Real talk... We don't talk enough about how the crack epidemic rewired the Black community’s way of thinking — not just in our families and neighborhoods, but also in how we do business.
The mindset of survival over sustainability... quick flips over long-term growth... distrust over collaboration — these habits didn’t come out of nowhere. They were born from a system designed to destroy us from the inside out.
A lot of our businesses fail not because we lack talent, vision, or hustle — but because we’re still healing from a survival economy that taught us to:
Prioritize the short term over the long term
See each other as competition instead of partners
Believe that there’s not enough to go around
Move in fear, instead of building in trust.
Until we heal those wounds, until we reprogram that thinking, our businesses will keep facing the same cycles.
This ain't just business. It's cultural recovery. It's mental recovery. It's spiritual recovery.
We ARE the new Underground Railroad — freeing minds, freeing families, freeing futures.
Irose FromTheConcrete
Real talk...
We don't talk enough about how the crack epidemic rewired the Black community’s way of thinking — not just in our families and neighborhoods, but also in how we do business.
The mindset of survival over sustainability... quick flips over long-term growth... distrust over collaboration — these habits didn’t come out of nowhere. They were born from a system designed to destroy us from the inside out.
A lot of our businesses fail not because we lack talent, vision, or hustle — but because we’re still healing from a survival economy that taught us to:
Prioritize the short term over the long term
See each other as competition instead of partners
Believe that there’s not enough to go around
Move in fear, instead of building in trust.
Until we heal those wounds, until we reprogram that thinking, our businesses will keep facing the same cycles.
This ain't just business. It's cultural recovery. It's mental recovery. It's spiritual recovery.
We ARE the new Underground Railroad — freeing minds, freeing families, freeing futures.
#Irosefromtheconcrete #BlackBusiness #HealingIsBusiness #NewUndergroundRailroad
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