Why Black People Are At The Bottom?

[theworldismine13]

"Indians and Asians are opening hair stores and restaurants in the hood. Black people should be doing that" Is the narative of the op and plenty of people on this site. Those types of businesses are not what's leading people to prosperity in 2013

and black people should do that, those types of business build wealth and they allow you to put your kids through college

if OP was saying that we should exclusively focus on hair stores and restaurants then that is wrong, but hair stores and restaurant are things black people need to get into to build their wealth

i think your problem is that you dont differentiate between wealth and cash, only if you conflate wealth with cash does anything you are saying make sense

sounds like the black people in America up until very recently.

yeah except that in brazil it was most of the country that was denied individual and economic rights, in the us it was only blacks and native americans that were denied rights

Cotton, Tabaco, and other agriculture is what America built wealth on. Agriculture is very difficult in a rainforest environment.

i dont think you know anything about agriculture or abouthistory, the fact that it was a rainforest environment meant the land was better for agriculture than the US

and why do you think most slaves went to brazil? it was for cotton and tobacco

if this was about slave labor and marketable resources then brazil would be ahead of the us

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

This same effect can be achieved through employment with much less risk.


A very limited one. Which is why people always move on.


100k won't get you two homes and two cars. And if your entire family is living in poverty that's no different than a single mother of one working at wall mart living in poverty.

Not where I stay. This is easily doable in the south. I think a lot of cats are caught up in an image where if their house aint 200k, its not worth living in....

This is a mindset that only benefits a select few...

You can rent out 2 spots for 700-800 dollars a month in decent areas and cop you 2 decent rides for about 12k........

Don't know how yall spend yall money, but where I stay, you can stretch a dollar a long way.

If you just gotta have a 6 dollar latte every day and rock Tom Ford, Gucci, Armani suits, etc, then that's different..

However, you can live comfortably in this part of the south

 

[MeachTheMonster]

and black people should do that, those types of business build wealth and they allow you to put your kids through college

if OP was saying that we should exclusively focus on hair stores and restaurants then that is wrong, but hair stores and restaurant are things black people need to get into to build their wealth

i think your problem is that you dont differentiate between wealth and cash, only if you conflate wealth with cash does anything you are saying make sense

Corner stores and restaurants wont close the wealth gap. Those are the types of businesses we already own, which is why the wealth gap is so large. Our businesses make less money because they are too limited to local communities

i dont think you know anything about agriculture or abouthistory, the fact that it was a rainforest environment meant the land was better for agriculture than the US

and why do you think most slaves went to brazil? it was for cotton and tobacco

if this was about slave labor and marketable resources then brazil would be ahead of the us

Rainforest soil is horrible for agriculture which is why rainforest societies have never been able to grow and become very powerful. Go read up on it. You can't maintain large yield foods or livestock in the rainforest

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

We don't own hair or food growers/distributors either. So where do we get investors for those businesses?

Are you serious? We control the demand for a product yet we can't force a way in with the distributors.

If black woman decided that they would only purchase from other black hair stores, you think major distributors would leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table because fellow asians are left out on the retailing side?

 

[theworldismine13]

Your entire premise is backwards thinking. On one hand you compare black prosperity/wealth to white people. Then when it comes to solutions white people shouldn't be a part of the equation. That's just not making sense. White people build and maintain their wealth through education and investments not opening corner stores in the hood. At the head of all of those "small businesses" that drive the economy is a dude with a lot of money, education or both.

i dont even understand what you mean, but white people and other groups build their wealth in a lot of ways and one of those ways is opening up business in the hood including mom and pop stores like hair stores and restaurants, to convenience stores, gas stations, real estate

the most disgusting example of this is the club where black people spend a huge amount of money in a disgusting transfer of wealth to other communities usually white

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Corner stores and restaurants wont close the wealth gap. Those are the types of businesses we already own, which is why the wealth gap is so large. Our businesses make less money because they are too limited to local communities


Rainforest soil is horrible for agriculture which is why rainforest societies have never been able to grow and become very powerful. Go read up on it. You can't maintain large yield foods or livestock in the rainforest

I bet you own a zune instead of an ipod

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Not where I stay. This is easily doable in the south. I think a lot of cats are caught up in an image where if their house aint 200k, its not worth living in....

This is a mindset that only benefits a select few...

You can rent out 2 spots for 700-800 dollars a month in decent areas and cop you 2 decent rides for about 12k........

