To review, your post was:
"So, in your world Black lawyers work for poor black clients for free? That's how prospective Black entrepreneurs get going?"
My previous post addressed this, surely with more detail than you care to hear, but it is a fact pattern that repeats. Bezos has clearly described his early days with Amazon as a series of sales pitches to raise capital. His mistake was in not marrying a black woman.
>> Back when Blacks were expected to for free it was called slavery.
You know, I'm damned sorry about slavery. I hate it, thought it was stupid from the earliest days of my awareness of it, and I hate that it happened. But I didn't have one fucking thing to do with it. Neither of my parents or their parents or grandparents had anything to do with it. They were both raised poor as church mice, in my dad's case, orphaned with nothing the clothes on his back at age 12 during the Depression. Sorry, I've heard those stories and being black ain't nothing. It did not prevent him from becoming a successful business owner and retiring in reasonable comfort which is all any of us can expect out of life.
I just think this is such a bullshit argument. It is one only a former government employee could make, someone who is entirely out of touch with what the lives of typical business owners consist of. Most of it is spent battling the sinkholes government workers create for us.
This month I've dealt with having to appeal TWO wrongful penalty assessments from IRS because those ASSHOLES took off work for a year while I continued to work my ass off. They couldn't get THEIR work done on time so they accuse me of not getting MINE done on time. I will spend 20 hours dealing with appeals conferences which I will ultimately win and my best possible outcome is to come away with the money I earned fair-and-square. Those bureaucrats sat at home for year, drew their paychecks, accrued pension benefits, received their free health coverage and watched Wheel of Fortune.
Blacks obviously had disadvantages in life. NONE OF WHICH ACCRUE BENEFITS TO THOSE ALIVE TODAY. PERIOD. I'm fine with our idiot president buying some votes in OK. It is what politicians do. Even Trump did shit like that. It is wrong, but okay, that's life in politics.
There is no justification for slavery. There is no equitable rationale for paying 5/6/7/8 generation offspring of former slaves. Sorry, it just doesn't exist.
OK may have some virtue until you look at who is paying for what. Then, it all falls apart. Why should I pay a nickel for a local battle, the facts of which are long gone? And this idiot Biden wants to make a campaign tool out of it.
There is no equity in this garbage. |
