Cincinnati business leaders formed the Minority Business Accelerator in the aftermath of the 2001 riots with the goal of helping to grow sizable, black-owned businesses so they, in turn, could create jobs and new wealth in the black community.
Now local Hispanic business leaders have asked the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber to broaden the scope of the MBA to include other minorities, too. If the chamber refuses, the name should be changed to the African-American Business Accelerator, said Alfonso Cornejo, president of the Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati USA.
“Hispanics are not accepted as minorities,” said Cornejo, owner of AC & Consulting Associates. “Don’t play the game of calling it minority, and it’s not minority.” READ FULL STORY
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