This is volume 29 of my monthly column entitled “Black Dollars Matter.” As I point out each month, this column is generally designed to compel Philadelphia’s white-owned businesses and white-led employers to treat Black consumers and Black applicants/employees/firms with respect. But, more important, it is also designed to convince Black people in Philadelphia to “do for self” economically because money talks and BS walks.
In this volume, I’m updating and correcting the classic hip hop line by Lil’ Kim in her collaboration with The LOX on the 1998 hit “Money, Power & Respect” when she said,