🔥 WALLO’s viral clip about Black-owned businesses really stirred the pot, and I’m loving the conversation it’s creating. 🔥

Excellence is key—we don’t want pity purchases, we want loyal customers who choose us because we’re the best. 👏🏾 It’s about earning their trust and building a brand that speaks for itself. 💯

But why do we get shamed for saying Black-owned when other communities proudly support their own? 🧐

In this clip, @liajones shares how she’s seen an uptick in support, and instead of just coasting, she’s doubling down on marketing and customer experience to build long-lasting loyalty. 🔥

We’re here to build businesses that are legacies, not charity cases. Let’s be the best—and still be proud to be Black-owned. 💪🏾

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With interest rates at a 22-year high, Michael Pugh says Black business owners crunched for cash should look to community-based financial institutions for help.

“Learn more about them; we have a very different scope [regarding loan arrangements],” Pugh, the CEO of New York-based Carver Federal Savings Bank, tells Forbes of community banks. “We have to make sure we extend our arms and get out there and tell people what they need to know to start achieving that generational wealth.”

August is National Black Business Month, and ForbesBLK is highlighting the theme with special discussions about sustaining and expanding Black firms. Based in Harlem, Carver is one of the largest Black-run financial institutions in the U.S., celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2023. The bank is named after George Washington Carver and trades on the NASDAQ. Pugh was named CEO in 2012.

Black businesses generated $206 billion in annual revenue and supported 3.56 million U.S. jobs in the last decade, according to the non-profit Brookings Institution. However, though Black people comprise 14.7% of the U.S. population, the community represents 12.4% of sole proprietorship and only 2.4% of employer businesses. Brookings said the stats show “disparities” that hold back Black entrepreneurs and “restrict economic opportunities for entire communities, which in turn impacts local prosperity.” Brookings also notes that access to sufficient capital remains a lingering issue for Black-owned businesses. That causes entrepreneurs to rely on personal funds and credit cards to finance operations.

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We've read stats showing that Blacks have a buying power of $1.2 Trillion dollars and that Black women are starting businesses at a faster rate than any other group, but is this enough to change the economic inequalities that plague Black neighborhoods? Mandy Bowman discusses how it's time to focus on creating and supporting Black businesses to build long term/generational wealth.

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HYPE+ - It's been heavily talked about, black owned businesses would trend in recent years due to several incidents of injustice around the country. But why haven't black people themselves been fully on-board with supporting their own businesses? For a special HYPE+ report, Tatiana Le'Joy brings the facts. Instagram: @ComedyHype & Twitter: @ComedyHype_

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This episode hits even harder now, as Wallo’s now-viral message from Million Dollaz Worth of Game and Mandii B’s unfiltered commentary on her show Selective Ignorance are dominating the conversation around Black businesses, customer service, and cultural expectations.

With Wallo’s viral video reminding entrepreneurs that customer service is currency, and Mandii B’s recent viral moment on Selective Ignorance saying, “I’m not supporting bad service — Black or not,” this conversation just became the most important one on the internet.

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Ray Daniels was already saying it.

In this flashback episode of The Gauds Show, Ray joins @agirlfromharlem, @juju_McLean, and @DinaMarto to break down the uncomfortable but necessary truth: Subscribe to ​⁠@RayDanielsPresents

Supporting Black businesses doesn’t mean excusing bad service.

Direct Quotes from Ray
• 🧠 “I’ve worked in both Chick-fil-A and McDonald’s — and the difference wasn’t the food, it was the ATTITUDE.”
• 🔥 “Black people have the worst customer service in the f***ing world — and it’s killing our own economy.”
• 🧩 “If you don’t respect my time, my energy, and my money — don’t expect me to respect your hustle.”
• 💬 “Support is earned. Loyalty is built. Skin tone can’t carry poor execution.”
• 📉 “You can’t keep asking people to ‘Buy Black’ and deliver worse than your competitors.”
• 🚫 “Stop expecting sympathy — start delivering excellence.”

What This Episode + Viral Moment Tackles
• 🎤 Why Wallo’s clip struck a nerve — “You’re losing customers because you don’t understand how to serve people.”
• 🎙️ What Mandii B actually said — “I’m not buying into guilt marketing. If your service is trash, I’m walking.”
• 🧠 The false loyalty that keeps Black businesses stuck
• ⚠️ The difference between support and standards — and why one doesn’t cancel the other
• 🧱 The real solution: train your staff, love your customers, protect your brand
• 💡 How Ray Daniels predicted this cultural reckoning before it became viral

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Philadelphia has declared every Friday in December “shop black businesses Fridays,” and by now I’m sure we’ve all seen “black creators” highlighted on platforms like Netflix and Hulu, or “black-owned brands” given special placement in stores like Target. Personally, I can’t think of a worse way to bring in the holiday season than openly advocating for segregation, but maybe that’s just me. Let’s talk about it.

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