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Oh stop. You folks make up 12.6% of the population in the US.
^^^Case in point.
Should black folks do business with people that don't have our best interest in mind? People that are openly indicating they're threatened by black empowerment... I don't think so...
Should black folks do business with people that don't have our best interest in mind? People that are openly indicating they're threatened by black empowerment... I don't think so...
Banks only serve to exploit those who do business with them. If anyone really wanted to benefit themselves. They would set up family or neighborhood "banks". This way the normally immoral "interest" would go back into the family or neighborhood instead of into the hands of the money changers. Although "banking" is a scam anyway as there is no money created to cover the cost of "interest" when taking out a "loan". Anyone "borrowing" must by necessity exploit someone else even more than the bank is exploiting them. It is a pyramid scheme where everyone down the line exploits the next victim more than they were exploited...but that is "banking"
This is just another version of bloom where you are planted.
I pay close attention to who my family does business with. I also agreed with Jesse Jackson when he started telling business if you want our money, start providing jobs for our people. I well remember redlining. I had no trouble with the law that told the banks if you are going to take the deposits, you need to start making loans to those same people. Some of those Monday morning church deposit were pretty hefty.
But, if blacks get their own financial institutions how can those among us on CD who rail that folks buying houses they could not afford nearly brought down the nation's economy?
Should black folks do business with people that don't have our best interest in mind? People that are openly indicating they're threatened by black empowerment... I don't think so...
12.6%. That's not even lunch money to big banks. For the trouble and expenses caused by that 12.6% banks would happily lose that business. But they can't because big daddy government has your backs. Without it
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The spin on these forums is ridiculous.
I don't give a rat's backside if you go to a business owned by a black person, wtf difference does that make to me? It's when it's touted as being ONLY for blacks that I have an issue with it. All races and cultures have businesses that they buy from, but they don't tout it as ONLY for those races, which THIS particular "outcry" does.
"Bank Black"? WTF is that? How about just: "support black owned businesses, here's a list of businesses owned by blacks, here's a list of banks owned by blacks, etc". You do know that those are out there? Why does it have to be some huge production and introduced in such a way as to say "only for blacks". How the hell is that helping black business or black banks by cutting off the majority of the population, (and I don't mean "whites" so you can stop slamming your keyboard with your indignant reply to that, I'm talking about every. body. else. that won't be putting their money in to hashtag BankBlack or hashtagBlack Money Matters since it is apparent that it's only for "black money")?
Supporting, and even going out of your way to support a business owned by someone who is black, lovely, have at it, but to further divide black people from the rest of society makes no damn sense at all - WTF was all that fighting against segregation for if black people want to turn around and segregate?
You may not care, but the reality is many conservatives on this forum have said in the past, and recently that black people should do just this.
I have never been one to believe that an individual must answer for everyone who shares his ideology. That being said, you arent blind to what others have been saying on this forum.
Apparently a lot of celebrities are encouraging black people to move their money to black owned banks.
Is this a positive thing?
Doesn't this kind of go back to the days of segregation?
I get putting your money in a local bank or credit union, but I feel like this type of stuff divides the country more than unites it.
What do you think?
This shouldn't be viewed as Jim Crow segregation. It's basically Blacks investing in their own communities,like other groups do,to improve their communities. Since integration Blacks haven't done this enough and this explains why so many Black communities are poorer than they should be...
This shouldn't be viewed as Jim Crow segregation. It's basically Blacks investing in their own communities,like other groups do,to improve their communities. Since integration Blacks haven't done this enough and this explains why so many Black communities are poorer than they should be...
Hopefully we will one day view communities as just American communities rather than black , Hispanic , Asian or white communities . Most communities aren't 100% one race or ethnicity anyways so calling them black or white can be insulting
12.6%. That's not even lunch money to big banks. For the trouble and expenses caused by that 12.6% banks would happily lose that business. But they can't because big daddy government has your backs. Without it
You would love to see the international banking system ignore black Americans. I've read about this same sentiment held by those that lost the civil war. I'm pretty sure if you lost 12% of your meager income you would be hurting like most people. Your side lost.. And I'll leave it at that...
I don't see the problem. Shouldn't the right be a huge proponent of supporting business growth? If poverty is the root of all of the problems with regards to the AA community, shouldn't we be supporting ways for the AA to generate wealth?
Even white people get outraged over banks....see the whole occupy wall st. thing.
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