Jackson Free Press

Brother Hustle: "Newt the Ging-Grinch said this about poor people and children: 'Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of "I do this and you give me cash," unless it's illegal.'

"Wow! Mr. Ging-Grinch must not have known folk like my granddaddy Hustle. He was a poor man from a small southern town who migrated up north to work at the steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pa. When he first arrived in the big city, granddaddy bought a bucket, soap, scrub brush, mop and rag with his last two dollars, and cleaned houses for the rich folk on the hill. Eventually, Granddaddy Hustle worked enough odd jobs and put himself through trade school to be a master plumber.

"Also, my Grandmamma Hustle cleaned, cooked and babysat in a lot of affluent households. Yes, I grew up in a poor neighborhood and witnessed my grandparents showing up every Monday through Saturday all day and night working for rich folk who think like Mr. Ging-Grinch."

"With all that said, I invite all hardworking poor and middle class who want their own business in 2012 to take my Compensatory Investment Request (Begging 101) Post Christmas Holiday Entrepreneur Workshop, sponsored by the Aunt Tee Tee Hustle School of Business and Technology. Our motto: Hustle to survive, thrive and stay alive."