Benga Adjolori

So you have to go historically.

I go back to even antebellum period, right, where black women have always been part of the household in terms of making things work.

So raising other people's kids, cleaning houses, you know, even go to the 50s where people have this nostalgia for it and like, oh, the leave it to beaver kind of households.

Well, it was black women who are the ones that made that possible.

And so then you go through the 80s and 90s as black women start doing well.

This goes back to Janelle Jones, you know.

Right.

You mentioned before a black economist, Black Women Best, that when black women do well, everyone else does well.

Now we're seeing the flip side of that.

Black women have done poorly in 2025.

You know, people talk about the K-shaped economy.

Black women are not doing well.

Our economy is not doing well.

It was my pleasure.

Thank you for having me again.