[Albion Wilde]

Regardless of the fake outrage by academics and race hustlers, there does remain some remnants of racism that suppress capable, hard-working black entrepreneurs. This article makes the point without preaching.

[Albion Wilde]

Remembering an early pioneer in drawing white consumers to a sumptuous, black-owned barbecue: Bea Bea's Lawnside Barbecue on Philadelphia's famed South Street, owned by Bea Gladden, who died in 1986 at age 70:

Beatrice 'Bea Bea' Gladden, Barbecue Maker To The Stars

[Shadow44]

Can’t have them succeed, otherwise they might not vote for Democrats anymore.

[Don Corleone]

The best B-B-Q I have ever eaten was in the South at restaurants run by Blacks and that goes back as far as into the 1950’s. Ga. Ala. Ms. I knew where they all were and made it a point to enjoy the food whenever possible.

[LouAvul]

Dunno. The same might be said concerning the NBA.

[Publius]

Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City set the standard during his life.

[gogeo]

I call bs.

Virtually every BBQ joint of which I'm aware is owned/run by blacks.

[slowhandluke]

Without preaching? You need to clean your ears.

This was a full sermon on cultural appropriation.

Banks have a lot of Fed supervision these days to avoid any racist tinge. Not getting a business loan in St Louis probably means the business is in a Ferguson-like area. That he's had to close 2 of 3 stores also suggests that the area is not the up and coming kind. That he had to close those stores might lead the bank to think poorly of his business acumen.

[youngidiot]

Blacks make up 13% of the US population. And someone who has had to close 2/3 of their business will have a hard time getting a loan. That isn’t “racism”.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Most unusual BBQ joint is Harold’s Ribs in Palo Alto. He runs it in a little outdoor stand at Lozano’s Carwash on El Camino. Nice guy and great ribs and chicken. Must be the lowest overhead operation ever. Carwash & Ribs...how can you beat that?

[V K Lee]

Sad - Blacks just opened a BBQ place in my small town Featured on local TV in travel show and yet before we might make the decision to try their menu —pfft it was gone. Bad timing on their part, even though it was claimed their food was delicious. Eateries always seem to be the first to disappear in this type economy. Three come and go in this particular building in just a matter of a year or two. Sad for all concerned.
another in a small German oriented town just north had been there for over 40 years. Good location, terrific food and service. Great summer/winter jobs for HS Students. Just this past year it was heard they are no longer in business. One owner had died and the partner didn’t care to carry on. Sure miss that place ‘The Center’ in Munster, Tx. Really miss that place as well.

[maddog55]

It’s TV shows so who really cares.

[Hugin]

The US is undisputedly in the midst of a barbecue boom - there are currently more than 14,000 barbecue restaurants in the country - but African American restaurateurs and pitmasters may be getting left in the dust. Thanks to television and professional barbecue competitions, barbecue chefs have become celebrities with cult followings, but those celebrity faces are largely white.

I call BS. Nothing is stopping black BBQ owners from entering and winning those contests. None of the judges know whose BBQ they are tasting, let alone the race of the cook. Maybe these guys are just good at making BBQ, but not such good businessmen. Maybe their credit isn't so good. I'm sick of the knee jerk call of racism.

[cherry]

show the proof that there is still "racism"....where is the data?...

I think its entirely possible that many black owned businesses got easier money, govt help, extra media attention simply because they're black....I think its entirely possible and PROBABLE that many, many whites can not get business loans or free govt help or affirmative action privilege to establish business...

what is the BBC writing about anyway?...don't they enough problems with the muzzies raping young white British girls and getting them into prostitution that they have to come to our country make a big crisis out of nothing?

I notice that a lot of our sports talks shows have a lot of blacks, even though they make up only 13% of our population....

I notice that the fed govt has way, way too many blacks employed?....

and I notice that out of the thousands and thousands of white "storm chasers" the Driveby media found one solitary black guy to star in a show....

I could go on and on.....

and besides, the cave man discovered cooking over a fire....its been done since the dawn of humanity....in every single culture..

[Zhang Fei]

“Regardless of the fake outrage by academics and race hustlers, there does remain some remnants of racism that suppress capable, hard-working black entrepreneurs.”

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Hard to tell if this applies to business loans (for which stats are not available, possibly for PC reasons), but blacks tend to default on student loans at 5x the rate of whites. My guess is that credit-worthy blacks are probably getting more loans than the equivalent white entrepreneur. The problem is that fewer blacks per capita are credit-worthy - they tend to avoid paying back student loans at 5x the rate of whites even when adjusted for debt as a % of income level.

http://tinyurl.com/ps54vb9

“Black students who graduated in 1992–93 school year had an overall default rate that was over five times higher than white students and over nine times higher than Asian students. The differences for Hispanic students are not as large, but are still substantial. Hispanic students’ overall default rate was over twice that of white students and four times higher than Asian students. And these differences cannot be fully explained by differences in borrowing patterns or salaries. The 1994 percentage of monthly income going to student loan payments—an indication of both how much debt a student has and their earnings—was actually lowest for Hispanic students and only slightly higher than average for black students. ...

The median monthly loan payment as a percentage of monthly income in 1994 for recent 1992–93 graduates was 6.7 percent for the United States as a whole, 7.4 percent for Asian students, 7.2 percent for black students, 5.3 percent for Hispanic students, and 6.8 percent for white students.”

[rlmorel]

"...Once the outlook improved and he wanted to expand or make improvements, he found no bank would loan to him. "All I ever heard is, they can't help us because I don't qualify. I don't have enough assets. My credit isn't good enough," he says. "Come on." Daryle believes he knows exactly why he's had difficulty accessing capital. "Racism," he says. "I didn't want to say it, but it's structured racism...."

This stinks to high heaven of the attitude that gave us the Community Reinvestment Act.

I don't buy it, AW. I call complete and utter horse crap on this. We have been hearing this for years, and it gave us reams and reams of liberal rules, regulations, oversights, and policies to solve a problem that NEVER EXISTED.

What existed IN REALITY was a disparity in incomes and assets due to liberal policies that kept blacks from moving off of the "liberal plantation".

The DEVASTATING solution was to force banks to lend money to people who COULD NEVER REPAY IT. That's it. They cried racism then, it was PROVEN to be false and showed that the books were cooked to make it look like racism so they could have justification for the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, which planted the seeds of destruction for our economy in much the same way the liberal policies of the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations planted the seeds of future destruction with their liberal policies.

This "structured racism" is a load of crap, and it makes me angrier than Hell. I would challenge this guy to this: let him submit his request for a loan in the blind to a random group of bankers ANYWHERE. He should submit it anonymously, making DAMN sure to remove the "African American" BS checkbox from his loan, and let's see how his loan application goes.

[Gamecock]

Perhaps black pitmasters are too busy running successful BBQ joints.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not convinced there’s racism here. I’m 64 years old, and I have never seen BBQ accredited to Blacks prior to this. Is that racism or is it reality?

Don’t forget, there are people out there that claim Blacks built this nation too. Is it also racist not to accept that?

[Happy1947]

Good BBQ is just good BBQ, I don’t care who makes it. My favorite food of all.

[Dr. Thorne]

I'm something of a BBQ freak. My favorite on Planet Earth is Arthur Bryant's in KC. Nothing can compare.

Here is the late great man himself.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “there does remain some remnants of racism that suppress capable, hard-working black entrepreneurs.” <<

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Could it be the same racism that powered the Ferguson riots?
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