Black & Brown Communities: The Power of 'Make It Do' #shorts

1 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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A short first-person monologue (YouTube Short) reflecting on resilience and resourcefulness in Black and brown communities. The speaker describes informal, small-scale hustles—making do with minimal resources in the ‘hood’—and notes the stress and social dynamics of that environment.

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 into 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.