06/12/2025
A Hard Truth From a Business Woman in the Community
Sometimes serving our own people breaks your heart. You rush to help, you send a truck, you put fuel, you prepare your team… only to arrive and find another service provider already there. And when you respectfully ask for the call-out fee, suddenly you are “rude,” “unprofessional,” or “demanding payment for nothing.”
It hurts because we bend over backwards for our community. We negotiate, we lower prices, we accept short payments, we stay patient even when it’s unfair. Yet the same people will pay other companies full price without questioning a single thing.
This is why so many black-owned businesses struggle to grow. Not because we don’t work hard — but because we don’t get the same respect and trust that we give.
I’m sharing this because we need to change this culture. We deserve to uplift each other, to support each other, and to treat each other with dignity. Our businesses cannot succeed if our own people are the first to pull us down.
Support local. Respect the service. And let’s grow together.
