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I’m having a #booksigning on November 6th 2021 at the Old First Reform UCC church @ 4th & Race in #Philadelphia #PA; 1pm - 5pm. You can pick my brain, have a one-on-one about the book & get a copy of the book (signed) I will also have copies of the book available for purchase. Visit Im having a #booksigning on Nov. 6th at the Old First Reform UCC church @ 4th & Race in #Philadelphia 1pm - 5pm. You can pick my brain, have a one-on-one about the book & get a copy of the book (signed) I will also have copies of the audio/book available. Visit the link at https://fb.me/e/16osyMH5X. See you there! #Neoliberalism #Globazarion #Incomeinequality #Poverty & #Resistance

Chuck weighs in on Kyrie Irving's situation with the Brooklyn Nets via NBAonTNT last night at the primiere of the nba 2021-2022 season saying  "First of all, you don't get the vaccine for yourself. You get it for other people,” Charles Baclay. You may view the video link here I disagree with Chuck for he can only speak for himself. That’s why he got vaccinated.  And that’s not the point CHARLES BARCLAY. The basis of your argument does not speak to the issue. It is one thing to get it done for family & self but that is if you believe that getting the #vaccine actually helps & you’re not suspicious of the science concerning its efficacy. Don’t be mediocre and surface level #charlesbarclay. You fail to understand the basis of some not wanting the vaccine and prioritize the Ends. You are changing the reason why we are told to get vaccinated to satisfy your position in it. There are those who doubt the science If I believe that the vaccine is spurious or that there is s...

I was thinking recently about the #GOAT conversation & concluded that we have gotten it completely wrong. To talk about an individual GOAT in a sport that’s purely based on teams is an illogic & minimizes & discriminates against the other team member’s efforts. The fact is that Michael Jordan and “KingJames” don’t play & cannot play without a team. To talk about them as the goat belittles the impact of the other teammates who are necessary for game play, & game action. When we talk about GOATS in @NBA it should be about the team NOT A person. NBA is not tennis or an individual sport. We may talk about @serenawilliams as a goat because she is part of a team of one & doesn’t share her titles. #MJ & #LBJ rings are not their own, it is only representative of the teams title/s or championship that they played on or with. Yet we belittle the team by obfuscating— Singling out the few over the many.  In effect, The mentality of elitism & status finds it’s wa...

#Capitalone is the worse #creditcard anyone would want to have. This is according to a very disgruntled former customer who came to me at The Neoliberal in an effort to share his story which we find credible after our investigations. Indeed, the customer stated that they’re unscrupulously strategic in terms of how & when they report to the bureaus & will freeze your account so that you have zero utilization if your credit improves which lowers your score new score & eventually continue to keep you as a customer with them. When they get wind of your improved credit position, they become nervous as customers usually leave to take advantage of better cards with lower interests and breather benefits or they usually have to lower their rates and offer more benefits so as to not loose you. But they’d rather not offer benefits but continue to take advantage of keeping you as a dependent customer.  He reiterates that Capital One is the worse company ever! He then started to sha...

The events of 2020 have ushered in a new norm. The world is shifting in terms of how it works. The "COVID-19" pandemic, "Black Lives Matter Movement" marching for equality and against police brutality and the rise of "White Extremism" in America culminating with the US Capital attack by "Domestic Terrorists" have created new fears, health and security concerns and highlighted economic disparities, which have resulted in tectonic changes that is defining the way companies conduct business. Further this has led to a rise in American individualism and creativity in terms of how they are responding to the structural changes in American society that has largely disadvantaged the poor or working class.  Years ago Hilary Clinton said that “leadership at the center is softening”, in that there isn’t any prolific dynamic or power that makes all the decisions and control activities and drive success given the realities and anxieties of our century...

Video Link Re Haiti's History of Foreign Penetration  Black people are among the poorest and most impoverished peoples of the world today. Why is that so? And there is no example of any country today that’s govern by black, brown or (Latin) African people where there is no instability or underdevelopment. In the book Neoliberalism Globalization Income Inequality Poverty and Resistance, we look at international bureaucracy as a strategy that continues to benefit some groups and countries at the expense of others and the countervailing forces within systems that mitigate and dilute any “ineffective” strategy of Resistance for change.  Black people today continue to be ruled through military or economic force even after they have achieved independence! This is in addition to the fact that many New World Black and Brown people are not inherently free but live as people whose freedoms are granted as a privilege by their former white masters who continue to benefit from Their white...

