[INTERVIEW] Visionary Darial Clewis Has Established An Online Community For US Called BLAQSPOT

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This thread about Blaqspot a REAL app that REAL people support not no self hating ass weirdo that don't have shyt to show anybody but has the neve to hate on Black media cause he a bootlick.
 
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I hope breh succeeds but folks gotta understand crowd funding is not a business model. That video was painful. Every black business can't be run as a charity and expect black folks to donate to keep them in business.
It takes money to push forward though. All of the facebooks and twitters have investors with big bucks behind them. That’s what the black community needs to understand. To grow you will need money to fund expansion. Most people cannot afford to work for free.
 

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I created an account, but that shyt was dead as hell..........plus I heard he sold it or some shyt like that.......
 

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I don't know how I missed this video Interview with Darial Clewis by Bitter Truth.:whoo: He interviewed Darial Clewis on March 31st 2018. About 2 weeks ago. Answering questions and all that!:myman:
 

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Sorry, I kind of cant.

I used to...but then I saw failure after failure after failure of this exact same business model and I began to wonder whether or not creating a race-specific closed social network is the way to go about doing this

Sure, I'm being critical, but thats because these networks have come and gone without taking off and things are starting to seem a little contrived

Sorry to come in here and ruin the circlejerk, I'm just tired of seeing the same old black owned ______ for black people with the word "black" in the name.

Do better, involve everyone and be creative. This shyt is played out

Well thats because of defeatist sentiment like the one you have right now:martin:

The man even spells it out in his interview,and its funny because I was discussing it earlier in that Starbucks thread when it comes to black business.



Darial Clewis: Well, I think the biggest challenge we had was with black apathy. Typically, unfortunately, our people want everything to already be built. I like that you brought it up because Blackplanet was one of my inspirations when we built Blaqspot 3.0. I remember when I was on Blackplanet, I used to love the chat rooms on there. The ability to talk to people all over the world. Let me give you just a little bit of information here. Facebook, actually took Blackplanet’s U.I., their layout and that’s how they got started. And really built it up. But the challenge for black media is always black apathy. The idea that our people are so used to people who classify themselves as white building everything and then allowing “us” in. When it comes down to the point where it’s time to build for ourselves, people are like “Oh, I don’t know”. Or “It doesn’t have this, it doesn’t have that.” It is what it is, but at the end of the day, whether it’s Facebook, ABC, Fox News, Wal-Mart, whateve, none of those are black owned companies. They weren’t built for you. You’re just allowed to buy there, shop there, or do whatever. But when you go too far and your usefulness runs out, the door will be slammed one at a time. That’s why it’s important that we as black people go for power and build our own.

Parlé Mag: You’re absolutely right. Why do you think that mentality is still there? In any profession, you have black people that are successful. They are natural powerhouses in so many ways, yet that mentality is still present. Like you previously stated there’s the lack of black apathy—”if it hasn’t already been established, I don’t want to be apart of it yet.”
 
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