Minority businesses will probably be hit harder than white-owned one, depending on where they are located. If they are concentrated in black neighborhoods, I doubt if the white guys are going down to the “hood” to do their shopping (I once did a lot of shopping at one small strip mall on the DC/MD border line and never had any problems with the black owners (Dollar Tree, 7-11, or the Chinese carry-out. All nice, hard working people. Illness has kept me from going out to work in that area).
In my current neighborhood in No. Virginia, we have businesses owned and run by all types of people - Black, Chinese, Vietnamese, Greeks, Italians, Irish, Jewish, Christian, Ethiopian, Moslems, Hispanics etc. My wife and I have been visiting all of them to offer some financial support re the coronavirus restrictions we have. All the story owners/managers I’ve met in the past few months have been very conscious of health issues re their employees and customers and the service has been excellent.
What the writer doesn’t remember or even know about, is that during the April 1968 black riots in DC and Baltimore, the older, established small businesses owned by white Jews (including Holocaust survivors), were literally wiped out in a few days. This included some on Corned Beef Row (Lombard Street) in Baltimore, H street area in DC, etc.
Many never reopened again or got government aid to do so. Most owners were too old to start over again and simply retired, thus depriving their customers of needed goods and services (many of these stores were located in what we used to call “the poorer neighbors”.
ALSO, and perhaps even more important in the long run, is the fact that when Jewish stores were looted and burned (and put out of business), most of the staff were put of out work too and they were either family or black workers.
When some businesses didn’t hire black men to work for them, many of our Jewish owned businesses did, including our family store (and one owned by a cousin). My grandfather hired a young black kid fresh out of high school about 1938, and with the exception of 4 years of serving in the Navy during WW2, Clarence was with us for 50 years until we closed the business.
He and his lovely wife came to my Bar Mitzvah, Wedding and my son’s Bris, among other family affairs. I’m so proud of my late grandfather and father for keeping Clarence as part of our business/family, along with Jerry (Italian), Tony (Polish), and Warren (Irish).
If black businesses crash now, blame it on the White, elite, Marxist/leftist/progressive/socialist clowns who run and ruin our major cities from Baltimore to Philly, a lot of New Jersey (Camden, Newark, etc), NYC, Chicago (parts of), Detroit, perhaps Milwaukee - a real mixed Marxist/Islamic/psychoward shithole, Seattle, LA, SF, and perhaps parts of Houston, Cleveland, etc.
Help should be given to all legitimate businesses regardless of the color of the skin of the owners. They are American citizens down on their luck due to the virus and incompetent politicians. They should be helped, NOT punished even more by their white/black plantation masters who have their tax-money in their back pockets.
This may get the award for greatest post ever. Thank you.
“never had any problems with the black owners”
Just out of curiosity, what kind of problems would you expect to have with the black owners?