Where Is The Evidence?
Where Is the Evidence? Before We Build the Neighborhood, We Must Become the Neighborhood Every generation has inherited a familiar conversation. We hear discussions about ownership. We hear calls to buy land, support businesses, create banks, improve financial literacy, educate our children, and build stronger institutions. These conversations are valuable, and many people have devoted their lives to making them a reality. Across the United States there are Black-owned businesses, banks, schools, nonprofits, investment groups, churches, community organizations, and countless individuals who have sacrificed time, money, and energy to create opportunities for others. Their work deserves appreciation, not dismissal. This essay is not an argument that those accomplishments do not exist. It is an argument that we should ask ourselves a different question. Where is the evidence that we are collectively prepared to produce the next level of economic coordination? That question is not ab...
