Who profits from Black pain?

In this episode of The Michael Experience, Michael explores the growing business of Black pain — and what happens when Black trauma, struggle, imagery, and cultural experiences become tools for marketing, engagement, and influence.

From companies using Black culture and imagery to connect with consumers, to social media platforms rewarding outrage and trauma, we have to ask: where is the line between representation and exploitation?

Michael also takes a closer look at the way Black women are often pulled into the center of controversy and subjected to intense scrutiny — even when someone else, including non-Black men, helped create the circumstances in the first place.

Why does the conversation so often become about her tone, her behavior, or her response instead of the actions that created the situation?

And perhaps the most uncomfortable question of all:

Are we participating in the commodification of our own pain?

This episode explores Black culture, the business of attention, marketing, misogynoir, accountability, social media, and the complicated relationship between representation and exploitation.

Listen. Think. Then tell me what you think.

What’s your perspective?

What happens when Black people’s pain becomes something others feel entitled to police, debate, minimize, or judge? In this episode of The Michael Experience, Michael explores the uncomfortable ways Black trauma is discussed—and how quickly conversations about pain can become conversations about whether someone is reacting “the right way.” The issue isn’t simply what happened. It’s what our reactions reveal about empathy, conditioning, accountability, and the way we’ve learned to respond to Black pain. Your reaction says a lot. This is a conversation about culture, perspective, trauma, and the questions we don’t always want to ask ourselves. It’s a good day to think.

If this conversation resonates with you, explore these topics in greater depth with my book, One Day at a Time, where I discuss Life and the Lessons you learn through living.

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