Explore economic resources for black business communities, and the importance of creating a broader community so we can all rise together.

Summary: Black Business Communities

Leader, coach, speaker, and training facilitator Gerald Jones, host of the Buy Black Podcast | The Voice of Black Business, shares how the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile led to his podcast.

We also discussed creating economic resources for black business communities, and the importance of creating a broader community so we can all rise together.

So many insights your head might just explode.

Words of Wisdom

Everything is intersectional. Learn more about building black business communities. I can’t speak to what it is to be a woman. But in a lot of cases, I just kind of wing it and I substitute misogyny for racism and I substitute woman for black. But I use the exact same words of a thing that happened to me. And the heads start nodding. It’s like, “That happens to me all the time.” And I’m like, “And what do you think?” “Freaking sexism.” I’m like, “Exactly. That’s also how racism works.” Power treats the disadvantaged in very similar ways. We just call it different things. — Gerald Jones, Coach

Resources Mentioned

• Two Days, Two Deaths: The Police Shootings Of Alton Sterling And Philando Castile
• Dr. Claud Anderson: PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America
• Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes
• Here’s an article about Vanport: The Time Nature And Racism Teamed Up To Wipe Out A Whole Town
• What Can Be Done to Get More Funding for Black Women-Led Startups? (PS – .0006% of the nearly $500M in tech/startup/VC funding is $2.5 million going to black women-led startups. We can do better.)
• Harvard’s Implicit Bias tests
• Example of light sentencing for a white male rapist
• frat-president-accused-of-rape-only-has-to-pay-usd400-fine.html?ref=womenconquerbiz.com">Another example of light sentencing for a white male rapist

Connect with Our Guest

• Free Business Owner Assessment: “From Self-Employed to CEO: How Close Are You”
• Free Training: “From Self-Employed to CEO: How Close Are You”
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• Listen to Buy Black | The Voice of Black Business

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