Don't know how yall spend yall money, but where I stay, you can stretch a dollar a long way.

If you just gotta have a 6 dollar latte every day and rock Tom Ford, Gucci, Armani suits, etc, then that's different..

However, you can live comfortably in this part of the south

I never said you need lattes and $200k homes. I'm just saying a family of 10 living off 100k are living in about the same conditions as a family of two making $20k

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

and black people should do that, those types of business build wealth and they allow you to put your kids through college

if OP was saying that we should exclusively focus on hair stores and restaurants then that is wrong, but hair stores and restaurant are things black people need to get into to build their wealth

i think your problem is that you dont differentiate between wealth and cash, only if you conflate wealth with cash does anything you are saying make sense



yeah except that in brazil it was most of the country that was denied individual and economic rights, in the us it was only blacks and native americans that were denied rights



i dont think you know anything about agriculture or abouthistory, the fact that it was a rainforest environment meant the land was better for agriculture than the US

and why do you think most slaves went to brazil? it was for cotton and tobacco

if this was about slave labor and marketable resources then brazil would be ahead of the us

im an honorary Brazilian lol (moving there in a couple months) and i can tell u their corrupt government and overall disorganized business practices have delayed their economic prosperity...its kind of a well known secret that Northern Europeans that colonized the US and Canada were more organized and business savvy than the Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America...Brazil made a lot of money exporting sugar during slavery

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I bet you own a zune instead of an ipod

I'm typing this on an iphone

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I never said you need lattes and $200k homes. I'm just saying a family of 10 living off 100k are living in about the same conditions as a family of two making $20k

Absolutely, positively, incorrect.....But say what you must........

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Are you serious? We control the demand for a product yet we can't force a way in with the distributors.

If black woman decided that they would only purchase from other black hair stores, you think major distributors would leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table because fellow asians are left out on the retailing side?

Why can't this same plan be followed for other industries?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Why can't this same plan be followed for other industries?

What tech industries do black people control exclusively

 

[theworldismine13]

Corner stores and restaurants wont close the wealth gap. Those are the types of businesses we already own, which is why the wealth gap is so large. Our businesses make less money because they are too limited to local communities

Corner stores and restaurants wont close the wealth gap. Those are the types of businesses we already own, which is why the wealth gap is so large. Our businesses make less money because they are too limited to local communities

i didnt say it would close the wealth gap, what i said is that it is PART of the reason for the wealth gap, the other part is education, and black people can use corner stores and restaurants to build wealth and send their kids to college

i think your problem is that you dont even understand what wealth is, you think wealth is how much cash you have or how much money you have in your bank account

a hair store or restaurant is wealth, its actually a healthy amount of wealth

Rainforest soil is horrible for agriculture which is why rainforest societies have never been able to grow and become very powerful. Go read up on it. You can't maintain large yield foods or livestock in the rainforest

no its not horrible for agriculture, its better for agriculture, you dont know what the hell you are talking about and the majority of african slaves went to brazil to farm cotton and tobacco, apparently you were not aware of this

 

[Data-Hawk]

You say that like its an easy thing. We don't even own the retail stores that sell products that are exclusively purchased by blacks, but yet somehow we're gonna find the connects that allows venture capitalists to invest one of our tech startups?

This is grandiose thinking and there is nothing wrong with that because its definitely possible without question, but I think the premise in here was owning businesses in the community so that we can circulate that money\wealth back into our own neighborhoods....

Who said you need a venture cap. to do any of that? most startup tech companies start with an idea, they work on the idea( usually in their spare time) once it starts gaining interest then they seek funding. This is how tech companies differ from other businesses. Alot of companies are starting just because of the boom of smartphones and the app stores.

VC arent giving out money to ideas. Theres a good video interview with the guy who created instagram and how they didnt have any funding at first, google started in their garage, apple same place. The guy who made minecraft he worked on the game in his spare time( made 100mil last yr ). The tech field is different because all you need is the skills, good idea and give up your spare time.The server this site is probably running on started out as a college project Of course im picking out extreme cases but we done need to be as successful either.

Once im done with my game ,its going on the app stores. That'll be the start of my company. The cost? $99 apple license, maybe $200 in books and my spare time. Even if the product made $2 lol Its a tech company owned by a black man.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

What tech industries do black people control exclusively

We don't control hair industries exclusively.