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I couldn’t agree more. And I bet if the family was able to keep the land, they would have had the knowledge or gained the knowledge to keep their family in the business of land development. And other things to protect their wealth. It breaks my heart that they were forced out and to think of the emotional toll that they endured just to keep the land for a decade. Terrorized to leave. Those scars linger and pass down for generations.

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How long? It breaks my heart that Marcus or Derrick Bruce at 65 years old didn't have the financial literacy or education to take advantage of this amazing windfall and reconciliation. That's the other culprit that's plagued our culture for generations. Not a week, month or annually but for generations! And not only Black citizens. Those of you who are under the illusion of inclusion are affected as well. Instead this family had to sell for 20 million dollars back to the people that stuck the "green weenie" to them in the first place. My hope and prayer would be that their heirs will have the financial literacy, the wherewithal, the education to benefit themselves and their next generation with the twenty millie. #streetsmarts

Knowing that they probably won't get the whole twenty because they'll get taxed for their lack of financial education and literacy.

I hope someone in that family buys my books. That's what they're written for. To be the on ramp to financial literacy. To prepare anyone for their financial windfall.

If this was me, you would see me sitting in my Sun-Flow chair every day just kicking cans on my beach property now known as Spencer's Beach and kicking people off of it while I made decisions for the property after putting it in a trust and compounding the interest year after year. #YOY

I'd make the city lease the property from me for millions a year. I'd be compounding that money too until the day I decided to kick everyone off of it for fun. I would call this racial fun at the beach and stay rich too. LOL And I'm 65. #Nevertoolate As I like to say let's get it like Getty baby #TRUST

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