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Chicago Family's 'Buy Black' Experiment Becoming a Nationwide Movement

ATLANTA —  It's been two months since 2-year-old Cori pulled the gold stud from her left earlobe, and the piercing is threatening to close as her mother, Maggie Anderson, hunts for a replacement.

It's not that the earring was all that rare — but finding the right store has become a quest of Quixotic proportions.

Maggie and John Anderson of Chicago vowed four months ago that for one year, they would try to patronize only black-owned businesses. The "Empowerment Experiment" is the reason John had to suffer for hours with a stomach ache and Maggie no longer gets that brand-name lather when she washes her hair. A grocery trip is a 14-mile odyssey.

"We kind of enjoy the sacrifice because we get to make the point ... but I am going without stuff and I am frustrated on a daily basis," Maggie Anderson said. "It's like, my people have been here 400 years and we don't even have a Walgreens to show for it."

So far, the Andersons have spent hundreds of dollars with black businesses from grocery stores to dry cleaners. But the couple still hasn't found a mortgage lender, home security system vendor or toy store. Nonetheless, they're hoping to expand the endeavor beyond their Chicago home.

Apparently only white people can be racists.  Just imagine the MSM explosion if there were a "buy white movement".

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There was a time when I was young and stupid, and embarked upon a "Buy American (and British) Only" jihad.

Meaning no French or German or Japanese or Chinese or &c., &c., &c., goods.

That was really hard, to do that.

I imagine "Buy Black Only" would be just as hard.
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Apparently only white people can be racists.  Just imagine the MSM explosion if there were a "buy white movement".

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I think this couple should not only buy from "black owned " businesses, but they should only buy products from those businesses that are made by "black owned" companies.  :fuelfire:

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I'm about as un-racist as they come, but shit like this makes me want to level the playing field.
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I'm about as un-racist as they come, but shit like this makes me want to level the playing field.

Ditto here djones. I'm just always amazed that shit like this gets a pass. How people can not see the outright racial hostility in a movement like this beats me. I attribute it to blacks getting a pass for 40 plus years now when it comes to their own behavior. Someday someone will point out that black people are just as sinful as whites and capable of the same failings.

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Ditto here djones. I'm just always amazed that shit like this gets a pass. How people can not see the outright racial hostility in a movement like this beats me. I attribute it to blacks getting a pass for 40 plus years now when it comes to their own behavior. Someday someone will point out that black people are just as sinful as whites and capable of the same failings.

I can sort of understand that they are wanting to support "black owned" businesses, but the racist part comes into play when they are denying themselves just because they can not find a "black" provider.

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The "Empowerment Experiment" is the reason John had to suffer for hours with a stomach ache and Maggie no longer gets that brand-name lather when she washes her hair. A grocery trip is a 14-mile odyssey.

"We kind of enjoy the sacrifice because we get to make the point ... but I am going without stuff and I am frustrated on a daily basis," Maggie Anderson said. "It's like, my people have been here 400 years and we don't even have a Walgreens to show for it."


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I'm about as un-racist as they come, but shit like this makes me want to level the playing field.

Well, I'm a southern, white, male so on the DUmmie stereotypical racism scale of 1 to 10, I'm a 3 right out of the gate. I've run a harmless experiment on my son. For 12 or more years I never used the "N" word around him and he was never exposed to people that used it much if ever. By the seventh grade, he had learned the "N" word, what it really meant and was using it. This year in the eighth grade, he has gotten to a point that a DUmmie would call extremely racist. The liberal school systems lack of discipline, the blacks lack of manners and common decency has made him that way....NOT ME. There is more friction between the races now than there was in the 1950's caused mostly by extreme liberal policies.

My son asked me Monday if could he go to a private school next year. And that's funny because the private schools around here are 30% blacks.....but with strict discipline. The worst curse every placed on the black race has been by bleeding heart white liberals that don't have to associate with them.  

