Earn Your Leisure

In this powerful clip of Market Mondays, hosts Rashad Bilal, Troy Millings, and Ian Dunlap dive deep into the targeted marketing and massive impact of online gambling on the Black community. Rashad shares eye-opening insights on how billions of dollars have been strategically funneled into promoting online gambling through influential platforms like popular podcasts and celebrities, including Drake and major shows like Joe Button's, Gillian Wallow's, and Shannon Sharpe's. Rashad recounts a personal story, highlighting the rapid growth and consequences of online gambling over the past few years. He emphasizes the risks and negative outcomes such as debt, broken homes, and even life-threatening situations in places like jail settings, urging the community to be cautious. Furthermore, the hosts discuss how gambling, likened to addictive substances such as alcohol and drugs, can ruin lives and disproportionately target vulnerable, poor, and uneducated Black individuals. Rashad opens up about the histo