If Black Americans only supported black businesses as they did during segregation, would this bridge the wealth gap between blacks and whites or has desegregation/globalization made this idea impossible to scale?
Unfortunately no, it won’t work, there are two really harsh ideas that are going to have to happen to truly see these issues clearer.
One, there’s no such concept of Race—-the only difference between us is Blood type and ear wax type. But let’s take that farther—-in order to neutralize racism we have to neutralize race. But if you neutralize race then what happens if you’ve predicated an identity on race (being White being Black, etc.)?
But but but….what about all the folk running around America who believe in these social construct concepts that we've predicated so much of our society on?
One you have to see race as like pancakes—-we’ve added layers after layers after layers after layers year after year after decade after century—-which is why it’s so hard to unravel, it is inherently insane, it both profits and attacks/destroys White, Black and other people.
Ok. But what about the money? the Wealth divide Black businesses, Kyle?
Ok, here’s the Ugly Race truth about Black folk.
Ready?
We’re really just darker White people with a few customs and cultural memories from Africans who long ago, the people who may’ve forfeited us or not come to rescue us—-, not the current Africans—-so we assimilated. However, there is demarcation, skin hue, which has put a pin in those of us trying to assimilate.
Imagine if Black people weren’t darker in hue. Less melanin.
Now imagine the Civil War ends and slowly the two Great Migrations from the South to the North begins.
And we all looked alike.
Now flash forward to 2019.
Unless they historically-culturally identified their family would you know who the “Blacks” were? No.
But but but…..those millions of people no longer as tightly segregated, even as the Prime Blacks in our current reality, weren't always tightly segregated had to move into White dominant societies to survive, to get money, food, work, etc.. They would teach themselves and their children to become accustomed to the products and services offered by the White society and even come to prefer them if people put White labeling on one and Black created labeling on another.
Black people prefer White made things…because White people have had control over essentially creation and manufacturing longer than we have.
Now is preference always indicative of quality?
No, Black people prefer some White things just because White people make it—-which is why Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Hilfiger and the like have a solid Black customer base.
And also the HUGE point Black people, who espouse forget about Black people is that you know what Black people are?
People.
Ironically the very people who yell, protest and legislate the most for Human rights neglect the fact that Black people are not Black first, they are Human first. And Human’s pursue their preferences first before they pursue their designations.
What about the Civil Rights Movements and such?
The collective unity created by Civil Rights was created by the fact that ALL of us were affected by legal discrimination.
Now financial discrimination is about some of us, maybe even most of us, but not all of us. If you earn over a certain amount, you can move places, do things buy things that other Black people can’t but a very interesting comment I heard from a YouTube video about Black finance was that at a certain level race stops being an issue in the same way. And it’s true. Often in discussions with Black people I have to remind them or hip them to the fact that while I understand some things—-I wasn’t raised in a ghetto, I have never lived in the projects, my parents weren’t poor so all of my years, working and such I’ve experienced situational poverty due to layoffs, unemployment, and paying for higher levels of education but I’ve always done well by American standards of over $46k a year 6 months out of undergraduate college.
Now earning that at 26 meant that I have always had more disposable cash, that I have always been able to afford some of the expensive things that I prefer as a Human.
- Work/Computer Costs. That then means that I have been able to choose—-I type to you now on a Dell laptop—-I researched my needs and went with Dell $500+ a year I spend on a new laptop as I wear them out, use up hard drive space in traveling/work (I literally have stacks of older laptops and hard drives at home. To edit and produce a single show is about 5 gigs an episode and I do 52 episodes a year; a book is about 1 gig of materials covers and such, another 25 to 50 a year; plus research, reports, etc. etc. etc.)—-however there is no Black alternative laptop manufacturer. The closest I came was the sales guy at Best Buy was Black. Of course, Best Buy is not Black owned. I have probably spent about $20k on computers and such in the past 20 years since I bought my first computer in my teens. There was an Indian and then an Asian computer repair shop I’ve used regularly but not a Black one—-so I can’t recirculate my dollars there.
