This is volume 39 of my monthly column entitled “Black Dollars Matter.” As I point out each month, this column is generally designed to compel Philadelphia’s major predominantly white-owned and white-led businesses to treat Black applicants/employees/businesses and Black consumers with respect. But, more important, it is also designed to convince Black people in Philadelphia to “do for self” economically because money talks and BS walks.
In this volume, I’m addressing Philadelphia’s monetary debt, or better stated, its resource-based/equitable opportunity-based debt to its historically and systemically oppressed Black residents.