The Neo Conservative Black

 By

Sampson I.Onwuka

 

One of the difficult and trying arguments in popular African American networks is what happened to Black Banks or African American financial constitutions. I have come to understand that this is taken as a coloration of the institution and many people not at ease with it. The idea of Black banking may be forced through a round robin of interest, for instance a Heritage bank or Black interest should occupy the frontal exposition of most introspective on African America – however connected to Indian blood – should reflect its weight of expectation and possible curve. Perhaps a Kwanzaa Bank may be a way to go, but what does it all mean for the rest of the Society to build a Kwanzaa Business tapping from new systems of studies and cultural filiation to revived interest in the propagation of Black Cultures. White people has a lot to do with it, perhaps Latino others, but especially White women should be looked at from polar ends of new challenges of being African Americans. It has always been the center of black experience – at least in America – that Africa Women may be considered responsible for keeping the flame up until lately, but they are not without blame in shifting the new generation from the center and the caucus. 

 

What is the definition of Black Business one might ask, and here we take a second look at the operational dynamics of African American business men and women in many works of life and determine that a Black business is any business began first and foremost by African Americans and their relative kind, maintained with the purest intent at profit; either in concert with African American or without them – solely for interest of generating highest possible dividend for those who harbor implicit faith in such an enterprise, thirdly, that it was invested with direct see of a peculiar neighborhoods with majority of the crème of employment entirely if not particularly devoted to black employees. Of course the idea that wins the rest of us, including Rainbow Coalition, Pan Africanist, Black Arcana, Arcata Africana, Black fraternities and Sororities is one ultimate philosophy ‘total good for the total community beginning and ending with our kind’.

 

The question is what exactly is Black in business respect of sense of American enterprises and whether or not these new group of black elites preaching African American businesses are trying merely trying to put a new barge on the old and broken Negro community circle? Many of the remaining societies of African Americans have equally made comments that they have in their blood lines extending coloration of the active milieu of races and ethnicity, that in fact some of the colorful of these groups point that they have no hints of African and Black in them and harbor no angst against any group including these African Americans. The public view from these important dialogue takes a heightened and new meaning when the story from all corners of its interpretive circles extends to other departures in South America and in Caribbean. Sadly, the age that may have allowed the consternation of these stories belong to History, perhaps and with reason, the age of Civil Struggle where a littoral of Blacks were busy scoring for a chance to freely vote and so vote decide the outcomes of their society. Once upon a time in the history of these movement and its efforts to mitigate forces against these in all classes of respect and decorum, we are privileged as Americans to witness the rise and sustenance of the long serving and Nobel prize deserving NAACP, though entirely concerned with political and legal banter affecting a special case of people, it has more than once embraced the financial frontiers of these African Americans and their colorful in-between.

 

There are no struggles as we speak, there are no in-between if half of these themes are taken into consideration, there are shocking lack of go-betweens measuring the outlines of the US constitutions enjoyed by a special kind against the special privileges which for reasons of their own are no longer at ease in US. Is it then an end of Black in kindly sense of the word, for what we know nearly all products manufactured by the beautiful elan of the darker hue has more than seen the better of the day in the canopy of others. We can come to an end or beginning of these tales-tells, by painting a new and vital estimates of the new attitude to businesses which is characteristic of businesses owned and managed by Africa American and for Black.

 

Haven an open watering hole on idea and investment possibility in US is a Global initiative that should take from America what is learned from the last 200 years to other places in the world. In Russia, we may have not seen any such thing as Black Community – at least in very recent times – and in China there are few and far between. But Asia taken collectively has enough black sparing, and these groups are not minorities in Asia but part of the main stream. It will be difficult and inappropriate to consider these people without historical links to Africa as Afro-Asiatic, although world history gives the impression from Africa through the era of European expansion, Black presence in Asia does refer to this people and the incident is not so recent. It is possible many of their ancestral roots to be African, a lot of black Asians, and many of them have a long history coming from through Africa, but their color is not synonymous with Africa as much color is synonymous with America, Asia and Europe. In some dispatch, Africa is correlative to Asia. Plainly writing, Africa and Asia has a colored history and it include white skin and not albinos. It is wrong and incomplete to assert that Black should be considered a people, the word Black is really original to Baltic; Black or Barbarian in Europe South of the Border. The word Berber for Barbarians refer to a group of nomads who made it into Europe over the long swat of world history and worked mainly on precious metals, spice and medications, but are originally from Africa like the Nomad from East Numidia for Africans. In business, the color black worn mast by the Venetians, Italians (Genoa) – eventually Medici, Jews and Amadis of Gaul, separated them from whites worn mast by European countries under the assistance of Templars. So Black and White have their distinct histories which like Red and White flags have their histories in Russia or China, but the influence of religion created additional problems for this separatist group and in separate formats of world’s history, the Catholic and Christian reforms saw purgation in all classes of this respect. Long story short, the skin color of certain Africans, certain Asiatic, certain Europeans such as the Turks, and in recent times Afro-South Americans, Afro-North Americans, is derived in comparison to the rest these established color variants. The story takes a different form when compared with business routes, routes of interest that connect Europe and the Baltic to this part of the world.

