This is the very same Problem as Puerto Rico's economy. People shop US owned and the local economy is in lack with high unemployment rate, high poverty rate. I think this problem and solution needs to be shared with different communities.
This made me happy and sad. Black People are still affected by slavery and it shows. We have to do better! I'm TRULY thankful we still have Black Women and Black Men, that won't give-up.
SGSSG25 STOP with all the EXCUSES !!!! The ONLY African Americans who were affected by slavery were blacks BORN INTO SLAVERY. That excludes both YOU and ME. Neither you, me, and 99.99% of the African Americans who read this post NEVER met a slave nor were we ever slaves. If Booker T. Washington (who was born a slave) and others during his life time, who started out as slaves, but MADE NO EXCUSES about slavery, then in 2017 we need to cut the BS and thrive. Even during the Jim Crow era there were black Jim Crow millionaires. They made no excuses. They had no internet access, no computers, no Smartphone, no political access like we have now, etc, etc. Even Nelson Mandela made NO EXCUSES. If he can do 27 years and NOT make any EXCUSES then I suggest you get rid of that "slavery excuse".
It didn't used to be like this. The black community owned mostly all of the businesses in their community before 1960. What happened was: integration. We abandoned our own businesses in favor of white-owned businesses because we thought they were better. See: Jackie Robinson.
Preach bruh, they knew there was no need to bomb & terrorize our communities after desegregation because we bought the "White Ice is colder" ethos hook, line & sinker.
I knew that not supporting my black own community hurts, but I didn't realize the bigger picture. Very informative and thought provoking video... Thank you!
As black people our social disenfranchisement is directly correlated not only to where we spend our money but on WHAT we buy. We need to buy more books as opposed to sneakers and name brand clothes, more healthy foods as opposed to fast foods, the choices we make with our finances are a result of deep rooted emotional pain. Sad but true. I'm not a public figure but I stand united with Maggie & her husband. I have been buying black since January 1, 2016 and have been sharing this concept with everyone I know. If enough people (both black and white) do the same, we can affect real change which will eventually bridge the racial divide. #MoveYourMoney
Absolutely 100% spot on. THIS is the sort of empowerment the country needs. Economic power comes through ownership of business, pride in ownership of property and neighborhoods. Everyone wins, when this happens. BTW, just for reference, I happen to be white . . . but let me repeat this, everyone wins, with economic empowerment. Dr. King had it 100% right, and so does this woman.
This TedxTalk is one of the most underrated, it's really enlightened me and allowed me to acknowledge the neglect we have for black businesses. From this I will be supporting black businesses, black hair stores, black restaurants, black pharmacies and the lot.
When you spend your money outside of your community, you help empower the community in which you send your money, but you make pooer the community in which you live... Malcolm X said that.
@@iTuber012 Your retirement money is probably invested by the holding bank in some war-industry, drug or industrial company far outside your community. If our pension funds were invested in our community the community would thrive, we'd care.
I think this is one of the most inspirational videos i have ever seen. No, thank you. This should be shown in every high school in the country... please do more inspirational information like this
More like economic warfare. This isn't happening by accident. These groups are actively eating our lunches and will continue to do so until we put a stop to it. Absolutely non violently, of course. as she stated,all we need to do is not buy Hennessy and they would go out of business. We can do that in several areas
All we have to do is embrace our fellow black man and woman and work together. We need to put each other first before any other ethnicity because honestly no one else will. We have the power all we have to change is how we apply it, and we'll rise again.
Very informative and thought provocative. It's no accident that real estate, economics, or finance are not taught in our schools. We are as a race are going to survive, we must depend on each other. We must get back to being liberation.
Charlie Watkins kids don't learn political science or rhetoric and know very little history. Such a people are wholly unable to oversee a representative form of government.
You are right. The ball is in our court. However for the last 400 year, we have been complaining, we get something to work with, talk about it, a while but don't do nothing. I believe if I could have passed for another race, back in the day. I would have cross over too! You made a move, with or with out dignity.
