Apparently, it is challenge season on the social media outlets and the black community is all in on them. However, most of these challenges are more ridiculousness, foolishness, time wasters, or something that doesn’t have anything to do with our community or future. We need something different.

Enter the Support Black Business Challenge! Here is a challenge that can make a difference in our community. Something that can and will positively impact our economics, jobs, future and control over our destiny if we commit and go all in on it.

The black community has $1 trillion dollars in annual spending power and it is time we start using that money in our community build our businesses, create jobs in our communities and resources to take us to the next level politically, economically, educationally and organizationally.

#SBB Support Black Business Challenge

Enough of the build up. Here is the challenge.

#SBB Support Black Business Challenge

Enough of the build up. Here is the challenge.

1. Find a black business and support it.
2. Take a picture with the owner, post with hashtag #SBB
3. Challenge 5 friends to do the same via social media.
4. The people have 48 hours to complete challenge or donate $25 to UrbanIntellectuals.com/donate
5. You can complete and challenge more than once.

Please understand, supporting black business challenge doesn’t mean you financially compensate poorly run, bad service black businesses. You starve them, as we will explain in a coming article. Instead, this challenge is about supporting the positive, well run, respectable black businesses out there that are worthy of our hard earned money.

Great black businesses are out there. Find them. Support them. And tell your community about them.

UI is working on creating a black owned business directory to help facilitate this idea. If you are interested, be sure to join our mailing list as details will be released there first.

Power to the people with no delay!