Word: mclaurin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Either you have it or you don't," McLaurin said in assessing the chances for successful black entrepreneurship. He said that black businessmen can only be successful if they have innate ability...
...McLaurin concluded his speech with the thought that black businessmen must provide something unique for American business. "Don't be a black businessman doing a white thing. Give a little 'soul' to capitalism," he said...
...McLaurin also said that the "Establishment" tends to change the rules once blacks learn to take advantage of them. Laws regulating bank holding companies and foundations were tightened just as black businessmen were beginning to utilize them, he said...
Though corporations will hire blacks with business degrees and offer them higher salaries than comparably qualified whites, whites will rise in the system more rapidly, McLaurin said...
...McLaurin explained that blacks are hired more readily because "we are living in a time when blacks...have come to the attention of the country...