If we can change from black on black crime to black on black spending, stuff will improve quickly. Just like other groups. And its not like we haven't done that before. When we had our own black business districts, they were quality. I think pre Civil Rights, Durham NC black bus service was so good at one time, the white folks used it and it expanded to their areas.
Tulsa's black businesses were better than the ones comparatively in the white part of town. We know how to when we put our minds to it. Aliko Dangote, the world's richest black man runs very efficient businesses from his office in Nigeria.
Slowly by slowly we are getting there. The frustrating thing is we are sitting on multi billion dollar industries that are going unrealized simply from black crab syndrome and lack of too many off code.
Sisters are sitting on a 10 billion dollar black hair care market. No telling how many millionaires and billionaires we could have out of that.
Hip hop music industry is a 2.7 billion dollar industry and about 27% of all music sales. The original founders of the music labels sold out to the white folks. We should have had the same mindset as the Jews who left the east coast to make movies in California that got us MGM, 20th Century Fox, etc. and kept it 'in the family' for decades and still are prominent. Looking for white validation has never been profitable. Movies is a no brainer and it just makes sad seeing us beg for movies to be made or parts in movies. Movies, music and black hair care are the easiest to make our own. I'm talking vertically from production to consumer.
We could have had at least 3-6 black owned Negro league teams incorporated into the MLB had we held firm and not give them any players. The Pittsburgh Crawdads at one time was making more money and bringing in more fans than the Pittsburgh Pirates. The ABA was smart and held out and now a lot of them are now NBA teams (Jazz, Clippers, Spurs, Nuggets). AFL the same. KC Monarchs, and other cities that didn't have a MLB team would have eventually been invited into MLB with their black owners.
Anyway, I digress. Now that gentrification is eroding our areas, we can get away from 'brick and mortar' business somewhat and build new black wall streets online.
