
By Maria Saporta
The inscription couldn’t be more appropriate.
On the tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., the message is: “I LOVE EVERYONE. STILL IN BUSINESS. JUST MOVED UPSTAIRS.
The legacy of “Daddy King” — as he was known to close friends and family — will live on through the M.L. King Sr. Community Resource Complex, which is under construction next to Ebenezer Baptist Church. King Sr. was a pastor at Ebenezer — a role he shared with his son — Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
On Sunday afternoon, Ebenezer held a program spotlighting the “business” side of Daddy King — someone who combined his religious teachings with economic lessons of self-sufficiency.
His daughter, Christine King Farris, said Daddy King had a mind for business.
“He knew how to handle his funds,” Farris said. “That’s how he got on the board of directors of Citizens Trust Bank. I almost followed him. I worked at Citizens Trust, and I majored in economics.”
King Sr. joined the board of Citizens Trust in the 1950s, where he served for several decades.
“Daddy King struggled with whether he wanted to be a businessman or a preacher,” said John Hope Bryant at the Ebenezer program on Sunday. “He did both.”














The Vision for the Operation HOPE Office of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
No, it doesn't exist right now as I write this, but it is our vision for our tomorrow. The future lies so much in us understanding that what is going on around us right now, globally, is not so much a traditional recession (or traditional anything), as a reset (as I have written about before here).
Our success moving forward will be greatly enhanced if we are willing to accept that even with all the important things our President and others are trying to do to move the economy forward, that structurally (and confidence wise) we may be stuck with 9% unemployment as a new norm for a while. That means that many of us, and particularly those of us who come from or presently live in low-wealth and under-served communities, may need to once again embrace the spirit of small business, entrepreneurship and what I refer to as "self-employment projects" in the new America. And this should not scare or frighten us, as small business and entrepreneurship is in many ways the foundation of America itself (along with her democracy). Or as I heard uttered in the halls and meetings at the White House recently, "a capitalist democracy."
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