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13274597, RE: Just a few thoughts...
Posted by double 0, Mon Jul-16-18 02:32 PM
>>This article was written on shopify.. the ultimate tone is
>to
>>inspire people to use the service. So quoting it is silly
>>since that is the intended purpose
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>Which is business and all, but we as Black folks have to know
>when we're reading stuff that doesn't apply to us, and too
>many of us don't. Even still, I think it's worth analyzing
>how racism shows up even in such seemingly innocent
>"inspirational" pieces as this. Also, it's kinda weird that
>you said my quoting it is silly, but didn't think it was silly
>to post it, but whatever.
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I posted for the basic info IN the article about Seed Cosmetics. That is useful. There are black women who get clowned on IG as we speak with hundreds of thousands if not millions of followers that could be manipulating the blueprint. Maybe not to the tune of 1b but definitely building wealth.

like https://www.goinspo.com/

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>>first one is spot on though... generations of access have
>>allowed the starting point for any white person to be 20+
>yrs
>>in the future...
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>>We can certainly make an argument that white people buy from
>>white people and since there are more white people they
>>immediately have a larger consumer base.
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>>(This is happening in Hip Hop currently where a white rapper
>>can scale indie a million times faster than any other
>>rapper... although it is recent)
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>All very true. I usually get alotta push-back on here for
>pointing those very things out, so I'm kinda in shock right
>now lol.
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The solutions could vary but I did fuck with Jidenna when he said we continue to focus business in the wrong direction. We focus on breaking middle american consumers when (with technology) we could be breaking emerging markets on the continent. The sheer number of people alone is trillions in untapped revenue...

ex. https://alaffia.com/

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>>But there are a disproportionate amount of failures as well.
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>That's true too. All white folks don't succeed at everything,
>but they just collectively have more money than we do in
>general, can afford to fail multiple times, and tend to be
>closely related to wealth if they aren't wealthy themselves,
>while Black folks tend not to even be related to any. I don't
>think I'm teaching you anything there, I just wanna make sure
>it remains stated, because failure doesn't mean the same for
>white folks that it means for Black folks.
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I don't think that statement holds true really. I think most white people barely know what to do with money just like everyone else. These scams that wall st plays with mortgage lending don't work w/o massive amounts of white people signing up.

I wholeheartedly agree on failure though. The stakes are much higher.