anyone know how many BOBs there are?
do they have black suppliers?
do the black suppliers have black manufacturers?
this could get complicated
637,769 were Black owned. Ninety-six percent of Black-owned businesses were nonemployer firms, compared to 80% of all small businesses.
https://www.investopedia.com/black-owned-public-companies-5076818
(nonemployer firms means one man show meaning low productivity)
investopedia laments that only 5% of all businesses are black-owned with a population share of 14%. One third of black-owned businesses are health-care related and 96% have no employees other than the proprietor.