Economic Corner 12 - 02/12/2025 offline internets and intranets

[richardmurray]

Economic Corner 12 - 02/12/2025 offline internets and intranets 
What do you think should be the future of black owned websites? 

 

[ProfD]

Time flies. That dialog is 1 year old already. 

 

Nothing much has changed. There is not mega-Black-owned website.

 

Apparently, there's no real incentive to create such a website when Black folks are comfortable using the white-owned sites i.e.  F*c*b**k, X, Inst*gr*m, T*kT*k, G**gle, etc.

 

I still think the Black church tribe is large enough to warrant creating  their own internet platform.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD 

On 2/13/2026 at 1:31 AM, ProfD said:

Time flies. That dialog is 1 year old already. 

 

exactly, what has changed, what has evolved. 

On 2/13/2026 at 1:31 AM, ProfD said:

Nothing much has changed. There is not mega-Black-owned website.

 

Apparently, there's no real incentive to create such a website when Black folks are comfortable using the white-owned sites i.e.  F*c*b**k, X, Inst*gr*m, T*kT*k, G**gle, etc.

 

I still think the Black church tribe is large enough to warrant creating  their own internet platform.

And your words provide what has changed or not, what has evolved or not. The issue then is still here. 

To your point, of the black church , one issue. 

The black christian churches in the usa as a collective are large enough but the black christian churches don't act as a cohesive collective. They are a tribe, but they are very individual. the black christian churches of New york city is a microcosm. harlem is full of black christian churches, abysinnian is historically the most potent, in terms of revenue , money, but abyssinnian has never tried to create a unity among black churches in new york city... to my knowledge, and if they did in the past, they clearly failed. 

So from a population perspective I concur 100% to you. But strategically, something new is needed that doesn't exist now. 

I can tell you, black christian churches[baptist/methodist/jehovah's wtiness/et cetera]/black muslim mosque/black jewish temples all exist in harlem today. You can argue, if black religious groups in NYC alone came together to make such a platform online they would have the numbers. But, when you look at the most organized set of churches in nyc, which is the catholic[ black, non black, or other] you see one question has to be answered? who will be the pope? who will be the archdiocese? 

The southern black christian leadership conference has a council but also a  president. so... they have the populace to warrant but they don't have the organizational flexibility to warrant. 

thinking on this and I thank you, Al sharpton has national action network, which has associations to various religious groups but they all do it willingly on their own. They haven't made a creed so to speak, to legally join them.  I argue he probably has the best media face to start such an endeavor and definitely has the ear of the pastors/priest/episcopals to most in the black religious populace in new york city. But, he is older and his idea of integration's path in the usa as well as indiividual allowance in the usa probably makes the idea of such a website , negative .