This is an important issue and yet it is tired and overdone.
How come we know how to build other people's economy but when it comes to our own we have all these discussions, and use all these words and still can't come to an answer?
Look at the whole economy. Not just retail but manufacture and distribution as well.
The United States has failed as a manufacturer. It no longer manufactures anything and the little bit of stuff it does make is cheap poor quality plastic so there's not a lot of competition for Black manufacturers. Distribution is tight but if you have a niche you can get in easy.
Idea: White Americans love to buy stuff they think of as ethnically authentic. Tourism is still big business in other countries. Why not here? In Arkansas there's an Indian reservation that sells "authentic" Indian artifacts: dream catchers, tomahawks, skulls, etc. Pick one up and there's a little sticker on the bottom that says Made in China. Why can't we make stuff that really is authentic to Black culture and set up African "reservations?"
How come we know how to build other people's economy but when it comes to our own we have all these discussions, and use all these words and still can't come to an answer?
Look at the whole economy. Not just retail but manufacture and distribution as well.
The United States has failed as a manufacturer. It no longer manufactures anything and the little bit of stuff it does make is cheap poor quality plastic so there's not a lot of competition for Black manufacturers. Distribution is tight but if you have a niche you can get in easy.
Idea: White Americans love to buy stuff they think of as ethnically authentic. Tourism is still big business in other countries. Why not here? In Arkansas there's an Indian reservation that sells "authentic" Indian artifacts: dream catchers, tomahawks, skulls, etc. Pick one up and there's a little sticker on the bottom that says Made in China. Why can't we make stuff that really is authentic to Black culture and set up African "reservations?"