Mayor Walsh tapped for Labor Secretary (Boston, Cambridge: businesses, market, summer)

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by massnative71

Not just stereotypes. More personal experience. I'm talking the late 20s-50ish folk, and some can be very outspoken. I'm sure MD is more conservative though, on average.

I find in MA because black people are largely outside the establishment-folks operate from a leftist's activist position more so than in MD or TX or SC where black people are more apart of "the establishment" and much more suburbanized.


NJ is a bit like MA in terms of black politics but like NJ I think is more extreme. NJ and CT cities have representatives from"The Working Families Party" a blacker and more socialist party than Democrats. https://workingfamilies.org/ https://workingfamilies.org/state/connecticut/

[BostonBornMassMade]

Marty Walsh is facing some more static ahead of his confirmation hearing regarding the city's contracting to Black/Hispanic businesses. The White House has declined to comment.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/labor-n...es-11614775151

Segun Idowu is on an absolute TEAR politically this dude is everywhere.

[bigfatdude]

Here's to hoping poverty pimps and race hustlers tear poor Maaaahty apart and we return to our regularly scheduled programming instead of ending up with a poverty pimp race hustler ru(i)nning our city.

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Marty Walsh is facing some more static ahead of his confirmation hearing regarding the city's contracting to Black/Hispanic businesses. The White House has declined to comment.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/labor-n...es-11614775151

Segun Idowu is on an absolute TEAR politically this dude is everywhere.

[msRB311]

On the note of black owned business in Boston...i am familiar with Hyde Park and Dorchester. It seems like everytime a black owned business is opened in these areas it something along the lines of Haitian or Jamaican foods. I'm sure people in the areas go to these places but this type of food and the location isn't going to bring people in from all over the city.

Maybe someone should try opening a haitian/jamaican reastaurant in the seaport district and see how that goes. If Haitian and Jamaican foods were that delectable or popular this would have already been done.

[bostongymjunkie]

I find many Caribbean dishes to be quite delicious, however new age yuppies seem very limited in their food choices, and they demand places that are shiny and foo foo. But I don't think those who start those businesses have either the capital to rent in Seaport, or the desire to cater to the fickle foo foo crowd of yuppies who would be their market. As such, their clientele will be limited and without a core base of Caribbean (and other non yuppie) customers to sustain them, it probably wouldn't be feasible. But I'm confused by your post. On one hand you think they should branch out to more pricey areas of the city but then imply the foods are not good enough which is why it hasn't been attempted.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by msRB311

On the note of black owned business in Boston...i am familiar with Hyde Park and Dorchester. It seems like everytime a black owned business is opened in these areas it something along the lines of Haitian or Jamaican foods. I'm sure people in the areas go to these places but this type of food and the location isn't going to bring people in from all over the city.

Maybe someone should try opening a haitian/jamaican reastaurant in the seaport district and see how that goes. If Haitian and Jamaican foods were that delectable or popular this would have already been done.

The seaport is the last place one would open up a place like that (in a storefront I mean). But I can see a food truck working out well, surprised it doesn't exist already.

[bostongymjunkie]

It does https://roaminghunger.com/food-truck...-ma/caribbean/

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by msRB311

On the note of black owned business in Boston...i am familiar with Hyde Park and Dorchester. It seems like everytime a black owned business is opened in these areas it something along the lines of Haitian or Jamaican foods. I'm sure people in the areas go to these places but this type of food and the location isn't going to bring people in from all over the city.

Maybe someone should try opening a haitian/jamaican reastaurant in the seaport district and see how that goes. If Haitian and Jamaican foods were that delectable or popular this would have already been done.

It because they have no ability to serve liquor. This keep margins very low, and isn’t suitable to high end dining experiences. Without liquor licenses these places open and close.

The state allows this artificial cap on Boston at first as a way to discriminate against Irish Americans. It keeps this cap in place, now that the Irish have suceeeded-as a way to gatekeep black and brown businesses and wealth generators and to keep the social ongoings in those areas predictable, visible and muted (as a means to control crime)

No one is driving all the way to Hyde Park or Codman Square from Arlington if they can’t even get a beer let alone a cocktail

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by bostongymjunkie

I find many Caribbean dishes to be quite delicious, however new age yuppies seem very limited in their food choices, and they demand places that are shiny and foo foo. But I don't think those who start those businesses have either the capital to rent in Seaport, or the desire to cater to the fickle foo foo crowd of yuppies who would be their market. As such, their clientele will be limited and without a core base of Caribbean (and other non yuppie) customers to sustain them, it probably wouldn't be feasible.

As I just posted above, I think food trucks of that sort during the daytime would be a good fit. Think office workers who eat out every day for lunch, I can totally see looking for change of pace and "I'm gonna try that new Jerk truck today". Especially if one can offer good food like that to go at a good price, I definitely see that catching on especially during Covid where most aren't eating "at" a restaurant. But the nighttime yuppie crowd there, no absolutely not.

[bostongymjunkie]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

It because they have no ability to serve liquor. This keep margins very low, and isn’t suitable to high end dining experiences. Without liquor licenses these places open and close.

The state allows this artificial cap on Boston at first as a way to discriminate against Irish Americans. It keeps this cap in place, now that the Irish have suceeeded-as a way to gatekeep black and brown businesses and wealth generators and to keep the social ongoings in those areas predictable, visible and muted (as a means to control crime)

No one is driving all the way to Hyde Park or Codman Square from Arlington if they can’t even get a beer let alone a cocktail

That's quite a plot you've laid out there.