ETA works for all kinds of people. However entrepreneurs have to have access to capital in the first place for it to work. I cannot speak for women entrepreneurs but Black entrepreneurs specifically have never had the same access to capital as our white counterparts. It’s bad enough we have been on a 406 year campaign to get what’s fair and what was agreed upon upfront many times before.. The good news is that people care less about blocking us as much they have in the past because we all can see the economic opportunities of investing and working together instead of being tribal. However the push against DEI is to discourage conversation and tracking of metrics that have been worked so hard to hit. When it’s not measured it’s not managed.

Some evil people will try to keep these things out of the national conversation in order to make the progress go away. I refuse to let it go. We should make it compound especially in the descendants of slaves but it doesn’t work if we aren’t all aware of the broader problem and how much we have been and are being scammed by the spirit of white supremacy in the culture.”Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” To me the takeaways are:
1) understand the big picture of the problems they wish to present to us in the aggregate
2) never ever let the cowards who believe we should be shut out- they should never ever ever out bold any of us
3) own as much stuff as we can afford so we can influence culture.

I’m a business broker that focuses upon providing services to minorities. People impacted by these policies are scared and selling their businesses to leave the country. If the intended result is to scare people, it’s working.