The Myth of Black “Buying Power"

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What's the game? Break down the rules.

Picking apart why everything being done is pointless and has no affect on the community is one thing. Providing alternatives would be nice. Because if not it just looks like you're saying black people are fukked and there's nothing they can do.

Also, you're saying you feel black economics has no role or at all or is effective as a supplement? If so, how?

Maybe you should actually read the thread?
 

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The point is many white employers demanding black men to have an associate degree and a white man to have a high school diploma to have a job in the first place which is a big difference in itself.

There are many associates that are valuable like electric tech and process tech and instrument tech.
Most people dont get assciates in anything valuable. :francis:
Liberal arts is by far the most common assciate degree

Top Ten Associate's Degrees
 

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The point is many white employers demanding black men to have an associate degree and a white man to have a high school diploma to have a job in the first place which is a big difference in itself.

There are many associates that are valuable like electric tech and process tech and instrument tech.
Most people dont get assciates in anything valuable. :francis:
Liberal arts is by far the most common assciate degree

Top Ten Associate's Degrees
 

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Most people dont get assciates in anything valuable. :francis:
Liberal arts is by far the most common assciate degree

Top Ten Associate's Degrees
and?

You are trying to move the goal post. Im not gonna fall for your crap.

The original point is that black men have to get an associate degree to be on the same level as high school graduate white men which is unfair.

It doesnt matter what degree it is because you have to pay for it way more than a high school diploma regardless.
 

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Maybe you should actually read the thread?

Okay

A separate currency system, credit system, strong central banking, a manufacturing base, etc

So can you elaborate on each of these a little bit? Particularly the separate currency system, credit system, and the central banking.

And can you break down how group economics has a place as not the core solution, but a supplement?

If it seems like I'm being a smart ass, I'm not. I wanna know what you think.
 

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You are trying to move the goal post. Im not gonna fall for your crap.

The original point is that black men have to get an associate degree to be on the same level as high school graduate white men which is unfair.

It doesnt matter what degree it is because you have to pay for it way more than a high school diploma regardless.

I never said it was fair. Im arguing that the article misrepresents the value of advanced degrees for black people:yeshrug:
 

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I never said it was fair. Im arguing that the article misrepresents the value of advanced degrees for black people:yeshrug:
What the

I brought up the article to show how white employers demanded higher standards from black men compared to white men.

What you are talking about has nothing to do with my point :childplease:
 

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They should have said bachelor's or masters :francis:
I never said it was fair. Im arguing that the article misrepresents the value of advanced degrees for black people:yeshrug:
Doesnt matter.

The fact that straight out of high school a white person has an edge over a black person is unfair in itself.

Basically meaning that to get employment a black person must go to college and acquire some form of debt.

This current way of most of our group relying on white employers is bad and is getting worse and is destabilizing us and the threat of racial tension is rising as well so instead of trying to counter it and get some stability in the black community by investing in our black businesses so we can increase employment opportunities and stabilize our community you guys are taking about more bigger means which nobody has yet shown can be done without getting into group economics.
 
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Okay



So can you elaborate on each of these a little bit? Particularly the separate currency system, credit system, and the central banking.

And can you break down how group economics has a place as not the core solution, but a supplement?

If it seems like I'm being a smart ass, I'm not. I wanna know what you think.

A separate currency system- this is pretty intuitive. you don't want to be using the dollar which makes it easier to manipulate via control of the greater American economy. A separate currency can still feel the affects of the American and world economy but there is more flexibility.

credit system- Every country borrows and so does it citizens and you don't want the Western credit systems to downgrade you to "junk." I believe Russia and China have started to implement their own system.

strong central banking- allows good monetary policy which would include the printing of money for strong social programs that would end up in the hands or to the benefit of the lower/middle class Africans and trickle to the wider diaspora

a manufacturing base- allows you to sell finished goods/products instead of relying on the commodities markets of oil, minerals, etc and importing from Asia/Europe

For African Americans, we need to go into banking and infiltrate the very institutions giving us bad loans, refusing to give us stimulus, etc
 

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article in the oP is from a dumb ass, trying to sound smart.
Buying power is buying power, demonstrated market power, and black americans have a signficant amount of it.

I find those who want white hand outs go out of their way to infantilize and downgrade black achievement.
The mentality that leads to this is something else.


Consumption =/= production

There's no achievement here, just a feel good piece on how much blacks consume.


You ever see a stat on white buying power ?



LOL
 

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Consumption =/= production

There's no achievement here, just a feel good piece on how much blacks consume.


You ever see a stat on white buying power ?



LOL

Consumption doesn't have to equal production, what you said really makes as little sense as the article the OP posted.
Nothing feel good about economic fact that black americans have a tremendous amount of buying power. Just a fact.
Yes, you will regularly see stats off white buying power, hispanic buying power, and asian buying power.
Whites are considered the standard though since they account for what 66% of the population, but they are broken down in sex and age ranges, you'll see that a lot if you read advertising and sales articles in reaching targeted demos.

That said have a good one and keep hotepping it up and ignoring very real progress in buying power and trying to conflate that with something unrelated like generational wealth, also keep up with the bullshyt ass false critiques of blacks and saving and spending habits, that continually are debunked, but seems that blacks have bought into them, like blacks not saving, talking about lack of black businesses when black business ownership has been steadily increasing, and etc. it takes time grow after being crippled
 

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Consumption =/= production

There's no achievement here, just a feel good piece on how much blacks consume.


You ever see a stat on white buying power ?



LOL

Yup, its so ridiculous.

Asian Americans have half our population yet the same magical buying power :mjlol:
 
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