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Dr Umar Johnson calls out black barbers and beauticians for not working together & alllowing Koreans to take over.
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So a black woman took a chance and opened a store that sells products that cater to black women since no one else would do it.
The Koreans saw she was successful and priced her out the market.
Black women in the area stopped patronizing the black owned store because the Koreans had better prices.
She didn’t go out of business because of the Koreans, she went out of business because the black women in the area want to save $5 more than they want to support their own people.
Umm hmmm.
Chris Rock's Documentary Black hair touched on this very same bullshyt. But we won't stop going to them or doing our own thing so
Koreans could come to the black community and offer $10 haircuts but they won’t because they know black men aren’t letting a Korean cut our hair even if they’re good at it.
The black barbershop experience is more than just the price of the cut. If black women had the same approach when it came to beauty supply stores, we would have more black owned stores.
Premeditated
MANDE KANG
i don't get what brother with barbershops have to do with asians taking over
Amhara cat bought the beauty store near me about a year ago. Great salt of the earth guy. Greets every customer, always blessing them, giving kids candy, and keeps the store tidy unlike the Koreans before him. Every time I go in, he looks more and more down. Last time I went in, I chopped up with him asked him what was up, he told me Asian suppliers are x'ing him out and its hurting his business...this world man.
@2Quik4UHoes
@2Quik4UHoesAsians control the supply chain, we control the consumer base.
Black people cant just go into an Asian community and set up shop just because we can offer lower prices than the local Asian business.
Hoodoo Child
The Urban Legend
Hopefully they have AC
This is exactly what I’m talking about.Amhara cat bought the beauty store near me about a year ago. Great salt of the earth guy. Greets every customer and keeps the store tidy unlike the Koreans before him. Every time I go in, he looks more and more down. Last time I went in, I chopped up with him asked him what was up, he told me Asian suppliers are x'ing him out and its hurting his business...
If black people valued black commerce and just basic dignity and respect, they would patronize his store and pay the higher prices. Then Asian suppliers would understand they can’t just do what they want.
Asians open up businesses in the black community and serve people from behind glass like we’re dangerous animals either though we been feeding their families and putting their children through college for decades. Don’t keep their stores clean, don’t hire black people in the community, follow you around, etc but black people would rather endure this type of treatment instead of paying a few dollars extra.
Mac Ten
Class of 97 !!!
Exactly…
That’s why I’ll always get a haircut from my bro no matter what.
The barbershop is one of the safe spaces where black men can thrive together.
It’s just like in Barbershop 2 when Nappy Cuts came in the neighborhood. The folks still supported Calvin at the end.
The barber is the pillar of the neighborhood and u always should respect that place no matter what.
At the end of the day, tip your barber and show him or her your appreciation every once in a while.
Mac Ten
Class of 97 !!!
Umar is disorganized…
He should have came up with a plan.
Black men and some black women are onto Umar’s game.
If he wasn’t tricking his money on strippers and ihop, he would have had the school by now.
It’s been 9 years and still no school.
At least Tariq has something to show for his hustles(Hidden Colors, 1804, Mack lessons,Museums, etc).
General Mills
More often than not I tend to take that L.
Exactly
My friend knew she was being undercut. She kept her prices the same despite her costs going up. She knew the competition down the block had a direct relationship with the connect and were getting product at damn near cost
Even then they did not offer products at a vastly cheaper cost. But it was cheaper.
She thought (wrongly) that all of the black women who were her happy customers who show her some loyalty. They all expressed how happy they were that she opened up. They were all doing jumping jacks that they could buy their bundles and wigs locally
When the new shop opened up word got around quick as a hiccup that you could save 50 cents to a dollar at the new spot. All of her customers fled. She told everyone what was happening. She took out full page ads in the paper. Went to her local goverment. Blasted how unfair it was on social media
Black women did not give one fukk. At the end of the day they still saved a few cents by going to the Koreans
After she was forced out of business the prices at the new shop immediately went up. Higher than what she used to charge. Then to discourage competition they saturated the area with 4 other hair stores and they all sell the same things at the same price
My friend is still mad as fukk. She moved to Arizona for a job but when this opportunity popped up she invested everything in it. She was just thinking about expanding and saw a future where she could build wealth for her and her family.
She is now working a reg 9-5 and feeling guilty about taking from her daughters future and wasting her parents money too
General Mills
More often than not I tend to take that L.
Smh. They are fukking him. Until we own production we will always be the customers.Amhara cat bought the beauty store near me about a year ago. Great salt of the earth guy. Greets every customer, always blessing them, giving kids candy, and keeps the store tidy unlike the Koreans before him. Every time I go in, he looks more and more down. Last time I went in, I chopped up with him asked him what was up, he told me Asian suppliers are x'ing him out and its hurting his business...this world man.
