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<strong>Norm Bond has a Ph.D in black people.</strong> His knowledge,
advocacy and love for his community can never be questioned. But he
looks at the statistics and they read like a Shakespearean tragedy:
African Americans boast nearly a trillion dollars in buying power, yet
we are collectively the poorest and most disorganized community in the
country, by far.
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