Pretty much. This is business and not charity. No one owes anyone shyt.
Honestly I dont think that the black customer should be expected to cater to business. Its got to be the other way around and its up to the business to convince people to give them their money. And if they cant then I guess theyll go bankrupt.
The only way black businesses will have a chance is to beat out the competition price wise, service and location wise. People in here are going on about how "we hate ourselves" but I dont think most black people will turn their nose up at black businesses that have superior prices or services.
I FULLHEARTEDLY DISAGREE WITH THE BOLDED
Have you guys ever been to an Asian foodstore? They got flies everywhere, rotten meat out in the open, food stuff strewn across the floors, overstuffed smelly garbage cans. The places usually look and smell like shyt. Yet every time you walk in there you see a bunch of Koreans or Chinese or Vietnamese happily shopping away, you know why? Because they're Asian people in an Asian foodstore. That's what comes first to them. There's a walmart or a stop and shop around the corner but they don't give a fukk about that. They support their own.
Man I will see a huge grocery store right next to an Asian store and that Asian store is still in business. You know why?? Cuz those motherfukkers support their own. A walmart will move into town and close every ma and pa shop in the area but Chans market place will be just fine cuz those motherfukkers don't have to "beat out the competition" they just have to be Chinese in a Chinese town or Korean in a Korean town.
You can take that and apply it to hispanics, italians, Jamaicans, you name it. Hispanic stores are usually run like shyt and grimy looking as hell. They still got business.
Nowadays all the little ma and pa stores I see are some sort of ethnicity. The big box stores managed to beat out the white owned ma and pa shops but the ethnic ones are still holding on cuz those people support their own!
You motherfukkers saying that black stores have to compete price wise or service wise for black customers are
OUT OF YOUR MIND!! If that was the only measure by which stores succeeded then you would see chinese run stores in Italian neighbours, Arab stores in Chinese neighbourhoods, and on and on. But that never happens. In fact the only place where you will see different ethnicities set up shop with no regard for the people living there is in black neighbourhoods.
Think about that
i'm sure you have negative experiences with non black establishments too but didn't paint them all with such a broad brush
