Understand this first: entrepreneurship is the raw alchemy of human ambition—a force that ignites when desire collides with vision, when hunger for agency overpowers the inertia of circumstance.
At its core, entrepreneurship is the unyielding refusal to accept the world as given—it cannot be manufactured, mentored, or programmed into existence.
For the entrepreneur who happens to be Black, it’s a visceral response to necessity—a defiant act of building something yours in a world designed to deny you.
But everywhere I look, there is another Black non-profit rebranding entrepreneurship as a “deliverable”.
Our ancestors understood segregation’s grim lesson: dependency is death.