Not only have I revisited this post but I've happily recommended it to other people. I would love it if the churches in our communities could unite our dollars, buy businesses and lead us in economic empowerment as was the case during the 60s when they led us in the Civil Rights Movement. Clearly such leadership is needed! I genuinely think that if we knew better, we would do better.
Very powerful message. Economic injustice due to not supporting our own businesses. Unfortunately, many won't review this video. Hope people can learn from this message!
It's a shame that the hip hop reality shows and the housewives shows don't jump on this and shoot at these spaces. Like seriously use your platform for something useful. Take your drama there and get those people some damn money too.
One of the best Ted Talks I've listened to. I agree that the economic empowerment argument for building and sustaining local, community-member-owned businesses is the most realistic way out of poverty. It works for ethnic communities and rural communities. What a great, articulate Ted Talk.
An amazing and enlightening talk. It is a brutal and disheartening truth we all need to hear because we are all connected and part of the same economy. We all have a responsibility to help each other rise.
She's so right. When I hear Soulja Boy singing about Gucci I think about all that free advertising and millions that company made without lifting a finger . We'll never learn.
Sis, as a mother of adults, you made your mom happy!! As for me and mine know that we are also a part of this plight, you most certainly not alone, the struggle, the fight is real/ the battle will be conquered!!
I had never given any thought to this subject, but WOW it is an eye opener. Asian owned businesses are on every corner. WHY aren't there more Black owned businesses? Why is it they (the Black community) still struggle?
+NydiaSimone TV hey sister here is the solution www.afromindset.com/index.php/en/choose/courses/course/foundations-of-black-entrepreneurship-fundamentals
Wow...I feel like I just saw the bigger picture I didnt see before. Thank you for this upload...I will think twice when I buy something and where it comes from...
It was not just the separation. People were different, then they began to believe, you could do anything, if you put your mind to it. They believed it took a village to raise a child. They attended Church. It was not just the Segregation. Lots of things changed.
I'm skeptical of those metrics. How does one know how long a dollar stays within a certain community? She didn't explain how this information was determined. I don't think it's something that can be measured that granularly.
whites, jews, Asians, Arabs, Latinos already do this so it's a only a problem when we do it? So we are suppose to be consumers and never owners. Some businesses are only targeted towards blacks like hair creams because we have unique hair. You aren't against racism you are against black success and black ownership
Dear Ms. Anderson, I think this is incredibly valuable! Great job, by the way! Enjoyable to watch...and heartbreaking, and hopeful in so many ways. Maybe the Only piece of the entire talk that I paused to think, maybe this could be tweaked a bit, was when you were listing the things you wondered about, the things people might not ever open up to... It's a significant list. My concern is that some might hear the list and miss or unintentionally forget that it was a list of what you wondered about, and Not a list of things, especially listed at the end/toward the wrap up of the talk, that are as if Absolute "roadblocks" to healing this systemic disease of economic injustice. I'm inclined to believe they aren't insurmountable issues, and sense that you agree, otherwise, why give the talk, or publish the book? It's just something that came to mind. In fact when listening, I had to "ask, wait, what?" Smh. I wish we were in conversation, reasonably sure that I'd not head right into the part I felt might be tweaked for future talks. It really was informative, and definitely attention holding. A learning experience that will inspire more learning and action in my own life. Thank you!
I believe in supporting businesses that are in my community, and that's how I would perceive it. My choice would be for my "community", and not based on skin color. I think business success should be independent of skin color. If the business owner happened to be "Black", that shouldn't have any more significance than being blonde or red-headed. There's something about this attitude that I find limiting in it's scope.
The point is to support businesses that support and invest in my local community. Business owners who live and work in my community also tend to buy groceries, go to church, and attend council meetings here. Why support businesses that have no vested interest in me, my friends, my family, or my city other than my money?
