[rdb3]

From a million other sources. OR do you deny the existence of such programs, set asides, and government created advantages for minority and women owned business? Anyone who has ever bid on a government contract has seen those disgusting forms wanting detalied info about who owns the business- what color are they? Is it a woman? Yeah- that makes me feel really confident that the bid is legitiamte and based on the best work at the lowest cost. Why wouldn't anyone assume that such disaprity in the number of blacks who start businesses is not the result of such pandering and money redistributing?

You can wipe your ass with your assumptions.

Look at me. No governmental contracts and/or bids, no government subsidized loans. Yet I have a business that's showing some great signs. All of the things you would "assume" fail on my example.

To tell you the absolute truth, I'm just an average 30 year old black man from the inner-city. I'm no better than anyone else. Therefore, if you want to make an "assumption," assume that since I'm a regular guy that there must be far more than me out there doing the exact same thing.

No! But for you, it's on the backs of the white man. I don't deny the existence of such programs. Why would I? They exist. They're full of it, but they do exist. But that has nothing to do with me. And it stands to reason that it has nothing to do with a lot of other black entrepreneurs.

But not to you! It's either/or with you.

[Burkeman1]

Too bad for you that most everyone will assume otherwise and has grounds to do so. We assume the rich kid got his job becasue of daddy and his connections. Sometimes that assumption is wrong and the rich kid accomplished everything on his own but that doesn't make the genral assumption about rich kids wrong. As long as such laws exist people will assume and not incorectly- that you have taken advantage of such privaleges. Unfair? No- not really- just reality.