It’s ok for the dispensaries to sell weed, because they call it Medical Marjuana which is legal. Taking advantage of the law that allows them to do so as they work in concert with politicians to kill the competition or Black and Brown people’s economic activity which is called street weed that they have criminalized and “illegitimatize”. Thereby, affecting the lives of those who can’t obtain ownership of dispensaries without having to meet criteria that the politicians in back rooms with lobbyists and capitalists, bankers and the special interests have made impossible or difficult for those “hippies”, Black and Brown people who don’t have certain ties that dispensary owners have. Such as certain connections, race and entitlements.  What a conspiracy and plot that they have enacted to regulate an activity to drive profits for the few over the many obliterating Black enterprises and wealth in this regard.  This strategy highlights my hypothesis/assumption in fact that “Black and...

Early on Thursday morning, part of a 12-story residential building in the South Florida community of Surfside was reduced to rubble. As of Friday afternoon, at least four people had been found dead as a result of the collapse, and 159 were still missing, according to ABC7 .   Recently the mayor in response to the collapse of part of a Miami condo building where 99 people are missing and 4 are reported dead, said that “this doesn’t happen in America”.  That’s the problem you know, we don’t expect certain events to occur in America, and when they do happen, we react and play catch up. It is that belief that has caused several catastrophes, 9/11, #Katrina that destroyed NO, #The attack on the US capital on Jan 6, 2020 and the recent collapse of the building in Miami. In fact a recent study in 2020 showed that since 1990 the land was receding as water levels were rising, yet Miami still stuck to their assumptions that drove their rule of thumb to inspect buildings every 40 years....

And on June 14th my mom went to her appointment only to be in labor. Ricardo was born… then…”Wait… hold up… Mrs. McKenzie, there’s another one, oh my you got twins! I came out within a minute, all #premature, #malnourished and looking like a small “half-pound chicken” you could hold in your hands. The doctors said they will die, they’re too premature in #1979. I was rushed to the incubator and there I remain for the next 4-5 months, being fed via tube connected to my nostrils or veins as my mouth and some organs were not developed. But here I am after 42 years alive and tryna be well. Read my brief autobiography in my new book #Neoliberalism #Globalization #Income Inequality #Poverty and #Resistance. 

#Sunday: 42 years ago today; It was #June 13th, 1979; the end of the 2nd trimester & the beginning of another. My #mom & #dad set an appointment to see the #Obstetrician for a #pregnancy check-up. She thinks she’s pregnant with 1 child & is making preparations @37 years old to give birth in #September or #October… but little do they know about what’s about to happen…  On June 14th tomorrow… follow tomorrow for part 2 of the story

My #father was one of my greatest and most important #rolemodels and #investors. He believed in me and sacrificed for my growth and upbringing so that today I can honor his memory by writing an academic textbook on #Neoliberalism #globalization #Incomeinequality #Poverty And #Resistance. He wanted me to become an #economist and or a #theologian and or an #architect as he was sort of a building engineer and ran his own construction  company as an Independent Contractor for major government agencies and private firms. He helped with building the Jamaica National Stadium and several major projects. He was great at his job. He was jack of all trades and even built a car in the 80’s, built our beautiful home in the hills, built and started several churches, and ran an animal and vegetable farm and built some unique furnishing from scratch. However he made many mistakes as a dad and had some detractors that may question his character, but aren’t we all smeared. He was firm, hard, rough a...

Written by Rev. Renaldo McKenzie | Published January 7th in TheNeoliberal Blog updated June 7, 2021. I’d like to update the course name “Caribbean Thought” and make some additions and changes to the course outline. The course was originally developed by Rev. Dr. Garnett Roper, former President of the Jamaica Theological Seminary. I first taught the class Spring Semester January 2021. I provided this addendum then and updated it for Summer semester beginning June 7th, 2021 The course should be called “Critical Thinking and Expressions in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora”. I will add the following required readings: Renaldo C. McKenzie’s Neoliberalism Globalization Income Inequality Poverty and Resistance,” Kenneth B Clark “Dark Ghetto; Dillemmas of Social Power,” Thomas Clark “Globalization and Neoliberalism The Caribbean Context,” and Homi Barber’s “Location of culture.”  Day one of the course will look like this: Day 1:  Introductions Review of Course outline Discuss Expe...

Lawrence Alexander (Jr.) A strategist at Wake Forest in New Jersey quotes Desmond Tutu as saying “we need to stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” But I thought about it and hypothesized that that is probably why they haven’t stopped pulling people out. Because if you have to travel #upstream to inquire about why they’re falling then there goes the issue. Going up to find out why is a task. Since you’re using #nature as an analogy I’ll continue in that vein. “Nature” has used #countervailing tactics to prevent others from coming #upstream. Going upstream  means one will have to be creative, inventive, dynamic and #powerful to go against the stream. But for all we know we have tried to go upstream softly. We have tried to change force with pacificity & incoherence. But we cannot stop pulling people out, for by the time we stop and go upstream, how many would have fallen in that needs #help! So don’t stop pulling people...

