonialism and racism. For
me, the stench is too much, and I am getting out. I hope you join me in
getting out and breathing in the fresh air of ruthless honesty, truth,
freedom and the stupendous economic prosperity before us. My advice to you
is this: don't buy Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success, if you are not
willing to face the truth. It is a bitter brew to swallow, but it is
painfully uplifting. 
Once again, I thank this great institution for asking me to speak on this
great occasion. I have been highly honored and humbled. 
Thank you.

Dr. Chika Onyeani, afrstime@aol.com

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