Asians and Arabs don't give back to black communities or live there. But their stores are there. They send their children to college off black money. This Arab girl went to college with me she was going to college from the money from the store and her parents hate blacks but took their money and she had to hide her black boyfriend so they wouldn't disown her
That is why our areas are economically deprived. We need to invest with business where the owners and workers are African American. When we support other ethnic groups businesses in our community we suffer because they take the money out of the community and don’t provide jobs for Blacks within the community. But they provide jobs for their own. They can get the loans to open a business in our community but we can’t and if we happen to get a loan, the interest is too high making the business impossible to survive.
You're going to wait until others put in the work before you ante up and kick in? At that rate, it may not get off the ground. That's part of how we got here.
Oli3TB76 It's true. Those with money and influence could and should do more. But we can't wait for them. Ever since the end of the Civil Rights movement, we've been waiting -- for the next Martin, the next Malcolm, the next Somebody, ANYbody. And all the time we've been waiting, we've been suffering. Waiting is what got us here. Can you name a single Chinese "leader" in this country? I can't, no one can. Yet they create and maintain cohesive communities whose backbone is business. They work together, cooperate with each other. They have their own banks, and USE them. You see East Indians -- and more recently, Africans -- doing the same things. If you're doing your bit, then you are setting the example we need. We've ALL got to do our bit. I myself have been negligent, but no more. We as a people have got to get off this Messiah tip that we've been on for the last 50 years, and get in the game.
+Greg Gross The messiah is not as easy to lose when our people shuffle like zombies to churches every weekend looking for hope. We are a people that need something or one to believe in this is seen throughout history all the way back to Ancient Egypt.
This video should be required viewing in every black household!!
Agree
lcchill and schools.
lcchill The book should be. We need more blacks cracking open a book instead of their legs and nuts.
it will be in this one
This is the very same Problem as Puerto Rico's economy. People shop US owned and the local economy is in lack with high unemployment rate, high poverty rate. I think this problem and solution needs to be shared with different communities.
This made me happy and sad. Black People are still affected by slavery and it shows. We have to do better! I'm TRULY thankful we still have Black Women and Black Men, that won't give-up.
SGSSG25 STOP with all the EXCUSES !!!! The ONLY African Americans who were affected by slavery were blacks BORN INTO SLAVERY. That excludes both YOU and ME. Neither you, me, and 99.99% of the African Americans who read this post NEVER met a slave nor were we ever slaves. If Booker T. Washington (who was born a slave) and others during his life time, who started out as slaves, but MADE NO EXCUSES about slavery, then in 2017 we need to cut the BS and thrive. Even during the Jim Crow era there were black Jim Crow millionaires. They made no excuses. They had no internet access, no computers, no Smartphone, no political access like we have now, etc, etc. Even Nelson Mandela made NO EXCUSES. If he can do 27 years and NOT make any EXCUSES then I suggest you get rid of that "slavery excuse".
SGSSG25 I don't think some people understood your comment, but I did. I got it!
THIS IS SO POWERFUL !!AND PRAYERFULLY A CHANGE WILL COME!! COME ON CHURCH FOLK AND CHRISTIANS .
It didn't used to be like this. The black community owned mostly all of the businesses in their community before 1960. What happened was: integration. We abandoned our own businesses in favor of white-owned businesses because we thought they were better. See: Jackie Robinson.
Integration did this. It's handicapped us
Preach bruh, they knew there was no need to bomb & terrorize our communities after desegregation because we bought the "White Ice is colder" ethos hook, line & sinker.
Chavagnatze I couldn't agree more. Bye and large, those are great examples of what's crippling us collectively
everything we need for our hair should be in the kitchen..i never shop in a beauty aisle
Anthony Brian Logan Why are you repeating the speaker?
I knew that not supporting my black own community hurts, but I didn't realize the bigger picture. Very informative and thought provoking video... Thank you!
