Indians used Affirmative Action programs to own half the motels/gas stations in America

[CoryMack]

When was the last time you heard of a black person being interested in owning a gas station? Those things weren’t being given to Indians, they took the initiative. Any time something pops up that’s for minorities, all I see are huffs and puffs about it not being only for black people, as if we aren’t eligible to apply. You have to apply. Other black people who applied for stuff, got their money, and opened businesses.

a gas station isn't something one aspires to own. that's unless you're taught the value in them.

right hand to God, i was in east austin some years ago and went into this little hood gas station by my cousin's crib and a Brother owned it. he said he hit a scratch off for something like 30,000 and the first thing he said he did was buy the gas station he'd been going to all his life and where he bought the winning ticket at.

myself, i've never thought of owning a gas station. then i looked around at all the different shyt he had in there and i saw the possibilities.

we don't know what kinda info immigrants are given when they come here and get into these programs, but i don't believe they have anymore "initiative" than anyone else. and i don't think they're just randomly coming over here and on their own volition deciding that gas stations, fried chicken spots, and now the legal smoke shops are what they've decided to dominate.

before them it was the koreans, then the arabs, then the mexicans being brought into our communities and set up to succeed.

 

[Blessings]

Not talked about enough but Tariq and white supremacists have made black Caribbeans/Africans/across the diaspora the boogeyman smh.

 

[Easy-E]

This is why I at ppl who are anti reparations because "we need to work harder."

Asians own everything in our neighborhoods because of similar programs.

We should be competing for Govt programs but Trump closing shut down and y'all was too p*ssy to demand anything of Biden or Obama.

 

[UpNext]

This is not true at all. There are a wealthy minority who come here with money to go to school and fukk around and what not. As an immigrant, I can tell you elite people don’t uproot their families to migrate to foreign lands. They are comfortable where they are.

And it’s not that they are smarter than anyone, it’s that they are willing to work like indentured servants, live 10 to an apartment, delay gratification etc. Also owning a business or trying to outdo other Indians for bragging rights is like a religion to them. Kenyans are not even as intense as Indians, but I can tell you when FOB parents get together, they lowkey be trying to flex on each other on their kids accomplishments. What school they got into, what careers etc.

This hyper competition and drive is not even fukking healthy as most 1st generation immigrants will tell you, but it is fuel for the fire.

As someone who actually went to a top 5 computer science school and worked for multiple trillion dollar tech firms, you're capping then a mf, have no idea what or who you're talking about and clearly are nowhere near the circles this conversation is about.


Dude really over here tryna tell us DuckTales about how "owning a business or trying to outdo other Indians for bragging rights is like a religion to them" like this is behavior observed in middle class and below people and not some elite shyt.

He really about to pretend average Rajesh is bragging about how much money his business in a foreign country is caking to average Sandeep.

This dude has no idea at all about what he's talking about and is just piping up because he's an immigrant and he think that Kenyan flag gives him some kind of authority on Indians.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Not talked about enough but Tariq and white supremacists have made black Caribbeans/Africans/across the diaspora the boogeyman smh.

Y'all have ate off our civil rights struggle as well.

We still need to delineate.

These programs should have primarily went to FBA/ADOS people and that did not happen.

 

[Robbie3000]

As someone who actually went to a top 5 computer science school and worked for multiple trillion dollar tech firms, you're capping then a mf, have no idea what or who you're talking about and clearly are nowhere near the circles this conversation is about.


Dude really over here tryna tell us DuckTales about how "owning a business or trying to outdo other Indians for bragging rights is like a religion to them" like this is behavior observed in middle class and below people and not some elite shyt.

He really about to pretend average Rajesh is bragging about how much money his business in a foreign country is caking to average Sandeep.

This dude has no idea at all about what he's talking about and is just piping up because he's an immigrant and he think that Kenyan flag gives him some kind of authority on Indians.

