Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings

It appears that despite institutionalized injustice towards African Americans they manage to be better off than Black people anywhere else. How does that happen?

> In the United States specifically, Black people are in a special position, because their very existence as a group is the result of colonization and slavery.

How's that different from Brazil, Haiti or other countries outside of Africa, and what have they done better than the white supremacist US of A?

> if the US finance system won't invest in Black businesses, is for Black people to "invest in themselves", so to speak, by choosing to buy from Back-owned businesses whenever possible

That doesn't make any sense.

Prices are the same for everyone, but if Black businesses are underinvested equity-wise (I don't believe that, but let's assume your claim is correct) and African Americans have any money to spare, it makes more sense to buy shares in Black-owned businesses than for example FAANGs, because that's where you can get extra profit.

It also doesn't make sense for Black consumers to buy from Black businesses just because they're Black-owned. The same logic applies to "Buy Local". You won't be better off economically if you decide based on personal politics (as we know from Free Market economists, free market makes the consumer pay for racist preferences, whether affirmative or negative.)

> So this is primarily about helping Black people support each other, in the absence of US institutions not supporting them appropriately.

The government isn't supposed to support anyone, whether it's Blacks or Wall Street banks. Its role is to protect citizens' constitutional rights.

Congratulations, you're perpetuating racism.

That sounds like bullshit honestly. I haven't seen any evidence that white people specifically have "invented" racism instead of being a position of power for the most part. There's plenty of evidence that racism existed throughout the history in all parts of the worlds and all the races are susceptible to it, it's just white ppl historically ended up being on top for the most part.

To suggest that non-white people are somehow different and could not have possibly be racist or "invent" racism is to deny human nature and perpetuate the myth that the color of your skin makes you special albeit in a negative way in this case, and therefore is racist.

> In the United States specifically, Black people are in a special position, because their very existence as a group is the result of colonization and slavery. Their existence is a physical reminder of the racist origins of the US. And the injustice they continue to endure in the United States today - including of course police violence, but also housing discrimination, discrimination in the workplace, excessive incarceration, restricted voting rights, restricted access to healthcare and education, etc. - are a reminder of the fact that racism is still, today, deeply embedded in US institutions.

I like how readily every measurable statistically significant difference between races is readily attributed to racism without any attempt to explore multiple other possible explanations. Sure, the only possibly reason that the racial minority that that has been historically economically disadvantaged and repressed from advancing over generations has been poorer educated, engaged in more crime and less economically involved today would be racism.