Black Money Business Jobs : The Problem with Buying Black (that we need to solve)

[IPXninja]

there are tons of problems with buying black. I'm not here to be negative but we need to discuss the problems in an effort to find solutions.


For example... A cut of pretty much every product sold is going to whites. It's just a question of how big that cut is going to be. So what are the different aspects?

production/manufacturing
transport/distribution
sales/marketing

Even the blackest product (black soap?) is going to hand money to whites in the process. This could be the same percentage of a black person selling a white or "white label" product but taking over a different part of the equation. However, because many of the people who understand the need for black-owned business might be a little "too" afro-centric for their own good (yes that's possible) we make mistakes like not making a lot of "universal" products. Instead, we target products that may only appeal or be usable to the black community and the only ones looking for them are consumers who also understand the need for black-owned businesses and might be a little "too" afrocentric for their own good.

This results in a bunch of niche products that not enough people know about that often compete with each other (ie. black soap). And if you polled black households, even though black soap as been a thing for decades, how many families will say they have black soap right now? We'll support products like this but as far as longevity, the more universal products tend to win. The same reasons white people buy those products is the same reasons black people buy those products.

solution #1:
Black people need to work on getting a cut of every product being sold in black communities. With services, we can do this buy having jobs at those companies. But for products, we need to sell the same products that are selling... that are universal... and control sales in the black community by only buying those products from black salespeople and black-owned online stores that provide those products.

solution #1B: (building on 1)
We need to use the same strategy used in the drug game. Drugs are not grown here which means someone else is always going to get a cut. But distribution and sales are up for grabs. Corner boys protect their corners which also means, in a wider view, protecting distribution against other competitors. If we can adopt a more military strategy to consumer goods like some of us have done with drugs, we can get a cut of every product sold in our community. It doesn't need to be 100% in order to be valuable. The black church makes over $40B annually because they're taking 10% of church people's income. So imagine if we took the average markup percentage on every product. 50%. We don't buy different products that no one else wants. We simply buy those products from each other.

solution #1C:
We can do these things as individuals but it would be more effective if done as a corporation. So I propose we create an umbrella corporation that works with individual-owned businesses similar to how Amazon works. This way individuals get to claim tax benefits while making money and the resources of the corporation are there to help. The corporation helps with marketing and branding (white label products) while every individual becomes part of a point-of-sale network. If you can convince your friends and family to buy the same products they normally buy, but from you, why wouldn't they?

solution #1D:
As the network grows so does the resources of the corporation from charging membership fees. At some point the corporation can create its own options for transportation and distribution and increase the cut which means decreasing the amount of money leaving our community.

Please feel free to discuss these ideas or add your own.

 

[IPXninja]

"Too Afro-centric"?
White people have figured out that they don't need to make the products. In fact, that's probably the worst thing they can do. We should know this and understand this because we were literally purchased as slaves so that they wouldn't have to do the hard part themselves. We do it now in the form of jobs but their cut is still about the same as it was before because they pass the difference to the consumers. And who are also the consumers? Us. So how much are we paying our own salaries? Think about that. Because if we are paying our own salaries then we are mostly working, as a people, for "slave wages".

The cheaper the labor (as we definitely all know) the bigger their cut becomes. So they are willing to give up a cut as long as they get a big cut from doing less work. And because they are all doing the same thing it means that the cost of labor is absorbed in the price. So the consumer is paying for the labor, not them. And if any company does the labor themselves, if they can't match the cheaper labor cost then they're forced to pass along higher prices to their consumers. And unless the quality and branding are both superior that's not going to be an advantage.

So what does this tell us?

It's all about sales.

Now imagine with me... Think about gangs. Think about these inner city paramilitary forces controlling territory down to the block. Think about what they would do if someone was selling the same product on one of their corners. Think about how they make sure their distribution and sales reach out to people where they are so no one has to go far to get the product. Now apply this to selling toilet paper... and eventually... commercial real estate. Anything that can be sold, if we are the consumers, all that is required is supply and demand.

Consider the fact that whites would not allow blacks or Asians to open up stores in their neighborhoods. Why? Because they were controlling their territory. And now in many black communities people have to actually travel to white communities in order to buy what they need.

People in the dope game are in it because they know they have a product with mass appeal. It's a product people get hooked on and therefore you have reoccurring sales with repeat customers. However, the same is true for toilet paper. If the only people who could sell toilet paper to black people were black people then every time someone wipes their butt we'd be getting a cut. THAT... is how we need to start thinking and moving. If everyone's trying to be this guy it ain't gonna work.