BmoreGorilla
Veteran
Tbh I see way more black businesses now than when I was a kid. We're just now realizing the importance of group economics and much of that comes from seeing how foreigners do it. Only difference is foreigners have no choice due to cultural and language barriers. We had no choice at one point either but integration ended that.when I was a kid, I remember seeing businesses all up the roads. All kinds of restaurants, clothing stores, dry cleaning places. Stores my grandmother worked at when she was my age. Now they are all gone, because the black men who owned them sold the businesses and left. To me its there generation that caused the most damage because they left nothing to past down to us, which is the only reason whites are ahead. they have old money. And not only that, they gave us that same old turn the other cheek keep working hard, dont give the police a reason attitude, that has gotten me fcked up in life. I use to apply at every gamestop in the city, and wondered why I never got called for a interview not even once. My grandmother use to tell me * claim that job, keep trying * I didnt find out until a few years ago that I never got in because the gamestops were in the mexican and white neighborhoods, and they only hired... MEXICANS AND WHITES. Even until this day. We need reality from our elders in the community, and they failed us. imo
If it wasn't for generations before us we wouldn't even be able to get on this forum and discuss this shyt. If they had done what some of you say they should've done we wouldn't even be here right now
You gotta understand the mentality. Older generations were conditioned to believe black was inferior so of course once they were granted access to white shyt they took it. It says a lot that it was considered progress just to be able to say I'm black and proud