Celebrating Black Business Month with Immerging Technologies
William Jackson, MAT, Retired Educator and Black Business Owner
CEO MetaverseWP and CEO My Quest To Teach
https://metaversewp.com/ https://myquesttoteach.com/
A powerful statement by a former President can be applied in this time
of Change, Adaptation, Evolution and Revolution……
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other
time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that
we seek.” Barack Obama
Black Business Month includes the African Diaspora and those of
African descent and culture. We must not allow those of other
cultures separate us and weaken us.
In this new ecosystem of digital awareness, immersive environments
and integration of AI, Black Businesses and those of the African
Diaspora across the continent of and globally face a multiple challenges
and massively great opportunities. Technology is the great equalizer
and elevator to economic stability if Black people apply their creativity,
innovation and intelligence. Think creativity and believe in innovation
and imagination that individually each of us have.
The need for educational and technological trainings have increased
to a level where trainings, workshops and webinars should be a
standard practice and professional learning events provided
across all Black and Diaspora communities. Black Businesses must
be sure to be seen, heard, engaged, contributing to the local, national
and international occurrences of growth and expansion.
Being a Black Business means being ready to give your sales pitch
to potential clients at a moments notice, being engaging and
conversational, reachable for mentorships and noticed on social
media platforms that are requiring consistent interaction and even
creating content that markets and brands the business logo, and
mission and vision statements.
The challenges, struggles, uphill and scalability is a consistent
challenge that Black Businesses face and must meet head on.
A Black Business Owner must be on their “A Game” constantly and
dress to the business of being a business owner and even an
entrepreneur. It has been told to young Black and African men and
women you have to practice your craft everyday, you have to be
ready everyday because you never know who is watching you and
when opportunities present themselves.
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely
expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin (Fifth Avenue, Uptown. Esquire)
There is a tremendous need, a need for Black Businesses in Black communities because Black youth, teens and young adults
must see Black Business Owners. To understand that Black
Businesses are still important to the financial stability of homes, neighborhoods, communities, cities and even nations. The Black
dollar must circulate in the Black and African community multiple
times to provide Black communities a consistent economic
leverage of sustainability, reliability and profitability.
Unfortunately schools where Black and African youth, teens
and young adults not taught to see themselves as business
owners and entrepreneurs.
They are not taught to be creative, innovative and imaginative.
The vision of Black Business is not shared in the classrooms
so this does not help Blacks grow in the Boardrooms of the
nation and lack political power and influence.
This must change if Black and African Businesses are to evolve,
survive, thrive and rise.
Black-owned businesses can help create inclusivity in the
market, create jobs, and improve relationships in communities.
They can help close the racial wealth gap and increase a nations
capital, which promotes the economy. In 2021, Black-owned
businesses in the U.S. generated $206 billion in revenue and
supported 3.56 million jobs. There must be more that can be
done locally, nationally and even internationally. If not Black and
African communities will wither and die, they will be gentrified
for other cultures and with investments resuscitated to serve
others.
Black Businesses like MetaverseWP https://metaversewp.com/
are showing that Black Businesses can be sustainable, reliable,
scalable and viable in the fields of technological influence and
sustainability internationally.
“[Don’t] let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to
be an entrepreneur, is something that you shouldn’t do. What
often happens is that people who are well-meaning, who really
care for us, are afraid for us and talk us out of it.” Cathy Hughes
