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Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing

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Good Day All,
I have finally finished reading Stop Being Niggardly by Karen Hunter, and my life has been profoundly affected. I have started to analyze my attitude about my health, financial status, and personal choices. As Ms. Hunter discusses in her book, many of us are in debt. We are living way above our means and buying things that we cannot afford while still renting apartments. However, after reading this book, I have resolved to STOP DIGGING. I realize that I will never become a millionaire working for somebody else, and I realize that I need to diversify my income so that I will not have to depend solely on one source.

This book is definitely worth a read. It is high time that we stop blaming everyone for our shortcomings. In her book, Ms. Hunter encourages all of us to take an in-depth look at the person in the mirror. Furthermore, she encourages us to examine our health, spending habits, savings, spirituality, and set realistic, attainable goals for improvement.

If you are looking for a BOOK CLUB book, this would be a great choice. I know that I have had numerous in-depth conversations with family members, friends, and strangers about this book.

Stop Being Niggardly: Great read. Informative. Life Changing. Get your copy today.

This book should be required reading in every African American household for everyone, particularly parents who are serious about changing the lives of our misguided children.

I thought this book laid out some good points, but there are a few glaring flaws.

The author comes across as pompous at times. She repeatedly brags about what a great writer she is and how great her publishing house is going to be, but the book is poorly edited. The grammar and punctuation don't always make sense.

Hunter makes some bizarre claims with little or no explanation (that Africans sailed to the Americas in the fourteenth century, or that all Latino people are really black). If you're going to assert things like that, give a citation or a better explanation.

I would have been interested to hear what Hunter has to say about family structure and childrearing. Those seem like important parts of her topic.

Enough is enough, black people have to take responsibility and be held accountable for their actions. I work with amazing kids at a shelter, bright, funny, full of hope and half of them cannot read. Who's to blame, a lot of people, and lets hold them accountable and revitalize our communities and our children. Let help one another strive to be better for the HUMAN RACE. Stop passing judgment and start rolling up our sleeves and taking back our lives. Its an abundant and over-flowing universe. It takes hard work, diligence, truth, humility, and community. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL!

Stop Being Niggardly. Where do I start?
At first the title will sort of spark your curiosity. Niggardly as explained is not a racial term, but a mentality.
I was very impressed with the cover of the book. Almost all of the books I own are dog-eared and frayed from use due to my line of work. (I do most of my reading on my break times at work). It has retained its bedside look. Kudos to the publishers.
This book in my opinion history in the making. It not only reaffirms a lot of what we have been told, a lot of what we are supposed to and not supposed to be doing, but it is chronicles life in the beginning of 21st century for black America. My children and grandchildren will read this book 10-20 years from and have a glimpse at what Mom and Dad's generation were dealing with. Just as we do when we read books written by and about Marcus Garvey, W.E.B Dubois, and Malcolm X.
Also the book is written in such a way the average reader's interest is held and he or she does not have to run to the dictionary every fourth sentence. I really appreciated that.
Karen Hunter writes a lot about her personal experiences in the book and is very transparent. She makes the reader feel as they are not alone in some of their life decisions. She also recommends to the reader books she has read along her path to being a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist/writer.
She introduces (or reintroduces) the reader to Nannie Helen Burroughs, author of The 12 Things the Negro Must do. This is the precursor to Stop Being Niggardly. That book was written 100 years ago and it is still prevalent today. Karen Hunter adds her comments to each point that Nannie Helen Burroughs made to bring her message alive in the 21st century. (Which she really did not have to do because sadly not much has changed with a lot of Black America)
I recommend this book to anyone who is not the avid reader. You will be surprised at how you will not be able to put this book down. It is a modern interpretation on old problems that has plagued Black America for a few generations.
On an added note, everyone who sees me reading this book, asks me if they can take a look at it. Result, I have ordered about 3 copies on Amazon this week alone and have given them to co-workers. It is just that impressive.

IF YOU ARE OPENED MINDED PRO-ACTIVE I GUARANTEE THAT YOU WOULD RECOMMEND THIS DOWN TO EARTH NON-FICTION BOOK TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND STRANGERS
I URGE EVERYONE OF COLOR TO PURCHASE, READ AND KEEP A COPY ON HAND IF JUST TO USE AS A REFERENCE FOR YOURSELF OR OTHERS.

My having read "Stop Being Niggardly And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing!" by the phenomenal Karen Hunter, left a profound impression on me and has assisted in redirecting my thought pattern as a black woman in the 20th Century. It was so prolific that I read it in two days!!!

I found myself reflected in the book's titles/chapters, and the ones that weren't directly related to my personal experience furthermore painted a more vivid picture of the lives of my family/friends/co-workers/church family, etc. in that I believe that they too would feel a connection to this spell bounding literary work.

The book made me laugh, nod in agreement, shake my head in disbelief at the truth and the lack of our collective awareness to it (including myself), but most of all I felt convicted because many of my own flaws were highlighted in the book. When I finished reading the book, I knew I had just gotten a reality check, but it was one that was written/delivered in an educated, down-to-earth and humanitarian manner.

Since I am a descendant of a long line of educators (even my beau is an educator;0) I personally feel that this book should be used as a curriculum guide to educate our children on the real world as it relates to being black in modern day times and how we devalue each other, let alone our human counterparts of varying backgrounds. The revelation that our young people and their place in the world will cease to exist if they're not prepared for the future is disheartening. They need to grasp and process that to be a spectator and not a proactive participant in life will get them no where, fast!


God Bless You Karen and thank you for telling the truth, Lord knows, no one is perfect (except God) and we have to strive to be the best when can, if not for ourselves, than at least for someone else who will come behind us. After all, life is all about second chances. Kudos!

100 year old inspiration remains a strong guide for success today.

Karen Hunter's new book: "Stop Being Niggardly" is based upon a book written by Nannie Helen Burroughs in the 1890's. Hunter takes Burroughs's work of over a century ago and applies it to today's black life with candid examples of Hunter's own experiences as well as incidents found in the media that demands attention to racism, education, economics, spirituality and community of blacks.

`Niggardly' is packed with advice that makes the reader mark up the pages/borders of this book. Hunter's writing resonates with hope, proactive actions and empowering history of the resiliency of black people.

I personalized my copy of this book and what did I take away from this book? Empowerment and the knowledge that over 100 years ago, a black woman believed in her people so much that she wrote down her vision. Over 100 years later another black woman would bring this writing forward. Both Burroughs's and Hunter's writings serve as a winning template for this new decade that has started with a black president Barak Obama of the United States of America.

I pray that this book sells a million copies - if one million blacks practice and is empowered by Burroughs's/Hunter's writings; then a movement is born and blacks can embrace their history, their community and themselves!

This book represents the decade of the African American!

Fabulously written, easy to understand. Feel like you veered off of your goals for too long? Maybe you've been misguided your whole life and need a swift one in the mental rear? Alas, you have the dreams but lack the tenacity to follow them through? Karen Hunter's book Stop Being Niggardly and Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing just might be the remedy that cures all that ails ya!

A quick read and easy to digest (I finished it in a few hours.) A great reference book and a good gift idea to friends or family. Highly recommend.

This is an excellent book that was referred to me by a friend.This book is on point and needs to be read by every black person (I am a 47 Year Old Black Male).This book is not negative but it gives you a insight on how to do things the right way with respect to others and yourself.