Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun – Book Review
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Of course I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t start off with this book. This book right here is the book that pretty much transformed my life for the better. I was given this book when I was 19 by my brother. I sat down and read this book cover to cover within a couple of hours and I pretty much followed the lead of this cat. What he recommended would be the future I personally became in my life.
Once I found out how Reginald Lewis came up from Baltimore and how he was ahead of the game with his thinking I knew this cat had the right angle. It’s a tragedy that he died at a early age but if you read this book you will see he was about it and made moves that most cats still haven’t been able to reduplicate. Truth be told that book is part of the reason why I started the R&G as that one book put me on to so much game that I told myself if I ever got to a position to let cats know I would.
So needless to say this is the book that got me started on my journey to understand chips. Once I saw a ending I wasn’t hesitant to start the beginning….
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I read this book a month or two ago, and it is an excellent book. To see a Black man do what we did and make the moves he made was fascinating and inspiring. I especially like the fact that he transitioned into the big leagues by taking on the task of buying and expanding existing companies. This was a major move and proved so in terms of his wallet. Why should Carl Icahn have the all the fun?
He wasn’t content with MESBICs and just being successful as a lawyer. Or even as an employee at a well-known New York City law firm. He wanted to go for the gusto. The same sentiment I see here on Rise and Grind. Its people like Reginald Lewis and Freeman that push the Black community to ask more of themselves. To do more and to be more. Not just want to be “successful” in relation to the less fortunate. BE SUCCESSFUL PERIOD.
Like he said in his book, Reginald Lewis used his mind as a weapon. He didn’t go to school for bragging rights. He went there to use that piece of paper as a tool. Something that the Black intelligentsia could learn. Education is nothing if leads to nothing. Use your education to do for self, not represent for others.
Yep,the guy took the education, went and took the knowledge from working for others, went out and created his own company, then decided to buy other companies that were already profitable. I mean if that’s not the blueprint to the game I don’t know what is.
We got a lot of people on the low doing this same angle in our race. I don’t think we need to tell everyone who they are but we sure as hell need to share the way to independence. Just like the great migration once one of us knows it’s profitable we all seem to move in that same direction.
I personally profit from his life as I have that book ingrained in my head and my own vision. A lot of people don’t realize what we can be and what we already have been but if you read enough and know enough examples it’s very hard to not get out there and stand on your own two.
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Yeah, Reginald Lewis was a great man. If i’m not mistaking he was the first black billionaire, right? Years before Johnson of BET if i recall correctly. I always found his death (God bless his soul) to be suspicious. He was making major, major moves when his company acquired Beatrice foods, that acquisition was a game changer. He’s definitely the success archtype that behooves any aspiring entrepreneur to follow. Nice pick, Freeman, i’ll check it out.
It’s always up for debate on how they classify the first Black Billionaire but in my book he was the first. It’s always a tragedy when someone dies when they really get on top of the game.
This is a very powerful book!! If you haven’t read this book you need to go out and cop it ASAP!!
It was definitely a life changing read for me. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to read about a man who refused to quit.