StarSeed Economics 101!!! Take Heed!!! Rhetoric aside, not all youth can become entrepreneurs. Estimates are that in most countries, only 4% of the population are entrepreneurs, 16% imitators and 80% employed. The key driver, then, is to encourage the 4% to create job opportunities for the 80% and mentor the 16%. Attention community leaders and organizers. Tired of protesting, marching, and organizing with little or no results? The root of most of the problems your community faces stems from racism and the lack of economic opportunities. While you can’t make a racist get some sense overnight, you can do something about economic opportunities in your community right now. Use your organizing skills to build economic independence without begging for money or help from the government or white-owned corporations. Here’s how… Pick a community that is predominately Black. Take an inventory of all the businesses that exist in that community. Make note of any businesses that are missing (grocery stores with quality produce sources from Black farmers, gas stations, construction companies, department stores, solar panel installers, banks and ethical financial services companies, private security companies, etc.). Take note of which of the existing businesses are Black-owned. Go down the list of non-Black-owned existing businesses, prioritizing businesses that sell basic necessities first (food, energy/gas, water, clothing, shelter), and start boycotting them one by one. For example, if the local grocery store is not Black-owned, find a Black grocery store executive with experience running a store. Get her or him to help you write a business plan on how to finance, staff, and run a store. Raise money from people in the community (churches might be able to help with this if you can find a pastor that hasn’t lost his mind and sold out…very rare these days, but worth a shot). Get everyone in the community to stop shopping at that store. Provide transportation to another store temporarily if people have no alternatives. With no customers the targeted store will quickly go out of business. If they don’t, resort to more aggressive measures to “encourage” them out of business. Once they are ready to close the business, come in and buy it for pennies on the dollar. Re-open as a Black-owned business that is socially and environmentally responsible. Train and hire people from the community to help run the business. Use the profits from the business and community funds to help acquire the next business on the list described above and start new businesses that need to be started. Source products and raw materials from other Black-owned companies or Afrikan companies whenever possible. Repeat this process until most of the businesses in the community are Black-owned and community-owned. Use profits from those businesses to fund institutions that empower the community (free clinics, independent Afrikan-centered schools and training centers, etc), security, and infrastructure. This plan has worked for other communities. This plan has worked for Black communities in the past. This plan will work for Black people today with some updates to the current environment and learning from past mistakes. We have the knowledge and skills available in our communities. Whether Black people have the will and intestinal fortitude to go through with it is the only question. Your current so-called leaders will probably not support this. They are token leaders, put in place by people that do not care about you. Pick new leaders that have relevant experience…so no lawyers, academics, pastors, or politicians and thats my peace StarSeed Entrepreneurs, Salaam...///4\\\
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:05:40 +0000
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