The uncomfortable truth about black wealth in the UK

Now, before I continue, most of you may have heard about Elaine LePain when she kind of came out and said black people need to boycott all Asian stores and buy black.

And if you didn't, let me refresh your memory real quick.

Should we boycott Asian shops? Is that what we should do? And then every one of them said yes.

Yes.

Because how are Black people supposed to mobilize if they're in our communities? It's not no Asian hating.

It's about economics and why Black people can't keep their Black money within their community.

So when you, when you go to your corner shops and you know, um, the food stop that they sell, right? They sell our food.

They go to the corner shops, they have chicken shops lined up in our thing.

It's all going back in there to keep into their community.

How's it coming back into ours? We have to boycott them.

We don't want to, but we have to boycott them to keep it within our community.

Otherwise, how are we going to progress?

That video went viral.

She got a ton of hate for it.

A lot of racist comments.

I'm not a proponent of that.

And in many ways, I understand and agree with what she's saying, but there are some fundamental reasons why this ain't gonna work.

And this video is not for me to go against her points.

It's more just to highlight where black businesses are.

in this country.

Everything I'm about to tell you is coming from official data.

You can find it.

I'll put it in the description.

And look, people are very quick to argue with feelings instead of facts, but I'm only here to spit facts.

And I'm going to start with the data because I think if we start with the data, we can remove all the emotions.