Why Do We Do This?

[HollowPoints2]

why do we walk or drive pass abandoned buildings for many years in our neighborhoods without thinking about a small business plan. But when an Asian, white or a Hispanic person walks past the same buildings you will see them open it for some type of small mom and pop store that caters to their needs in that area.

It's crazy how we will walk past that same abandon building for years never thinking about stepping foot inside but as soon as a non-black person opens it up for business we are the first ones to patronize the store for our basic necessities.

Can anyone explain this type of pathology to me. why do we wait for other people to produce services in our neighborhoods that we could produce on our own? I don't have the words to explain myself.so maybe one of you can.

Will we always wait for somebody else to do shyt for us.

 

[Momentum]

It takes a lot of money to do this. Most people have a community they can lend the funds from. Unfortunately, blacks have to run to Mr. White Man for money and good luck getting a loan to revitalize a blight building in the hood.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

It takes a lot of money to do this. Most people have a community they can lend the funds from. Unfortunately, blacks have to run to Mr. White Man for money and good luck getting a loan to revitalize a blight building in the hood.

Indeed. It's not a black problem, it's a black American problem. As an example in areas where west africans are you will see them set up various shops. Even black carribeans will have stores and shops set up. Lack of organization, trust, finances and the Willie Lynch syndrome all contribute to black Americans inability to accomplish these things.

Thats why to me the focus should be on youth initiatives. Break the cycle with the next generation.

 

[theworldismine13]

its a combination of a lack of education and financial knowledge and there is this notion that capitalism is a bad thing

also the way our politics our oriented its not oriented toward development, its oriented toward demanding social programs and also demanding that white people do this and white people do that and using integration as a measuring stick for progress

black people have to shift away from anti capitalsim, leftism and toward academics and capitalism

 

[theworldismine13]

Indeed. It's not a black problem, it's a black American problem. As an example in areas where west africans are you will see them set up various shops. Even black carribeans will have stores and shops set up. Lack of organization, trust, finances and the Willie Lynch syndrome all contribute to black Americans inability to accomplish these things.

Thats why to me the focus should be on youth initiatives. Break the cycle with the next generation.

no its a world wide black problem, if it wasnt, africans and caribbeans wouldnt be in the US in the first place looking for better jobs and living conditions

everywhere you go in the world black people are behind in terms of development and IMO for the same reasons, lack of education and little capitalism

 

[cleanface coney]

first of all its too much money in the black community to use the we aint got no money as an excuse

idk tho honestly i would say because alot of the older generations didnt/couldnt put the younger generations on game, it went from own your own shyt by any means

to having a good job and living somewhere where they dont want you

i mean look at the average success story for a black person

then look at the average success story for a arab,asian,indian,etc

something aint adding up

 

[Brown_Pride]

i've often wondered this myself. Even in hispanic communities the people you see doing this tend to be mexican nationals. Something bad happens to minorities when they get to america after a few generations. They either make it or they fall into despair and nihilism eeking out a living on what menial jobs they can find.

IMHO it's mental conditioning. You become a product of your environment after a certain point and as @Coney Island just pointed out it's not because there's no money in black or brown america it's because "success" is typically equated with bolting the fuk out of where you grew up.

This basically detaches success from the community. What happens then is the next generation NEVER gets to see success from where they came from. They walk to the store and they see everyone but someone like them in power. At some point a young mind will absorb the idea that that's just how it's supposed to be.

IMHO the "urban"/"ghetto" market is there, it's just been exploited for far to long by either greed or outside influence. It's for this reason that I try to make it a point to go get my shyt done or buy my things from LOCAL type places, I still go to the barber in my old area, still take my car into the same shop with the same old dude that lives in that area.

It's also the reason i work with kids and teens. You gotta show them that success isn't about race or social economics, it's about hustle and anyone can do it.

Question back to the OP then is why aren't you opening up a shop in whatever building you just saw?

