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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (201018)	6/2/2021 3:37:26 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362466

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.

To: Lane3 who wrote (201018)	6/4/2021 3:18:03 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362466

>> I reacted to the quote you posted and your calling it racist. I saw nothing racist about noting that Black entrepreneurs, in general, are disadvantaged because typically they have less wealth to pay for the professional services required for starting a business. There is no evidence of that, whatsoever. As I pointed out, blacks and women are a preferred class for all manner of government assistance, from federal all the way down to localities. This means in terms getting advice, financing, access to professionals, and pretty much every other aspect of business startup. When I was in the business of helping small companies get rolling (which has been about 25 years ago) I had far more resources available to blacks and women than I did a white guy walking in the door. If anything, the disadvantage leans against white males. My friend who was an employee of Resolution Trust Corporation back in the day, called from California and said, "Listen. RTC is going to be winding down its operations. We have a lot of real estate. If you want a piece of it it is there for the taking. What you have to do, though, is to set up an MWOB -- they're going to have the advantage." Just sayin'. I didn't do it, but I wished I had. The money was flowing. Hell, all I had to do was set up a business with my wife and we could have had all we wanted. Being a minority opens up Ft. Knox to someone wanting to go into business. There are those strings attached, but to argue minorities are mistreated in some way is really not a viable claim. Once one gets beyond the need for assistance, blacks, Hispanics, whites, whatever -- all have equal opportunity if their earlier financing has paid and they've shown skills. We give them money to build on -- a lot of it. They don't have to be Elon. Just run a profitable operation for a few years. I just disagree with your premise on this.