- Education, 95% here in NY state, which I’ve paid for to the tune of well over $200k—-state, small, and private schools—-all of them non-Black owned. A lot of my educational needs and preferences have been at places where I can’t focus my dollars to Black AND my needed outcomes.
- Living Expenses-Housing. I’ve rented my first apartment at 23, a jaunty 1 bedroom that I still have memories of it being the perfect size in Buffalo, all the way to a ginormous space in Manhattan and Queens—-but the majority of those buildings were not Black-owned so my dollars anywhere from $3000 to $20k a year was not going to Black owners. My living locales were chosen based upon closeness to college and then to work here in NYC. I can say that when my mother and I picked out a second residence in the PA mountains, the realtor was a Black woman who also lived in the secured community that we got the house in. That a deliberate action on my mother’s part.
- My Media Business—-my distributors have been primarily Amazon, EBay, Time Warner cable/Spectrum, and sundry others for services. While I did provide services and products for them I also profited from those sales as well as my personal purchasing of stock in them (I believe that you should make an effort to buy a piece of anything that profits/owns/controls a piece of your work). But the worldwide reach of Amazon/EBay and the local state saturation of TW/Spectrum is not replicable by any Black-owned company. Those relationships-distribution networks are worth millions of dollars to me.
- Work: Materials & Supplies. There are not many Black owned book and video stores in NYC. I’ve been to most of them and even steered large school sized library building business to one of them when I’ve been in charge of inventory purchasing for school libraries/programs (Hue-Man bookstore in Harlem before it went out of business) but my professional work, my academic work, and my personal interests have meant that the texts I need aren’t always available in Black bookstores or frankly, they’re cheaper on Amazon on through Educator discounts at Barnes and Noble. Often times as a teacher/student I’m confronted with cost issues for myself and students (sometimes I’m buying the whole class or workshop 20, 30, 40, 50 books because some populaces/programs can’t afford them—-but that doesn’t mean I can afford them at full price, s I’m buying used copies for 20–50 students). So I try, but only about 10% of my book/video buying budget is exclusively Black and I’ll add here that it also has to do with inventory and my interests—-my every intellectual thought and interests isn’t Black. Mainly because I’m Human.
- That leaves Clothing & Food & Entertainment (depends but in order to maintain retail survival, Black Clothing stores tend to be culturally specific or more expensive. I am not interested in wearing Kente cloth to work or in general, more what I personally consider gaudy or gauche clothing, I’m personally much more conservative, not because I lack interest or pride (I don’t even know completely what that -—-”pride” through clothing—-is) but because I personally don’t like lots of flashy SEE ME clothing; Food (I’m not a perfectly loyal shopper—-looking for quality and convenience so I do Whole Food, West Side Market, C Town and FreshDirect—-none Black-owned some based on health, preference, convenience, quality); Entertainment (I spend a very nominal amount here because I don't watch TV and rarely go to the movies—-Netflix and Hulu, $20 a month covers me—-again both not Black Owned); Travel (public transportation, airplanes or trains—-none through Black-owned services).
I offer all of this as my personal average self to examine what is the root problem of Black wealth, Segregation and Globalization.
We’re not Owners of the Systems that customers feed into/need constantly. Black, I suspect as other cultures fall into niche cultural purchasing—-though considerably less—-Black dollars move at the rate of $1 in Black communities, Asian is $12–14 or times.
Our only hope has been not just integration, which can feel like the loss of identity, but Focused Inception.
I recommend to my hetero students that they go find some White or Latino people to fuck and impregnate or get pregnant by. It is harder to kill your children or grandchildren than it is someone else’s. (I did a summer work sojourn at Yankee Stadium and saw hundreds of White grandparents with their mixed grandchildren. There’s something there….)
We, as Black people have lost an equality war, that’s never going to change completely but we can be inceptive and become part of the Owners family, wrest control, and influence that way. Whitney Young Nancy Joan Weiss: 9780691047577: Amazon.com: Books encouraged during the Civil Rights negotiations that we not push so hard for legal/voting rights. He was in direct negotiations with the largest corporations and educational centers of America. His strategy was to slow the voting rights progression in favor of educational programs, venture capital funds, jobs, inclusion minimums at companies—-MLK and others thought human rights would mean more and shut him down. And we now see the quantitative and qualitative power that has and has not brought, we’re bluntly, still fighting for voter rights and don’t have any of the other benefits Young was pressing for.
