Damn, a girl I know just got her lip gloss line pulled from Target because they bushed their DEI initiatives

[Oatmeal]

Damn, so that means that Target probably won't carry Black History Month or Juneteenth clothing collabs this year

 

[At30wecashout]

Same shyt I been doing because that's the only thing I really can control. All that other shyt is not concerning to me.

Thats nice but you have to do these things with a purpose. "Just support your own" does nothing, not saying you said that, if you don't marry mindfulness with politics. Tulsa, OK is a shining example. You can't be too insulated because other people can wreck your shyt and if you don't have a seat at the political table, then you have no recourse when things go south.

There are minority grants and loans that will absolutely dry up locally that will effect black entrepreneurs. You protect that by taking ownership of your politics. Controlling your controllable are great as Wesley said "This is bigger than Nino Brown." While you shutting off the outside, the opposition is damn sure in your business. People not at all negatively effected by DEI are snatching black livelihoods in the coming years and its cowardly to not do at least the bare minimum to resist that shyt.

You gonna donate to the reparations link I sent? Here it is again.

Evanston Local Reparations | City of Evanston

 

[Sbp]

Thats nice but you have to do these things with a purpose. "Just support your own" does nothing, not saying you said that, if you don't marry mindfulness with politics. Tulsa, OK is a shining example. You can't be too insulated because other people can wreck your shyt and if you don't have a seat at the political table, then you have no recourse when things go south.

There are minority grants and loans that will absolutely dry up locally that will effect black entrepreneurs. You protect that by taking ownership of your politics. Controlling your controllable are great as Wesley said "This is bigger than Nino Brown." While you shutting off the outside, the opposition is damn sure in your business. People not at all negatively effected by DEI are snatching black livelihoods in the coming years and its cowardly to not do at least the bare minimum to resist that shyt.

You gonna donate to the reparations link I sent? Here it is again.

Evanston Local Reparations | City of Evanston

Nah homie I'm all about me and mines at this point. Been there done that. You keep fighting the good fight though.

 

[At30wecashout]

Nah homie I'm all about me and mines at this point. Been there done that. You keep fighting the good fight though.

 

[Sbp]

 

[CodeKansas]

First page. Obsession over “both-siders” continue

shyt gonna turn into Stockholm Syndrome at some point. Gonna be posting "fukk you both-sides cac00ns!" while dapping us.

 

[lib123]

Y’all really think they’re finna take products off shelves that are selling?

Yeah they’re not. And a lot of these retail DEI initiatives weren’t putting Black owned products on the shelf. I personally know a Black entrepreneurs with brands involved in these programs but they were putting their products on the sites (eg Ulta.com, Sephora.com), not on the actual store shelves. Black brands still faced huge hurdles getting on the store shelves, which generates the next level revenue. Now with Trump they don’t feel the need to pretend by putting Black brands on their sites.

 

[Wargames]

Respect… You said what I wanted to reiterate… Big corps pick up small businesses to buy them out, not to help them grow into their own mega corp…. All that being said, I know that most black owned corps develop their product in hops of getting an extreme bag to be bought out… Target and Wal Mart have done this several times…… They gave black innovators a bag for their product….they were stealing our IP centuries ago…. Now they just buy us out, and I can’t blame nikkas’s for selling…. The narrative of this thread is misleading

The narrative of black wealth creation? It doesn’t matter if it’s either a big one time check or a vendor deal. You can’t just brush aside the idea that the company that will accept your money won’t take steps to cater to you as a customer.

Its like saying your welcome to pay to get on the bus, just make sure you sit in the back.

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

imma get banned if I open my mouth, but just gotta say.

fukk target first of all, they could have held their nuts and do the right thing.


Second, I am not going to live as second class citizen like my ancestors did having to work menial labor.

That will not happen, come hell or high water.

 

[TEH]

For the minority of the male posters that actually get p*ssy on this forum, how many of yall fukk on, or with a chick that use pink lipps cosmetics?

How you trying to sound tough while at the same time actually knowing what type of cosmetics your woman is using?

 

[CobaltBlue]

I get what you are saying but just want to point out that shea moisture changed formula and has been acquired a few times over so its not even a black brand at this point. They will be everywhere, I saw them in walmart in cheyenne wyoming which isn't far from montana lol.

Just want people to talk educated on this topic.

True

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

How you trying to sound tough while at the same time actually knowing what type of cosmetics your woman is using?

You can't be serious

 

[JLova]

That's business. The country is moving to a more whitewashed-nazi type of climate so...it is what it is.

 

[Sauce Mane]

Can I just be put in a sleep chamber for 4 years because I'm not sure I can take 4 years of this Mango Mussolini

 

[pawdalaw]

"Support our own" with what money? Supply lines? Infrastructure? A lot of our people don't even live in places with proper grocery stores. Add in climate change and that "do for self" shyt is shaky. We share destinies with these folks AND pay taxes. We are owed and can't shy from that with pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.

Yup, you see this kinda stuff on their internal branding all the time. A lot of minorities, in our case black folks, are gonna have their shyt dry up overnight.
This is actively hurting black people.

In this case we are talking about lip gloss, with “our” support this would be a hiccup.