Someone I know works closely with a Jewish businessman. One day, the two had an honest conversation, in which the Jewish man asked, “Do you know what my Jewish friends call the black community?”My friend said, “No, what do they call us?”
He replied, “We call you liquid money. The same way that water falls out of a man’s hands, money typically seeps out of a black person’s hands the same way. Your community gets money and immediately gives it all away to people who aren't black. We see that as a huge business opportunity.”
He then used the example of many black people on payday or when we get our tax refunds. He noted how we’ll go to an Indian business to cash the check, an Asian hair salon, a corner store owned by Arabs and a department store owned by whites. He explained how, when it’s all said and done, these other business people are waiting like hungry animals to eat our bank accounts as if we are the prey.
It’s something to think about.
Here’s the lesson:
1) In America, you have no almost no power if you don’t own something. There is no pride in a platform on which you sit if it can be taken away from you on a second’s notice. You have been seduced into believing that you have real power, when the truth is that you do not.
