1WomanOfVirtue:
What Hispanics are you referring to? Miami Cubans don't buy from New York Puerto Ricans. They may all watch Telemundo and eat Goya beans but they are different. A third generation American Latino is just like the rest of America. He/She is not relegated strictly to the culture of their birth because by then, they have assimilated into mainstream society. As Black as our skins are and no matter how much Black Pride we have, we are Americans, i.e. consumers of the larger culture. These same Asians that you deify, will be mainstreamed like everyone else in their next generations. Do you know that over 50% of Asians marry caucasians? They won't be working 20hr shifts in the convenience store or gas station or the dry cleaner. They will be lawyers and doctors and living and working outside of their community like every other 2nd and 3rd generation children of immigrants. Just like the Black children of the old Black owned businesses who thrived under Jim Crow.
I wholeheartedly believe in supporting our own. I prefer doing business with my own. Black insurance agents, realtors, car salesman etc, but I am in sales and all my customers are white. I have done million dollar deals with the white presidents of a companies putting a check in my very black hands based on my presentation. In the end, consumers will buy price, service, and competency.
With the exception of Mormons in Utah and Cubans in Miami, no ethnicity in this country is monolithic. Comparing the African American to any other ethnic group is compare apples and oranges. The paradigm may be similar but the control group is not. Can we stop beating ourselves up?
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