I did the math so you didn’t have to.
$3.76 million in revenue → hundreds of views. 40 pounds lost without medication → thousands of views. Here’s what this showed me…👇🏽👇🏽 The internet values Black women’s bodies more than our businesses. The algorithm told on itself. And I’m done pretending that’s okay. ↓ ↓ ↓ This photo is me and Serena Williams. Two Black women. Both built something. Both changed our bodies. Guess which one the internet cares about. Serena told us she used a GLP-1 and lost 31 pounds after “doing everything right” and still feeling stuck. The headlines? Almost all weight. No ownership. No investments. No impact. Here’s what keeps me up at night: → Black women start businesses faster than anyone in America → We generate over $60 billion in annual revenue → But the average Black woman-owned business makes LESS THAN HALF of what white women-owned businesses make → 40% of Black women live in households making under $50K/year → Single Black women have 90% LESS wealth than single white men Our bodies trend. Our bank accounts get systematically suppressed. Meanwhile? GLP-1 spending jumped 500% in five years. From $13.7 billion to $71.7 billion. We are profitable as patients. Clickable as “transformations.” Marketable as before-and-after photos. But where’s that energy for the Black women who built empires when it was literally dangerous to be rich and Black? Before 1970: → Madam C.J. Walker built a beauty empire → Annie Turnbo Malone created distribution networks → Both became millionaires in a world that didn’t see them as fully human They used OWNERSHIP the way we’re now told to use injections: As a tool to change what everyone said was “genetic,” “inevitable,” or “just how it is.” Most people can name Ozempic. But not a single Black woman millionaire from 1920. Let that satisfying sink in. I’m not anti-medication. I’m anti-narrative that stops at the scale. Because while the internet obsesses over Black women’s waistlines? It keeps deleting our bottom lines.