Why is it so hard to find black owned anything? I am currently in Fort Valley, Georgia at town with a very dense black population and they own less than 10% of the businesses in Fort Valley. The same goes for back home in Stone Mountain. Why is every gas station, restaurant, or even clothing store owned by someone else?
On a professional level such as the field of medicine and dentistry I can find qualified black practioners, but what about the everyday transactions? In this town less than 5 miles apart each way, there are 12 gas station/convince stores , 2 liquor stores, 13 restaurants, and out of all of these stores, there is one black owned business. ONE! Ms.Jackie Hot Wings (excellent wings). The businesses are owned by people who don’t even live in the community, you have some owners who live an hour away to come take every dime from blacks and take it back to send their offspring to private school. We need the money we spend to stay and circulate in the community. If you want to fix the problem in the community start by investing in it. Black business owners are scared to open up stores in their own neighborhood. What is that about? How could you fear your own people? Fear is a weak emotion! (I know that’s random but it is what it is)
Peace and Love!!!
I think is is planned out like that, cause it is like that in alot of black hoods
ReplyDeleteThat's why I want to build this corporation from the ground up. I want to keep money in the neighborhood and have a huge minoirty staff
ReplyDeleteThis is what the 'dream' of integration has 'temporarily' resulted in. We must revisit the dream and understand that it is our responsibility to build our own families, neighborhoods, communities, businesses and culture within the larger American dream. It cas to be deeply rooted in our experiences in America and not an imitation of what we have been told and what we see on TV. It is hard work, toil and simple human decency.
ReplyDeleteI agree we intergrated and thought it was over. We thought we got free. Thanks for the incite.
ReplyDeleteI like that it's so true
ReplyDeletei think that happens because black people are obsessed with having what everybody else has so as not to feel as if they are missing out... owning their own doesnt even come to mind...
ReplyDeleteI like that response Ms.Rayyah. I don't think it is wrong to desire what other people have, but when you become obsessed over having what someone else has, you act like a horse with blinders on and just continue on the same path. Unfortunatley our path is based on giving away our income to other people who will not do for you what they will do for their own people.
ReplyDeletewe tend to focus on illegal business as oppose to legit business also we lack an investor culture to facilitate start ups
ReplyDeleteBecause many "blacks" don't understand the legal and commercail system along with the religious and "race" system playing their barrier in their psyche. "Blacks" have embraced their own poison. They don't want a solution because many don't truly see/think there is a problem.
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How do you think we combat that? In addition to racial, institutional, legal, and religious perversion, we also have conflicts between ourselves. Have we really accepted the situation or is it that we can't see the forest for the trees?
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