Since Trump has been in office, I log into my brokerage account with a sense of tension. What used to feel like a step toward financial growth now feels more like bracing for impact. Each time I check, there is another drop, another policy shift, another ripple across the market that reminds me how deeply politics and money are tied together.
Black capitalism is unique because it has had no choice but to be. It has been defined by its need to function in opposition, to build wealth that does not exploit but sustains, to find ways to exist in a system that has sought to erase it. This is not an argument for blind faith in capitalism. It is not a dismissal of the way capitalism has harmed Black people. It is a recognition that Black economic strategies have always been different. They have never been about conquest. They have been about survival. If the word capitalism carries too much weight, if it conjures images of greed and destruction, then call it something else. Call it what it has always been: resistance. Call it what it has always meant: survival. Call it what it has always sought to build: a future that cannot be stolen.
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