Things Negroes Like: Self-Improvement Edition

I was about to go on my usual tirade about the random things our people like or consistently do that piss-off us "normal" Negro folk, when I was stopped in my tracks by the story below.
The one about the 550+ lb. boy whose mother is now being accused of neglect because of his ballooning size. I'll leave the banter about who's right, who's wrong and how we need more vegetables in the hood to the comment section. But the underlying message here is: we have got to do better! Whether it's politely telling that kid on the bus he needs to pull his pants up. Or telling the young woman in the store to stop using four-letter-words in front of her impressionable children. We've got to do better! So allow me to veer off course a bit today and put on my self-help, self-love, I've-been-thinking-deeply-lately hat and offer this re-post from the great Nannie Helen Burroughs.

12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself (circa 1900's) *obviously, "herself" applies too*

1. Learn to put first things first: education, development of character, a trade and home ownership.
   
2. Stop expecting God & white folk to do for him what he can do for himself.
   
3. Keep himself, his children & his home clean.
   
4. Learn to dress more appropriately for work & leisure.
   
5. Make his religion an everyday practice and not just a Sunday-go-to-meeting emotional affair.
   
6. Highly resolve to wipe out mass ignorance.
   
7. Stop charging his failures up to his "color" & to white people's attitude.
   
8. Overcome his bad job habits.
   
9. Improve his conduct in public places.
   
10. Learn how to operate business for people – not for Negro people only.
    
11. The average so-called educated Negro will have to come down out of the air. He is too inflated over nothing.
    
12. Stop forgetting his friends!
    

Period!