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The 1960s - Over 40% of black families owned their own businesses, what happened?

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That was almost 1 in every 2 families having their own business. I have to wonder what happened here. Now it is something like less than 8%. I also was reading the statistics for marriage and co-op parenting. At the same time, 85% of black households were married or co-opting parents. Thomas Sowell has a strong stance on this in blaming the welfare state for ruining the black businesses, the black household/family, and the black community. He says in one generation of being on a welfare state, all of this was destroyed. I think the police state plays a role but I am not sure what he thinks about that.

What are your thoughts on this?
 
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Integration *shrugs*
 
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too many of us would rather work for white folks and patronize other people’s businesses, than own our business and support our own.

Remember how they were begging to be allowed to sit at white owned restaurants?
 
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    Geoff said:
    too many of us would rather work for white folks and patronize other people’s businesses, than own our business and support our own.

    Remember how they were begging to be allowed to sit at white owned restaurants?
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    "the white man's ice is colder" shit was real bruh.
     
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    Integration and the ongoing dying need for validation from YT.
     
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    Geoff said:
    too many of us would rather work for white folks and patronize other people’s businesses, than own our business and support our own.

    Remember how they were begging to be allowed to sit at white owned restaurants?
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    I never understood this. Like what the hell happened? Hard work is needed to run and manage a business, did people just get lazy or something?

    I am by no means qualified to manage a business and I likely wouldn't be able to handle the stress but I feel like I was raised under the presumption that it is better to work under someone else's thumb than be my own boss because it is easier so that mindset has been engraved in me. I have to think for a lot of other people out there, this has to be a big reason.
     
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    Geoff said:
    too many of us
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    Geoff said:
    Remember how they were
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    🤔
     
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    Redd*Blitz said:
    Integration and the ongoing dying need for validation from YT.
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    Integration got us bad bruh.
     
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    Integration got us bad bruh.
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    Big time. I wish WE had of been as greatly selfish and to never care in seeking and wanting so badly validation from YT.
     
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    Redd*Blitz said:
    Big time. I wish WE had of been as greatly selfish and to never care in seeking and wanting so badly validation from YT.
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    Yes. One thing I struggle with is hindsight. I can clearly see in retrospect that it was a bad idea but would I have thought that then? Would I have agreed with Malcolm X when he was alive? I don’t know but I have to move forward with the info I got.
     
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    Redd*Blitz said:
    Big time. I wish WE had of been as greatly selfish and to never care in seeking and wanting so badly validation from YT.
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    It is a bit of an abusive relationship. We constantly run into the arms of are abuser hoping that “he finally gets it this time”.
     
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    Lamont said:
    It is a bit of an abusive relationship. We constantly run into the arms of are abuser hoping that “he finally gets it this time”.
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    Such a warped mentality a lot of US still have that's truly unbearable, mind blowing and inexcusable all at the same time.
     
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    Mastamind said:
    Integration *shrugs*
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    Im sorry on some levels integration was the biggest con game that ever happened to my parents generations . Some things integration brought needed to happen like better health care and and access to better jobs, and blatant racism had to end but as a child born in the 80s i wanted that community that my parents had growing up . Im no historian im just a black guy that wanted a nice peaceful place to be as a kid
     
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    Yes. One thing I struggle with is hindsight. I can clearly see in retrospect that it was a bad idea but would I have thought that then? Would I have agreed with Malcolm X when he was alive? I don’t know but I have to move forward with the info I got.
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    I totally agree. I probably would've been part of THEM who didn't like the philosophies of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., or even that of Dr. Claud Anderson, who has been preaching the gospel for decades.
     
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    StayingHumble said:
    Im sorry on some levels integration was the biggest con game that ever happened to my parents generations . Some things integration brought needed to happen like better health care and and access to better jobs, and blatant racism had to end but as a child born in the 80s i wanted that community that my parents had growing up . Im no historian im just a black guy that wanted a nice peaceful place to be as a kid
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    Hell yeah bruh I want to live in an all-Black neighborhood. I want all Black people on my block, all Black people at the school, all Black people at the grocery store. This multi-cultural shit is a scam.
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    I totally agree. I probably would've been part of THEM who didn't like the philosophies of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., or even that of Dr. Claud Anderson, who has been preaching the gospel for decades.
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    You know why you wouldn't though...because Jason Black, Professor Black Truth, and others are the MINORITY opinion and you agree with them. So that's how you know you'd be down with X and MLK.
     
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    StayingHumble said:
    Im sorry on some levels integration was the biggest con game that ever happened to my parents generations . Some things integration brought needed to happen like better health care and and access to better jobs, and blatant racism had to end but as a child born in the 80s i wanted that community that my parents had growing up . Im no historian im just a black guy that wanted a nice peaceful place to be as a kid
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    Preach.

    We can get it back but we have to make sure the coons and sellouts are not in the mix and sabotaging and be ready to die to defend it.
     
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    It's the massive individualism in Black culture. A large percentage of BP don't know how to play their role and think they are massively more important than they actually are. This is coming from someone who currently manages employees and has had her own employees at one point.

    I know plenty people will blame it on integration and WP. But at this point in time there is nothing stopping BP from forming business and working together...nothing.
     
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    I think forced diversity is the biggest load of BS this country has ever been fed. I think it is fine when it happens naturally and gradually but forcing it? That is never good for anyone. If people want to live among their own kind be it through skin color, culture, wealth, or religion is shouldn't be looked at as a bad thing. Let people do what the f they want. I live in a mixed community and have not had any issues but everyone is on the same page for the most part in taking care of the community and looking out for each other best we can. When you have a community of people who only look out for themselves, doesn't matter how diverse or lack thereof it is, it is going to face a lot of problems. Just my take on this stuff.
     
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    And I want to implictly make it clear that I am not racist or anti white . I just want this forum to be a chill space to virtually chop it up with fam in a sane manner and not be with all that garbage that happens online
     
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