i agree with everything you say, but ma and pa shops are the staple of every community. we should support them, and we actually need more. i dont know of too many black owned corner stores. and these people are sending their kids to college, sending money home, etc with the money earned at these shops.
No one is saying for you not to invest in ma and pa shops, but they should NOT be the main focus. To be honest most young blacks my age would try to get their bachelors and make more than ma and pa shop owners. I'm essentially saying is that black people should go for bigger standards. To me this need for more ma and pa shops seems to stem from ego or trying to feel better and be like the "other" minorities who have ma and pa shops in their communities. Seriously this is annoying and overrated. There are PLENTY of black owned ma and pa shops. I don't know why blacks around the net feel like black owned business in general is such a rare thing...
In my area there is a town called "Hillcrest" which used to be apart of my town. Its majority black(more so than my town which has a large Hispanic population) and there are a lot of black owned ma and pa shops around. Especially this small market which everyone in the town goes to. Hell in my own town there is a TON of Haitian owned restaurant. But anyways the black owned ma and pa shops in Hillcrest and my town are nothing home to write about. So again I don't understand why people act like ma and pa shops are so rare.
What black people need is to get into more financial based careers(that can be our new skill or "niche") and keep doing this, creating more black owned banks and blacks supporting these banks. Ma and Pa shops are "nice" on a small level(they still are not exempt from gentrification and distributors can stop supplying them), but I want to think BIG TIME for blacks. Enough of this small time talking. What the people in Atlanta are doing is BIG TIME, and when I mean big time I mean like
@CashmereEsquire once stated competing globally, opening banks(like what the blacks in the article are doing), acquiring skills to compete globally, building Infrastructure like schools, creating global companies, etc.
I'm not trying to trash ma and pa shops or say blacks should not invest them, but I just wanna get us away from all this small time talk.
but you're right. we built this country. we should be far ahead of any asian group.
Thanks.
But Asians did not face white supremacy like us and second those rich Asians we see are due to them already having a financial base back home. I know this because an Indian himself told. This is why I say it is unrealistic for blacks to emulate Asians and their Chinatown.
The comments section in that article. I've notice any comments section that uses Facebook comments is automatically trash.
Its wack if its not Black...
now's the time...
