August 02, 2005

Slingshot

give a brotha a blog

A young woman employed at Ladies Home Journal recently got fired for dishing about her editors and the inside goings-on at the mag on her blog. Then as fate would have it, People magazine did an article on her about it. Now she's been offered a column at several other magazines, has a book deal on the table and is "famous." A guy at Google kept a blog and revealed why the company is so successful: they don't let anyone go home! He got canned too. But has most likely already been hired by microsoft. Seems everyone is keeping a cyber-diary or blog these days. Problem is, a lot of 'em ain't saying anything empowering to the powerless. Here's an idea: someone needs to come up with a blog for the brotha on the street corner moving weight. I want to hear from him. What are his daily demons and by-any-means-necessary hustles to stay afloat? Yeah, give a brotha a blog. And watch the world respond.
-ct

Posted at August 2, 2005 10:26 AM

Comments

Brothas on the corner in every major city in America have probably seen more human drama unfold than most cats fighting in Iraq. Many of them have genius minds and would make great presidents of Fortune 500 companies. THe problem is how to reach them? Get 'em off the corner and in the boardroom or classroom. How do we do that?

Posted by: maximillian at October 13, 2005 09:47 PM