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- From: galan@netlink.cts.com (Greg Gross)
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 12:14:01 PST
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- Much has been made off an on about the purchasing power of the black
- community, but one look around America's cities and you don't see much
- being done with it. Not nearly enough, anyway.
-
- So why not pool our money and let what financial resources we do have do
- some work for us?
-
- Several years ago, a number of specific mutual funds were formed on Wall
- Street. These funds made it a point *not8 to invest in war-related
- industries. They also made it a point to invest in companies that had
- good equal-opportunity hiring records and were environmentally sound.
-
- What is to prevent us from doing something similar for ourselves?
-
- Whatis to prevent us from forming investment clubs of aour own, at the
- local level first, then larger...identify well-run companies with a
- history of equal-opportunity hiring or investment in black communities,
- or both, and invest in those firms?
-
- Or pool our money to be able to make loans to people wanting to start uyp
- their own businesses in black communities. Banks traditionally have used
- "redlining" against us; with our own pool of money to invest, we can work
- inside their red lines to our own advantage.
-
- What is to prevent a block of residents, or a church, or a social club,
- or any group of folks in the 'hood from pooling some money together,
- buying a rundown property in the neighborhood, then fixing it up and
- either renting it or selling it?
-
- And there are doubtless other ways we can put some of that legendary
- "buying power" to work for something other than buying cancer sticks and
- "8-ball."
-
- What are those ways?
- G.
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