{"product_id":"a-distinguished-program-corporate-racism-systemic-oppression-and-the-theft-of-postable-9798266701243","title":"A Distinguished Program: Corporate Racism, Systemic Oppression and the Theft of Postable","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John D. Garland\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: White Collar Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Distinguished Program\u003cbr\u003eVolume One of a Two-Volume Memoir Series \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe built a business vision behind bars. They stole it in a boardroom.\u003cp\u003eThis is the explosive true story they never wanted told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn D. Garland's journey begins in the South Bronx of the 1970s-a place America tried to erase. Buildings burning. Fire trucks overwhelmed. \"Planned Shrinkage\" turning whole neighborhoods into ruins. But out of the ashes came hip-hop, a culture that taught young John creativity, survival, and the audacity to imagine more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRacism wasn't on his mind then. Hope was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, inside a prison cell, John built Prints2Prisoners (P2P)-a visionary platform connecting families with incarcerated loved ones while creating real employment opportunities for returning citizens. It was more than a business model. It was a blueprint for dignity, empowerment, and community restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he partnered with the Distinguished Social Ventures Foundation (DSVF) to bring that vision to the world, he believed he'd finally found allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe shared his blueprint.\u003cbr\u003eHe shared his model.\u003cbr\u003eHe shared his dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they stole it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the very architecture he developed, Scott Potash and Jesse Blockton launched Postable.com, a polished digital-to-print greeting card service built on the bones of John's idea. Meanwhile, DSVF denied his funding, citing \"financial concerns,\" leaving P2P to collapse-and with it, job opportunities and hope for families in the South Bronx.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memoir exposes the quiet, well-manicured machinery of corporate racism: \u003cbr\u003ethe systems that harvest Black innovation while shutting Black innovators out of capital, credit, and recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than a decade, John fought for accountability.\u003cbr\u003eHe was met with silence, bureaucracy, and dismissal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut not defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe rebuilt his life-acquiring a Sign Me Up Signs and Advertising franchise and continuing to advocate for equity and opportunity in communities that America still pretends not to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Distinguished Program, Volume One of a two-volume series, is both a visceral personal story of survival and reinvention and a sweeping indictment of structural injustice. It reveals what happens when a Black entrepreneur dares to create something powerful inside a corporate landscape designed to strip him of ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it is only the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume Two will trace the aftermath-the battles, the revelations, and the larger truths about race, power, and the cost of refusing silence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594253779095,"sku":"9798266701243","price":2105.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798266701243.webp?v=1774985291","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-distinguished-program-corporate-racism-systemic-oppression-and-the-theft-of-postable-9798266701243","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}