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My people came across on the Mayflower and I don't even own a Walgreens either!!!!!!! :bawl:
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"It would be nice to see some real, hard data," Price said. "Otherwise, it could just be an episode of ethnic cheerleading."

No shit?

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Dallas Smith, who owns a commercial real estate firm in Atlanta, said mainstream retailers have undervalued black consumers. He lives in a black neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, where he tries to dine at black restaurants. He lamented the lack of quality businesses catering to black customers and said blacks should appreciate such businesses more.

A bit of irony?


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"We've still got that 'the white man's water is colder' mentality," he said. "We can't take us for granted. When we go to our establishments, it's almost like we're doing a favor. That ought to be a given for us."


Can you imagine the uproar if white was substituted for black?

This is the most racist garbage I've ever read.
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It's their money and they can experiment with it any way they choose.....or at least that's the way it's suppose to be. 

What I find troubling is this is "news".  I have deliberate spending habits too, but I have yet to be approached by a reporter.

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"We kind of enjoy the sacrifice because we get to make the point ... but I am going without stuff and I am frustrated on a daily basis," Maggie Anderson said.

Stubbornness and stupidity are an unfortunate combination.  Maggie is an Econ 101 example of economic inefficiency flowing from the use of non-rational factors in economic decision-making.   
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My people came across on the Mayflower and I don't even own a Walgreens either!!!!!!! :bawl:
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It's in the same package with your rainbow and pony.   :fuelfire:

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Oh come now folks...

No racism is promoted by blacks.

As seen by:

Jet magazine.

BET... Black Entertainment TV.

Black Congressional Caucus.

Need I go on?

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Oh come now folks...

No racism is promoted by blacks.

As seen by:

Jet magazine.

BET... Black Entertainment TV.

Black Congressional Caucus.

Need I go on?

Obama is an acolyte of hate white America Rev. Wright.




NAACP, United NEGRO College Fund, LULAC...
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Oh come now folks...

No racism is promoted by blacks.

As seen by:

Jet magazine.

BET... Black Entertainment TV.

Black Congressional Caucus.

Need I go on?

Obama is an acolyte of hate white America Rev. Wright.





Don't forget "Miss Black America"

or "The Black Music Awards" or the Black Actors something or other. The list goes on and on.
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Don't forget "Miss Black America"

or "The Black Music Awards" or the Black Actors something or other. The list goes on and on.

But they don't have a "Black Country Music Awards "show, yet.  :uhsure:

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Most of the places I do business with are neither "black owned" nor "white owned". They're mostly shareholder-owned, which, one would assume, would include blacks. I just go to whichever vendor will give me the best product at the best price.....because I'm not a racist. Except when it comes to cars. The Japs currently have us beat by a long-shot.
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What a bad idea. MLK Jr. must be reeling in his grave. We are beyond segregation last time I checked. I go to business that I like, whether they are White, Yellow, Black, and Brown. I go to businesses because I like them and their service.
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What a bad idea. MLK Jr. must be reeling in his grave. We are beyond segregation last time I checked. I go to business that I like, whether they are White, Yellow, Black, and Brown. I go to businesses because I like them and their service.

Well, that's what most normal people do, Ptarmy.

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I went to the national and my local Black Chamber of Commerce website to find a list of "black-owned" businesses to patronize -- I didn't find anything.  If I was going to be overtly racist in my shopping preferences, one would expect that would be the first place I would go.  The only thing I found were the usual whitey corporations like AT&T and Regions Bank sponsoring their activities.  When I worked for State Farm, there were a few black-owned agents I visited that were very active in the community.  You'd think they would look behind the counter at who was running the place instead of just the sign on the front of the store.
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I don't care how these folks spend their money.  Being lauded in the media for promoting racial separatism is racist (or bigoted, for purists).  I wonder if the 'Empowerment Movement' will expand to other ethnicities and include a refusal to accept goods, services or monies from any source that white devils may have contributed to?