Didn't Spike cover this in Do The Right Thing?
In the 90's in Brooklyn we boycotted Asian Corner Stores because there weren't any Black owned ones...yet Black people weren't actually going out trying to establish such businesses in the Urban Community.
Had Martin & Malcolm's vision truly came to light, our youth wouldn't be so hell bent on always competing against the next man, we'd have unity and help facilitate each other.
I can't be mad at Asian, Cuban, Gay or Jewish entrepreneurs.
shyt would be
if from the moment we exited the womb, there were black hands reaching out to help us get established.
I'll break it down on a Micro level for the best analogy:
In an Asian or Jewish community, a young succesful man decides to do something good, buy something nice to reqrds themselves for their hard work... the other people in their community are on some
But in the hood, you could have a young dude hustle and work at McDonald's, helping mom's with bills and as soon as he rewards himself w/ a chain or something new... people already plotting to tax him on it.... Add they are fromt he same hood. shyt is