What's REALLY Stopping Black Businesses From Thriving
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ποΈ 1 September 2025
β±οΈ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You cannot go into a Jewish community and open up no type of soul food restaurant. |
| 0:04.0 | You cannot go into an Asian or a Mexican community and open up a soul food restaurant. |
| 0:10.0 | You cannot go in an Arab community and open up a fried chicken restaurant. |
| 0:15.0 | But yet, a Jew can come into a black community, a Chinese can come in a bad community, an Asian, a Mexican, anybody can come in a black community, a Chinese can come in a black community, an Asian, a |
| 0:22.1 | Mexican, anybody can come in a black community and open up any kind of store. |
| 0:26.4 | And the reason being is because we don't stand for nothing. |
| 0:30.6 | Atlanta's wealth divide. |
| 0:32.2 | A new report from the Atlanta wealth building initiative reveals a staggering revenue |
| 0:36.8 | gap between black-owned business and others in the region. The staggering revenue gap between black-owned |
| 0:38.0 | business and others in the region. |
| 0:39.8 | The median revenue for a black-owned business is just $129,683, compared to $737,000 for |
| 0:47.4 | non-black small businesses, a nearly six-fold difference. |
| 0:51.7 | This disparity highlights deep-rooted systemic barriers, limited access to capital, |
| 0:56.6 | fewer networking opportunities, and unequal market visibility. We were never truly given the |
| 1:03.4 | playbook on how to succeed in capital, in a capitalistic society. We were never given that blueprint. |
| 1:10.1 | We were never given that playbook. But yet and still, |
| 1:13.6 | some way, somehow, we still ended up with a Black Wall Street. We still ended up with a Durham, |
| 1:19.3 | North Carolina. Every week we showed certified tribe of the week, somebody that became a millionaire, |
| 1:24.1 | the first millionaire that land, the first millionaire to do this, the first stock of Reginald Lewis, and all these people that had this. So it's not what we cannot do. |
| 1:33.0 | I also want you to understand this. There is so much power in black economics. There's so much |
| 1:38.7 | power in black people understanding the power of money. That's why I talked about leveraging money |
| 1:43.2 | earlier. There's so much power in black people learning how to invest in a stock market. So no, I'm not anti-white. I'm not anti-anything, but I am pro-hyper-black. I love black people. I love black economics. I love saying black people get money. And the reason why, because every time they tell you, pull up yourps and get it out the mud you got to tell them I'm the one that planted |
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