by: Taneshia Johnson-Ervin
African Americans and business? All I can do is shake my head. When did we become the least productive minority group? It doesn’t make any sense. Why don’t we spend money within our community before going straight to the “others.” Whats subliminally funny about the other minority businesses in our neighborhood is they’re selling things that could have easily had black owners. You have the Chinese selling chicken and rice, and chicken and French fries etc, you have the Koreans that own the cleaners, you have the Koreans and Chinese in the nail salons you have the Arabs running your corner stores and your “chicken spots”, the Chinese even own a soul food restaurant in Harlem. You have the Asians, who are possibly the most fined hair race in the world selling black hair products. I don’t get it. It makes me upset. Its not like these people are selling exclusive products like things we could have only got in china or Pakistan or Korea, they’re catering to your basic wants and capitalizing off of it. We as a people need to wake up. Or we’re going to be amongst the polar bears as an endangered species!
I agree. We as African Americans know more about the different types of hair and the correct hair products that we should be using. It bothers me every single time I walk in a beauty supply store to buy some weave or just hair care products and I ask questions and they have no idea what they are talking about. They attempt to girls with thick coarse hair silky straight weave, and when I walk in with freshly washed hair all in a afro they want to give me some nappy stuff... no boo boo... what are you doing my hair AINT NAPPY!!... You have no skills at this job. HIRE ME. Actually let me run this place because you don’t have the knowledge in this business. It’s frustrating because they have all the connections in getting the good products from other countries, and are RUNNING this Multi-million dollar business and WE SHOULD BE RUNNING IT!!!! STEP YOUR GAME UP BLACK PEOPLE.
ReplyDelete