 

Black Enterprises; In the Black; A history of African Americans on Wall Street by Gregory S. Bell, though a cursory glance at the books is quite demanding, but it’s definitely on a higher pedestal to James A. Anderson ‘Black Enterprises’. For obvious reasons that a book of such as Anderson ‘Black Enterprises’ is not generally a book of all seasons, a separate treaty from Gregory S. Bells that attempted to examine the frontiers of Black business in New York and some of the challenges that these few seeds of the block end up facing.  For a man such as James A. Anderson who prides himself as the leading expert in Blacks in Business, Wall Street and Investing, the book is half the apple. I shall indicate that writing any reason of the Blacks in economic community of these United States or in the general business of the world, usually takes time. Here in this case with Anderson’s ‘Black Enterprises’; Guide to Investing, there is a lot of information that may prove important to new people in investing in the U.S, and in the categories that may be called International, the book throws good light on general possibilities associated with Black business investing. For instance, we may not have mastered the difference between a closed end investing category of the international and open end investing category. But from this man’s book, we learn that one "Closed end hold a portfolio of investments and rise and fall according to market conditions. They have a limited number of shares, and trade like stocks in the New York Stock Exchange."

 

The Black Wolf of Wall Street by H.R George in entertaining and provides its historical reindeer in the context of Black Wall Street. The story a solo black performance is perhaps an education for a Neo Con, for as much as we know that American history is riddled with Blacks making it to the top, there are cases of rises and falls in the business. Joseph Jett and the Kidder-Peabody is another example and his story resonates with concerns over allegations of misplaced finances, some of which were proven inaccurate but sent him tumbling from the office. But the history of Wall Street alone is a long career in the history of these United States, especially the roles that both the Dutch from Spain and from Netherlands including members of the Royal Company will play in New York and in parts of Pennsylvania before the 1600 events of Virginia and the English Royal Company. Of course, the founding ancestors of Wall Street do not historically include Rodriguez, believed to have died in the South, but obviously led his way into Dutch company that were mainly Jewish and Marrano, many of whom settled in the Caribbean, some of whom were part of the Royal Dutch following their excretion from Spain including the families of Teixeira and Baruch Spinoza. Their role in slave trade is not so clear, but between the land working gentry that were gifted the rights to protect Spanish and Portuguese interest simultaneously in North America and South America, is both the active presence of Moorish Europe – many of them black and brown and became part of the native American tribes – but not all, and the Jews from Spain and Portugal – not all, some of these Jews like members of Dutch party were Conversos, helped Spain and Portugal to redeem soldiers who surrendered during the Alhambra days through hard labor leading to a culture of dependency and eventually creating the case of human importation from unprotected continents of Africa and Asia. Slave trade was an outcome of these processes and with it is the culture of superiority which was achieved through these middle men. Yes, these groups of others including other Africans aided in creating and perpetuating slave trade and the culture that governed attitude of business and commerce relies on this scenario. 

