Peace To All,
Nearly every other ethnic group has taken turns exploiting the Black community. Some of us are old enough to have seen the stores in our communities go from Jewish-owned, to Asian-owned to Arab-owned. They all come to the U.S. and go straight to the ghetto to get rich off of the same “poor” Black communities that folks are supposed to feel sorry for. What they are doing is not illegal, it’s just that you can’t set up shop in their neighborhoods and expect to the same thing to happen.
There’s never been a lack of dollars coming into in our communities. The problem is what we do with all that money once it reaches our hands. We truly are the sleeping giants. We don’t know our own economic, political, cultural or spiritual power. Oh, but whenever we wake up! What a day it will be!
To Black consumers I ask the following questions:
1. Do you support Black businesses?
2. Do you go out of your way, to do the homework and find them?
3. When you get great goods or services from a Black business do you tell everybody?
4. When you are not satisfied with a product or service an owner of a Black business provides (whether in-person or online), do you give him or her the opportunity to fix what is wrong first...like you would do with white businesses?
5. When you are patronizing a Black business, do you pay for what you get instead of going in expecting or demanding a discount just because you are Black like them?
6. Do you give some extra if you are able?
7. Do you help spread the word about a Black-owned business though Facebook, Twitter, or other media outlets?
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 4:49PM
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