Your work is not in vain. We will win. We are African people. We are all children of the Universe ❤️🙏🏾🧘🏾♂️
As black people our social disenfranchisement is directly correlated not only to where we spend our money but on WHAT we buy. We need to buy more books as opposed to sneakers and name brand clothes, more healthy foods as opposed to fast foods, the choices we make with our finances are a result of deep rooted emotional pain. Sad but true. I'm not a public figure but I stand united with Maggie & her husband. I have been buying black since January 1, 2016 and have been sharing this concept with everyone I know. If enough people (both black and white) do the same, we can affect real change which will eventually bridge the racial divide. #MoveYourMoney
Cynthia Warring I concur 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Cynthia Warring What places do you shop at looking for tips?
Absolutely 100% spot on. THIS is the sort of empowerment the country needs. Economic power comes through ownership of business, pride in ownership of property and neighborhoods. Everyone wins, when this happens.
BTW, just for reference, I happen to be white . . . but let me repeat this, everyone wins, with economic empowerment. Dr. King had it 100% right, and so does this woman.
Imagine if USA sent blacks to Africa to get mineral deals and resources? China would have no chance.
We can’t stop robbing ourselves in the hood.
This TedxTalk is one of the most underrated, it's really enlightened me and allowed me to acknowledge the neglect we have for black businesses. From this I will be supporting black businesses, black hair stores, black restaurants, black pharmacies and the lot.
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When you spend your money outside of your community, you help empower the community in which you send your money, but you make pooer the community in which you live... Malcolm X said that.
Yes but the PROBLEM most black people DONT CARE. Theyre participating in their own destruction.
So true!
Malcom X, did not have say that, for it to make sense. It just make sense.
@@iTuber012 Your retirement money is probably invested by the holding bank in some war-industry, drug or industrial company far outside your community. If our pension funds were invested in our community the community would thrive, we'd care.
@@howardcohen6817 It's a bot
Marcus Garvey said that without economic empowerment we have no power.
I'm glad I found this. Inspired me to keep trying to support and practice cooperative economics. It has been a struggle but we must do it.
I think this is one of the most inspirational videos i have ever seen. No, thank you. This should be shown in every high school in the country... please do more inspirational information like this
When you depend on your historical oppressor for everything you're going to always be behind.
Well said - so true - and if you don't mind, I'm going to quote you to my young sons. Thanks for sharing your perspective, very insightful.
On point.
@@PamelaDFrank demokkkrats 2020
Matsogo!
It's no longer "economic injustice". It is now economic ignorance.
Both
More like economic warfare. This isn't happening by accident. These groups are actively eating our lunches and will continue to do so until we put a stop to it. Absolutely non violently, of course. as she stated,all we need to do is not buy Hennessy and they would go out of business. We can do that in several areas
I agree
I'm stepping up. I will persue BOB from here on out. I wish I had known of them and understood just how broken we are. I will be broken no more.
Rise RISE R_I_S_E my people !!!! thank you so very much for this!
This must be the most inspiring TED talk I have seen!
Agree
It's a talk that's meant to do more than just make you feel good or open your mind a little. It actually offers a bit of a solution to a problem.
Im with u!!
@@Aster_Risk Absolutely!!
All we have to do is embrace our fellow black man and woman and work together. We need to put each other first before any other ethnicity because honestly no one else will. We have the power all we have to change is how we apply it, and we'll rise again.
Amazing talk, really informative and eye opening!
Very informative and thought provocative. It's no accident that real estate, economics, or finance are not taught in our schools. We are as a race are going to survive, we must depend on each other. We must get back to being liberation.
Charlie Watkins kids don't learn political science or rhetoric and know very little history. Such a people are wholly unable to oversee a representative form of government.
Your comment is on point, I was never taught any of this, neither my children touched on any of this until they went to college.
Nunya Business you know he meant liberated, sometimes the spell check will post the wrong word.
TOGETHER NESS !!!
Thank you.
