BUSINESS
BY MARKEE TATE, PRESIDENT & CEO OF THE ATLANTA BLACK CHAMBERS INC.
Why Black Business Matters
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s President & CEO of the Atlanta Black Chambers Inc., I help lead a mission to serve as an advocate for the creation and growth of competitive, profitable and sustainable Black-owned entities. As business owners, we can influence and make a positive impact in the country while gaining economic control of our community. Opening the door for black business owners and making it equitable leads to the wealth needed for our community to access quality education for quality job creation. Black Business matters because it is imperative that we become the backbone of economic wellbeing in our communities. Now is the time for us as business owners to wield the power
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that we must to influence change. And that means our young voices, too, many of whom are active in the racial justice protests. We are extending the conversation to the public to confront
this issue with ongoing discussions, using our platform as a place to amplify our voice to realize real-world results. Simultaneously, there is an achievement gap where many of us do not receive the best education possible to matriculate onward to higher learning institutions. Our lack of ownership—real and perceived—is wreaking economic havoc, and police brutality as a bullying tactic only exacerbates our ills. It is up to us to make changes in our community that benefit us by demanding for a
