Jacobtm
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« on: April 06, 2012, 11:43:08 AM » |
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In many African American communities, people who live outside of their community set up shop in black communities and take money out of the community back to wherever they live, which is assumed not to be down the block.
It's viewed as a long-standing part of African American impoverishment, that outsiders control the commerce of African American communities and suck them dry by taking all the proceeds elsewhere.
The idea is that, if black people who lived in the communities owned these shops, they would profit off of their community but that profit would stay in the community, enriching it and building a less exploitative economy.
White people never had this problem, so it's not at all comparable to if a white person advocated kicking out black shop owners.
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