"Where Have All the Black-Owned Businesses Gone?" (Displaced By Immigrants, Of Course)
05/01/2017
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From The Atlantic:

Where Have All the Black-Owned Businesses Gone? They once served their communities when others wouldn’t, and over the past 30 years, they’ve practically vanished. BRIAN S. FELDMAN 6:00 AM ET

This being TNC’s The Atlantic, there has to be a mention of the Most Important Government Policy of All Time:

The Federal Housing Authority engaged in redlining, the destructive practice of refusing to issue mortgages in predominately black neighborhoods.

Of course, a text search of the lengthy article for the character string “migra” doesn’t find any “immigration”-related words.

On this 25th anniversary of shootouts between Korean liquor store owners and African-American looters in South Central Los Angeles, it’s worth trying to remember just how thoroughly immigrants snuffed out the flickering African-American shopkeeping impulse. The most bizarre example I can remember is straight-haired Koreans who spoke barely a word of English opening successful shops in Chicago that sold nothing but hair care products for blacks.

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