“One Man’s Opinion” Gordon Curvey

I went to church on Mother’s Day with my dear mother Mrs. Lorraine B. Harris and my brother Byron Curvey and we heard a dynamic sermon by a man named George Fraser who is a man who helps people who has dreams of starting their own business and more.

He gave everyone at Seattle’s legendary Mt. Zion Church something to think about as they left church. He for sure left me thinking and that is a fact everyone. He discussed a topic that I have talked about many times before in the past here on my website and on radio.

Mr. Fraser talked about how the East Africans and Asians have come to America to make money and feed their family and start a business. They have done a damn good job of doing just that folks. Here in Seattle’s Rainier Valley/Central Area, Asians and now East Africans have opened MALL AFTER MALL AFTER MALL of small businesses all up and down Rainier Ave South and MLK Jr Way South. It is unreal.

BUT as Mr. Fraser talked about, we as African Americans are NOT opening up new businesses like cleaners or a place to buy a new cell phone or a used car or a travel agency and more. We see African Americans as a whole opening up another church or another bar b cue joint or another beauty shop another barber shop. Something is wrong as Mr. Fraser said.

Fraser also made this point and he made it clear as a bell. And that is this. He asked us at Mt. Zion a question. And that is what are the wealthy NBA and NFL and MLB giving back to the community? We all seem to answer …not to much. And this is true. We have a whole lot of Seattle/Tacoma area fellas playing in the NBA right now. And truth be told they are really not doing much for inner city youth and the community ie. Central Area/Rainier Valley.

How bout a new waffle/chicken place like Roscoe’s in L.A. What about a new school. What about a new Boys and Girls Club. What about a new movie theater. What about new low income apartments. What about a new bank? This is not happening. Mr. Fraser said these guys are too busy playing golf and buying Mercedes and huge homes and have forgot where they came from. LeBron James is a NBA star who continues to give back to his home town of Akron. This needs to happen more here in the Seattle/Tacoma area.

It makes me sad as a African American to see others taking over my community. Hell there is not any mom and pops grocery stores in my community anymore. They are owned by Asians or East Africans or folks from Turkey or India etc. Truly sad folks.

Yes we cannot tell rich NBA players what to do with their cash. But it would be nice if these fifthly rich athletes can wake up and smell the coffee and open up their eyes and their brains and say to themselves they are going to give back to my community in which I grew up. I am going to give back to the community like a person who has been in the news a lot lately. Ervin “Magic” Johnson gives back BIG TIME! Unlike what the racist Donald Sterling says!! Sterling was as wrong as two left shoes!! I will be writing more on this topic soon because it needs to be talked about.