DR GEORGE C. FRAZIER .... SAYS WHITE FOLKS AIN'T EVEN THINKING ABOUT BLACK FOLKS #thatpart
629George Fraser calls creativity, persistence, connections and capital the “gangsta moves” that black America must use to close the huge economic gap with white America.
If this doesn’t sound particularly subversive or gangster-like, neither is the 67-year-old author, inspirational speaker and founder of the world’s largest black networking organization, FraserNet Inc., based in Cleveland.
The crisply suited, silver-haired Zig Ziglar of the black world uses “gangsta” in the hip-hop fashion of rapper Jay-Z — meaning audacious measures to achieve the seemingly impossible.
Nearly 20 years ago, Black Enterprise dubbed Fraser the "new voice for African-Americans" when the magazine featured him on its cover. He wants to remain fresh and bold enough to engage upcoming generations.
“I absolutely love being able to relate to Generations X and Y,” he says. “To do that, you have to connect with them in their language.”
Fraser brought his message to Dallas recently when professionals, business owners, community leaders and economic hopefuls gathered for his company’s 11th annual national PowerNetworking Conference
Fraser’s goals have been constant for 25 years:
Help black people attain wealth that can be handed down to the next generation.
Help black people become the No. 1 employer of black people in the 21st century.
“Not next year, not even while I’m alive, but by the end of this century,” he says in an interview last weekend during the conference. “Wherever black people are going in the 21st century, it will be because black people will take us there.”
Family net worth among blacks is about $6,000, compared with $60,000 for white families, he says. The gap is widening, not shrinking.
“We’ll be the first generation of Africans in America in 400 years to raise another generation of Africans in America who will be poorer than them. That’s unacceptable.”
Conference attendance of about 800 was disappointing, especially since there were so few locals. Fraser hopes to build on that during the next four years, when Dallas will host the four-day event. Next year, he hopes for 1,500, with a third from Dallas.
Atlanta, home of the conference for the previous six years, drew 1,800, with 600-plus from that area, in 2011.
Fraser knew coming in that there is a “disconnectedness of blacks” in Dallas’ predominantly white business community. That’s actually one reason the city was selected. “We’re going to roll into this community, stay for a half-decade and build relations from the ground up.”
HR executive Hattie Hill, chairwoman of the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, says the multiyear commitment will, in fact, help the city become more inclusive because Fraser is a powerful connector.
“George Fraser keeps it real,” says Hill, who got her first one-on-one coaching session with Oprah Winfrey at PowerNetworking in 2005. “He is the trusted voice when it comes to leadership, personal growth and lifelong learning, specifically in the African-American community.
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