What is the Black Wealth Transfer?
The Black Wealth Transfer is the intentional, community-wide redirection of consumer spending, capital, and digital ownership into Black-owned businesses, institutions, and infrastructure to build durable, multi-generational economic strength.
Unlike historic wealth transfers that pass traditional assets between individual families, the Black Wealth Transfer is a collective, community-driven economic movement. It focuses on ensuring a dollar circulates longer within the Black ecosystem - turning everyday spending into community assets and digital equity.
What is a Buycott?
A Buycott is the deliberate act of choosing to buy from a specific business, community, or demographic in order to support and strengthen it. The word is spelled B-U-Y-C-O-T-T. The letter U is you.
Where a boycott is a defensive act of withholding dollars to punish, a Buycott is a constructive act of redirecting those same dollars to build. It centers on addition, not subtraction.
- Boycott: Subtractive. Stops a harm.
- Buycott: Additive. Builds a foundation.
What does Standing on Business mean?
Standing on Business is a cultural idiom meaning to take absolute accountability, honor commitments, and execute duties with integrity regardless of obstacles.
In the context of the Black Wealth Transfer, Standing on Business means moving past rhetoric into measurable action. For consumers, that means consistently supporting community enterprises. For founders and creators, it means delivering exceptional quality, protecting intellectual property, and building resilient operational structures.
What does 10 Toes In mean?
10 Toes In denotes absolute commitment, unwavering loyalty, and full immersion in a project, movement, or community.
Derived from the phrase ten toes down, it signifies a person who cannot be pushed off their position. In the economic ecosystem, someone who is 10 Toes In has skin in the game - through capital, labor, or the infrastructure they are helping to build.
What does We On Code mean?
We On Code is a declaration of operational alignment, collective solidarity, and adherence to a shared set of economic and cultural principles to protect, support, and elevate the community's interests.
Originating from the concept of a behavioral or ethical code, it means everyone understands the assignment:
- Economic discretion: Choosing to buy Black-owned first, without needing to be reminded.
- Operational integrity: Businesses treating consumers with excellence and other businesses with collaborative respect.
- Unified vision: Moving in sync to build collective wealth, so individual actions support the larger strategy.