Tahir Wyatt – The $10 Million Dollar Question
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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.