 

Black businesses may have stifled over those years, may have led to theory that all blacks in Caribbean came from Africa directly or descended from Africans, whereas many of them came through Spain and Portugal, some of them have Arabic and Jewish bloods, yes there are those who may even contain shreds of mainstream European Blood.  But for Wall Street and the trading with the rest of the world, the first of these statement and theory came from elsewhere, that the current and historic site of New York Wall Street was where the Dutch and Stuyvesant dug in to protect themselves against the Manhattan Natives, where they also bought and sold gins, wines, logs of wood, clothes (fur), guns and gun powder. Then the Tobacco plantation eventually took over so also the issue of inland penetration of business before the advent of slave trade. The first of these business men and women came with the Dutch and a certain Christenssesen, but the first direct contact with the natives was done by Rodriguez, who was called the “Black rascal” with all the fitting descriptions of him, perhaps from St. Lawrence where Black Sailors; Estevan Gomez, Mathew De Costa established and reestablished contact simultaneously, and brownies such as Verrazano and Cartier from the French helped in their ways to transform what was left now as St. Lawrence into a Fur trapping center which may or may not have started with Afro-Europeans such as Estevan Gomez and Abuna Marcos (St. Marcos, a friar and Coptic; most probably Egyptian by origin given his name), both with connection to North Africa where for instance in Morocco presumed home of Gomez or his patronage roots is so named for fur trading and trapping. The contact between these black sailors and natives is a deciding factor in the later years of American business or can be measured that the role of the French in American business industries and fur trade where La Salle and Chaplin are well known, that their deciding influences in Canada and above the Natives in New York and Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey leading to the new areas called Ohio and along the Ohio river and Michigan are littered with very French influences and so called Natives. The surprise that has shocked a lot of people is how Ohio with no real connection to slave trade was able to contain the many number of blacks and Indians. Apparently there are stories from Canada and elsewhere such as France that history did not treat very well. For if we look at the age of Civil strife and struggles and see how the changes in some of its laws… 

 

There are stories about these Black Business men and women, some of whom from Africa who got involved in community development and when the attention was given to them, they absconded after receiving the deals and other enhances. There are cares of African Americans in Business, not just in business in U.S but elsewhere such as the Caribbean and as soon as the business went awry these people packed and left. There is a well-known history of the fracas between Marcus Garvey and W.E.B DuBois concerning the investment of African American churches and some people with money and a result of the competition between Garvey and DuBois, the rubber plantation investment in Liberia became a total disaster. It is now known or at least suggested that Dubois may have had a hand in Garvey’s disastrous business enterprises although there were others working for the then FBI under Edgar Hoover, some of whom engineered the downing of Marcus Garvey and some of whom did not respond to his captivity in Switzerland or thereabout and in the end, Black Investors lost a large portion of their business.

 

There will be Paul Cuffee, Orlando Equiano, Martin Delany, and others, but Rodriguez leads Wall Street to New York and in extensor, US, in particular New York Wall Street where of Blacks in Wall Street for history sake mirrors the idea of one Wolf among lions, or one black mane among the White Bears, the many will drown you and will win out.