When #Fate comes swinging at you Push Back!  (“Nehza” the animation picture released by #enlightenpictures.) There have been hundreds of protests against the Washington Consensus and their lackeys since 1976 by the global justice move- ment and recently the Black Lives Matter movement in America. Street protests and some degree of violence have been the main strategies of the group until recently. But are the resistance movements closer to achiev- ing their aims? The effectiveness of the resistance will be determined by the extent to which they have real- ized actual power: “demonstrated change in the desired direction.” #Except From the Book #Neoliberalism #Globalization #Income Inequality #Poverty and #Resistance available worldwide everywhere online in paperback and ebook (and hardcover by Tuesday May 25th)

I asked a question on Reddit: When we hear of Jamaica or the Caribbean what comes to mind? Someone replied on Reddit: he said: “as a potential investor this region has so much untapped potential.” I replied via #Reddit  writing: Just recently learned that the Caribbean community is pushing towards Bitcoin investments. The Caribbean and Jamaica lack effective investments that can transform them into a competitive force. But in a neoliberal globalized world who wants more competition. I discuss this in my new book Neoliberalism Globalization Income Inequality Poverty and Resistance. Another person replied on Reddit, Inc. saying: they think of the people, the food, the natural beauty, and turquoise waters. Moreover, Yes, Jamaica has natural beauty but who benefits from this beauty and all the treasures the islands have to offer? Is it the natives? No, they were mostly wiped out. Is it the new natives from Africa? No, their life is “life and debt” and hard work! Who enjoys its pleasure...

However, for many unlike Fanon, it is not any ide- ology based in Marxism or capitalism that will suffice either; those systems have failed them (Jamaicans and the Caribbean and their diaspora) or left them in a state of schizophrenia. Instead, Jamaicans such as Bob Marley have resorted to a solution based in religion, a religion of self. According to Marley in the 2018 Netflix film Who Shot the Sheriff, the better solution is when he is of benefit to the people, for that’s the only conscious- ness he can have of self. 174 He, like many Jamaicans, has abandoned Eastern and Western ideology for one that is “Rasta,” a religion born out of self-struggle for a righteous expression of self-power or “Black Power,” and the Black fight for individuality. It was the religion Schleiermacher spoke of, one that is only a spontane- ous expression of free will, and everything in the end must contribute to the self-determination of the au- tonomous individual. For, according to Marley, “we do not def...

When we hear of Jamaica or the Caribbean, we think of beautiful islands of paradise with sun, sea and sand, reg- gae music, cannabis, and “irie” people like Usain Bolt —  people who are living out their best dreams, desires, and lives. But this book analyzes this motif, given the historical and current economic and political situation in Jamaica and the Caribbean and the “Global South.” In an attempt to escape the adverse realities of pov- erty, inequality, and injustice, the people of the Global South find themselves in north metropolises with very little agency and minimal change to their lives. In fact, except for the use of cleaning neoliberal waste, the immigrant is usually portrayed as an alien with three heads and big sharp teeth seeking to steal and destroy the profit and disrupt society. As such we will discuss Black, brown, and Pan-African struggles for economic prosperity, justice, and freedom and consider efforts, abilities, or inabilities to chart their own futures since…....

Renaldo McKenzie | The NeoLiberal  Happy Mother’s Day, Rev. Bernella Mckenzie and all mothers who believe in their children and spent the time to sacrifice and invest in their future.  As we get set to celebrate mothers on mother's, day I have to say thank you to my mommy for seeing the potential in me and investing in my education & literacy. When I was younger, I could not read, write or spell at age level. I remember my mom praying “God what kind of children you give me”. But my mother took me to Jamaica Library Service in Spanish town. Saint Catherine Jamaica from the age of 6 almost everyday (and every summer), where she worked, and signed us up, my twin brother #RICARDOMCKENZIE and I, for every program and invested in our #education during the struggling years of having to raise 6 children in a fledging Jamaican economy.  It all began when my my mother asked me to write a letter to the gleaner and when my former professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary David Pe...

Benefits are doing more harm than good and Montana Governor has pulled out of the UE program citing that their State’s businesses can’t find workers. The Governor and his advisors assume that this is because we are paying people to not work. But if truth be told, Employers must pay their workers better wages so that they have real incentive to go back to work.  Moreover, COVID-19 has created a new culture that no one wants to go back to work in a physical place or space. We have heard of several cases where even executives in NY are concocting strategic ways to avoid having to go back to work. In fact, several businesses have called their employees back to work and many have supplied fake sick notices to their employees in an effort to not go back to work.   No one wants to go back to earning minimum wage and no one wants to work the same way since work and play are now remote or tectonic. States and Employers have misplaced blame. People are not going back because they...