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The only way Black American businesses can improve is if they attract more consumers. The only way to provide more jobs for the community is if they patronize local businesses. The wealth of a community depends upon how many times money circulates or recycles within the community.

The formula for recycling community dollars has seemingly been mastered in every ethnic community except the Black community. Other ethnic groups set up their community and encourage recycling through various means of communication such as signs, billboards, cultural symbols or language just as the Black community does. Secondly, they set up small businesses to serve each other, just as the Black community does. Thirdly, they spend with each other first before spending with other ethnic groups. This is where the differences lies.

The Baton Rouge NAACP is addressing the fact that students of color face harsher punishments in school than their white peers, leading to a higher number of youth of color incarcerated. Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, African Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of confined youth today.