Except for Native American and Black American communities, American communities sustain themselves; especially for job creation, through locally based businesses that meet the community’s retail consumer needs. Over time, these two groups were unable to develop the wealth necessary to capitalize community serving businesses; Native Americans because they were relegated to less productive land and did not develop commerce and Black America due to slavery and “Jim Crow” laws. These experiences are unique to these two American groups. Other American groups all sustain their communities primarily through community based community retail businesses.
Native Americans discovered that they can generate dollars for the Native American communities through gaming which if put to that use could provide capital to establish job creating businesses in Native American communities. For Black America, the only vuable source of millions of dollars available for capitalizing start-up businesses in largely Black communities is in the hands of athletes, entertainers and celebrities etc. that may compassionately invest to help bring jobs and economic opportunity to Black communities.
Our theory is that the Black American athleticism and entertainment abilities are a God given gift to Black America. The question is will Black American recognize this God given gift and put it to use to help create jobs and economic opportunity in low income largely Black communities plagued ty high rates of unemployment and unemployment driven crime. Notably, our call is for investments only not gifting.
It appears that Blacks who are in a position to facilitate investments from athletes, entertainers and celebrities etc. to help provide working capital to open businesses in our largely Black low income urban community seem to have some fear of doing this. This is an unfortunate misread of America in 2016. It would be in no way un-American for athletes, entertainers, celebrities to invest a small portion of their monies that are currently invested in Wall Street on Main Street to help economically challenged communities from which they hail.
We are in the funding stage of opening a supermarket in East Oakland that will provide some 60+ new mobs and bring healthy food to a community designated a “Food Desert” with a food related hospitalization rate for illnesses such as obesity, diabetes and heart failure etc., three time the countywide rate. Our funding theory will come into play here in that our success in raising capital to open the supermarket will likely depend on investments from athletes, entertainers and celebrities etc., who may invest to provide the needed working capital. To learn more about our supermarket click here. |
