PageTurners

Elgin Bailey
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Everything I thought I wanted, and most of needed to know, I found between the pages. Who I am as a prevention specialist, a veteran, a community activist, an older brother, a father, a husband, a family, a Black man, was a host of life happening and me emerging at different points in different ways. What gave me language for what was happening, what I was experiencing, and who I was and am becoming? The pages. The pages give me language. The pages make things make sense. Come and turn life’s pages with me. See what you see in the world around you. See what you find in yourself.

  1. 06/22/2021

    Buying Power DOES NOT equal/mean Money!!!! (S4-E5)

    Season 4 of the Pageturners continues with a highly recommended and much-needed text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power". Power, in the phrase buying power, is not what economists consider when assessing the economic health of a group or country. Buying power is not wealth, it cannot be invested at will and used to create more for its investors. Buying power is not stocks, bonds, or land, and is not even real estate, it cannot be built upon, renovated, or flipped. Buying power is not income, it is not earned in exchange for labor and it cannot be spent at will or used to pay one bill versus another. Buying power has its origins in government labor statistics meant to help assess where wages should be set relative to inflation but is now, today, mostly a phrase created and propagated by marketers in an attempt to assist the business community to govern its advertising revenue. Power, in the phrase buying power, strictly means the power consumers have to buy one available product over another. Put another way, power, in the phrase buying power, means only the power to generate wealth for one corporation or another.  This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!! May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP

    33 min

  2. 05/27/2021

    Concept of Power to Consuming (S4-E4) #MOBP

    Season 4 of the Pageturners continues with a highly recommended and much-needed text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power". Power, in the phrase buying power, is not what economists consider when assessing the economic health of a group or country. Buying power is not wealth, it cannot be invested at will and used to create more for its investors. Buying power is not stocks, bonds, or land, and is not even real estate, it cannot be built upon, renovated, or flipped. Buying power is not income, it is not earned in exchange for labor and it cannot be spent at will or used to pay one bill versus another. Buying power has its origins in government labor statistics meant to help assess where wages should be set relative to inflation but is now, today, mostly a phrase created and propagated by marketers in an attempt to assist the business community govern its advertising revenue. Power, in the phrase buying power, strictly means the power consumers have to buy one available product over another. Put another way, power, in the phrase buying power, means only the power to generate wealth for one corporation or another.  This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!! May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP

    31 min

  3. 05/21/2021

    "Propaganda Versus Economics: Constructing a Myth" S4-E3 (End Ch. 1/Start of Ch. 2) #MOBP

    The myth of Black buying power is dismantled by taking primarily two lines of argumentation: (a) as an issue born of a media environment itself well suited to the transmission of propaganda and, (b) as an issue of economics, or economics reporting, where substantive research and data on the economic condition of Black people is supplanted by more salacious and fallacious claims of economic strength. Season 4 of the Pageturners continues with a highly recommended and much-needed text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power". This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!! May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP

    32 min

  4. 05/13/2021

    "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power" S4-E2 (Chapter 1/Intro) #MOBP #Jay-Z

    For generations, Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," reading Dr. Ball's work, we come to see that is a flat-out lie.  Dr. Jared Ball writes...."Black people are not poor for having missed out on previous opportunities, or by choosing today, out of some form of cultural deformity, or intractable financial illiteracy, to, as Jay-Z suggests, foolishly give away potential communal wealth by shopping. Jay-Z, like most commercial artists and art, reflects racial and class politics often masked by talent and performance. Season 4 of the Pageturners kicks off with a highly recommended and much need text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power".    This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!! May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need.  #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP

    33 min

  5. 05/04/2021

    "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power" S4-E1 (Preface)

    Season 4 of the Pageturners kicks off with a highly recommended and much need text "Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power". In this episode, we dive right in, with a bio on the author Dr. Jared A. Ball, and proceed right into the text.  For generations, Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," reading Dr. Ball's work, we come to see that is a flat-out lie.  This is a season of Pageturners, your host Elgin "Big EL" Bailey, you DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!! May the pages we read, assist you in being the change we need.  #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #MOBP

    33 min

  6. 02/15/2021

    EVICTED "ORDER SOME CARRYOUT" (S3-EP5) A CHANGE IS COMING.

    This episode begins with the host Elgin Bailey, expressing his frustration about others profiting off of Black folk's creative and intellectual properties. His decision to make a move that will protect and incentives his creative and intellectual properties. A change is coming.  Season 3 continues with episode 5 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 5, we CONTINUE reading chapter 9 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond

    33 min

  7. 02/08/2021

    EVICTED "ORDER SOME CARRYOUT" (S3-EP4)

    Season 3 continues with episode 4 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 4, we close out chapter 8, and part 1 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond, and start Part 2 "OUT", chapter 9 "Order some carryout"  #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond

    27 min

  8. 02/01/2021

    "Christmas in Room 400 (2)" (S3-Ep3)

    Season 3 continues with episode 3 of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond On EPISODE 9, we continue chapter 8 of "Evicted" by award-winning writer Matthew Desmond, and dive right into the text "Christmas in Romm 400", we discuss further landlord Sherrena, and her tenant, Arleen. #books #Literacy #Racialliteracy #evictedbook #matthewdesmond

    27 min
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Everything I thought I wanted, and most of needed to know, I found between the pages. Who I am as a prevention specialist, a veteran, a community activist, an older brother, a father, a husband, a family, a Black man, was a host of life happening and me emerging at different points in different ways. What gave me language for what was happening, what I was experiencing, and who I was and am becoming? The pages. The pages give me language. The pages make things make sense. Come and turn life’s pages with me. See what you see in the world around you. See what you find in yourself.

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  • Creator
    Elgin Bailey
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2021
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Elgin Bailey
  • Show Website
    PageTurners