https://startupsoutherner.com/2016/09/07/importance-supporting-minority-women-entrepreneurs-south/ Inform, include and empower the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Southeast Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:40:56 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 https://startupsoutherner.com/2016/09/07/importance-supporting-minority-women-entrepreneurs-south/#comment-406 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:05:21 +0000 https://startupsoutherner.com/?p=2193#comment-406 I’m appreciate of this article because it discusses the inclusion problem (in the South, in startups, in general) with frank language and meaningful data. Too often the conversation about this issue becomes watered down – and I fear that weakens the sense of severity and urgency that some people perceive. When statistics are so dismal, we as a community and an economic sector deserve to be confronted, and hopefully challenged to take pragmatic action now, not daydream about an utopian future later, when we can (we imagine) painlessly change the world, after throwing token effort at the problem while we pursue individual success. Collectively, we either want to be more egalitarian or we do not, and that will be evidenced by how we act, together.

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