Posted on 06/13/2020 3:52:03 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Pecola Pointer owned the On Point Salon in downtown Cleveland for nine years - seven on St. Clair Avenue and the last two in the Halle Building on Euclid Avenue - before lack of business forced her to close in May.
That makes the 58-year-old African American stylist a statistic in what a recent study out of California has found to be the alarming demise of black-owned businesses during the coronavirus pandemic
A University of California at Santa Cruz professor found that 41 percent of black-owned businesses and 32 percent of Latinx businesses in the United States went under from February to mid-April, when governments shut down businesses and issued stay-at-home orders. That compares to 22 percent for all businesses.
A lot of minority business owners are also in industries hit hard by the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, including construction, restaurants, hotels and transportation, the report states.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
I don't know of any such charities off the top of my head, but I'm sure they exist.
This is sad.
Petty tyrants in the Democrat Party have had the harshest hand in destroying the economy this way. Let everyone know that they bear the blame.
WORLD ENDS TOMORROW!
Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
How about going out business due to looting and rioting?
And being looted and burned.
They report this like it’s news and was completely unforeseeable. The media is a huge part of the problem.
Or maybe because of failed democrat policies. But then again, the looting and rioting are also a result of failed democrat policies.
I guess Black lives really don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.
This was known going in to the game, and yes it is by design and planned. They Need us for their daily bread now, we will get their votes.
That’s coming up next
Is there any “bad” thing that studies don’t indicate “affects people of color most?”
Head on down to your local discount WIC-friendly supermarket.
See who’s wearing masks.
Divide ‘em by race just like the fancy academics do.
Then ask yourself “why coronavirus is ‘impacting’ African Americans the most.”
I’d do the numbers myself, if I gave a rat’s ass.
Wait, are you saying that Trump planned the coronavirus scare and shutdowns?
Too darned many small business lost their income stream, ate up their seed corn in an effort to feed their family, and now have nothing to rebuild with
Latest dreck I have heard was that minority owned businesses are part of “acting white”, “being a race traitor”. This goes beyond the Stalinists killing the kulaks, this is Maoist struggle session stuff.
Historically I think Mao was looking to outdo the brutality of Stalin.
Republicans, Trump, and conservatives should stand up for the rights of MINORITY businesses to free of “fear of extortion, violent, arson, robberies and murder”.
We must stand with the decent, hardworking people of America, those who help fed, clothes, repair things, and other honest job-holders, regardless of race, religion, etc.
That is how American should be, not what the Democrats and their Marxist/Anarchist/Black Extremists are aiming for, a totalitarian racist state.
>> I guess Black lives really don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.
Yup, BLM is a Marxist front.
Interesting. I've watch local news in the Bay Area of CA doing long segments about "supporting black-owned small businesses."
Um. What is next? Black Businesses Matter---to the exclusion of all others?
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