In our last two blogs, we referenced Dr. Claude Anderson’s book Powernomics, a book that forces Black America to confront a hard truth: what we are facing today is not accidental. It is not bad luck. It is not temporary. Many of our communities are being pushed down a rabbit hole—slowly, quietly, and deliberately.
A rabbit hole does not happen overnight. You don’t fall all at once. You slide step by step. One job disappears. One factory shuts down. One school loses funding. One neighborhood becomes unaffordable. One policy passes that sounds fair but hits Black families the hardest. Before people realize what’s happening, they are deeper than they ever imagined, and climbing out feels almost impossible.
Dr. Anderson explains that power follows economics. Groups that control land, businesses, jobs, banking, and resources control their future. Those who do not are left dependent. Today, Black America is experiencing job losses through layoffs, automation, and artificial intelligence. Many of the jobs being eliminated once provided stability. Yet ownership in the companies replacing that labor is minimal. We are being removed from the workforce without being positioned to benefit from what replaces it.
At the same time, poverty is tightening its grip. Rising rent, food prices, healthcare costs, and debt are pulling families under. When wealth is not built and protected, every crisis pushes people further down the hole. Dr. Anderson warned that when our dollars leave our communities within hours, we strengthen systems that do not serve us while weakening our own.
Even our history is under attack. History gives people identity, purpose, and direction. When it is erased or rewritten, it becomes easier to justify inequality and harder for the next generation to understand why unity and economic focus matter. Powernomics reminds us that controlling the narrative is a form of power.
Another danger Dr. Anderson pointed out is how easily a people can fall asleep. Distraction is powerful. Entertainment, trends, social media arguments, and surface-level success can make us feel busy while nothing meaningful is being built. Time, money, and energy are spent on things that do not move us forward, while major decisions about jobs, housing, and wealth are made without our involvement. Sleep feels comfortable, but it is costly. The longer we sleep, the deeper the rabbit hole becomes.
This is not a message of despair. It is a warning and a call to awareness. Dr. Claude Anderson did not write Powernomics to discourage us—he wrote it to prepare us. No group advances without strategy, sacrifice, ownership, and unity. The question is not why this is happening, but whether we are willing to wake up and do what is necessary to stop the fall.
At vmgreview.com, our purpose is to inform, educate, and help people see the systems shaping their lives. Awareness is the first step. When people understand how power works, they are better equipped to protect their families, their communities, and their future. The rabbit hole only gets deeper when it goes unexamined. But knowledge, economic focus, and intentional action can turn awareness into preparation—and preparation into progress.
Marvin Dixon/Founder
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