Inception into White companies
(Which incidentally I saw on the TV Show Queen Sugar when Charley tries to create a sugar mill in the South and can’t run it and unite the sugar cane farmers, Black, to compete with the White sugar mill owners that has long standing. Season 2, she inveigles her way and her company into the larger White concern. I haven’t watched Season 3 yet for all the ensuing drama of the move.)
Edit:
Ok, I have since watched Season 3 and the challenge expands for her being a part owners, her plan to be allowed access and understanding of the White corporations machinations leads them to see that the ultimate goal is to buy up the sugar cane producing land and and convert it to a penitentiary.
Yes, fiction but what I would assert from this is that Charley represents the most Alpha and Elite of Black people—-rich, educated, conscious of racial equality and business fairness. But she often find herself tighten with, against, explaining all of this to her family members who are owners, to farmers who are being ground into dust by the White corporation (and never turn and attack them but often attack Charley). Enough Black people in this fictionalized show don’t understand money and business to band together and the White corporation is already occupying and acting leagues ahead of the Black parish in moving assets and profits from one business to not only create another but create one that ostensibly will use Black bodies as fuel for the enterprise.
The whole debacle ends in a form of limbo as infighting within the White family that owns the corporation stalls the prison go ahead and Charley is able to secure small victories in land and production at the sugar mill under her ownership but they’re all still intertwined, limited, broken off pieces of pieces. But Charley, the show, illustrates what we can or could do—-We can buy stocks and companies and pool with other like-minded—-not liked skinned folk always—-to success, because skin hue is not only divisive but too mass poor.
The problem is Black people and Latinos as a mass will watch and cheer the fiction and not take it as an instructive lesson to implement.
We keep trying to defeat when we should be working on infecting and consuming, as a virus, that’s how we’ll create economic parity and control.
The National Plan to Empower Black America: Dr. Claud Anderson: 9780966170221: Amazon.com: Books is someone I’ve been reading, purchased all of his books and even gave some as holiday gifts, as I explore and teach about development on a micro and macro level in Black (and Latino) communities.
Hi Kyle,
Thanks for your response. I believe it’s important that there are several people that answer this question with varying viewpoints. I believe most intellectuals acknowledge that race is a construct. It’s not likely however that as Americans or a human race that we’ll all see each other as equals. In the absence of racism there’s tribalism, discrimination based on ethnic origin, religion, or nationality. Utopias don’t exist. Maybe it’s possible to push towards that world, but in doing so you’d have to acknowledge that presently discrimination exists, and it has economic, legal, and social implications. The question doesn’t assume that there aren’t varying classes of blacks. The question also doesn’t assume that one should be a Hotep or that black people should start creating only b2c companies, live in enclaves, or ignore other aspects of supply chains. My question is whether it’s possible with lean and scalable solutions to create more jobs or wealth for black folks.
Many people speak of black banking for instance, but the access to capital and the rates aren’t that great at black banks compared to banking at JP Morgan or Bank of America. I’m speaking of a middle or upper middle-class black person looking to buy a house or buy equipment for a business in the example above. Is a potential solution to consolidate all of these black banks? Could they not partner with stable banks in countries abroad? Potentially acquire fintech startups on the African continent? If this seems far-fetched, look into the origins of bofa and you’ll find it was started by Italian American immigrants that leveraged their relationship with the Bank of Italy to start BOFA. Many banks today buy fintech startups, but not so much in Africa. Also, there isn’t much black representation in banking. Would this idea not create jobs domestically and abroad?
In terms of education, what if HBCU’s were places that all Americans’ wanted to go to for the quality of education? Would it make sense for a group of people to select 9 HBCU’s to be 9 of the most elite institutions in the country? They could turn the other HBCU’s into feeder schools for the 9 elite institutions? I’m sure it’d be easier to significantly improve endowments, quality of education, demand better administrations, and improve university services and facilities. Would this idea not create jobs and better skilled workforce?
