Patronizing only businesses owned by people of a certain race.

[Drake Tungsten]

I only patronize Arab delis. The ****ing Latino bodegas are such ****...

[Ben Kenobi]

Betting five bucks that, ignoring publicly traded companies, nobody in this thread has bought anything from a black-owned enterprise in a month

I've bought from a Filipina owned just the other day. Chinese, and Japanese too.

Can't say I've bought from a black owned business since November. They have a Jamaican restaurant downtown. I think where I live is something like 1-2 percent black.

[BlackCat]

Dude, this is Baltimore. He'd just shoot my ass.

That's unfair - can't you call in help from the RCMP's ?

[Wezil]

That's unfair - can't you call in help from the RCMP's ?

Why? They like to taser drunken immigrants. The RCMP are the last people KH wants to see.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm not an immigrant.

[-Jrabbit]

"Patronizing" is such an appropriate term here.

[BlackCat]

I'm not an immigrant.

Maybe not, but you match the drunk part

Edit: actually, an RCMP stumbling upon you in yankystan may consider you as an immigrant.

[Wezil]

I'm not an immigrant.

Doesn't matter. They wouldn't wait long enough to find out.

[Dr Strangelove]

I have no problem with a "buy black" movement. Black communities could use the boost and they're a relative minority.

Lynchburg used to have one black doctor, a woman named El Dorado Johnson. Her claim to fame was that she was a close relative of Arthur Ash. As she grew older and became unable to practice she sought to find a black replacement, but the local health corporation offered to build a big clinic with her name on it to serve the community. Please note that at no time when she was actively practicing did they offer to build a big clinic for her to run. A clinic was built her name was put on it one black doctor was hired - out of the whole staff and with a white doctor in charge. Dr. Johnson died, the black doctor was eventually let go. Now there are no black doctors in the area - just a clinic with the name of a dead black doctor on it. Nice, eh?

Black communities can use all the help they can get when you consider what they're up against.

[mrmitchell]

I have no problem with a "buy black" movement. Black communities could use the boost and they're a relative minority.

Lynchburg used to have one black doctor, a woman named El Dorado Johnson. Her claim to fame was that she was a close relative of Arthur Ash. As she grew older and became unable to practice she sought to find a black replacement, but the local health corporation offered to build a big clinic with her name on it to serve the community. Please note that at no time when she was actively practicing did they offer to build a big clinic for her to run. A clinic was built her name was put on it one black doctor was hired - out of the whole staff and with a white doctor in charge. Dr. Johnson died, the black doctor was eventually let go. Now there are no black doctors in the area - just a clinic with the name of a dead black doctor on it. Nice, eh?

Black communities can use all the help they can get when you consider what they're up against.

This man gets America

[Drake Tungsten]

Now there are no black doctors in the area - just a clinic with the name of a dead black doctor on it. Nice, eh?

Who cares? Does it really matter what color your doctor is?

[KrazyHorse]

Mitchie

No, he does not. The idea that a minority group should form a closed, self-sufficient community is a surefire way to guarantee that minority group's continued poverty. Economic integration with the larger society surrounding them is the quickest, surest road to wealth for the group as a whole. The gains from trade apply not only to commerce between nations but also to commerce between communities, ethnic groups etc.

If anything, the black community in the US has suffered for far too long from separateness. Not from too much reliance on non-black provided goods and services.

Trade, communication, growth
Separateness, "self-reliance", stagnation

[Imran Siddiqui]

Endorsing ghetto-ization is in no one's real interest.

[mrmitchell]

Now there are no black doctors in the area - just a clinic with the name of a dead black doctor on it. Nice, eh?

Who cares? Does it really matter what color your doctor is?

The question you should ask yourself is why black people aren't choosing to be doctors

The answer is systemic segregation, poverty along racial boundaries, bootstraps economics, failed schools, negative images in popular culture, and the utter lack of hope prevalent in parts of America

[mrmitchell]

The point isn't separatism or ghettoization, the point is that these people are making a conscious and free decision to try to funnel their own capital and consumption to an underprivileged group. How can anyone think that is a bad thing?