Thank you, Empress Nyrari Ysra'El. We need to take inventory of all the places we spend our money and get treated like crap by employees and business owners, so we can pool our money together and create a Black American replacement for it, so we can have... moreThank you, Empress Nyrari Ysra'El. We need to take inventory of all the places we spend our money and get treated like crap by employees and business owners, so we can pool our money together and create a Black American replacement for it, so we can have a safe space for us to have fun, congregate, and get treated with respect by the employees and the business owners. We can only do this if there is a massive, nationwide membership organization, exclusively for Black Americans, so membership dues can create these recreational alternatives and reinvest back into members through scholarships, shelters, food banks, vocational training, low-income housing, etc. If we were coordinated into a national organization, we could create an recreational anchor business in each Black American community to attract tourism. A professor years ago told us that China's cities have an anchor business that employs most of the people in a town. Each town has a business that specializes in the production of something unique, making the entire nation self-sufficient, because each town is not really competing with each other. Each anchor business will support, compliment, or feed into another, recycling the wealth nationwide. If Black Americans were organized nationwide like that we can say Blacks in Detroit, you assemble the cars. Blacks in Pittsburgh, you make the metal for the cars. Blacks in Los Angeles, you make the electronic components for the cars. Blacks in some other city, you make the rubber tires for the cars. In your example of recreation and entertainment, each Black town or city, should have a museum and/or amusement park inspired form the unique Black culture of that region. Also, like the Olympics, travel around the world to different cites, we should have the Black American Olympics that travel around to different Black American districts. The event will be designed to spark Black American tourism , a hotel chain, a spa industry, and fine dining industry, showcasing the uniqueness of each Black American cultural region. With each Black American Olympic event in a different city, as it travels and as Black Americans travel along with the event, each Black American community, hosting the event, will gain an economic boost. Why travel to Africa? Why not travel to St. Louis? My family is from the South and I assumed all Black Americans ate gumbo and jambalaya until I met a Black woman from Ohio or Iowa, I forgot which one she is from, where according to her, Blacks eat barbecue and corn. You are right, Empress, we do need fun places to for Black people and especially Black families with kids. My view is it can't happen without a national membership organization exclusively for us, so businesses created will be held in trust by the collective and not by one single person or a tightly-knit group of already, wealthy, bourgeois African-Americans and their white financiers, standing in the shadow. For example, Magic Johnson made his money from the Magic Johnson Theaters, telling us to "keep it in the community," and then, he sold the theater to whites and now, the theater has been renamed twice, the majority of the employees there are white while a Black film festival is held there every year to draw in Black money to the white employees and owners. Is there already a national membership group just for Black Americans that is doing what I am describing? How many Black Americans in Hour Time Now would be willing to join one? If so, under what circumstances? #recreation, #carnivals, #movietheaters, #blacks. less
We need to own things of entertainment! Its good that we have stores for food and clothes. But what about amusement parks? Movie theaters? Carnivals? Etc. We got to step it up!