I believe it’s possible for entrepreneurs or people of means to research and identify the services that serve the black community. They can acquire companies, factories, or distributors that are a part of those supply chains and potentially hire more black people for involvement at each level. Black people could create more b2c companies concurrently. I don’t believe the goal should be domination, but significant improvement is necessary. All solutions aren’t ubiquitous, but I disagree with the notion that the solution is only interracial couples. There’s nothing wrong with that, but the numbers really wouldn’t workout. I believe if you can improve the condition of folk, you should. After all waiting for equity or equality isn’t something many folk that share your hue have the luxury of doing.
This a fantastic reply and insights as well as strategies. Lately, probably because of some of the classes I teach and the text I use I’ve gone on a “racial progressive development” exploration.
I cleaned up my post a little and added some citations of materials.
I wholeheartedly agree that “In the absence of racism there’s tribalism, discrimination based on ethnic origin, religion, or nationality. “ and I would offer that there’s exactly this within Black and Latino communities in America which prevents our internal unification (even to thought of the difference between Black and Latino) and therefore some, not all but some, Black people translate Black businesses as Hotepism, enclaves and an insular living. This occurs I think because yes, there are Black businesses but compared to the roughly 50 million of us in America, they’re spread out, few and far, lacking in a broader network structure to sustain a customer base throughout Black people’s needs.
To your points overall and mine, conflated slightly or compared, Black people can’t create these networks in the same way we see in established White networks and burgeoning Latino and more through Asian ones because of history and size. Whites have history—-centuries to have constructed these networks of suppliers, distributors, customers, branding, relationships, etc.. (And of course Whites purposefully socially and legally derailed competitors in Black,s Latinos and Asians for hundreds of years here in America.)
Latinos, now have a mass of people, more than Blacks and edging towards more than Whites but they lack cohesiveness—-economically and politically, however their sheer numbers means that there are more of them so they can lose 50% of their population to lower education and generational poverty and still have a robust 50% that can construct what we’ll call a Burgeoning Business Network. What they have in common and as an American Business Template are Asians, who though of a much smaller populace here in America were forced by the aforementioned sabotage to become insular and therefore create a New Business Network in the early 1900s which thrives today—-which is why their dollars recirculate within their ethnic communities 12–14 times. The closest American comparison is the Jewish community at 6–8 times. But of course the broad concept of White overlaps so it’s both high and ethnically individually low but ultimately “White” in totality.
However (I’m still aligning your points to this) Latinos, Asians and Jews possess culture, language, knowledge of origin country which allows for Business Network creating in a new, different country. You even mentioned in your great points about the Italian economic network to banking. The SBA actually has a program that provides Asian business owners (it sounds crude but it explains the number of Chinese restaurants) a $100,000 loan based upon just being Asian! Latinos and Jews then have an informal or formal network through stronger family/professional relationships and home country networks.
So we’re missing electricity in a wi-fi business world as a rough analogy. We can’t even power a network to establish a network. We’re literally not even mature enough as a racial community to be considered a community. We don’t own schools, universities, businesses, hospitals, churches, banks in proportion to our numbers to self-fund the structures that create communities. We’re Black folk in neighborhoods where we don’t own the real estate, nor the banks, don’t control the school systems, nor most of the everyday businesses and we’re consistently leaving our neighborhoods and taking our money to other neighborhoods to purchase stuff.
Ironically I on my community board in Manhattan covering Columbia from 116th to where I lived 160th to 168th along the west side Broadway corridor in Manhattan. One of our worked on issues was the fact that the corridor is filled with middle class to lower/working class people and poor people both Black and Latino but the businesses average only $10 an hour wages—-hair salons, cell phone stores, grocery stores, discount stores—-so the majority of residents leave teh neighborhood to go to other neighborhoods in Manhattan to purchase food (there’s a Whole Foods on 125th now—-but it’s several avenues over so it’s in a different “district” legally and therefore politically/financially.)