People, let's make this go viral then let's cast our dollar consciously.
right on my negus
roodles prease ...troll
It's not about spending so much as opening and enterprising
You are right. The ball is in our court. However for the last 400 year, we have been complaining, we get something to work with, talk about it, a while but don't do nothing. I believe if I could have passed for another race, back in the day. I would have cross over too! You made a move, with or with out dignity.
thank you, so proud of you Mrs. A
Thank you and your family, Maggie! I remember this because I had a business in the Chatham area of Chicago.
How did that go?
This was so good. You can really hear her heart and soul as she speaks about this.
Not only have I revisited this post but I've happily recommended it to other people. I would love it if the churches in our communities could unite our dollars, buy businesses and lead us in economic empowerment as was the case during the 60s when they led us in the Civil Rights Movement. Clearly such leadership is needed! I genuinely think that if we knew better, we would do better.
Wow, Thaaaank You Sister!
I heard you loud and clear!
May your dream of uniting us and seeing us become successful come true. God Bless Your family!
True inspiration. God bless you and your family and all that you do Queen.
Very powerful message. Economic injustice due to not supporting our own businesses. Unfortunately, many won't review this video. Hope people can learn from this message!
This is pretty much what Trump endorsed, so Democrats and liberals shun it.
It's a shame that the hip hop reality shows and the housewives shows don't jump on this and shoot at these spaces. Like seriously use your platform for something useful. Take your drama there and get those people some damn money too.
This breaks my heart that the community is going through this. Let’s all come together to change this! ❤️
One of the greatest videos I've ever seen on UA-cam. I'm touched and moved.
How about a resource directory where we can find black owned businesses like those mentioned.
venise williams There has to be a FB page somewhere!
i've seen a fee but the pages are mostly inactive 😕
Google it boo!! Yay it's popping NOW
Its called a yellow pages. It has every blk owned business in there.
there are website dedicated for
Great talk! More power to the people! Lets get to work!
This talk has truth written all over it. Well done!
Powerful 18 minutes. Unfortunately I agree that we simply can't get it together to empower ourselves.
As my Dad (Bless the dead) used to say......Can't NEVER Could!
I love this talk! What great solutions on how to change what we are seeing in the black community. Very inspiring talk!
One of the best Ted Talks I've listened to. I agree that the economic empowerment argument for building and sustaining local, community-member-owned businesses is the most realistic way out of poverty. It works for ethnic communities and rural communities. What a great, articulate Ted Talk.
An amazing and enlightening talk. It is a brutal and disheartening truth we all need to hear because we are all connected and part of the same economy. We all have a responsibility to help each other rise.
I'm not even crying...I gotta go.... Loved this!!!!
She's so right. When I hear Soulja Boy singing about Gucci I think about all that free advertising and millions that company made without lifting a finger . We'll never learn.
Thanms, Maggie anything you do in the name of Dr King is meaningful
This is by far one of my favorite TedX talks. Well said Margarita.
I just opened an account with one United bank💵💵 THX for sharing
Yes Joshua I too open an account with One United Bank
Just wonderful. My awareness is being awakened and challenged. Thank You and I'm going to help with dismantling this unbalanced economy.
Real for real
Margarita Anderson - AWESOME!!! Highlighting the root cause of continued oppression.
We in Cape Town South Africa can really learn from this. GOD WILLING...
Very enlightening , thank you for this insightful message . Amazing,we need more people like Maggie Anderson and her family.
This had me in tears! Powerful!
B1
I'm in charge of office supplies in my office, yup..South Coast Papers just got a new customer...
We the people NEED CONTINUITY. Yes we have been good at starting movements but have failed to continue them. We also NEED UNITY.
Sis, as a mother of adults, you made your mom happy!! As for me and mine know that we are also a part of this plight, you most certainly not alone, the struggle, the fight is real/ the battle will be conquered!!
Years late on watching this but question why so low a number of those who listened to her? Saddening ...but never too late.
