On April 2, 2025 Trump had announced his promised tariffs against other nations causing a worldwide shock to global markets. Please keep in mind, for decades, there was global capitalists who was mooching off American prosperity. 

Outsourcing is taking jobs performed in America to be done overseas or locally by cheaper labor, like call centers and customer service. Offshoring is taking a whole function/department and move it overseas for cheaper labor. And the biggest is just packing up and moving overseas, abandoning a whole town losing an economic vehicle. 

But the capitalists are not the real culprit, I have mentioned to others that the historical catalyst was Wal-Mart and the big box stores. When Wal-Mart moved into an area, the community has abandoned the local retailers of that small town from the Rexall Pharmacy to Ace Hardware, who donated to the marching band every year. 

The fault goes both ways, but the community and the people are the ones who are choosing Amazon over their local business. Then that same community wonder why there are no businesses, there are no jobs, there is crime and drugs, cannabis and pawn shop replacing mom and pop stores and act brand new and confused when it was their goofy behind that didn’t support local business, local economics. 

Can Trump Tariffs Work? 

Trump plan is well-meaning; put tariffs on the globalists mooching off American prosperity – sending money all over the world and we are not taking care of our own people. But again, our community and our people are sending their money all over the world and not taking care of their own community. That’s why I better not hear anybody complain about gentrification ever again. 

The problem is not Trump – the problem is Trump trust Americans have the capability to make America great again. Look outside your window and tell us what you see. People chasing “get the bag” mentality instead of “build the empire” to create a staple business. People using drugs and smoking weed all recreational – who the heck want to hire these clowns to work at their business? 

You trust the brothas in our community to build up anything and they online goofing and giggling at a Tariq Nasheed live stream? Punk b*tch ass brothas? Or these sistas who just let their goddamn mind go haywire, filled with unearned hubris about how she got it going on? No, we don’t have the chops to make the kind of businesses overseas here in America at the 21st scale to do that kind of business operation, so Trump isn’t the problem – the people are because they cannot do their end of the arrangement to make America great again. 

There Will be Layoffs and Closures Everywhere

We are going back to layoffs because with the tariffs, the price shock will shut down already fragile businesses that were running on fumes. A lot of so-called Black-owned with a smug owner on Instagram bragging like they John H Johnson or Reginald Lewis, is going to be just what they actually are, a faker that got their card pulled. 

The economic effect will happen in phases. 

The Job Loss. Large companies will start to layoff to cut cost with the added tariffs. All sectors will be impact due to a ripple effect. You know what group going to get it first and the worst? Black girl magic, the “she don’t need a man” chick. The reason why is the other groups are going to take care of their own first, their family and friends. 

Rent and Bills Due. Savings is not going to save anybody, not even 6-months of saving. Rent and Bills are going to keep coming week after week. At that point, the savings are going to start running out fast with no new opportunity in sight. People don’t have money to pay for gig economy work so that won’t be a great option anymore. 

Stop Shopping. People are going to have to cut their expenses and not shop like they used to. If anything, they going to be lined up at the pawn shop selling, and I told you a while ago to liquidate before all of this happened, you didn’t listen. All that spending like eating out, will dry up fast. 

Local Business Shut Down. These are those strip mall stores, those Instagram stores, those DEI Black entrepreneurs that thought they were all that. They cannot afford that commercial rent anymore or stuck with inventory they cannot sell anymore, and got SBA loans outstanding. Garbage Black media going to see their ad revenue dry up as well. 

Everything Goes to Crap. This is when you going to see the sista who was stuck up at the corporate office in the strip club dancing for dollars. This is when you going to see cars getting repossessed, sitting on flatbeds passing you by on the road. Drive home late night, you going to see a U-Haul with the Jones quietly packing up and leaving the home because they were behind on payments. People going to start doing dirt, scheming on those with a little money. 

Black Community Too Far Gone to Recover 

For the Black community – no, you going to eat this crap you cooked, lie in the bed you made. Our people voted stupid like Chicago voting for Danny Davis for 25 years. Our people didn’t support our own trying to come up. The sistas were choosing knuckleheads and drug dealers and not building up with the good brothas. The brothas were chasing the garbage sistas that was looking to use him for tricking instead of be the man for the real sistas. 

You brothas and sistas were on borrowed time and didn’t do a damn thing but lived off and depended on someone else validating you. Saying goofy stuff about Kendrick Lamar got bars - that the stuff was coming out their damn mouth. 

I said it before, there is nothing anybody can do for the Black community; our people took it too far. We are already going down with good Black men leaving the sistas and getting their passports. The Black media became a shill for the Democrats who don’t give a damn about Black voters and never owned up to what they did in 2024, helping everybody else off the Black vote but don’t do anything for our Black issues. 

Even if I had advice for the Black community and knew what to do, I wouldn’t tell them a goddamn thing. I will sit back and let Boyce Watkins or Umar Johnson or Claud Anderson or Aton Daniels help them out since that’s who the f*ck the Black community chose to listen to. I’ll watch, even though none of them cannot do sh*t for our people at this moment of truth. 

What the Rest of You Can Do

The rest of us have options. Remember, the key to dealing with bad economic situations is to make sure you align the values you have to the current environment. Here are some options to consider. 

Sell everything. Get rid of everything so you can be flexible enough to get up and move when you have too. Don’t be caught off guard, stay ahead and have a prepared plan to execute instead of crashing out and confused. Build up your emergency funding to prepare for whatever you have to do next. I do not need to mention 401K or IRA stuff; you know your situation. 

Focus on digital services. We will talk about all of the options but there will be major options for digital trade, especially international base. Digital trade agreements are free of tariffs on both sides so this can be digital content, digital services. 

Move out the USA or go rural USA. Move to somewhere cheaper and hunker down if you are single or a couple without kids. Be mindful, Latin America is not a real choice, the threat of violence and chaos is real in that part of the world. People are running to Asia – Thailand, Korea, Japan. Africa is risky and have a lot of radical stuff going on they don’t talk about, including accusing others of sorcery. The US mountain states should also be considered. 

Cut Off Our Own People. There no need to be around Black folks who are not progressing and voting for Danny Davis in Chicago – leave them alone and you move forward. They going to be checking your pockets, seeing if they can target you. The sistas are going to try to holla at the good brothas to get him to pay some bills, but she still going to sleep with the knuckleheads. Just divest and focus on your moves, which you should have done a long time ago. If you a sista, cut off the goofy man-hating girlfriends, duck and leave quietly. 

If you are in good shape right now, focus on securing yourself and think ahead of everybody else. Your goal is to survive to reach the boom. 

What is the Real Boom?

The real boom is when the manufacturing and other jobs come back to America. But the sweet spot is broker and consulting services to help startups setup a business in Cleveland, Ohio for example. Or moving services to Arizona to work at new plants being created there. You start looking deep into those opportunities and niches no one is thinking about. 

My operation is not impacted by any of this. If anything, we are aligned with exactly what is going on right now. Firms are going to leverage our API and our platforms so we are in a very good position. I already setup to hire but I have little plans in America – Dubai and Tokyo and possibly Seoul. We are considering London or Birmingham, UK but this may be later down the road. 

For now, we will talk the details but the situation is you got to think about yourself right now and your best interest and to keep your head above water, on a swivel. Let the goofy Black community eat crow because if things get as bad as it may get, they going to be eating crow, coons, squirrel, pigeons, possum from the rooter to the tooter.