Yeah elite Indians leave their country to work at gas stations like indentured servants in the hopes that one day they can own a Chevron in the hood or a Subway in rural America.

Elite people do not make up the MAJORITY of immigrants in any community in history. Even the European colonizers and later migrants were largely made up of the poor and oppressed of Europe.

 

[Voice of Reason]

The “ADOS” to Maga transformation is reaching final form

Like you can’t be fukking serious Really?!?! Affirmative action has been in place for 50 fukking years There’s FAFSA, small business loans, woman-based programs, there’s an entire department of Housing and URBAN Development. Like you cannot be fukking serious. Y’all mfers are embarrassing

What the fukk is this emotional out burst immigrants did benefit from "minority" grants and loans.

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[5n0man]

So this is a bad thing? Minority owned business?

These people establish themselves using government funded programs then turn republican and vote to remove those programs.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Notice that the tethers are in here defending Indians eating off of "minority" grants and loans.


Immigrants stick together.

 

[5n0man]

But the thing is, it's not like there are loans and grants specifically for Indians. The same loans and grants tgey get, black folk can get. So why the h3ll we mad at them?

Black people were historically denied those loans while asians, Arabs, and Indians got them and set up shop in our neighborhoods.


These people were already established for generations before we were able to get the same opportunities.

 

[Robbie3000]

Notice that the tethers are in here defending Indians eating off of "minority" grants and loans.


Immigrants stick together.

Nope. I’m just saying they are really good at capitalism. The have cultural norms, some positive (hard work, hyper competitive, group economics, mercantile tradition) and some negative (cutting corners, poor quality, hyper competitive) that allow them to be successful as a group in a capitalist society. Outside of India anyway. They can’t get it right in India.

They are even successful in majority black nations like a Kenya and the Caribbean. They beginning to far outpace whites in white nations like U.S and U.K.

Instead of hating, we should be looking critically at what they got right and what they got wrong and make adjustments instead of crying about loans that were open to everybody.

 

[Dzali OG]

so you think that for the last 50 or so years that Black people in those communities didn't apply for those grants?

what do you think Rev. Jackson was talking about? and who's mad at indians?

Apparently we haven't. Proof? How many brehs you know wanted such businesses? We used to have those businesses in our families, but the kids (me and later generations) didn't want to keep or do that. We wanted to rap, play ball, or hustle.

FBAs are mad at immigrants for getting these loans and grants and leveling up. Then we make it seem like these benefits are exclusive to them.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Nope. I’m just saying they are really good at capitalism. The have cultural norms, some positive (hard work, hyper competitive, group economics, mercantile tradition) and some negative (cutting corners, poor quality, hyper competitive) that allow them to be successful as a group in a capitalist society. Outside of India anyway. They can’t get it right in India.

They are even successful in majority black nations like a Kenya and the Caribbean. They beginning to far outpace whites in white nations like U.S and U.K.

Instead of hating, we should be looking critically at what they got right and what they got wrong and make adjustments instead of crying about loans that were open to everybody.

There is no “we” you look out for your folks and we will look out for ours.

 

[Dzali OG]

Black people were historically denied those loans while asians, Arabs, and Indians got them and set up shop in our neighborhoods.


These people were already established for generations before we were able to get the same opportunities.

I'd have to look that up, but what I learned from being in the business loan industry is, contrary to urban legend immigrants aren't given any special loans that black people can't get. Actually we have access to more.

The real problem was no one told us we could apply and then inform us how.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Most Indians that own these businesses were already upper middle class/wealthy elites and very well connected to other upper middle class/wealthy elites in their country.


There are more upper middle class and wealthy elite Indians than there are ADOS of any class.


Comparisons and asking why can't we when they can are stupid. Just like the fact that wealthy elites of other countries are allowed to have so much influence over industries in this one. This shouldn't even be possible and does nothing to contribute to the overall health of this country and its citizens.

This is spot on the guy went to Stanford and already had connections how else you crowdfund 2.8 mill in 1988