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Originally posted by MeezDiscreet:
if it means buying chinese, i will.
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That's funny because the Chinese will die before they buy from you. It doesn't matter how good you are or what you do.
Here's a true story that happened in Washington D.C.:
"A black marketing organization approached a group of Asian merchants in an effort in an effort to sell them a variety of popular consumer items. After the Black distributors had made their sales pitch, they were disappointed when the Asian merchants replied that they were not interested in purchasing the products that the Black distributors were selling. Determined not to give up on the Asian Merchants, and convinved that contiguous boundering between the Asian communities made them quasi-members of the same community, the Black distributors offered a 25% discount from the price that the Asian merchants were paying from the same item. Again the Asians told the Black distributos that they were not interested. In a collective voice of puzzlement, the Black distributors asked how the merchants could turn down a 25% discount. The merchants responded 'You Black people just don't understand. It is not the money, but the fact that we only buy from our own. Only you blacks will buy buy from any and everyone.' The Asian merchants made their point."
And that's the same mentality that is making them ecomically and socially sound while black people are still treading water.
I'd like to know when we are going to stop BSing oursleves. We need to do what Sphinxpoet said and make our business twice as good so we can start living in black COMMUNITIES, not just black Neighborhoods.
[This message has been edited by Poplife (edited June 29, 2001).]