May 19, 2025 • 6 mins
You ever wonder why your groceries, gadgets, or car repairs got more expensive overnight? In this episode, we break down what tariffs really are, how Donald Trump's trade war blindsided Black communities and small businesses, and why the economic ripple effect still hits home today. Plus: what do stigmas, treadmills and untreated trauma have in common?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's happening? Know it all be down here with another episode.
If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. Make sure
you're following us on Instagram IDK myde with an underscore
in the front and an underscore in the back. You
did what I'm saying. This is episode forty and not
sure if you know. But May is mental health awareness months,
(00:22):
and even though in some spaces it seems like we
are normalizing mental health and speaking to therapists, something that
was frowned upon in the nineties, Like you didn't tell
nobody your business. The only person you told your business to, well, God,
that might have just been me and my family because
we were raised in the Bible Belt in Greensboro, North Carolina.
But you ain't gonna lay on no couch and talk
to nobody about your problems. Them problems was your problem
(00:44):
to have, not realizing we suffering from PTSD from all
types of traumatic experiences. So to kick off today's episode
and to stay in the theme of mental health awareness
for May, I'm gonna give you three useless facts about
mental health that you should know.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Number One, Black adults are.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Twenty percent more likely to experience serious mental health issues.
But we're less likely to get treatment. That stigma I
was just talking about. It's also not having access and
of course you know there is a huge mistrust of
the medical system. Your second useless fact about mental health,
Exercise can be just as effective as medication sometimes, Yeah,
(01:25):
for like those mild to moderate depression episodes. Regular physical
activity has been shown to improve mood and reduce anxiety,
sometimes better than the pills.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So get your butt in the gym.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You got that Planet Fitness membership, but you still shaped
like a planet. Your urinus is huge and your third
useless factor by mental health. Men are less likely to
seek health, but more likely to die by suicide, especially
Black men. They face that cultural pressure to be strong
all the time and the systemic barriers to mental health
(01:59):
recon Those have been your three useless facts about mental health.
Black adults or twenty percent more likely to experience serious
mental health problems than the general population. Exercise can be therapy,
and men are less likely to get help but more
likely to die by suicide. Listen, fellas, man up can't
be the only mental health plan you got. You did
(02:21):
what I'm saying, And if you're in the three three
six area of North Carolina. I have partner with a
mental health facility. If you need information on that, hit
me on the Instagram IDK myde with an underscore before
it and behind it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now, I ain't gonna hold you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Something that is messing with the mental health of a
lot of people is this presidential regime. And even though
politics ain't my strong suit, I'm still understanding that I
need to be knowledgeable about some of this stuff. I mean,
they start talking about tariffs and China start sending this
videos on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I ain't even know what a.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Tariff was, let alone what Donald Trump had done to
make China mad at US.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So let's get in to it. I'm talking about any
I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I didn't know. So first of all, what are tariffs.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Tariffs are taxes on stuff that comes from other countries.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Just that simple.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Anything that gotta come from overseas, it's a tax put
on it. The fancy name for that is tariff. Let's
say the US boss TV's from China. If the US
government adds a tariff to those TVs, it makes them
more expensive. The idea is to make foreign products cost more,
so people by American made stuff instead, sort of like
punishing the countries that the United States thinks is playing
(03:43):
unfair in trading. But here's the catch that extra costs
usually gets passed on to you and me, the shoppers,
so we end up paying more, not the other country.
So basically a tariff is a tax that feels like
it's on them, but it's really on us. So because
of this trade ward that Donald Trump started, black communities
(04:05):
and small businesses we called strays, even though we wasn't
even in the crossfire, so diggon. In twenty eighteen, Donald
Trump launched a tariff war, basically taxing imported goods to
protect American jobs. That was the platform, I'm protecting American job.
So we hit countries like China, Mexico, even Canada with
massive tariffs on things like steel, aluminum, electronics, and cars, all.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Things that we need.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So of course, the part that they didn't put in
the headlines is when you tax imported goods, companies passed
the costs down to you. That means the appliances get priceier,
the cars more expensive, the eggs through the roof, and
who felt that the hardest the low income consumers, which
includes the black households, at a disproportionate rate. Let's go
(04:54):
even deeper. Imagine you run a black owned construction company.
My black wife is a project man. I know that
they have to buy tools, trucks, metal, all of that
went up in price, but the clients still want the
lowest bids. So now you're squeezed. Or maybe you got
a beauty supply store. Lots of those products come from overseas,
(05:16):
and the tariffs they raised wholesale costs, but the demand
didn't change till either you raise prices and risk losing customers,
or you eat the costs and lose your profit. And
then there's farming in Georgia and North Carolina. It's black
farmers growing soy beans and cotton. But China got upset
with the tariffs that we hit them with, so they
slapped retaliatory tariffs on the US crops.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Them farmers took huge hits.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, big farms got federal bell out money, but small
black farmers often overlooked. Once again, it's given Tuskegee experiment.
But for economics, like even if you weren't a small
business owner, you felt it. Say you needed a car
to get the work. Tariffs made used cars more expensive,
and when prices go up, lenders get what does that mean?
(06:02):
If your credit ain't credited, you either stuck without a
whip or paying twenty two percent interest. Currently I am
doing the latter. And here's the crazy part. This ain't
the first time economic policy hit black folks in the back.
Move back to the eighties when Rapel Edmund was running
DC and Ronald Reagan was pushing his trickle down economics.
He gave tax breaks to the rich and said the
(06:23):
benefits would trickle down to the rest of us. The
spoiler alert, they never did. Instead, black unemployment went up,
the wealth gap widened, and black owned businesses got crushed
by big corporations that could survive the recessions.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Does that sound familiar, right?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So when folks today is arguing about tariffs is deeper
than just buying American. It's about who can absorb the
hit and who ends up paying the price at the
end of it all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I
What's happening? Know it all be down here with another episode.
