When building your business means hiding that it's black-owned

[Sean312]

Damn thats sad.

It fcked me up low key, and she was decent. Nice looking chick. What can you do though.

 

[philmonroe]

This is 100% truth unless you have a business that caters to black customer base. What Tristan Walker and Tariq are doing for instance.

Now if you become successfull white people will come running because it gets them cool points.

The reverse is also true black people think black business owners are scammers or 2nd rate so they bypass them to spend their money outside the community. The white man ice is colder.

Black people also have to get out of the restaurant/beauty salon/barber habit. Those are very limited thinking businesses and also extremely hard to scale up. Any business that you have babysit during business hours is hard to expand.

I agree with you outside the barbershop business stuff. Do you have a business? If so maybe its not a barbershop cause you can't cut hair but if you can why not do that. Never get how black people want you not doing something your good at because it can't scale up. Everybody ain't trying to be fukking Bill Gates. Most people aren't that's why the fukk they at a regular job with no plans of leaving so if these cats wanna do that cool. Let those who want the other types of businesses do that but one that don't let them have their own things too esp if you yourself don't even have a business.

 

[Will Ross]

We all know that Blacks don't like buying from other Black folks
We get hit with all types of excuses but we won't blink an eye buying from the White man
So yea, some of us don't reveal we're Black-owned to remain profitable
You can't blame them because I think this is a whole community/culture issue in general

Bullshyt it's other groups that don't like buying from us. Dudes always saying this clown ass shyt when its not true.

 

[Soundbwoy]

it's sad it has to be this way

 

[philmonroe]

We all know that Blacks don't like buying from other Black folks
We get hit with all types of excuses but we won't blink an eye buying from the White man
So yea, some of us don't reveal we're Black-owned to remain profitable
You can't blame them because I think this is a whole community/culture issue in general

Don't do this wack ass bullshyt cause aren't you black? So stop that weak shyt. Hate when people do that like they aren't apart of the same fukking group trying to make themselves feel better. Blacks do buy from blacks all the time.

 

[SadimirPutin]

I dont doubt this at all

And I know it must be especially so as a black tech entrepeneur in silicon valley

 

[David_TheMan]

Read the book, "The Business of Black Power" it details how and why capitalism fails black people and is only made for the top 1 percent of the nation; it shows how blacks have tried throughout history to embrace capitalism and support black businesses for decades, but it failed because capitalism DOES NOT ALLOW too many players on the field...plus we are community people and capitalism inherently creates top down systems where the majority will always be working class and poor people still pushing for Black capitalism are either ignorant to how capitalism works and Black history or they don't want to believe that they live a system that ONLY works if the majority of people in the system have absolutely no chance of economic mobility. Its like the children who don't wanna believe there is no Santa; sad thing is, so many books are out there that show this and how the system works, yet people refuse to pick them up; I believe its the latter reason.

You are wrong about capitaliism not allowing too many players. It actually does, its crony capitalism and socialist leanings of market interventionist that force anyone out of the market.
You seem ignorant as to what capitalism is though, compounded by your demonstrated ignorance of black economic success in this country from its inception through civil war, to 1960s, and up to today.
That you even have a black capitalist success in this thread, but ignore that because of your general devotion to socialist methods tells me all I need to know.

That said send me the author and title and I'll give it a review.

 

[MaxBundles]

"As soon as you say it's black-owned, white people will believe it's only for black people, and black people will look for something wrong with it."

The sad reality of things. Hate to say it, but it's true

 

[Fatboi1]

Sad reality but that's the truth. When I did something online like sell stuff or put up ads for a service, I'd not put my picture or anything up. I'd hope they reach out to me and then once I"m there have no choice but to finish. I learned that on Craiglist people would try to skip business with black hands around the product.

Don't nobody gotta know who you are. Just do your shyt, sprinkle some white folks into your advertisement to look "legitimate" and broad and make money.

 

[At30wecashout]

Its along the same lines and installing some puppet slicktalker because you, the owner, cant speak "bullshyt" as well.

If you trying to get that bread and not make a social statement, it is par for the course to give the intended audience what they are comfortable with in order to get them to play ball. It only sucks if you are pulling that same principle off just to get your own people to spend

 

[Drake is God]

You are wrong about capitaliism not allowing too many players. It actually does, its crony capitalism and socialist leanings of market interventionist that force anyone out of the market.
You seem ignorant as to what capitalism is though, compounded by your demonstrated ignorance of black economic success in this country from its inception through civil war, to 1960s, and up to today.
That you even have a black capitalist success in this thread, but ignore that because of your general devotion to socialist methods tells me all I need to know.

That said send me the author and title and I'll give it a review.

The evidence is throughout history...every time blacks attempt group capitalism, it is restrictive due to white interference...if not, it fails...the only time black capitalism has survived for long periods is if its individual so that blacks are not allowed to build a solid agency base...people who don't see this by now are sorely lost in this systemic hegemony...it doesn't work because the capitalist system, built on racist slave labor, is made to work like that.

Your Ayn Rand libertarian viewpoints do not work for black people.

Read these books.

 

[MrPentatonic]

im doing this now

got my asian homey as the face. It's really a reverse of what they do to us. Use black people even tho it's white owned.

Just like the rap industry lol.

I used to bring my white friend to meetings with club owners because I knew negotiations would go slightly in my favor by doing this.

Use their tactics to get their money,

 

[Doomsday]

55% is way too low. 100% of blacks should be down to support their own.

 

[agnosticlady]

This is done all the time. Many "black looking" hair products are owned by whites. Forever 21 is owned by Asians but has mostly white faces. I'm reserving my spot to read through this.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Every race does this. It's sad but it works.

Ex. Popeye's hires a Black woman for their advertisements and it makes you think that the company is Black owned.