Thank you for this brilliant lecture/share of facts. B1.
Thank you Maggie Anderson! This was motivational and inspirational. Keep up the fight to support black businesses, you ARE NOT Alone!
+Krystal Barnes find the solution here www.afromindset.com/index.php/en/choose/courses/course/foundations-of-black-entrepreneurship-fundamentals
Maggie if you still on talk trails, South Africa desperately needs your talk
I really enjoyed listening to this thank you young lady
I'm inspired! Thank you for sharing with us Maggie ✊🏾
Ms Maggie Anderson has my full support!! We gotta change this
I had never given any thought to this subject, but WOW it is an eye opener. Asian owned businesses are on every corner. WHY aren't there more Black owned businesses? Why is it they (the Black community) still struggle?
+Tamara Kenney integration. After integration. Black people went on to work for white companies, schools etc.
+Tamara Kenney Here is the solution www.afromindset.com/index.php/en/choose/courses/course/foundations-of-black-entrepreneurship-fundamentals
+NydiaSimone TV hey sister here is the solution www.afromindset.com/index.php/en/choose/courses/course/foundations-of-black-entrepreneurship-fundamentals
Obviously you didn't listen to a word of this talk, if you think there is no reason for it.
What I would never understand is why there are corner shops owned by Asian people?! In the U.K. selling hair and products black people wear Why???
Very very very important message!!
Excellent! Time to take action
Great positive, informative and fact basked talk. Wonderful TED Talk
More videos like this please.
I often wonder if it really does make a difference in the community. Thanks for the fight we need more of it.
Very cool. She is a great leader.
Thank you for this empowering message.
What a wonderful idea...I am starting to compile my list now. I will share!!
Where's your list????
Thank you Maggie!!!
“White man foots on our necks.” Interesting metaphor, 5 years ago, yet applies to reality today. 😢
So sad..........
it gave me chills
Exactly😭
came to the comments looking to see if anyone else caught that. so eerie.
I love your passion... 💯% with you.
Mema so proud of you, 💖💖💖, we must not give up
It's insane that these disparities still exist..thanks for exposing this on TED
Wow . I love this . I've heard many of lectures and speeches about black economic empowerment . But this one really struck a cord with me .
Wow...I feel like I just saw the bigger picture I didnt see before. Thank you for this upload...I will think twice when I buy something and where it comes from...
Powerful & thought provoking presentation!👏👏👏
Very insightful. Definitely sparked some progressive conversations among my family and peers. Thank you!
It's all by design, they hate when we support each other✊🏿
Thanks to videos, now we can take our heads out of the sand.
God bless you Ma'am
God bless you for inspiring and empowering your community.
Respect...One Love and Unity.
We were never stronger and more powerful than we were,when we were separated.
It was not just the separation. People were different, then they began to believe, you could do anything, if you put your mind to it. They believed it took a village to raise a child. They attended Church. It was not just the Segregation. Lots of things changed.
6 hours....We are beggars to our own destruction!
I'm skeptical of those metrics. How does one know how long a dollar stays within a certain community? She didn't explain how this information was determined. I don't think it's something that can be measured that granularly.
+Static NAT there are no black businesses so the money is saved for 6 hours the given to other businessrs
whites, jews, Asians, Arabs, Latinos already do this so it's a only a problem when we do it? So we are suppose to be consumers and never owners. Some businesses are only targeted towards blacks like hair creams because we have unique hair. You aren't against racism you are against black success and black ownership
This is an amazing piece.
This was beautiful! Thank you!!!
i HEREBY MAKE THIS MANDATORY FOR ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME
I THINK SHE IS JUST A WONDERFUL SPEAKER.
Thank you so much for all your hard work my sister!
I intend to do something in my English community...
With God’s help! 😊👍🏾🍰🍛👔👗
Dear Ms. Anderson,
I think this is incredibly valuable!
Great job, by the way! Enjoyable to watch...and heartbreaking, and hopeful in so many ways.