If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. Make sure
you're following us on Instagram IDK myde with an underscore
in the front and an underscore in the back. You
did what I'm saying. This is episode forty and not
sure if you know. But May is mental health awareness months,
(00:22):
and even though in some spaces it seems like we
are normalizing mental health and speaking to therapists, something that
was frowned upon in the nineties, Like you didn't tell
nobody your business. The only person you told your business to, well, God,
that might have just been me and my family because
we were raised in the Bible Belt in Greensboro, North Carolina.
But you ain't gonna lay on no couch and talk
to nobody about your problems. Them problems was your problem
(00:44):
to have, not realizing we suffering from PTSD from all
types of traumatic experiences. So to kick off today's episode
and to stay in the theme of mental health awareness
for May, I'm gonna give you three useless facts about
mental health that you should know.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Number One, Black adults are.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Twenty percent more likely to experience serious mental health issues.
But we're less likely to get treatment. That stigma I
was just talking about. It's also not having access and
of course you know there is a huge mistrust of
the medical system. Your second useless fact about mental health,
Exercise can be just as effective as medication sometimes, Yeah,
(01:25):
for like those mild to moderate depression episodes. Regular physical
activity has been shown to improve mood and reduce anxiety,
sometimes better than the pills.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So get your butt in the gym.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You got that Planet Fitness membership, but you still shaped
like a planet. Your urinus is huge and your third
useless factor by mental health. Men are less likely to
seek health, but more likely to die by suicide, especially
Black men. They face that cultural pressure to be strong
all the time and the systemic barriers to mental health
(01:59):
recon Those have been your three useless facts about mental health.
Black adults or twenty percent more likely to experience serious
mental health problems than the general population. Exercise can be therapy,
and men are less likely to get help but more
likely to die by suicide. Listen, fellas, man up can't
be the only mental health plan you got. You did
(02:21):
what I'm saying, And if you're in the three three
six area of North Carolina. I have partner with a
mental health facility. If you need information on that, hit
me on the Instagram IDK myde with an underscore before
it and behind it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now, I ain't gonna hold you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Something that is messing with the mental health of a
lot of people is this presidential regime. And even though
politics ain't my strong suit, I'm still understanding that I
need to be knowledgeable about some of this stuff. I mean,
they start talking about tariffs and China start sending this
videos on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I ain't even know what a.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Tariff was, let alone what Donald Trump had done to
make China mad at US.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So let's get in to it. I'm talking about any
I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I didn't know. So first of all, what are tariffs.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Tariffs are taxes on stuff that comes from other countries.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Just that simple.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Anything that gotta come from overseas, it's a tax put
on it. The fancy name for that is tariff. Let's
say the US boss TV's from China. If the US
government adds a tariff to those TVs, it makes them
more expensive. The idea is to make foreign products cost more,
so people by American made stuff instead, sort of like
punishing the countries that the United States thinks is playing
(03:43):
unfair in trading. But here's the catch that extra costs
usually gets passed on to you and me, the shoppers,
so we end up paying more, not the other country.
So basically a tariff is a tax that feels like
it's on them, but it's really on us. So because
of this trade ward that Donald Trump started, black communities
(04:05):
and small businesses we called strays, even though we wasn't
even in the crossfire, so diggon. In twenty eighteen, Donald
Trump launched a tariff war, basically taxing imported goods to
protect American jobs. That was the platform, I'm protecting American job.
So we hit countries like China, Mexico, even Canada with
massive tariffs on things like steel, aluminum, electronics, and cars, all.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Things that we need.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So of course, the part that they didn't put in
the headlines is when you tax imported goods, companies passed
the costs down to you. That means the appliances get priceier,
the cars more expensive, the eggs through the roof, and
who felt that the hardest the low income consumers, which
includes the black households, at a disproportionate rate. Let's go
(04:54):
even deeper. Imagine you run a black owned construction company.
My black wife is a project man. I know that
they have to buy tools, trucks, metal, all of that
went up in price, but the clients still want the
lowest bids. So now you're squeezed. Or maybe you got
a beauty supply store. Lots of those products come from overseas,
(05:16):
and the tariffs they raised wholesale costs, but the demand
didn't change till either you raise prices and risk losing customers,
or you eat the costs and lose your profit. And
then there's farming in Georgia and North Carolina. It's black
farmers growing soy beans and cotton. But China got upset
with the tariffs that we hit them with, so they
slapped retaliatory tariffs on the US crops.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Them farmers took huge hits.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, big farms got federal bell out money, but small
black farmers often overlooked. Once again, it's given Tuskegee experiment.
But for economics, like even if you weren't a small
business owner, you felt it. Say you needed a car
to get the work. Tariffs made used cars more expensive,
and when prices go up, lenders get what does that mean?
(06:02):
If your credit ain't credited, you either stuck without a
whip or paying twenty two percent interest. Currently I am
doing the latter. And here's the crazy part. This ain't
the first time economic policy hit black folks in the back.
Move back to the eighties when Rapel Edmund was running
DC and Ronald Reagan was pushing his trickle down economics.
He gave tax breaks to the rich and said the
(06:23):
benefits would trickle down to the rest of us. The
spoiler alert, they never did. Instead, black unemployment went up,
the wealth gap widened, and black owned businesses got crushed
by big corporations that could survive the recessions.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Does that sound familiar, right?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So when folks today is arguing about tariffs is deeper
than just buying American. It's about who can absorb the
hit and who ends up paying the price at the
end of it all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I
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