Last week, I was trying to make last minute dinner reservations for New Year’s Eve. It was a challenge because I wanted to eat close to Downtown. The only openings I could find were very early like 4 or 5 p.m. This is truly the night eating places and clubs can make a lot of money. After making dozens of phone calls, I got the bright idea that I wanted to eat at a Black restaurant. I called Carmi and they told me they were closing early. That surprised me, so I moved on and ended up at a Station Square restaurant that was not crowded at all.
This little episode made me think about the recent instructions of a Black talk show host on Sirius XM. The host said for Black people to patronize Black businesses. Tell me how to do that in Pittsburgh or in most major cities. You might be able to go to a specialty store to buy records, African artifacts or Shea butter, but if you want to shop and buy Black for necessities like toilet paper and paper towels, where do you go?
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