When I read this article,
A Future For Enterprising Black Students , this is what I see:
I found the kids thoroughly engaged in a smaller session with energetic alumnus Derwin Corria, whose Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries franchise is a favorite hangout for the Howard community. And while it's a fabulous idea to break the entire freshman class into 54 groups that compete for scholarships by coming up with a business plan for a new enterprise, it's obvious from the couple of working sessions I attended that real-life entrepreneurs are needed to guide students through the process.
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But a recent study, also funded by Kauffman, puts the lie to the notion that blacks don't even think of starting their own businesses. At any given time, a significantly greater percentage of blacks than either whites or Hispanics is attempting to start a business. And this difference widens further among those in middle age, in upper-income brackets or with advanced degrees. Among black males with graduate degrees, for example, the "nascent entrepreneur" rate was 25 percent, compared with 11 percent for whites.
Howard University has now taken up the challenge of understanding this gap between entrepreneurial impulses and entrepreneurial success among black Americans, and coming up with strategies for closing it
That's a positive vision. But how many would read the information about Blacks lacking in owning businesses and take it from there?
Whose vision is positive? Whose vision is negative?
And what does it mean?
Who do you want filling the airwaves toward your community?