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CHARLESTON, S.C. — For decades here, there was little mention of the rich culture of the descendants of slaves, many of whom fished and farmed on the nearby sea islands.
Despite the rewriting of reality and lack of recognition from outsiders, the culture of West African slaves was nourished by their descendants. The isolation of the sea islands where they lived helped keep their language, arts and traditions largely intact.
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Jeff Kunerth | found at Orlando
Sentinel
Posted March 7, 2007
There's a big river of money flowing through the Metro Orlando economy -- $300 billion-a-year wide -- but only a trickle of it goes to minority-owned businesses, the head of a minority development council told a group attending a community-issues forum Tuesday.
"Less than 1 percent of that money goes to minority businesses and less than a quarter percent goes to African-American businesses," said Malik Ali, president of the Florida Minority Supply Development Council. "The big picture is pretty bleak."
Panelists at the forum said that business and government need to do more to reach out to minority-owned companies, but minority businesses also need to do more to connect with the people who make the decisions.
"You have to be networking constantly, but you have to be networking with the right people and organizations," said Hudson Oliveira, a Progress Energy manager who works with minority suppliers.
Errick Young, minority business coordinator for OUC, said black business owners have not done as good a job as women and Hispanics in developing the contacts that lead to success. During the past 15 years, Young said he has seen the numbers of women and other minority-owned businesses increasing, while African-American small businesses seem to be retreating.
"African-American businesses have taken a step backward as far as producing goods and services," said Young, who serves as president of the Florida Minority Supply Development Council chapter for Orange, Seminole, Lake and Volusia counties.
At the same time, Young criticized corporations for not thinking about expanding their suppliers to include black-owned businesses. Young said an effort to reach area hospitals about working with small minority businesses failed to generate much of a response.
"They have not been very receptive," he said.
Small-business ownership, and the access to capital, is the key to economic growth in the black community, said E. Lance McCarthy, whose Metropolitan Orlando Urban League hosted the forum at Johnson's Diner in Parramore.
"It's very important we create and nurture minority small businesses," he said. "We need to improve African-American business participation and growth in revenue and job opportunities."
But for blacks looking to start their own businesses, Ali had some advice: Don't expect it to be easy, don't expect it to be fair, and don't expect it to be free.
"There is nobody going to give you money to start a business, so forget about that," Ali said.
The forum on minority business was the third in a series of monthly discussions of issues in the black community. The next "Grits & Issues" forum will be April 3 at 8 a.m. at Johnson's Diner on the subject of technology and minorities.
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