Street Roots • Aug. 14-20, 2015
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Support local businesses that reflect our diversity
9022 N Newman Ave.
F | 'Miere are a lot of ways to support an equity
■ Cason’s Fine Meats, 8238 N Denver Ave.
I agenda in Portland — one of the ways is by
■ Ella’s Kitchen Soul Food, 3505 N Mississippi Ave.
X supporting minority owned businesses, or
■ Cannons BBQr5410 NE 33rd Ave.
frequenting places that hire people of color.
■ Horn of Africa, 5237 NE Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the people working in a local business don’t reflect
Blvd.
the neighborhood than I typically don’t support that
■ Queen of Sheba Int’l Foods, 2413 NE Martin Luther
business with my money. I don’t care how cool they
King, Jr. Blvd.
might be, or if they offer the best breakfast, beer or
■ AJ Java, 6425 N Albina Ave.
wine in town.
■ Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar, 5474 NE Sandy
The unemployment rate in
Blvd.
Portland for African-American
■ Alle Amin, 511 NE 76th Ave.
youth ages 16 to 19 is 55 percent
■ Chez Dodo, 425 SW Stark S t
For youths ages 16 to 24, it’s 28
■ Bete Lukas Eth Rest, 2504 SE 50th Ave., Ste. D
percent. That’s more than
B y Israel Bayer
■ Gojo Ethiopian, 915 NE Alberta
unacceptable. It’s up to every
■ Emma’s Ethiopian , SW 9th & SW Washington
Portland business and non-profit to
■ Caribbean Kookpot, 625 NE Killingsworth
make supporting and employing
■ Portland Prime, 121 SW 3rd
minorities in our community an
■ Sunday Table Kitchens, 213 N Killingsworth S t
intentional effort
■ Sweet Street Bbq, 7410 NE MLK Jr. Blvd.
The reality is that when you believe that there is no
■ Solae’s Lounge, 1801 NE Alberta S t
hope — no chance at an education, or a decent paying
job after high-school, much less a career that you love — ■ Amalfi’s Restaurant, 4703 NE Fremont S t
■ Taste of the Bayou, 3441 N Vancouver Ave.
it’s easy to simply give up and let the chips fall where
■ Stoopid Burger, 3441 N Vancouver Avè.
they may.
■ The Oregon Public House, 700 NE Dekum S t
It’s something that has to change.
■ Right Bayou Cajun Cuisine, mòbile cart, currently at
One of the ways Portlanders can help support social
SW 10th and Alder
change in their everyday life is by supporting minority-
■ Alberta S t Fish & Chips, 1451 NE Alberta S t
owned businesses.
■ Peaches Ready Spaghetti cart, 5800 NE Martin
There are a number of places you can go to find
Luther King, Jr. Blvd
listings of minority-owned businesses in Portland,
■ Eliot e-Mat cafe, 2808 NE Martin Luther King, Jr.
including going online and visiting Travel Portland and
Blvd.
the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs.
■ Sengatera on MLK, 3833 NE Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chambers of commerce are also excellent resources for
Blvd.
.
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learning more about minority-owned businesses across
■ Rahel’s Ethiopian in the Cartlandia Pod on SE 82nd
the spectrum. "• b
■ Aberus Ethiopian Restaurant, 438 NE Killingsworth
:. A .Facebook event has gone viralthis week to support
black-owned restaurants on August 29 and 30. Everyone S t .
■ NE Creperie, 3441 N Vancouver Ave.
should take part. Saying that, we should be supporting
■ McDonald’s at 82nd/Foster 82nd/Johiison Creek,
these businesses every day. The following is a list of
82nd/Sunnyside
businesses put together by the group. Forgive us if
■ Olive or Twist, 925 NW 11th Ave.
we’ve left anyone out.
Mama’s Kitchen , 611 Main S t, Vancouver
■ Dub’s S t Johns 9520 N Lombard S t
■ ■ Po’Shines Cafe De La Soul, 8139 N Denver Ave.
One business on the list, Po’Shines Café De La Soul,
■ Poshette’s Cafe,, 7015 N Greeley Ave.
not only offers some of the best soul food in the city,
■ Crown Q, 445 NE Killingsworth S t *,
but they áre also training young people through a
■ Dalo’s ,1533 NE Alberta S t
workforce program called Teach Me To Fish. The
■ Enat Kitchen, 300 N Killingsworth S t
program gives people the opportunity to learn about
■ Fuel Portland Oregon, 1452 NE Alberta S t
and experience culinary skills while working through a
■ Enjohi Cafe, 910 N Killingsworth S t
host restaurant and catering business. It’s the kind of
■ Columbia International Cup,
program that should be replicated by many locál
businesses. Check it o u t -
Another example of supporting minority businesses
is to support minority winemakers, which we
featured in the July 31 edition of Street Roots. Did
you know that only about 1 percent of the 600 plus
winemakers in Oregon are minority-owned
businesses? Foundations, the nonprofit industry,
local businesses and families should make it a
point to support these wine labels. Two
vineyards that people could start with are
Seven Sales and Abbey Creek Vineyard.
There are a lot of. ways of supporting
minority-owned businesses, from home
repairs and construction jobs to
supporting immigrant’s workers at VOZ
and more. If we can modify our habits
around things such as oil consumption
and the environment, we can certainly
begin to regularly support minority-owned
businesses in an intentional way.
DIRECTOR'S
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Israel Bayer is the
executive director o f
Street Roots. You can
reach him at
israel@streetroots.org
or follow him on
Twitter @israelbayer.
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