While 125th is, west to east, Harlem it covers three districts and several legal neighborhoods so the larger stores are not collected in one neighborhood—-so the tax revenue isn’t ether. And the real estate—-brownstones, again is across a swatch and therefore legally divided so Black and White and Latino home owners are spread out legally, politically, financially. By that I mean there aren’t always group/mass Black and Latino reapings or cohesion, perhaps individually but not as a group of consolidated financial power to qualify or build to a community.
Which goes to your point about building banks.
I’ve been in several Black groups—-men’s groups, book reading groups, political action groups and I've suggested several times that we start a bank. There is the formerly completely Black owned bank, Carver bank but they’ve sold pieces over the years. Because I worked for years in high finance, I understood a lot of the Columbia-Community Board financial grants and dealings and saw opportunities. And I know how to start the legal process of filing paperwork and funding a bank. Yet this goes back to my personal examples of Black people preferring White ice to Black ice—-Carver bank found it hard to exist because Black people trusted Citibank and Chase and others because they were bigger and White institutions. Eventually Carver, the Carvers, the owning Black family, changed their ownership stake because of this.
To catch your point about banking and Black partnerships in foreign countries, I would not only submit the above but I’ll submit something from the perspective of an educator throughout that corridor. From Ivy League to community programs and Harlem and branding and preferences——whether logical or not, Black people are financially-intellectually lazy. This is a repercussion of generational disenfranchisement and of lack of generational experience/practice in understanding money and finance.
Unfortunately I’m a rare exception and unique within a mass of Black people, within the Broadway corridor and therefore my participation on the CB, and I had the shamed honor of explaining to the entire Community Board how the $76 million dollar grant from Columbia to the corridor was not as the CB thought it was, was not $76 million in truth or totality and that it was designed to yes, improve the neighborhood but also as a leveraged investment for Columbia. I say shamed because the Treasurer of the CB understood and helped formulate with during it’s creation, Mayor Bloomberg and Columbia but the majority of the CB, Black, Latino and White didn’t understand what they were then constantly referencing and plotting and planning over.
But to sum that, it’s not under Black/Latino peoples community control.
It would take further both financial knowledge and higher level financial networking probably to involve African banks, who certainly have the potential monies and interests in private and commercial loans to American citizens and businesses. Blacks don’t even go so far as to know or form the entities that would allow such transfer. I wouldn’t even fundamentally challenge the idea of what American Blacks truly know of the dozens of countries on the African continent, the differences and the White created and infused illusion of Black Panther/Wakanda.
Why this is has somewhat to do with the educational repercussion of slavery, laziness and the overwhelming controls of and domination of the White populace—-we frame it as high finance distrust but it’s more of a personalized distrust due to ignorance about how to manage and control such systems. We’ve left it to White people to control the world and at the same time Blacks then language marginalize education by labeling it as “White” so we discourage our Social communities from higher level educations. There’s yes, a percentage that does educate but there’s been a massive drop from the 1900s when we were excited and elated to create and go to HBCUs to now where the HBCUs cannot survive financially and have started integrating their student body to accept all races.
I’ll write about the next two areas of your response in the next section. KP :P
To HBSU point of advanced and directed education:
Approximately 1/3 of Black adults are further than high school onto college educated but there are still 40% in permanent, generational poverty and what further impacts this is while Blacks lack the same intensely entangled family structures as Latinos and Asians, our family structures or families themselves tend to be mismatched. By mismatched I mean that we often are parent-under-educated, one child of several becomes highly educated so that educated adult now has to make a choice—-return to the family where they are loved and comfortable or leave that family on some level physically and venture into the world—-most choose to venture as much as possible. The price of the venturing out is a money and brain drain—-that educated adult’s intellect and monies created by that intellect leaves the family or is always used as a salve resource/demand of borrowing to help the family “left behind”. This means that the educated one can only get so far unless they make more and more severe separations.
Blacks are then caught in the double-bind of sacrificing self fr family or family for self. Blacks then have to decide whom to mate with, someone like them—-who may be few and far between or go outside of their “race” to someone of comparable social class level and intellect, which is portrayed as traitorous to one’s race under an insane Black concept of racialized “loyalty”.
