A non-reparations or bust Black (ADOS) agenda

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

WTF.

You are dead wrong!!!



VOR is correct. It's about having capital and access to capital.
Hearts and minds are not the reasons Black folks have little wealth.

I don't think its a coincidence theres so many "rags to riches" stories for white people, and so few for black people. The perception of quality, networking, and access does things that "investment" can't

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

You don't know what you are talking about.


It all comes down to the lack of capital.


On the local level the lack of capital leads zoning problems, what types of homes and building that can be built in what areas, etc.


It's cycle of poverty.

I didn't say money didn't help.

I'm saying that I don't think money is the exclusive resolution its made to be

 

[OfTheCross]

I don't think its a coincidence theres so many "rags to riches" stories for white people, and so few for black people. The perception of quality, networking, and access does things that "investment" can't

Nah. Pretty much any Black person with money is rags to riches. They all have stories we just don't have movies about it

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Nah. Pretty much any Black person with money is rags to riches. They all have stories we just don't have movies about it

I guess we're playing dumb here.

Got it.

 

[saturn7]

I don't think its a coincidence theres so many "rags to riches" stories for white people, and so few for black people. The perception of quality, networking, and access does things that "investment" can't

"The perception of quality, networking, and access does things that "investment" can't".

It's not rags to riches for white folks. It's having the capital and the networks like you said.
Many rich whites folks came from money, or had access to things the average American didn't have that gave them competitive advantages at crucial times.

Zuckerberg got like a 30K loan from his dad for something that was far from a sure thing. How many Black parents can give their children 30K for a longshot business venture and not sweat that money?

A young Bill Gates had access to computers at a time when they were far out of reach for the average American. Elon Musk's family already had wealth before he invested in paypal.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

"The perception of quality, networking, and access does things that "investment" can't".

It's not rags to riches for white folks. It's having the capital and the networks like you said.
Many rich whites folks came from money, or had access to things the average American didn't have that gave them competitive advantages at crucial times.

Zuckerberg got like a 30K loan from his dad for something that was far from a sure thing. How many Black parents can give their children 30K for a longshot business venture and not sweat that money?

A young Bill Gates had access to computers at a time when they were far out of reach for the average American. Elon Musk's family already had wealth before he invested in paypal.

Stop being so emotional. You picked the lowest hanging argument which still proves my point. Money will help. Then you will be surprised how little said money helps black wealth if there’s no ingrained network to make it valuable. We truly have to do more than dollar signs. We have to create social infrastructures that offer multipliers of value beyond money itself.

The money isn't 'the issue. Its the political freedom, its the press, its the benefit of doubt, its the marketing, its the strategy. Its everything that people sacrifice to invest to create successful entities, not just the money.

A black owner of Facebook would never have been given as much runway to do what it has done to society as Zuckerberg has.