Dr Umar Johnson calls out black barbers and beauticians for not working together & alllowing Koreans to take over.

[Standing on business]

 

[Plankton]

*waits for someone to come in here and say "He makes a good point."

 

[BurstWicks]

*waits for someone to come in here and say "He makes a good point."

waiting for someone to say "wheres that school "

 

[OneManGang]

This is a low bar sound bite. Black people didn’t allow anything. It’s like saying black people allowed Colombians to take over the coke game in the hood. Or westerners “allowed” Arabs to run the oil game.

When they control the manufacturing and supply, what can we do? Not wear beauty products? The answer is to slowly build your own but that’s not something that can be done quickly. Koreans literally can undercut homegrown prices. Will take time and lambasting black people in the interim is counterproductive

Edit: in the online space I notice how it’s VERY easy to make low effort claims with little evidence but make emotional appeals that people will eat up. “Oh he right, he not lying”. We are so susceptible to this.

 

[Arizax2]

This is America, we cannt stop anyone from starting up a business. They are taking advantage of everything we are capable of doing but failing to get up and do it ourselves. Same thing with Dominicans opening up corner stores, Arabs opening up car dealerships and gas stations and Jewish folks managing property.

 

[parallax]

...why aren't people in this thread dunking on this dude?

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Maybe he should open a barber and beautician school.

 

[Wargames]

That like blaming corner dealers for Latinos being the connect to cocaine. I hate to use that metaphor but a supply chain is a motherfukker to get around, and it’s the only other supply chain I can think of based on clear ethnic ties That doesn’t involve the Chinese.

 

[The_Sheff]

He has no fukking clue what he is talking about. Asians control the manufacturing and supply chain of the products, and they make it very difficult for outsiders to enter the market.

Umar, yeah you can open a beauty supply store but you are going to have a hell of a time staying open when you don’t have access to certain products, and the ones you can access you are trying to resale after purchasing for retail prices yourself.

Now if you want to argue that the almost monopoly that they have on that sector needs to be investigated as there is almost certainly some illegal shyt taking place there…….thats another story. Cause we all know if nikkas attempted to control a market they way they have white folks would have shut that shyt down a long time ago.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

Okay at this point, he sounds incredibly stupid and out of touch with reality now. I can easily find a lot of black owned barbershops with beauticians within a 50 mile radius from where I live.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Scammer talking down to Black people after scamming Black people and still gets audience to tell others what they are doing wrong. .
Fail. Embarrassing. Stop posting this loser

 

[RehReh]

Next week we will see Sukhiana open the Madame CJ Walker Bundle and Lashes Supply Store

Actually
Wait
Lol

 

[Mac Ten]

The Black Barbershop will always thrive no matter what…

In the community, cats will always need a haircut no matter the occasion

 

[African Peasant]

Damn Umar.

He's now recycling 2010 facebook posts debate?

 

[General Mills]

He has no fukking clue what he is talking about. Asians control the manufacturing and supply chain of the products, and they make it very difficult for outsiders to enter the market.

Umar, yeah you can open a beauty supply store but you are going to have a hell of a time staying open when you don’t have access to certain products, and the ones you can access you are trying to resale after purchasing for retail prices yourself.

Now if you want to argue that the almost monopoly that they have on that sector needs to be investigated as there is almost certainly some illegal shyt taking place there…….thats another story. Cause we all know if nikkas attempted to control a market they way they have white folks would have shut that shyt down a long time ago.

This is true. This chick I know moved to Arizona. When she got there she noticed in her area there were no hair stores that sold products for black people

She saw an open market and cashed out her 401k and borrowed money from her parents. Rented out a storefront and found a Asian connect for hair products


She was very successful for 3 years. Her connect waited until she proved she could sell there then they opened their own store a block over and then raised her prices on products.

My friend was confused and tried to renegotiate the price but they countered by raising the prices higher. Meanwhile her direct competitor down the street was killing it

She then reached out to a few other Asian distributors to get products but quickly found out they were all connected and nobody would give her a deal. She eventually had to close up shop after 5 years

Meanwhile the competition actually expanded and opened 5 shops in a 10 mile radius. She is still mad as hell about it.