Tahir Wyatt – The $10 Million Dollar Question

			All right, last question.
		

			This is something that I've started asking people.
		

			If you had $10 million and 100 employees...
		

			Man, that's a lot of math.
		

			Don't worry about the math.
		

			Okay, let's put it this way.
		

			Unlimited resources and unlimited support.
		

			What would you do for us then, whether
		

			in Philly, national level, whatever?
		

			What are you doing?
		

			If I was in control of wealth and
		

			the resources, I would create as many OCOF
		

			as possible to sustain the current infrastructure that
		

			we have in the Muslim community and to
		

			support its growth and specifically the educational institutions.
		

			I think many of our educational institutions are
		

			subpar because we're not competitive enough from a
		

			financial perspective.
		

			I have a young brother, Mashallah, I've known
		

			him since he was a kid, and he's
		

			a principal in Philadelphia School District.
		

			The principals, I'm saying the young ones, the
		

			ones that have only been a principal for
		

			one or two years, they're making $150,000
		

			a year plus benefits and they get off
		

			the whole summer and all the good stuff,
		

			all the perks that come with it, and
		

			the retirement pension and those types of things.
		

			A good Islamic school will come and offer
		

			the same person $80,000 and feel like
		

			they're doing a great job, like Mashallah, we're
		

			offering 80 grand, without the perks, without the
		

			pension, obviously not working for the city.
		

			And so, I think that if we had
		

			OCOF in place, that would support the educational
		

			institutions and the other infrastructure that we have
		

			in the community, that that would ensure some
		

			level of stability and continuity.
		

			I genuinely believe that the donation dependent model
		

			that we rely on right now, and the
		

			volunteerism, so everything is volunteer run, donation dependent,
		

			I do not think that that's a sustainable
		

			model.
		

			I do believe, alhamdulillah, that the Muslim community
		

			is very generous.
		

			And so, we will continue to have people
		

			who donate and who will support through their
		

			volunteerism, but it's not a sustainable model, is
		

			my point.
		

			And it's definitely not a model that you
		

			can expand your current infrastructure based on.