Posted on 07/17/2009 7:46:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am a black business owner and I disapprove of this message.
I am an American business owner and I disapprove of any hyphenated prefixes that divide us.
Aye!
No, I will teach my children to shop at the store that gives them whatever is deemed to be the most superior goods and services in return for the money paid for said goods and services.
They won't care if the person's running it are white, black, Asian, or anything in between. Also, if that place of business is located 25 miles away instead of "in the neighborhood", then so be it.
Will all the shoplifitng also be done there?
A person I know owned a store in a very white community- 90% of the customers were white 10% black
The shoplifters where 90% black and 10% white
this is NOT racist.. it is fact. What would you do?
She had to stop accepting checks from 100% of her customers (at a large inconvenience) because of the 10%.
Could she put up a sign saying “no more checks from black people”? Even with drivers license ID they still wrote bad checks.
She had to install TV cameras monitors and watch 100% because of the 10%
If one pet snake is stolen, she has to sell FIVE MORE just to break even.
10% of the people almost wiped out her business for the 90%
WHERE THE HELL IS BARACK OBAMA ON BLACK CRIME AND THE EMBARRASMENT OF ILLEGITIMATE BLACK CHILDREN????
Sounds like they want to go back, kind of, on this point
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abe Lincoln
The author is correct at least in that the entire parallel economy that segregation gave rise to lost its raison d’etre in the wake of integration.
But the idea that it should be artificially sustained is worse than ludicrous. Americans of all ethnicities should shop for the best product/service for the best price, period. And those who aspire to be businesspeople should strive to give the best value for the customers dollar.
This is called “capitalism.”
I believe that was Jesus Christ, but Abe was quoting Him.
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I got bitten above the eye by a German Shepard named Bobo when I was three. That’s my contribution for this thread.
No, she had to inconvenience 100% because of 1%, or even less. She became suspicious of 10% because of 1%. If 1% gave a d--- about the rest of their 10%, or 10% policed and shamed their 1%, it would be better for everyone.
How about white businesses only hiring white employees?...Oh, that’s against the law, isn’t it. The race hustlers are getting more brazen now that BO is ruling the US.
Well somebody had better inform Oprah, Bill Cosby, Michael Jordon, and Tiger Woods that they’re denying people of their nationality wealth by doing business with “Whitey”.
Let’s see how far this plan goes.
A bit of a different “take” on this...
As a baseball fan, I watch and read a lot of the historical stuff about the sport. One of the more interesting things, is how much damage integration of the major leagues did to the economics of black communities. Turns out, when the Negro Leagues existed, they patronized black owned restaurants, hotels, service stations, etc. while traveling the country. Much of that was due, of course, to the “whites only” rules that existed in parts of the nation. It seems reasonable that some of it was due to a cultural comfort, as well. But the players also relied on these kinds of businesses to hire them in the off-season to help make ends meet. (This was in the time when baseball players actually had to WORK in the offseason. Imagine! Bob Feller sold insurance!) When Jackie Robinson (NL) and Larry Doby (AL) integrated the leagues, many of these businesses lost a significant source of income. Thus, as the Negro Leagues withered from player defections to the newly integrated leagues, the cost to black businesses in these communities was serious, and in many cases, fatal.
Just my 2 cents worth...
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” Jesus (Matthew 12:25)
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