The HBCUs are experiencing this student psychic miasma on a micro level but also the fact that Blacks are distracted as to what they should be doing with their money/credit. SO say you’re a Black millionaire and you spot this commentary and think creating an HBCU Elite 9 is a great idea, you also have to contend with not if Blacks can afford it but if Blacks the very people you are trying to generationally uplift will think this is even worth their time and attention.
Case #1 of Lost Black Money
Now leasing a car for $500+ a month, hair weave layaway payment plans—-we have them at many salons in Harlem where a full head costs $1000 every few months so women pay for it on layaway with misc cash. I’ve had students and coworkers—-Black men—-one in his 60s who has no pension savings but is paying off a $40k SUV lease that is a bundled cost from the previous lease leftover of $14k for a vehicle he drives a day and half during the week—-he and his wife taking mass transit to work.
So you might say he and his wife are a financial wrap, and they are—-but consider that he has 3 adult children and half a dozen grandchildren. Imagine that $40k put into play in one of three ways—-to pay off life insurance policies for him and his wife, making their children/stepchildren beneficiaries to the tune of $100k a piece and $50k a piece per grandchildren. Bundled policies bought with cash, calculating interest payments on his leases and time—-he could probably set up the whole family with a Head start fund for school/home purchase by adding maybe another $10–20k on top of the $40k.
But Black people have been taught with a slavery context to think in a survival mode and to leave the next generation—-nothing and therefore each Black generation, probably well over 80% of us, start at Square 1 again and again and again and again. We’re literally caught in one of those Star Trek episodes time loops but it’s not just time it’s financial.
We haven’t even touched on the fact that the two have only a micro savings so in their sixties they MUST keep working at jobs that are less than $40k a year—-because their parents didn’t financially insure and thereby push them to educate so they have only high school, no college educations, and therefore jobs and not careers.
Case # 2
The aforementioned resistance of Black and Latino people to education and therefore math learning and therefore financial understanding. Trust me as a teacher, it’s like a cancer, rampant and growing in Black and Latinos of all ages.
Case# 3
The aforementioned educated child-adult has to consider their choices as a form of familial/self suicide. Some Blacks try to mitigate this by returning to their origin communities but this has a two sided cutting effect. Yes, you return with your education and yes, you might help in the short term but you’re not i the world itself building up mass wealth of resources as monies or networking to redeveloping the community itself by creating community based infrastructures that would confer power to Blacks and Latinos.
I directly challenged a Black men’s organization—-that had a rolling membership (non-paying) of 440+ Black and Latino men that yes, it was important to do some sort of ad hoc therapy for one another in weekly meetings but that had been going on for 10 years—-wasn’t it time to put all this manpower to work in the surrounding crumbling (or Columbia acquired) communities? They’d spent a decade playing a circle of chairs and emoting and afterwards serving small cocktail plate portions of chicken—-Chicken and Chairs I called it. But they suffered from two issues—-DuBois Talented 10th—-it was only 10% who had evolved past needing the Chicken and Chairs therapy who also had the education and wherewithal to do anything external BUT like the educated siblings—-We leave—-from boredom from being exiled, from being used and abused—-the Talented Tenth LEAVE Black collections because once you’re some semblance f healed you don’t want to stay in the leper colony that refuses to heal.
So now our Black Elite who wants to Ivy League some of the HBCUs can’t attract enough of us to where those schools are, to that work because we’ve scattered throughout the country/world. If there were more of us——say thousands of grandparents from Case # 1 providing college monies and/or intellectual education expectations there would be more of us to fill those student seats and teacher desks at an elite school congregation. But for the one educated child’s graduation we have family members, less educated driving up in leased vehicles that drain Black wealth and layaway weaves.
Black people to combat teh self esteem issues that racism and oppression have imposed on us collectively opt for seeking material Validation rather than Power. A lot of what you’re suggesting is financial, political and intellectual Power moves.
Now here’s the Hard Truth about Black (and Latinos) in America and the Future.
