“So I’m literally walking around and talking to people, ‘Is there a black-owned restaurant, or a black-owned dry cleaner?’ and folks are looking at me like I’m insane. And if I didn’t know this, I’m sure that folks outside the black community don’t have this as part of their reality or part of their picture for black America. When we talk about black people, the black situation, problems in the black community, you know, we start with, ‘Black kids are least likely to graduate from school; black unemployment is four times higher than the national average,’ all these numbers. But why can’t we include that over 90 percent of businesses in the black community are not owned by black people or local residents? If we were to add that to the conversation, maybe folks would say, ‘Oh, well no wonder things are so bad there,’ and start thinking about things in a different way instead of allowing those awful numbers to be a reflection of our propensities. Why is it that my people are just supposed to be the perpetual consumer class, and everyone else is supposed to benefit from our money?”

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