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How My Dad Used His Startup Money to Start a Business

My dad used that money to start his first business, which was a small gas station. And he was the most in 1980. He was one of the most successful black business people,. But when he got to that level, the city literally systemically destroyed him tax wise. They came after him. The major newspapers were refusing to cover these stories. So they asked my mother to put together a pamphlet. Initially she did it for free. Her, her goal was to try to get people in the community to realize that these stores were back open. That started to happen. Other black people that had a little bit of money scraped it together and helped them to start what's now called the

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