Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anarchism, both as a doctrine and a political movement, has been pretty well defunct (except in Spain) for more than two generations. Yet today it is identifiable in the pattern of student unrest from Rome to Berkeley, and its black flag shows up persistently among the campus picket signs...
...catchy and promising phrase "black capitalism" became part of the language when Richard Nixon promised during his election campaign that his Administration would step up loans and other aid for Negroes to start their own businesses. As Nixon put it, the Government should act decisively to help Negroes gain their fair "piece of the action." The rather general idea that Negroes should lift themselves up through business ownership, as many other ethnic groups had done in the U.S., inspired hope and some votes among people of all races. "To the extent that programs of 'black capitalism' are successful...
There are still few capitalists among the U.S.'s 22 million blacks. They own only 3% of the nation's businesses - and that 3% accounts for less than 1% of U.S. business receipts. In greater Harlem, which has a population of half a million, there are fewer than 25 black-owned businesses that have more than 25 employees. Few of the important stores on 125th Street, the major artery of Harlem, are black-owned. True, more and more Negro entrepreneurs are rising, but too few have received any real help from the Nixon Administration, whose programs for black...
Budget Cut. At the center of the controversy is the embattled Small Business Administration, which was supposed to have been the primary financier, cheerleader and quarterback of black capitalism. The Government's general budget hold-down has forced the SBA to cut its loans. Funds for the SBA's four main loan programs were reduced from $554 million last year to $253 million in the current fiscal year...
...Senate Select Committee on Small Business recently postponed scheduled hearings on the SBA, concluding that the agency has so many problems that a "60-day reprieve" would be necessary for it to "gather itself together." The House Small Business Committee went ahead with its own hearings and heard blacks and whites criticize inaction, lack of imagination and the kind of slipshod procedures that resulted in the use of funds to guarantee a $135,000 bank loan to Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals star whose salary is $85,000. "Black capitalism has not failed, because it was never given...