Florida’s Black business boondoggle

It’s 2012, an election year, and every other word coming out of the mouths of political candidates speaks about jobs and business.

What does this business talk mean to Florida’s and America’s Black business owners? The answer will come in an investigative report about the status of Black business in one of America’s largest states!

The Gantt Report has agreed with two professional and award winning Black journalists to put together a comprehensive report on Black business achievement, the laws written to assist and enhance Black business and the state, local and other agencies, departments and offices allegedly designed to create more Black business opportunities.

Let us know
Readers are encouraged to contact The Gantt Report via www.flcourier.com, or by going to my website at www.allworldconsultants.net to let us know your Black business success stories  – or Black business horror stories.

Has your media business been getting government and private sector advertising in this time of election-related extreme profit-making by White-owned TV and radio stations? Has your construction company or professional services companies gotten substantial contracts or sub-contracts from government or private sector builders and developers?

Has your company been helped or hurt by MBE offices that primary focus on “certification” rather than focusing on getting more Blacks involved in purchasing transactions?

Contact us and tell us your Black business story. No one will write our story but us, and no one will tell our story but us!

We hire Blacks 
Black business prosperity is important because Black businesses hire Black workers.

There were far more successful Black businesses 40 years ago than now.

Once upon a time, Blacks could buy everything they needed in Black communities from Black vendors and Black businesses. Nowadays, many African-Americans will drive past five Black restaurants to get to a Taco Bell or a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

All Black businesses are catching hell. We can’t get business loans, we can’t get mortgages and we can’t keep our customers in some instances. Not only are the legitimate Black businesses suffering, the dope dealers aren’t selling as many drugs, the hookers can’t sell as much sex and the numbers runners can’t compete with unwinnable lottery games.

Governments are quick to go on trade missions in exotic countries and foreign locations but when will there be trade missions in the ghettos and barrios of America? Florida Gov. Rick Scott, explain to me how Florida is a “business state” when there are only two business from Florida in The Black Enterprise list of top 100 Black businesses in America.

Black elected officials, tell me. Even though you are quick to send out weekly press releases to Black media, none of those releases talk about bills you have sponsored or pushed that will help Black businesses make more money.

Numbers never lie
The number of contract opportunities for Black businesses in public and private sectors is worst than dismal. And don’t talk to me about “minorities” and business. White women and Hispanics, in terms of business, are not in the same class as Blacks!

Help us put this story together about Black business in Florida and in America.
Share your experiences and ideas with us.

There is power in Black community unity and in Black business unity. We need to put an end to the current Black business boondoggle!

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