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lune 22, 2011
New Migration Needed for Economic Prosperity
The job market’s global revolution
businesses to grow faster is a great said the C om m erce D epartm ent and
w ay to grow o u r eco n o m y ,” he e x ­ his office provides assistance to
by G eorge E. C ukky
been propelled by new o p p o r­ plained. “A nd, so a big part o f our
sm all businesses trying to engage
W hen 2 million blacks
tu n itie s o p e n e d up by a d ­ trade w ork has been targeting, first, in international trade.
m oved from the rigidly-
vances in technology and the those sm all businesses that already
“T he generation that grew up on
segregated South to the
international rem oval o f q u o ­ export and learning more about them, the W eb - w here they live, breathe,
N orth, W est and M id­
tas, tariffs and outrageous e x ­ w hat their challenges are and trying educate and shop - is a little less
w est from 1910 to 1930,
port fees.
to rem ove them.
intim idated,” Kirk said. “I tell people,
it was called the G reat
A nd th e re ’s also S u tto n ’s
“A nd secondly, that universe o f once you put up a W eb site, y o u 're
M ig ratio n . W hen a n ­
Law. W hen bank robber W illie people that have never exported,
global. O n the W eb, nobody know s
other 5 m illion A frican A m ericans Sutton w as asked w hy he robbed
eith er because they are afraid or w hether y o u ’re a w om an. C atholic,
fled the South betw een 1940 and banks, he reputedly replied, “ B e­
th e y ’re saying, ‘H ow am I going to B lack, tall o r straight. All they w ant
1970, m any seeking good jo b s and cause th a t’s w here the m oney is.” find c u sto m ers?’ T h a t’s w hy w e ’re
to know is, ‘I see you got a product.
a better life in N ew York, Los A nge­ S u tto n ’s law dictates that one does
putting out m ore inform ation about I think it m ight be able to help me.
les, Chicago, C leveland and Detroit, not ignore the obvious.
the Export Im port Bank. The bottom H ow do I get at it? ’ If y o u ’re not
it was called the Second G reat M i­
"One w ay to can create w ealth line: they finance y o u r sale.”
intim idated by doing business over
gration.
the W eb, I d o n ’t think it’s that m uch
U.S. Trade R epresentative Ron
o f a leap to begin thinking about
K irk thinks it is now tim e for a Third
global trade.”
G reat M igration, this one to far-
D espite anti-A m erican sentim ent
flung cities around the w orld. He
in som e countries, K irk said the U.S.
advanced that argum ent in his o f­
is still a strong brand.
fice, w hich is directly across the
“T h ey ’ll com plain that m aybe our
street from the old E xecutive O ffice
products cost a little m ore,” Kirk said.
Building.
-u.s. Trade Representative Ron Kirk
“They will com plain, ‘You preach to
‘‘W hether y o u ’re black, w hite,
us too much. You com e over here and
brow n or w hatever, the No. 1 c o n ­ and a better life - assum ing you
K irk said A fric a n -A m e ric a n s tell us about corruption, dem ocracy,
cern o f A m erican families is: “W here m ake som ething - is to think about
have not exploited their special co n ­ rule o f law and, frankly, if we do a deal
am I going to find a jo b ? M ore im por­ selling it to the 95 percent o f the
nections to A frica and the C arib ­ with China, we d o n ’t have to go
tantly, w here is this kid I ju st spent people w ho d o n ’t call the U nited bean.
through all o f that.’
x am ount o f m oney getting out o f States h o m e,” K irk advised. “If you
“C orporate A m erica realizes, ‘If I
“ But at the end o f the day, there
college going to find a jo b ? ”
look at the Fortune 100 com panies, am going to go to Brazil, I better find
is an im plied value proposition that
The jo b m arket has undergone a the absolute com m on denom inator
som ebody w ho speaks Portuguese if I buy this from G eorge and Ron,
global revolution.
am ong them right now is that they, and understands the c u ltu re ,” ’ he
it’ll probably w ork the w ay they say
“ 1 d o n ' t know why my friends are for the m ost part, are singularly look­
said. “ If I am going to A frica, I am it will. It's not counterfeit. If so m e­
upset w hen I say to them , ‘If all your ing at how they are going to access
m uch better served by having som e­ thing goes w rong, A m erica has a
kids do is w hat w e 'v e been doing, these hundreds o f m illions o f young
body w ho understands the values, legal system that can help me hold
we h av en ’t advanced the b a ll,’ “ said people w ho are grow ing up in A f­
reflects the culture and know s the them acco u n tab le.’ T h a t’s a huge
Kirk, w ho served as m ayor o f D allas rica, A sia, India, and Latin A m erica
ropes in K enya, G hana and W est advantage for us.”
and T exas Secretary o f State. “ O ur and are hungry for som ething called,
A frica. I w ant o ur young people to
K irk strikes a cautionary note
kids are going to live in London, in ‘M ade in A m erica.’”
realize, ‘ You ’ re more marketable now about international business. “ It’s
Shanghai, or in A buja (N igeria). It’s
Kirk believes A m erica can profit in a global, com petitive society than
a huge op p o rtu n ity ,” he said. But
ju s t as likely th e y ’ll be stationed in from that sentim ent.
you m ight have ev er b e e n .’ B ut you d o n ’t rush into it.”
Johannesburg as D etroit o r N ew
“If you w ant to attack the jo b got to think g lo b ally .”
George E. Curry is a columnist
York.”
grow th problem -a n d the president
B lack businesses m ust also look fo r the National Newspaper Pub­
That migration to London, Shang­ firm ly believes in th is - w hatever we
b eyond the shores o f the U nited lishers Association andformer edi­
hai, A buja and Johannesburg has can d o to em pow er and enable sm all
States, the trade official said. He tor-in-chief o f Emerge magazine.
I want our young people to realize,
'You're more marketable now in a
global, competitive society than you
might have ever been.’ But you got to
think globally.
better ta the (SLditer
overcom e the barriers o f m is­
education, poverty, fragmented
fam ilies, and isolation.
When I read "Hell in the City, the same time,
It is obvious that many o f us
a violent, new generation of gang-
The article rem inded me of
sters", (June 15 issue) I became what we are not doing to help are d isc o n n e c te d from the
very distressed and pissed off at our A frican A m erican youth youth we are calling “gang­
sters." And for that reason,
w e’re at a loss to find solutions
to the problem s being created
by their actions in the streets.
It’s as if we have forgotten
that children are not capable of
taking care of themselves, nor
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We can start by reaching out to
the families that are in serious
need of the guidance, wisdom and
resources of our community.
Our children need our undi­
vided attention now. Their fami­
lies need our undivided attention
now ! In Portland, many of us are
talkin’ da talk but not walkin’ da
walk. We are holding meetings
but are not coming up with con­
crete solutions to the problems
we say our children are creat­
ing. Their problems are our prob­
lems, and they are looking to us
for solutions. They are looking
for the wisdom, guidance and
creativity we say are their inher­
itance. If we don’t come forth
with those gifts, the regret will
be ours. So will the loss.
Brother Askari
Community elder