 

[88m3]

access to capital

I have a feeling mental conditioning has something to do with it as well

I make business plans for fun and always have a handful of projects I'm working on

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

good question i know its plenty of old buildings around my way and here particularly if they ever do get opened its by asians or indians and a few africans opening hair stores

the real messed up part is the few times i ever seen black owned stores they get shut down out here due to some type of illegal activity

you ever walk into an asian hair store though for black hair? they sell some of the best products for black people but if you check out a black owned hair store they sell a bunch of garbage products that make your hair fall out, talk about ass backwards out here; there is definantly levels to this shyt

 

[cleanface coney]

i've often wondered this myself. Even in hispanic communities the people you see doing this tend to be mexican nationals. Something bad happens to minorities when they get to america after a few generations. They either make it or they fall into despair and nihilism eeking out a living on what menial jobs they can find.

IMHO it's mental conditioning. You become a product of your environment after a certain point and as @Coney Island just pointed out it's not because there's no money in black or brown america it's because "success" is typically equated with bolting the fuk out of where you grew up.

This basically detaches success from the community. What happens then is the next generation NEVER gets to see success from where they came from. They walk to the store and they see everyone but someone like them in power. At some point a young mind will absorb the idea that that's just how it's supposed to be.

IMHO the "urban"/"ghetto" market is there, it's just been exploited for far to long by either greed or outside influence. It's for this reason that I try to make it a point to go get my shyt done or buy my things from LOCAL type places, I still go to the barber in my old area, still take my car into the same shop with the same old dude that lives in that area.

It's also the reason i work with kids and teens. You gotta show them that success isn't about race or social economics, it's about hustle and anyone can do it.

Question back to the OP then is why aren't you opening up a shop in whatever building you just saw?

thats the key right there, it starts young, people dont realize the impressions they make on the youth

we need more success stories involving pops,uncle,cousin,brother building something from the ground up

we aint got enough of those types of stories in the black community

 

[Mad Good Dro]

good question

 

[Richard Wright]

Isnt e-commerce the future anyway?

What I want to know is why we act like black people dont start businesses. Like black people arent educated. Both of my parents have grad education and their own business (law firm/consulting). Poor black people dont start businesses. Poor black people dont embrace capitalism. Poor black people lack education. At the end of the day only 27 percent of blacks are poor, and as far as im concerned relative to what we started with that number is nowhere near as bad as it is portrayed to be.

At the end of the day you as an individual are either gonna do or you won't. I love black people, but this notion that the successful and intelligent among us are somehow obligated to act as if our 'community' is in strife is ridiculous. Brown vs the board, the civil rights act, and the voting rights act () got rid of the black community and integrated it into the poor community. Social media has brought back the conception of a 'black community' in which those of us who are intelligent and successful are not portrayed. Social media was horrible for race relation, but more than anything promoted the completely bullshyt 'black people aint shyt movement'. This movement made it so idiots on social media, wshh, and these 'rappers' became our voice and image.

If im on section 8 and do not have any family wealth, I can not start a business. It aint happening. Black people do have a problem, and that problem is we dont own anything. 99 percent of the privatr assets in this country are owned by asians and whites. That is a problem. However, before we get on black people about it why dont we think for a second. The richest of the rich own basically everything, and only bob johnson and oprah are black billionaires.

So congrats white people, you own more than blacks. Oh wait, 99 percent of you reltively 'aint got shyt' either. There are levels to this shyt. All we can do as people is get more education and buy more assets. The problem with this world is not everyone is in position to do that. And we have a system that aims more than anything to make it difficult to lift yourself above this position.

There was some shyt I had to get out

 

[Chris.B]

most black people have been bred by the liberal establishment to be lazy bums who can't think for themselves.

 

[Bud Bundy]

most black people have been bred by the liberal establishment to be lazy bums who can't think for themselves.

and how far were black people getting when they were voting republican? Ahh separate but equal.

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

most black people have been bred by the liberal establishment to be lazy bums who can't think for themselves.

Agreed, I've been saying this for the longest that the Left is hendering black people, but that is for another thread, i dont want to derail this one.