"Buying black" (Baltimore, Parkville: transplants, neighborhoods, schools)

[sittilove]

One of the best ways to help a struggling city like Baltimore is to support black-owned businesses, basically, supporting those local small businesses run by entrepreneurs within or connected to those same areas of Baltimore that many of us view as "eye sores" that they'd rather burn away than develop and help the folks living there thrive. This would create jobs within those communities and help recirculate capital and strengthen those neighborhoods, eventually the households, the schools, increased tax base, etc. Unfortunately, Baltimore (like many other major cities) is highly racially segregated, which means even many white businesses are less likely to hire blacks that are right down the street, white patrons would rather circulate their dollars exclusively in white establishments, and somehow black residents and communities are left out of economic revitalization and instead, pushed out for other people to "deal with" through gentrification. So put your words into action and buy black!

A new website, Tuloko.com, tries to facilitate that. It has a mobile app as well.

(It stands for Tulsa, Oklahoma. For those of you who don't know about "the Black Wall Street"--a prosperous black district that housed black multimillionaires, great schools, etc, but was burned to the ground and destroyed in 1921--read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot).

No, its not a panacea, but its a start. So... whose checking out that Old Bay Chicken at Herb & Soul tonight?

[Sunflowery]

I agree, it's a very great idea! Being that I'm black, I support as many black owned businesses here as possible.

Thanks for the website link, by the way! :-)

[Infinite_heights77]

You see, ya'll will get labeled racist and decisive in here talking about Black economic self-sufficiency. Lol!

Then, you have some self-hating negroes folks who will admittedly still believe that the white man's ice is colder and "we" don't need Black businesses -- "we're all Americans"!!!

[Infinite_heights77]

My friends own Herb & Soul in Parkville!

Originally Posted by sittilove

One of the best ways to help a struggling city like Baltimore is to support black-owned businesses, basically, supporting those local small businesses run by entrepreneurs within or connected to those same areas of Baltimore that many of us view as "eye sores" that they'd rather burn away than develop and help the folks living there thrive. This would create jobs within those communities and help recirculate capital and strengthen those neighborhoods, eventually the households, the schools, increased tax base, etc. Unfortunately, Baltimore (like many other major cities) is highly racially segregated, which means even many white businesses are less likely to hire blacks that are right down the street, white patrons would rather circulate their dollars exclusively in white establishments, and somehow black residents and communities are left out of economic revitalization and instead, pushed out for other people to "deal with" through gentrification. So put your words into action and buy black!

A new website, Tuloko.com, tries to facilitate that. It has a mobile app as well.

(It stands for Tulsa, Oklahoma. For those of you who don't know about "the Black Wall Street"--a prosperous black district that housed black multimillionaires, great schools, etc, but was burned to the ground and destroyed in 1921--read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot).

No, its not a panacea, but its a start. So... whose checking out that Old Bay Chicken at Herb & Soul tonight?

[Pigtown21223]

im all about black supporting black own business .. Im also for segregation. I thinks it about time the black community stand ups for itself, and get away from the white hand the feeds them.

[Calvert Hall '62]

Originally Posted by Pigtown21223

im all about black supporting black own business .. Im also for segregation. I thinks it about time the black community stand ups for itself, and get away from the white hand the feeds them.

Shedding the chains of socialism and giving free enterprise a chance?

Mercy!!!

[cwitty]

I agree with this whole thread.........

[Infinite_heights77]

We've always stood up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa) and will continue to stand up regardless of the circumstances.

Originally Posted by Pigtown21223

im all about black supporting black own business .. Im also for segregation. I thinks it about time the black community stand ups for itself, and get away from the white hand the feeds them.

[Infinite_heights77]

What do you know about socialism and Black people's relationship to social civil societies??! Lol There is NO such thing as "free markets" in highly exploitative, hegemonic, capitalistic system...everything and everyone has a price! That is an illusion!

"Shed" the mental chains of white supremacy and loving need for white assimilation and acceptance is what's needed first and foremost.

Mercy!!!

Originally Posted by Calvert Hall '62

Shedding the chains of socialism and giving free enterprise a chance?

Mercy!!!

[Infinite_heights77]

Most white business owners in Baltimore are reluctant in hiring local Blacks as you indicated. They'd rather hire Blacks from other parts of the world (which I don't mind and could be beneficial), or other transplants from other cities and regions. These are interesting dynamics at work. I'm not stating that all white owned establishments exhibit these business practices, but, there are so many that do. Just review the EEOC complaints, personal testimonies and etc.

Inaddition, it's still quite difficult getting Black people to even trust, support and shift their consciousness into "Buying Black" when they don't even consider themselves to be Black; just American!!? So what can you do?

Originally Posted by sittilove

One of the best ways to help a struggling city like Baltimore is to support black-owned businesses, basically, supporting those local small businesses run by entrepreneurs within or connected to those same areas of Baltimore that many of us view as "eye sores" that they'd rather burn away than develop and help the folks living there thrive. This would create jobs within those communities and help recirculate capital and strengthen those neighborhoods, eventually the households, the schools, increased tax base, etc. Unfortunately, Baltimore (like many other major cities) is highly racially segregated, which means even many white businesses are less likely to hire blacks that are right down the street, white patrons would rather circulate their dollars exclusively in white establishments, and somehow black residents and communities are left out of economic revitalization and instead, pushed out for other people to "deal with" through gentrification. So put your words into action and buy black!

A new website, Tuloko.com, tries to facilitate that. It has a mobile app as well.

(It stands for Tulsa, Oklahoma. For those of you who don't know about "the Black Wall Street"--a prosperous black district that housed black multimillionaires, great schools, etc, but was burned to the ground and destroyed in 1921--read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot).

No, its not a panacea, but its a start. So... whose checking out that Old Bay Chicken at Herb & Soul tonight?