Black In Business

You have to wonder will conditions for black Americans in business change if Barack becomes President. Will having a Blackman as President inspire more of us to enter the world of business? Will the barriers of race come down and provide equal opportunity for us all? What do you think? I think not but I never envision people like the Kennedy’s and Mayor Daily supporting a Black man as the nominee for the Democratic Party.
Here are 3 situations that I encountered this week that reinforced how remarkable ii is for Obama to have become such a force in America.
I walked into a Ace Hardware store in my home town recently to try and get a key made. The lady at the cash register looked at me in a hateful manner and inspected me up and down. The weather was cold outside but it was chiller in my reception.
I left there and went to the Volvo dealership to see if I could have the key for my 1993 400E Mercedes made there. I walked in and looked around and found someone to provide me directions to where I could have my key made. No big deal, I had to navigate down 2 floors to the parts dept.When I went back upstairs to leave, I witness a white man being welcomed into the store by a fat salesman squeezed into small black polyester pants, the sales helped open the door with a smile and a enthused, “ welcome to Oak Park Volvo!” the man he sucked up too, was dressed very casual like me and did not purchase a car. The fat sales man waddled back to sit down and wait for another white opportunity; I mean right opportunity to sell.
Last evening I joined a friend for a beer. There was a 60 plus year old crack head in the bar, a white man, a white bartender, and my friend and I are both black males. As the music lowered, I over heard the crack head’s attempt of humor by telling the white female bartender, when he left, she would be in real trouble with those 2 guys left in the bar. This is a key white man’s ploy used with women and children to reinforce their feelings of white supremacy.
This is just one week in the life of a Blackman and it is in this country, Barack is running for President. Black people do not be fooled, they do not see Barack as they see us, not much as changed since the day when black wall street was bombed by our government. We still need to be twice as good.. Keep hope alive. Visit the link below for insight to a story of black business working well and the reaction to it.

http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/local.cfm?ArticleID=8458