Author: Brooke M. Stephens
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
(c): 1997
Price: too much
Pages: 312 pp too many
Blades: 0
Synopsis: This book is filled with fluff and nonsense. An over hyped book that left the stamp of a bitter woman on library bookshelves.
Review: Despite parroting Black achievements by Blacks, Stephens goes on to tell Blacks that some of the financial inequities are the fault of Black people. For one to go to great lengths regarding racial oppression and the few resources given to Blacks, Stephens creates more questions as to why she would tell this same group of people that this could all be called “emotional baggage?” It is as if this woman placed her name and face on a project that she herself has not read. I would not be shocked if there was a ghostwriter to this nonsense. Stephens also misleads the reader with misused quotes. She also uses religion to entrap the minds of Blacks into the dispelling “African-American Money Myths.”
Many of the “myths” listed are NOT race specific, but it seems that Stephens believes that only Blacks have fears of owning more money then they can handle and of showing off. As for the Ashanti “proverb,” that comment left many questions as to why would a tribe that has been around for centuries classify themselves with Westernized terms? One of the biggest lies (out of many presented by Stephens) is that White folks could care less about what Blacks do as long as it does not infringe on their financial gain. If that were the case then why the need to track all that Blacks do and hide past accomplishments from the new generations while wiping out elders who know the truth?
All in all this poor “author” creates fake proverbs and expects them to fly. Stephens even promotes the fraudulent insurance companies for those who seek to obtain wealth. Which wealthy person has insurance? Let me clarify my question; when I say wealthy I do not mean rich, I mean Oprah Winfrey wealthy. Which one of them has life insurance? Many know that whole life insurance is not worth the paper it is written on and the majority of wealthy people have no need for insurance period. Not only is it a rip off but a waste of time and should not be life long. Unfortunately many not capable of paying off their burial and bills are backed into the insurance corners. To sum it all, the book is filled with financial advice that may be as old as Disneyland. Too bad creativity could not be the topic of this crap fest.
This book gets a -10 blades for attempting to have the reader make money it’s sole source of life.
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