We’re not all going to make it. Particularly Black people.
If 40% of Blacks are in generational poverty as are 50% of Latinos, and 25% of Whites—-including all other ethnicities and races poor—-about 60 million people—-that number will increase.
Within my and your lifetimes to probably 100 million as the overall US population goes over 400 million.
The current immigration boondoggle is about the contradictory Truth that America needs more LEGAL, (tax paying citizens) we can’t afford more who aren’t of an age that promises 20–45 years of work-service-taxes. We need more young (and educated) people and Mexico, if we can hammer out a deal will be that people engine.. By 2030, we will need 20–30 million more adults who can contribute to the tax base to cover Baby Boomers, and the soon to be retiring Gens Xs, Ys and Zs.
The increasing Latino population will overwhelm both White and Black in numbers by 2050. What will the negotiation be with Latinos about Reparations and disenfranchisement when they had nothing to do with the previous centuries oppression?
Consider that in 1900 Black wealth measurements were at half of 1%—-a hundred years later Black wealth measurements are half of 1%. We haven’t moved in spite of having more millionaires and billionaires because we are too small of a mass population to get to parity with White people and the fast charging Latinos.
Millionaire sin America are approximately 6 million of the populace—-let’s double that to include soon to be, unknowns and quiet ones.
12 million people are millionaires, 3–5% of the overall population.
Compared as a gross overlay to Black population from 50 million folks is 2.5 million people. Let’s pull from that our Talented Tenth as industry creators AND workers—-250,000. Spread out across 50 states.
5000 people.
First those 5000 people in each state would have to get on the same page through say a Black Think Tank—-there are no Black Think Tanks.
Ok, they’d have to get on the same page through a Black Political Caucus. there are several small caucuses but not a wholly unified one—-there wasn’t even unification for Civil Rights—-there were leaders, popularity, mass push and a messy result.
There would have to be aligned business interests to create a unified Black Business Network. Again, Black people are Human first, even if there’s some madness induced notion that Black usurps or replaces individual identity (which I would submit is a twisting of the mass identity ideology imposed by slavery).
Bluntly how are you going to get 250,000 onto enough of the same page for them to turn and enhance, enlighten and uplift 50 million?
We are still combating forcing our future generations to start at Square 1 after our deaths. It’s unusual for Blacks to pass on money and property; it’s usual for Whites to do so and it’s expected in Latinos and Asians.
Blacks don’t even have teh electricity to power a metaphorical wi-fi network much less start purchasing or building computer equipment to create a global network. We’re too far behind to become a Power Entity separately from White people. The simple charge is to look at what we’re “famous” for in terms of productivity—-entertainment. We’re not considered the best at computers or construction or real estate or finance. That’s teh inherent problem within our own branding even when we have thousands of Black business people. They are considered Outliers and not the norm. We have nowhere comparable to Silicon Valley for anything because we’re so spread out and diverse and we have no unified banking system to get starter loans or true venture capital because we’re almost financially illiterate as a mass and as a mass constantly starting at Square 1.
What we do have though is we are somewhat though not completely and truly integrated into the mass population of Whites here in America because we’re kinda sorta Whitish, we’re really not total Africans. We have to take advantage of that which we are, where we are and what we have because if you look at us as a standing army based on race we don’t have enough people to be leaders to raise the mass to a work or political force.
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Kyle Phoenix is a teacher, certified adult educator, sexologist, sex coach and sexuality educator with over two decades of intensive experience. He studied at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York University, and Columbia University. He has worked, consulted and taught individuals and focused professional developments for the CDC, Department of Education, Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York City Department of Health, non-profits, Fortune 500 companies and unions. He began his career facilitating on-campus workshops addressing a wide range of sexuality and sexual health issues and then moved on to teaching at universities, non-profits, private groups and clients, hosting The Kyle Phoenix Show on television and multiple online webinars, including YouTube and Sclipo and writing extensively through his blog, Special Reports, articles and other print and E books in the Kyle Phoenix Series on relationships, finance, education, spirituality and culture. He lives in New York with his family.
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