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Tomy Brown's COMMENTS Race You Save May Be Your Own! It's open. It’s finally open. Singletary’s PlazaMart is open, andit is beautiful, it is perfect, it is OQtaf space equivalent!” prkk£u% boasted Elizabeth Laney lasFyear in the Columbus CalLandPost. Last week, the CMuknbus Citi zen Journal reported that 1 was in that Ohio city to lead an effort to sirve the largest Mack-owned supermarket in America. What happened to the symbol of black Columbus’ economic re covery in a one-year span? And what make me think that the efforts of the Buy Freedom campaign will be anymore suc cessful than a previous task force or the black ministers who recruited customers, raised. $17,000 in cash and volunteered to bag groceries at the Plaza umr^ ^9 In spite of competitive ^prices, the PlazaMart at its peak of customer activity, never did at tract enough Mack people buy ing enough to gross $200,000 per week - a breakeven point. On top of that,' the mayor Of Columbus, Ohio, made sure no rescue money would be made availaMe and the bdhk Seized cash, food stamps and inventory - guaran teeing empty shelves and no future sales, On the heels of the mayor’s and the bank’s pressure, the city turned up a white buyer who was willing to take tee Hi million superstore off bt Rick Single tary’s hands for a mere $600,000, along with a $6,000 month re duction id^pent Of course, Singletary would keqpthfe store’s debts. ' W To protect these Singletary stfgpf^ protec tion of the courts and was given legal protection to reorganize. Currently, the shelves of the PlazaMart are poorly stocked (the bank didn’t leave When we hold a Freedom Rally on November 19 at Mention Auditorium at Ohio State (information i 614 253-4444), the black citizens of Columbus will be given g free dom Referendum. Do they want the 130 Jobs and tee $25 million a year that this *tore can keep in Mack hands in Columbus? They will, of course, vote to do so. I will tell them 20,000 people will have to sign a pledge to voluntary shop each week for one year at the em battled PlazaMart. We will then ask 3,000 of those in attendance to take 10 pledge cards and return them the following day. Allowing for human error, 20,000 consistent customers will have been recruited. Other abandoned black mer chants in this area will also gain - new customers by the infusion And if 20,000 people a week shop at PlazaMart first, then shop elsewhere for goods not in stock, the store will remain open and the buyers will see better stocked shelves with each visit. “If you spend $100 a week, spend about $20 with us. You can still support other black businesses with the Freedom Seal and white supermarkets,*’ explained1 IflLh amgieiary. Singletary knows that 20,000 people spending $10 a week will make the $200,000 necessary to hire 130 blacb, .people. It could also work if 10,000 people spent an average of $20 a week. While blacks in Colufnbus spend $2.5 million for food each week, 95 percent goes to non blacks. Many blacks in Colum bus pray for Singletary’s Plaza Mart while buying from the Arabs, Jews, Chinese, Koreans and Cubans. Which is why you’ve never seen an Arab, Jewish, Chinese, Korean or Cuban business go bankrupt in a black community. Blacks only bankrupt black businesses by not buying from them. Blacks also create Mack unemployment, single parent homes and low IQs by not buying from Mack businesses. . Rick Singletary knows that he is a national model for black retailers and he does not want his rescue to take sales away from other Mack businesses. But he is holding on by his finger tips. Remember, the race you save may be your own. ‘Tony Brown’s Journal”. TV series can been on public tele vision Sundays on Channel 42 at 5 p.m. It can also be seen on Channel 58 Sundays at 6:30 p.m. Please consult listings. Wind Ensemble To Present Concert The University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Wind Ensemble will pre sent its fall concert under the direction of John Harding at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 17, in the Reci tall Hall of Rowe Creative Arts . Building. The pro gram is free and open to the public. The Wind Ensemble is a scaled-down version of the concert band. The 30 wind and percussion players will present an interesting and varied program includ ing: “Overture on a Southern Hymn” (Won drous Love); Pergolesi’s “Prelude and March; ” The Finale from Strauss’s “Death and Transfigura tion;” the overture to Wagner’s “Die Mesiter singer;” selections from “The Wiz;’’ and two Sousa marches-“The Thunder er” and “The Stars and Stripes Forever." Also planned are some small ensemble works done by groups from within the lar ger ensemble. This will be the first of ficial appearance of the UNCC Wind Ensemble un der the baton of Harding, who returned to North Carolina this fall from New Mexico State University— where he directed the brass ensemble program and the jazz program. Harding taught for three years in Las Cruses, three years at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, and 10 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Community News Sports Church News Entertainment News You Name It... We Have It All! READ The Charlotte Post I SAVI! SAVE! Time & Money You can save both by beating the best buys in town in POST ods. You can also have the latest news, classified ads and features on local people of interest as well as new and old favorite recipes, sports and entertainment articles at your fingertips each week. Sabnrtfco Today* ■■■■■■■■■CUT OUT AND MAIL TO:<»«™«i 1M CMJUHLOTII POST P.O. 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