5:00 PM 3/27/2024 Wed

Hey fellas,

Just two hours to go until I break my fast for the day, so that gives me some time to add some post-live show thoughts on Ms. "WealthyyWhit", the Black woman I discussed on the live earlier today. While I was live chopping it up with the rest of you, I decided to do some quick back of the envelope math as to Ms. Whitney's expenses; what I noted at the end of today's show, that it totaled over $20K USD over the past two years alone, was in fact accurate.

It's MORE. Quite a bit more, in fact.

Here's a more comprehensive list:

1. Invisalign Dental Work $2K-$10K USD: Not gonna front, Ms. Whitney's teeth look great. Kudos to her on that! And, I'm going to assume that she has a great dental plan, so I'm gonna split the difference here and assume that she's kicking out something like $4K USD, max.

2. Black on Black Yves Saint Laurent bag, $3300 USD from Nordstrom

3. Amazon faux/vegan leather dress, $40 USD

4. Getting her hair did: According to Ms. Letisha Underwood, Ms. Whitney's hair as we all saw it on her crying the blues viral video earlier this month have an upfront cost of $600 USD and a six month upkeep cost of $150 USD a month. That means for a whole year, we're looking at about $3K USD on Wookie Weave hairdo's alone - and keep in mind, Ms. Letisha was lowballing it

5. Pink Ladies Versace Bathrobe $550 USD, direct from Versace's website

6. "Spa Day" $250 USD: Again, Ms. Letisha is giving a rather lowball estimate. I took a quick look at what the wealthy Ms. Anns do here in Philly on Rittenhouse Square; for example, the Rittenhouse Spa Club offers a "Rittenhouse Luxury Signature Package" that costs a mere $770 USD - see for yourself: https://www.therittenhousespaclub.com/specials/packages

7. Kirke Tiziana Terenzi Perfume, $295 USD, Neiman Marcus

8. Roundtrip Airfare to Accra, Ghana: $2600 USD. Since I don't know where Ms. Whitney lives, I used my location of Philly as the default departure point and my usual airline, Delta, giving Ms. Whitney a "Premium Economy" seat

9. Pink Lady Dior Purse: $5500 USD - this price was enough to make Ms. Letisha, a successful, middle aged Black woman, damn near faint

10. Mani/Pedi: $150+ USD a month - again, Ms. Letisha was basing this off of Ms. Whitney's appearance in the videos in question and lowballing the actual figures

This comes out to AT LEAST $19,685 USD - and mind you, this is based on a random sampling of Ms. Whitney's TikTok, which has literally hundreds of videos on it; we only looked at what, less than a dozen, max? Also, this is based on purely on Ms. Whitney's luxury expenses (with the arguable exception of her dental work) - not taking into account any of her actual, monthly life expenses, like rent/mortgage, utilities, food, health/hygiene, transportation (I'm going to assume that she has a car, so there's a car note, insurance AND upkeep) - and we KNOW, that as of Mar 8, 2024, Ms. Whitney was unable to pay an extra $1K USD a month on her mortgage due to the rates going up.

Incredible.

It's clear to me that Ms. Whitney's priorities are all out of whack - she clearly has a taste for the finer things in life, but is seriously reckless with her spending and that's just the half of it. What is even more troubling is that as she herself noted in her viral video, she is single and alone and has no one to rely on in times of trouble - she said that moving back in with her parents is "not an option".

Seems to me that she can save her hide by selling off as much of that luxury crap as possible on eBay, and severely cutting back on expenses ASAP, etc. That will make it possible to makeup that $1K USD mortgage shortfall, instead of personally attacking Don P. Sounds for merely responding to what SHE chose to disclose on a public platform. And that's what every brother here - present company included - would do were he in a similar situation, and wouldn't bat an eye about it. Without hestitation.

I didn't have a chance to get to it on the live show today, but it's very clear to me that Ms. Whitney is just a symptom of a much larger problem in Black America: Black women who have massively inflated "price tags" who cannot even afford to sustain themselves. And now as the pandemic era recedes and the economy remains in a somewhat weakened state, these lovely ladies are finding their situations tenuous at best. I've got some links to include with today's live show that, like I said, I had meant to get to on the air but didn't have the chance. But now that we've got this Locals community, perhaps I can do "post-live show summaries" where I can share with all of you stuff that I didn't have the chance to get to earlier.

I'll close out with this and then hand it off to you brothers to share your thoughts: It occurs to me that this "generational wealth" issue is so incredibly jacked up in Black America, in large part BECAUSE of the fact that we've got MILLIONS of Black women out here like Ms. "Wealthyy Whitney" who are in fact, up to their eyeballs in reckless spending and massive debt seven ways to Sunday.

Lots of meat on the bone to chop it up about here.

So, fellas, what do you think? Oh, and here's those links:

1. BLACK WOMEN HOMEBUYERS STILL FACING SYSTEMIC ROADBLOCKS https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-women-homebuyers-systemic-roadblocks-homeownership/

2. STUDY: SINGLE WOMEN ARE OWNING MORE HOMES IN THESE STATES https://www.blackenterprise.com/study-single-women-are-owning-more-homes-in-these-states/

3. Home ownership growing among single Black women, but here are their 3 biggest hurdles https://thegrio.com/2024/02/23/home-ownership-growing-single-black-women/

4. More Black women are becoming homeowners — it doesn’t mean it’s easier, economist says https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/20/more-black-women-are-becoming-homeowners-it-doesnt-mean-its-easier.html

5. African American Womens Perception of Subprime Lending Practices https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2z78me66025dp0tuf20e0/African-American-Womens-Perception-of-Subprime-Lending-Practices.pdf?rlkey=gctm563tczfgcharftz0stzf5&dl=0

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