[golux]

As the shopkeepers got rich...

Look at the costs associated with opening up a store in a neighborhood like the one in which I once lived, and selling on credit to people who have no sense of personal responsibility. Now the Asians are the shop-owners and equally hated.

Without Jews or Asians (or, say, Pakistanis or Indians,), who the hell would open up a convenience store?

Black "leaders" tend to blame whomever happens to be around, and isn't black, for their own shattered lives, literacies, morals, and families. I lived in it and I am sick to death of it.

[NorthMountain]

Black "leaders" tend to blame whomever happens to be around, and isn't black, for their own shattered lives, literacies, morals, and families. I lived in it and I am sick to death of it.

This!

Also ...

When the people who are willing to try running a restaurant, convenience store, grocery, whatever in the ghetto throw up their hands and leave, "black leaders" piss and moan about "food deserts".

The fact that "black leaders" exist is part of the problem.