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Article: `We need more help from the Black community'
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- Indianapolis Recorder
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- November 9, 1996
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Damani Dickerson
Indianapolis Recorder
11-09-1996
`We need more help from the Black community'.
In his 20th year of providing Indianapolis with superior food services, Stephen Johnson, owner of J & J Catering, is looking to expand business and questions the local Black community's willingness to provide support.
"It goes back to that same old saying, `White man's ice is colder than ours,'" the seemingly concerned Johnson said. "We need more help from the Black community."
Johnson believes the Black community needs to acquire economic power in order to become a viable force. He added that Blacks need to spend their money "where their mouths are" - their own communities.
Steven Scott, ...