Minority business enterprise

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Um, you know, I f- I feel like we're, we have transitioned from the MWBE, and even though I know that is important-

Mm-hmm

... and I think we need to make sure that those programs stay in place-

Yeah.

So we face it that way, but then we face it head-on.

You know, "We don't want anybody, uh, that's an MWBE on this project.

We just don't want it.

Google Trend is a very great place to start, you know, when you start in a business.

And to my Black-owned businesses, make sure you have an MBE online.

Or a WBE.

So a WBE is a women business enterprise.

Okay.

And most people who are minority or black owned women businesses do not know what that is.

MBE is commonly referred to as the minority business enterprise.

So there's two categories that you fit in, you know, and, you know, it's a for profit business, you know, and at least 51 percent on operating control by the U.S. citizens who members recognize racial ethnicity.

owners."This was a big deal when Richard Nixon was pushing this.

Once in the White House, he created the Office of Minority Business Enterprise, and this new office, along with the Small Business Administration, started to provide grants and loans to Black-owned businesses.

There was even a special program just to get loans to Black entrepreneurs buying white businesses, the Herman Petty situation.

The government ended up heavily subsidizing the growth of fast food franchises in urban neighborhoods.

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... help neighborhoods all across the country.

Other civil rights members started to ask, was junk food really the answer to inner city problems? This Office of Minority Business Enterprise gave loans and guaranteed loans and facilitated loans to lots of different companies, but a lot of them were junk food at the time.

Ralph Abernathy, the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said, Jacob?