The New Face of Entrepreneurship?
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Black entrepreneurs have always needed an extra level of determination, given historic hurdles to their success, such as racism, lack of mentorship and unequal access to financing, to name a few. But something is happening in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests: New fields are emerging worldwide, and pre-existing ones are creating surprising new opportunities from Silicon Valley to Ghana to Tokyo. How are today’s Black founders building generational wealth, and what are the new paths to the top? Today’s Sunday Magazine has the scoop.
The New Face of Entrepreneurship?
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By Nick Dall and Joshua Eferighe
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By Nick Dall and Joshua Eferighe
February20, 2021
Black entrepreneurs have always needed an extra level of determination, given historic hurdles to their success, such as racism, lack of mentorship and unequal access to financing, to name a few. But something is happening in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests: New fields are emerging worldwide, and pre-existing ones are creating surprising new opportunities from Silicon Valley to Ghana to Tokyo. How are today’s Black founders building generational wealth, and what are the new paths to the top? Today’s Sunday Magazine has the scoop.
Rantz: State funneled federal COVID relief to radical political groups, all based on race February 16, 2021 at 2:10 pm
Broken windows at a Tacoma Aladdin Bail Bonds. Some activists find cash bail racist. One group is trying to end cash bail for that reason. In the meantime, they ll pay for a suspect s bail. Now, federal tax dollars helped. (Jason Rantz, KTTH)
The Washington State Department of Commerce gave federal COVID relief tax dollars to nonprofits pursuing radical political agendas. Tax dollars even went to indirectly bail criminals out of jail.
The selection process for funding was based on race. And some of the vetting seems influenced more by ideology than by need.
February 10 2021
Our readers also believe Portland is ill but not dying, that the Oregon Cares Fund is a necessary lifeline, and more.
In George Washington s farewell address, he warned of the dangers of political parties and their dangers of partisanship even when current political parties were being formed by founding fathers John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. But even with Washington s warning, America pursued establishing the majority two party system we have today.
As an Oregon non-affiliated voter, it is basically impossible to run for political office with the requirement to collect a minimum of 1% of verified voters per district in the specified time allowed. Non-affiliated voters cannot vote during an Oregon primary election because they are closed, leaving them to only vote during the general elections, which only have approved party candidates. Was this what our founding fathers fought the revolution for?
City Club online forum will address inequities, solutions as pandemic effects vary.
Leaders of BIPOC business groups on Wednesday, Feb. 3, will talk about potential reforms after a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately hammered racial and ethnic minorities.
The hour-long discussion hosted by City Club of Portland, part of a series called State of the Possible, happens online starting at noon.
The pandemic has disproportionately hit BIPOC-owned businesses, according to several studies.
One study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last July concluded that 41 percent of Black-owned businesses in the United States shut down by April, as compared to 17 percent of White-owned businesses, 32 percent of Latinx-owned businesses and 26 percent of Asian-owned businesses.