I'm from upstate New York and black people don't support black owned business at all.
What I do find funny is how isolated she must have been to not realize she was black before going to Princeton, LOL!
Because they charge you more, or are fronts for Korean or other ethnicities. There used to be a store in Baltimore near Morgan State that sold "urban clothing". It had all blacks working there, and one would think that it was a black-owned store, come to find out, it was a front, it was owned by Koreans, who didn't invest in community that it was in.
I find it funny as well.
you may not but you would have to agree that a vast majority would have a problem with a white politician saying this. Like i said i understand why she thinks that way shoot i think that way at times but then again im not in a postion of power like she might be and that is what makes the difference...Again you could understand why a white person or any other race might not feel comfortable with her and her beliefs. Do you not view her ideals as biased? have you not heard ppl label others as racist for not voting for obama? its happend many times on this board alone...but when something like this comes along we are supposed to sit back and dismiss it?
Oprah does the same thing, and has more money, and prolly a hell of lot more power than any prez to date, and more influence. Yet, she is viewed as helping out her community. She just never came out and stated it. I guess, if one is quite about it, it is accepted, if one states the obvious, then it view as "wrong"
If people are not voting for Obama, simply because he is black, yes it is wrong. If a person who says that they are going to spend their time and money helping a community that they deemed needs help or is a top priority on their list, then NO. Clean up one's own backyard, before you clean up someone else's.
I do think the "position of power" is what kills it. Even though there have been 1st ladies who have taken the AA community as their pet projects (they were called the colored or poor people back then)