This is a incredible post from one of my networking friends from the iZania Black Networking community.  I think it's the most powerful statement when it comes to blacks starting businesses online that I've ever seen and from my personal experiences and reactions from friends and family about starting businesses online today.  Why I still go through so much negativity and wondering when I will go back to my J.O.B. at the post office.   I just turned $6 into $550 in 30 days and steady growing.  I'm looking at them like they are crazy.. But after I read this post, now I know where it's coming from.   We still have alot of growing to do as a people. 

Written by Ivo     Jackson  

Greetings to you all,

I think that the reason that more Black Americans don't start out on their own is because of fear. We are afraid to fail, afraid to make ourselves any more vulnerable than we already are...

And the schools we attend prey on our societal fears. We are taught to want to work for someone else, and if we get a high-paying job that makes some wealthy person much more wealthy, then we've hit it big.

But that's why Black schools should teach Black people how to attack Black problems (it rarely happens...and its sad)

Wealth building is definitely a Black problem. Why? Because most of us just don't have good sense. Well, not good economic sense. And how could we? We've only been "free" a little over 100 years, and just 40 years ago they were waterhosing us and hanging us in record numbers down south. And as soon as we got a little legislation, here comes the government with the dope game. We have had so much to deal with socially, that we haven't seen the desperate need to learn about the society and the economy we live in. We're just too young developmentally to do it.

So with all of the fear and ignorance, the Black masses who want to start businesses of their own need duplicatable systems. Black Americans who aren't that talented at business need franchises and chain stores. Why? They're duplicatable. Black people who aren't that talented and DON'T have $30,000 accessible to them need network marketing. Why? In a good, reputable company, the success is duplicatable. Do this, this, and this, and you will make this. Period. Its true. So why don't people succeed in these ventures? Becuase they didn't follow the instructions, or because they did not join a company worth joining. Don't try and sell me health products and you're 500 lbs. Don't try to get me to join something that doesn't have a product I am even remotely interested in. Don't spend all of your money buying networking tools when you don't even have a network yet. These are huge mistakes network marketers make, and its due to a lack of knowledge. Most Black people don't study marketing, business, and economics, and we don't have the aggregate social background to "just know certain things" the way wealthy people do. So we sometimes fail for a lack of good common sense. I hope to help change that, however. If you don't get rich at network marketing, that's okay, as long as you get what you put into it. That solves a problem. That's good business.

Many of us need safe businesses like that. Some of us who are more talented but don't have flowing assets could use a network marketing opportunity FROM THE RIGHT KIND OF COMPANY to gain capital for other ventures. Successful, larger Black businesses should consider expansion or franchising of some kind, so that other investors can duplicate the success and dominate the market.

I could talk about this forever, but in respect of your time and mine, I will be brief and just conclude by saying that we're scared to fail for a multiplicity of reasons, almost all linked to our heritage of oppression and our subsequent shirking of responsibility to ourselves.

I.C. Jackson