Why African Americans stay behind?
First, I'd like to commend everyone in the US. We're so desparately trying to stay positive, enlight of everything that's going on in the economy. Having said that, let's get to the question at hand (and this is not an oponion, but an actual fact.) #1.... LACK OF UNITY. Defined $700,000,000 generated in America by African Americans alone. Less than 3% is spent in Black owned businesses. Solution: Turn that percentage around, and if 97% supported each others businesses, there would be no unemployment and no poverty in Black America. Ex: In almost every Black community someone of another race owns 98% of the businesses in that area. (I.E. Gas Stations, SuperMarket, Beauty Supply Stores, Cleaners, Restaurants, Auto Repair Shops, Telecommunication Outlets, Clothing Stores, City, Village, and Town Jobs, Banks, Car Dealerships just to name a few.) Even in the communities that are 95% African American. If you look back over the last couple of decades 1945 to the present, the African American community have exactly the same complaints when it comes to economic power. Fifty years from now, you'll still have the same complaints as long as this trend continues. I think the African Americans forgot that there was a time when there were only Black towns. No one was poor, all businesses were Black owned and with Black workers, each citizen of that town supported each business and each business supported each citizen. On my next blog: Reason #2.....
Hershe, I agree with you, somewhat! First I agree with you that we are not supportive enough of each other, but I believe there is a reason for that and my friends and I have discussed it and we all have the same reason. The reason is for whatever reason, black businesses always tend to be more expensive than other businesses in the area. I live in the Los Angeles area and would love to support black business but let's take for example food, you can buy Chinese, or Mexican for under $5.00 but the Black American food is about $10.00. The same with clothing and the super market, etc. so black businesses have to understand that the in a recession, you have to lower your prices in order to attract customers. Everyone is looking to save that dollar and will go anywhere to save it. That's my problem with black businesses. On the other hand we have to learn to help each other and give back to the community that helps us, this we do not do. So until we learn to give back, yes 50 years from now we will still be the same.