Buying Black Daily

@shopblackowned is one of the many entities encouraging support for Black-owned businesses.

There’s been a significant uptick in urging people to “Buy Black”, and “Support Black-owned Businesses”. Covid19 has exacerbated the need to support small businesses which have been devastated due to the global recession (call it what it is). This is a recent story that suggests that Buying Black is the future (because it is, which is why some folk are attempting to stop it).

The day after Thanksgiving has been called Black Friday for years. Wooing Black consumers was the ONLY Black focus of Black Fridays, in actuality. Covid19 has altered the universe of Black Friday. Covid 19 has put businesses — especially minority owned businesses — in the deep red, unfortunately. One response to the pandemic, that is a good thing. is that curtailed the usual display of “expressions of gratitude” that the news typically reports —shoppers knocking down their fellow woman/man to get that discounted flat screen TV. I don’t miss seeing the must-have kids toy be ripped apart, in a surreal, rabid-looking, post-Thanksgiving dinner tug of war. That was NEVER good look for a society that was supposed to be “civil”.

Yes, Covid19 has prompted new shopper decorum (Online), even as people are still (unfortunately) partying & worshipping, as if the…