A 2018 Project Diane study found that since 2009, only 0.0006% of $424.7 billion in tech venture capital had gone to black women, despite the fact that black women are one of the fastest-growing groups of business owners. We understand the responsibility as a Black-owned business that we have to be successful because if we're not, we're not doing anything for the culture to move it forward so that isn't a topic.'īlack-owned business and black women entrepreneurs often have to overcome more obstacles than their non-black and non-female counterparts.

'I think we're human and race shouldn't even be a conversation, but it is because of the society we live in.

'That comment wasn't about us being a Black-owned business and only selling to Black customers,' Dixon told Essence. She also admitted that she 'wasn't necessarily blinded' by the negative response to her commercial, but that she also 'didn't have an expectation.' 'I think we're human and race shouldn't even be a conversation.'ĭixon told Essence magazine's Jasmine Grant that it was not her intention to come across as 'racist.' Rather, she said, she just wanted little black girls to know they can succeed as business owners. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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