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how about Black people who've EARNED the RIGHT through whatever jobs they work at spend their hard earned money on whatever the fukk they want (legally speaking) and if/when the corporation to which they were spending said money treats them like shyt then the BLACK entertainers/businessmen who endorse said business take their product had image elsewhere.....
See how THAT adds up Son
Again the man's spending habits aren't what's at debate here. He did absolutely NOTHING illegal by purchasing that belt. If it were $1 or $1000 it doesn't matter. The spending habits of young African American youths is another topic entirely, when it comes to THIS case it doesn't matter, he was arrested for using a credit card they felt was fraudulent. Let's say a young black male walks into Kay Jewelers to purchase a $1300 dollar engagement ring for his girlfriend. The store employees don't "think" he can afford it and he's arrested and held for hours like some criminal. How does the story change? Or if a young black male wants to purchase a car with his hard earned money and is arrested and treated like a criminal. How does the story change? It's not WHAT he purchased that is the heart of the matter it's HOW he was treated while making a perfectly legal business transaction.
On the same note, Jay-Z had the RIGHT to do business with whomever he wants. If Barney's offers him the best business deal then do be it. However once it comes to light that Barney's is instilling racist practices of racial profiling to the point where hard earned money made by the blacks of this country is being used as a means of demeaning and criminalizing us, then does Jay-Z, as a BLACK entrepreneur, not have the right and perhaps the cultural RESPONSIBILITY to pull his business? Barney's would CERTAINLY do so under similar situations....