TD Jakes Focuses on Impact, Not Image
When asked about his next steps, Jakes said he’s concentrating on helping Black communities thrive. This involves boosting home ownership rates, increasing people’s “business acumen,” becoming manufacturers instead of just consumers, and being “our brother’s keeper”—while realizing “our brothers don’t always look like us.”
This fall, Jakes is launching a network and starting a podcast called “My Next Chapter.” Everybody’s trying to figure out their next steps, said the bishop, and people must work together. “There’s not enough of any one group of people to run this planet,” Jakes told Bryant. “I want to use [my] platform to put the smart people up there and take notes so that we can all learn together and teach our children and grandchildren that life does not end and begin with scrolling on your phone.”
Pointing to a post-Covid paradigm shift, Jakes said, “The whole world is changing through technology and AI and…we either get with it or get run over by it.” Noting that he recently signed up to take a course on AI, Jakes said, “We’re [all] on an even playing field because nobody knows what they’re doing. We need to take advantage of that, rather than to scream at the darkness.”
Jakes added, “We’re all learning together. We’re growing together. We’re discovering together. And that’s a good opportunity to do a reset, to transform the way we think, the way we function, and the way we plan our future.”
