Black & Brown Businesses: Make It Work Mentality Behind the Hustle

25 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken monologue (YouTube excerpt) reflecting on the “make it do what it do” mentality common in Black and Brown small businesses. The speaker observes that outwardly running businesses often depend on a few exhausted people working nonstop—stress, lack of sleep, and overworked staff—revealing hidden labor behind visible success.

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But we are. We. We as black and brown people, we are creatures of. Make it do what it do. So we will have. We'll have a whole business making money. And you go under the hood. It ain't even the engine. It's two people in that motherfucker doing this. It ain't an engine. Yeah, you're like. But it's running. It's running like, yo, how you? How you doing? All of this. And then you realize you going up in the hood. It's stressful. Yeah, it's a very stressful thing. Your person's not sleeping. The staff is overworked.