In the past, Africa did business with peoples of world, Asia did business with people of world, and so did Europe who like the Americans may be an experiment that is quite old. The ideology of black is prolonged defeat setting from permanent class of Europeans and not Africans called gypsies. Gypsies by their name refers to Egypt and they spoke a language in post Islamic Europe that is comparable to Cyrillic with determined values from the Greek byzantine who ended their later years in Russia. Parts of Russian language can be compared to a late version of Greek as if Russia is similar to Greek, as if Russia restructured current Greek. These languages are laced from Byzantine, and it is here that a comparison with Coptic and other Nestorian derived and preserved languages can be compared. Coptic and Greek show remarkable relationship that the late redaction that Coptic is similar to Gallic as these two are similar with the Gothic. In fact a link between Coptic and other North African languages has been compared with serious limits of success with Gothic and are considered part of the same of origins. From the network of isoglosses of human disappearing languages without re-entering Asia through Africa, the whole evolution of people and language alternate and it becomes difficult to call one group for instance blacks, which for some of us was intend as a historical reconnoiter between a faceless identity and meaning, and the reality of a Super State with more than one share of this story. As such Africa America seem a green look at a possibility, Afro-Asiatic is also a definition of a possibility, and more than these possibilities is the rated interest of having natives who are called Indians as part of a Heritage that ends and begins with those who own the place. What is even Africa, we are better off calling ourselves a different name, no different or less enduring than Israelites, ‘the redeem of the lord’, whose history of African sojourn make exodus an African history and Israel in all its enduring histories part of comparative mythology that is attributable to Africa. What is Africa, it was a small island (province) in what was usually Tunisia, which the Romans occupied for a while which greatly extended to reasonable part of Tunisia, although historians will like to further extend it to limits of 1st Cataract it was hardly ever the case. Both the conflicts of Julius Caesar, against Egypt and for Cleopatra who is called Egypt, and the final days of Aksum during the reign of Ezana, may explain the lasting impact of Rome and Latin on Egypt and through Byzantine, but the fractured North Africa including groups of olive and mangrove traders in Libya and parts of Cyrenaica will place others further east under the many rulers and one era of female leaders in Ethiopia and Sabaean, Candace (Kandac), adds difficulty in presenting Africa as an extension of Rome – which is not – or a province or provinces occupied by Rome to be called Africa. It never was. The continent draw its blood from something entirely different, so we may mislead on our drive-in to reduce Rome to a child of Africa history through Persia (which it is and was, given Etruscans and Samnites who were land owners of what is Rome, were removed from power during a 7th BC (3rd BC) peasant revolution in Rome leading to a long chain civil and military intifada between Samna siding Etruscans against Rome who were eventually sided by Greek). The majority of world history during Rome and its new age were perhaps conditioned by the impact of Christianity. Christianity from the old Africa Chapels and Temples at Karnak and in Thebes, used in mythology of Osiris and cults of the dead were transferred to Christianity first as a national religion in Egypt then other parts of Africa. It torched on the Red and White Monastery from old Karnak Temple and Kom Ombo, whose buildings became through business and trade – the particularly the White and Red Monasteries -  were prototypes for Saint Sophie in Byzantine built by Africans with their signatures all over the buildings to the buildings that arrived in Rome. It may seem that Rome had it all from the beginning, but this is not the case with their buildings and architecture, even at the height of Augustus, Rome was a little better than other Cities but had the fortitude to provide it with sewages and well treated roads of marvel. But the first major buildings in Rome were historically enacted in the 4^TH Century CE, almost a century following the visions of Emperor Constantine II and his conversion to Christianity. The Architectural transition from Karnak to Byzantine, from white and red monasteries at Bayou (Africa), known for its tapestry depicting the evolution of history over a period of time through the use of thinly manufactured gold thread on the most enduring garment and for wall painting and murals, are articles of history that was perfected a century later in Middle East and by Cistern Chapel in Bishakur of Sassanid, are building prototypes with emphasis on the nymphs or nereids, whose faces emerge historically from the guardian nefis on the altar pieces of Egyptian obelisk; the theme of ark of God and of Israel, removed one step from the art of devotion and the analogies of the later day angelology.

We consider from older times until now, that a toy and cast between humans in imitation of worship and spirits exist, almost like the possessing art, no longer at ease with the humans. We may consider that the acts of having several Egyptian obelisk and artifacts inside Sinai suggest that these areas were no doubt mining districts for Egypt, they were parvenus for goods entering into Asia and from Asia into Africa.  But the building prototypes for Karnak were extensively used in Byzantine and re-used elsewhere and to the best of our knowledge Rome inherited Byzantine tradition of Architecture and the Goths who were both Muslims and Christians executed the best examples of ancient ways. It is part commerce, part trade that that are favored in Byzantine and then in Rome, that Vitruvius who is claimed to be father of Architecture is perhaps not complaining, whereas the best building still known to man were wrought at least 3 thousand before Augustus.

 

Pharaoh Snefu, Khufu – who argue is the same as Cheops, used pastel and liquid chalk and material to make what the Greeks called “Cheesecake” buildings or the Pyramids which glow White at night or from a distance - at least in these classic or pre-classic ages, white after so much has been done. So also the best theater plays, but like some British somewhat mentioned Adam Smith as the father of Economics. Architecture in historical context of commerce started entered into Syria which remained fragmented due to the conflicts between newly resurrected interests in later times. But connecting a continent to a province was really a historical putative of error but through the pens of Romans who spoke of Africa, it was applied later to mean the continent. Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Cush (Kushan), Chad, all disappeared, to a point that today we even speak on Near East which is a cultural reaction to Black history including Egypt which extended up to Sudan – meaning south border of Egypt. Africa, instead of Black land which is colored by history to refer to Fertile Crescent without mentioning Atlas in Morocco and the tribes of Anti-Atlas (Berbers) who could be called Black lands, Africa is a definition of many histories and cultures of the world. Between Morocco and Spain is a few hundred miles of lands and it will play itself out in the later years when religion takes hold. African history should be a kind of future regarding best application of process towards useful and meaning ends.      

