Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some blacks have built big enterprises, mostly in banking, insurance and cosmetics. Still, Negroes own only about 2.5% of the 5,300,000 U.S. businesses. That 2.5% accounts for only 1% of U.S. business receipts. The aspiring black entrepreneur has even more trouble than the white in getting loans, insurance or contracts from large firms, and he is particularly handicapped by a lack of familiarity with modern business techniques. Unlike the white man, he can rarely draw on the experience of relatives and friends. Two-thirds of all small businesses fail in their first five years: the failure rate...
...learning to respect food and our own bodies by respecting where we eat it. We forget that food comes mostly from the earth, from natural life, and that it should be eaten in natural places, restaurants true to themselves and true to their customers, not extracted from some entrepreneur's mind or plastiform mold...
That man is what this piece is all about. He is the leader- he's the one who runs the band. He is proof of the power of evil. He is a capitalist, the prototypical entrepreneur, the Jack of Newbury of the music world, because all he has to do is sit there waving his little fairy wand and twisting his head around so the cameras can see his ugly misshapen flesh that is called, merely out of convention, a face. He just sits there doing nothing while those horn players my god there about to burst their lungs look...