A Year of Shopping Only at Black Businesses
Tim McDowell of Mother Jones interviews Chicagoan Maggie Anderson who embarked on a difficult year-long journey to shop only at black businesses. She says it was not easy.
The business consultant made the decision after living in the mostly white suburb of Oak Park left her feeling guilty about failing to spend in black communities. To put her mind at ease, she decided to spend only in impoverished black neighborhoods such as Chicago's West Side, Mother Jones reports.
"The whole point," she said, "was, 'You know what, we care about the West Side. We need to help those people, those are our people, and we need to do what we can to make a difference there.' So we thought, instead of buying groceries here in Oak Park we could go buy groceries on the West Side. And it was not that simple at all."
A Year of Shopping Only at Black Businesses
Lynette Holloway
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:49:00 GMT
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