Or any other black celeb for that matter. Especially Brandy and those Lacefronts.
They can get down with Starbucks and Fat Burger (E40- I see you) but not shampoo and weave?
I happened to stumble across a documentary about Koreans owning all of the beauty supply stores in most black neighborhoods. I had to think about that. The only black owned beauty supply I know of in Vegas in called Attitudes II. When I asked the owner back in 2007 why there weren't certain product lines in the store, he replied "They won't sell to me."
The craziest thing I noticed was in either part 3 or 4 when there was one beauty supply owner who they would sell to, because with his accent they didn't think he was black.
And just for good measure here are contrasting views on the matter:
Racialicious - They are not digging the Anti-Korean sentiment
Black Informant - Suggests pooling resources and forming Superstores rather than a handlfull of scattered stores everywhere.
Off to watch the Boondocks and comb more hair.
~Later
You should develop a Korean accent and order your products over the phone... I think Black folks wouldn't go to a Black owned hair supply store. I would, but statistically, we don't do too well buying products or services from each other. When I sold insurance I had a lot of clients. Zero were Black. There was the barber shop I tried to sign up but they kept putting it off when ever we made an appointment to go over the policies. A few months later, one of the barbers purchased a policy from my same company from a lady that was not black. I did a huge sign up with Marie Calendars employees and my partner for that group kept trying to get one of the black waitresses to sit with me because he was helping someone & I was almost finished and she said, "Nah, I'll wait for you." He also wasn't black.
ReplyDeleteThat is crazy!
ReplyDeleteHey, I guess you can't force anyone to do business with you. Nor would you want to.
One lady said close to the end of the documentary "Well what if we filed a lawsuit?" Or something along those lines. You could only file a case against a U.S. based co. That is the point. They are int'l and they choose who they will do biz with stateside.