“Now the thing is, though all of us in here getting money, that alone isn’t going to stop this. All right? Now, dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies?”

Jesse Williams

Perhaps I should just leave Jesse’s words as a stand-alone piece. Poignant and powerful, like much of his speech it touched on issues that have permeated my thoughts for years. It has been widely reported that the 43 million recognized African Americans (representing 13.7% of the total US population) along with Americas’ largest minority group, Hispanics, respectively spent 1.3 and 1.5 TRILLION Dollars of the total US consumer expenditures of 13.5 Trillion dollars. READ MORE