Maybe the Only piece of the entire talk that I paused to think, maybe this could be tweaked a bit, was when you were listing the things you wondered about, the things people might not ever open up to... It's a significant list. My concern is that some might hear the list and miss or unintentionally forget that it was a list of what you wondered about, and Not a list of things,
especially listed at the end/toward the wrap up of the talk, that are as if Absolute "roadblocks" to healing this systemic disease of economic injustice. I'm inclined to believe they aren't insurmountable issues, and sense that you agree, otherwise, why give the talk, or publish the book? It's just something that came to mind. In fact when listening, I had to "ask, wait, what?"
Smh. I wish we were in conversation, reasonably sure that I'd not head right into the part I felt might be tweaked for future talks. It really was informative, and definitely attention holding. A learning experience that will inspire more learning and action in my own life.
Thank you!
Brilliant, even if there was only one success story. Don’t quit.
Why only 3,657 likes of this when there are rap videos with over 1,000,000 likes on a regular basis???!!!
Culture
That is where our problem is as a community. People prefer to watch music videos than watch this one.
Bless you Maggie!
I'm white and loved me some Sportin' Waves as a teenager. Nothing else put my hair so rigidly in the exact shape I wanted.
Thank you. 🎈🎉🎈
Awsome lady and her information is Amazing
You go, Maggie! Working with the incomparable John Lewis, and young Barak Obama!
I believe in supporting businesses that are in my community, and that's how I would perceive it. My choice would be for my "community", and not based on skin color. I think business success should be independent of skin color. If the business owner happened to be "Black", that shouldn't have any more significance than being blonde or red-headed. There's something about this attitude that I find limiting in it's scope.
The point is to support businesses that support and invest in my local community. Business owners who live and work in my community also tend to buy groceries, go to church, and attend council meetings here. Why support businesses that have no vested interest in me, my friends, my family, or my city other than my money?
Asians and Arabs don't give back to black communities or live there. But their stores are there. They send their children to college off black money. This Arab girl went to college with me she was going to college from the money from the store and her parents hate blacks but took their money and she had to hide her black boyfriend so they wouldn't disown her
That is why our areas are economically deprived. We need to invest with business where the owners and workers are African American. When we support other ethnic groups businesses in our community we suffer because they take the money out of the community and don’t provide jobs for Blacks within the community. But they provide jobs for their own. They can get the loans to open a business in our community but we can’t and if we happen to get a loan, the interest is too high making the business impossible to survive.
When this gets off the ground it will have my full support
You're going to wait until others put in the work before you ante up and kick in? At that rate, it may not get off the ground. That's part of how we got here.
Greg Gross I get that and I do my bit, though I feel there are people with money and influence who could do more to get things really going
Oli3TB76 It's true. Those with money and influence could and should do more. But we can't wait for them. Ever since the end of the Civil Rights movement, we've been waiting -- for the next Martin, the next Malcolm, the next Somebody, ANYbody. And all the time we've been waiting, we've been suffering. Waiting is what got us here.
Can you name a single Chinese "leader" in this country? I can't, no one can. Yet they create and maintain cohesive communities whose backbone is business. They work together, cooperate with each other. They have their own banks, and USE them. You see East Indians -- and more recently, Africans -- doing the same things.
If you're doing your bit, then you are setting the example we need. We've ALL got to do our bit. I myself have been negligent, but no more. We as a people have got to get off this Messiah tip that we've been on for the last 50 years, and get in the game.
+Greg Gross The messiah is not as easy to lose when our people shuffle like zombies to churches every weekend looking for hope. We are a people that need something or one to believe in this is seen throughout history all the way back to Ancient Egypt.
So you're saying, "Once it becomes successful you will help it become a success." This mode of thinking is exactly why it is not a success.
Excellent talk!
We need to live for ourselves and stop trying to act rich save up and follow our dreams. It is better to be rich than to act rich.