Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves…The Morning Trap is Back
✉️ THE MORNING TRAP – APRIL 10, 2025
Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves…
🎶 “First I had they ear, now I got they heart.” – Jay-Z
It’s a new day and a new drop.
This ain’t your average newsletter.
This is The Morning Trap—radio-ready, culturally coded, and movement-built like a revolutionary breakfast show.
We decode the headlines, drag the villains, uplift the movement, and stay louder than your morning news anchor.
Because our people don’t need another bland explainer—we need a mic that speaks truth, sounds good out loud, and moves like the streets do.
What to expect from here on out?
🎯 One headliner that slaps like a viral tweet
🎛️ Deep but digestible breakdowns (with receipts)
🔁 Shareable Trap Talk for the timeline & the group chat
🔨 A move to make today—not someday
✊🏽 And we always end with Black brilliance
Every edition is built for barbershop minds, classroom revolutionaries, nonprofit warriors, and aunties who run campaigns from the church basement.
We bring rhythm to the resistance and revolution to the recap.
Let’s get into it.
🎯 TOP TRAP – Tariffs, Project 2025, and the Recession We Tried to Warn You About
🔥 Headline: They Tariffin’ Like We Got Savings
Welcome Home, Kin!
🎤 What’s Goin’ Down:
Trump’s new tariff threats are causing the stock market to spin and making it harder—and pricier—to get medical supplies. The GOP is split, the Dems are worried, and Project 2025 is lurking like a sequel nobody asked for. Meanwhile, we just tryna get groceries without taking out a loan.
📌 Three Things to Know:
Tariffs = price hikes. Everything from insulin to infant formula just got more expensive.
Supply chains are breaking again—and Black communities with fewer options will feel it first.
Project 2025 wants to dismantle federal programs while the economy buckles. It’s giving 2008—but with less regulation and more Fox News energy.
🗣️ Trap Quote of the Day:
"America plays Monopoly, but we the ones that go to jail or pay the luxury tax."
🎛️ THE TRAP BREAKDOWN
🎤 Intro Take:
They told us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps. Now they taxing the boots. Black folks stay on the frontlines of every economic experiment, and this one looks like a setup.
📚 Backstory:
Every time they say “America First,” we get served last. Tariffs are taxes on imported goods. If you’re rich, you barely feel it. If you’re Black and budgeting, it’s a grocery cart apocalypse.
💸 Who’s Behind It:
Trump and the far-right economic clique pushing Project 2025
Corporations lobbying for carve-outs while passing costs to us
Dems scrambling to sound alarms before it’s too late
Black households trying to survive a system that keeps moving the goalposts
🔁 The Pattern:
Every 10–15 years, the system resets—and we get the eviction notices, the pink slips, the blame. From Reagan to Bush to Trump 2.0, their policies crash the economy and leave us in survival mode.
📣 Kinfolk Need to Know:
This ain't just political posturing—it's a prelude to a recession. If we don’t move collectively now, we’ll be reacting while they rebuild without us.
🔁 TRAP TALK
“They calling it tariffs, but it feels like looting—legalized and televised.”
“This ain’t about economic security. It’s about control. And we’re always the test subjects.”
“Reminder: Project 2025 don’t just want smaller government—they want no safety net. Period.”
🔨 DO SOMETHING – Today’s Move
✅ Action:
Support Black-owned grocery stores + co-ops.
Before the shelves go bare, strengthen the Black supply chain.
🔗 Link:
blackenterprise.com/black-owned-grocery-store-supermarket-food
💬 CTA Caption:
“Post this in the fam group: Food prices going up. Supply chains breaking. Let’s eat with folks who feed us. #BuyBlack #BlackGrocersMatter”
✊🏽 CULTURE REWIND – Don’t Just Inform, Inspire
🖼️ Quote to Carry:
"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." – Shirley Chisholm
(And if the table got tariffed? Build your own.)
💼 Business to Know:
The Freedom Market (ATL) – A Black-owned co-op reclaiming food access, one shelf at a time.
🎤 Worth Quoting:
“The revolution got a shopping list. Start at the Black-owned checkout.”
