THE CAPITALIST NIGER
Today, the New York Taxi business is totally in the hands of Indians and their brothers from Pakistanis.
On November 3, 1999, the great Black actor Danny Glover complained that he was ignored more than
five times by New York taxis passing him by and picking up Caucasian passengers after him. In fact, I had
already written on this in another section before hearing of Mr. Glover’s compliant. Okay, the New York
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City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani seized on this politically incorrect incident to clamp down on these taxi
drivers by sending Black detectives to pose as passengers waiting to hail taxis. That is a misplaced
solution. The underlying fact is that the Indians saved their money and purchased the medallions which
now cost almost a quarter million dollars. The only solid solution to solving this problem is for Africans
to band together to purchase as many taxi medallions as are available. Even Mr. Glover could easily