 

Considering what now transpires as Black business or economics, the books of interest such as, the American Millstone; the examination of a nation’s Permanent under-class by Ovie Carter (1975), where he examined the lives of Blacks in Chicago and the hard choice between Welfare and underprivileged minimum wage jobs with increasingly diminishing hours, Carter worked his miracle in translating some of the hardship experienced by these people in Chicago, especially the individual families who struggle through tuition and new training meeting for the City and the State of Chicago. Such books are to be written on continues basis since conditions of African Americans in any part of the world, would serve as an example for others elsewhere – especially Black economics. Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver (1968) narrates account of his wishful revolutions in Mississippi and disgust in the wake of the conflicts in Mississippi, well noted for mature emotions although injured from his how town experience and speaks little of economic transformation, yet the book is an awakening classic on the problems black faced and were facing since Martin Luther and the economic way forward. The book wallows on emotions but gives the impressions of active business interest in respect communities was one way out of the situation. African Americans in Mississippi do not even know they are taken advantage of and in his words; they needed to be reminded from time to time.  Black Metropolis by St Clair Drake and Horace Clayton (1945) in a great account of Urban life and its considered, Soul of Black Folks by W.E.B Dubois (1903), Robert J. Yancy’s ‘Federal Government Policies and Black Enterprises’, Carl R. Osthaus ‘Freedman, Philanthropy and Fraud’,…and other books reflecting the rise of the Freedman Bank and it collapse. The Black Wall Street by Jay Jay Wilson and similar specie book by Hannibal B Johnson. Walter B. Weare ‘Black Business in the New South; A social history of the N.C mutual life insurance life” (1993) it’s an interesting narrate, Booker T. Washington ‘Durham, North Carolina, A City of Negro Enterprises, W. E. B Dubois “Up building of Black Durham.” Madame Chavers Wright ‘The Guarantee’, discusses the trials and triumphs of ‘The Douglass National Bank’ instituted in 1921, considering how the Banks managed to survive the Great Depression, that the Bank and its associates primarily focused on Black Businesses and ensured returns on their investment, through structured cloth industries and factories which made cloths for women. The Bank got actively involved in small business administration, and made systematic demands on the working American Population such as the Black Chicagoans and the Black Milwaukee. That there was toughness she mentioned does not fail to incorporate.

 

 

Juliet E.K Walker History of Black Business (1998) is a historical accounting of some of the major business and ventures originating from African Americans from the beginning to very recent enterprising. Like I mentioned, the book is good for the information it offers to the reader especially when there is not enough information of Black and black business and how they have performed over the years. It helps to form an estimate of the struggles facing Blacks in this day and age, why there are new reasons to interpret these problems from purely 24 Hr. business world, and why above all, we can be confident in separating African America business from other forms of business and re-opening the gap between Africa, Caribbean and America. This book highlighted some of the Black business abroad – which are far and few between – narrates the earliest deals between Pepsi and Joe Lewis, explains the root of brand name and brand names, why some of them disappeared and why others hung on for some time and then disappeared.  The Book has no interesting new ideas and offers nothing new, it separates old from the new in general chronology format. On importation, she mentioned George Schuyler that "There must be many things that the Haitians import which a Negro-owned company could supply. Soaps, Perfumed, and Cotton cloths comes immediately to mind. We already have the cosmetic factories (Walker, Poro, Apex, etc).  She cited that in terms of International Business, that Blacks have not done very well, that saving for the occasional names such as James Samuel 'Malta Boon' (James Samuel Lynch Fykes Jr - Business in Malta, Island - "Chez Jim" and of some coloration with the Black of Wall Street and Jones Brothers, the future frontiers for black businesses is not shockingly absent. The Cultural Revolution of the Americans Civil war is one of the best….There was also Jacgmar I and Jacgmar II of Mexico owned by Jones Brothers from Chicago and the business was eventually acquired for other reasons. The other expeditionary permeation of the two was also Simmons Royalty Company that charged 2% of mineral resources.