[GRRRRR]

Amazing racism on the part of AfricanAmericans? or just being supportive of their own? Read comments at the end of the article.

[Doogle]

but but but their leaving a huge carbon feetzprint

[LifeComesFirst]

If they think that denying clear opportunities for gain merely for the sake of some kind of race-based self-reliance program will result in greater prosperity, then they are wrong.

Funnily enough, econ textbooks often use similar hypothetical situations to explain why restricting free trade is bad for everybody. “If blonde people decided that they were only going to trade with other blondes, then what would happen is.......”

[EBH]

Racism by any other name.

[Joe Boucher]

I go out of my way to avoid North Fort Pierce Florida. Lots of gang related killings, car jackings and drug trafficing.
And yes it is a predominately black area.
So I guess I’m a racist for trying to avoid this kind of crap?

[WVKayaker]

[RegulatorCountry]

Desegregation’s just a pain, when you’re a black separatist.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-buy-black-side-09-mar09,0,3820763.story

Here are a few of the black-owned businesses the Andersons patronize:

Fast food: KFC, 5230 W. Madison St., Chicago; McDonald’s, 626 N. Harlem Ave., River Forest.; Burger King, 49 W. Lake St., Maywood.

[TankerKC]

They call it the "Ebony Experiment."

I call it what it is: Racism.

The allowable kind...

[VoiceOfBruck]

Oak Park couple travel far and wide to buy (Chinese-made merchandise) only from black-owned businesses

[gridlock]

I got no problem with this. People should be permitted to spend their money however they wish, and need not justify their choices to anyone.

[familyop]

I’m not obsessed about racial matters. It’s their prerogative. I try to buy from any kind of people who are more honest, but the Andersons can buy as they wish.

Lately, though, and for the foreseeable future, I’m not buying anything that’s not really needed—mostly buying only groceries and fuel. Why? Because we need a change in not only government leadership, but also in the business and academic leadership that keeps our government the way that it is.

[gridlock]

But thriving black businesses began dissolving in the mid-1960s, when African-Americans focused on political power and civil rights and began patronizing white-owned businesses under the misconception that buying white signified blacks' upward socioeconomic mobility, Clingman said.

"Unfortunately, many black people abandoned their own businesses and supported others, thinking that politics was the way out," he said. "Politics still will not get you anywhere unless you have an economic base. Quite frankly, I'd rather have more black businesses than black politicians."

If folks want to rely on the market to elevate their communities, rather than concentrating on government solutions, I say we should support that decision.

Good for them, I say!

[TexasCajun]

It's what Rev. Wright, Michelle & Barack OBAMAH call BLACK NATIONALISM !

[Petronski]

Proudly—boldly!—racist. Sickening.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Makes sense. Because white America has certainly kept blacks from attaining any significant positions of authority.

[DCPatriot]

Let’s see if they’re still doing it when they are paying a mileage tax.

[Lloyd227]

Let's try this out:

SE Connecticut couple travel far and wide to buy only from white-owned businesses

How's that roll off the tongue? Ya think the New York times (or any other paper) will treat that story in the same happy manner?

[No Surrender No Retreat]

They can take their FUBU and shove it for all I care freaking racists.
The Truth,
NSNR

[Notasoccermom]

Call me stupid but why don’t they just move to the black neighborhood?

[caver]

I bet they’ve been doing this for a lot longer than a year.