Posted on 09/29/2010 1:16:44 PM PDT by Niuhuru
It’s odd but no so odd at the same time. By now, many people expect to walk into a beauty supply store and see a Korean store owner manning the register. Whether you’re in the suburbs of Houston or on MLK Blvd in
Anytown, USA, you know what to expect. And yet, walking down a street in a Black neighborhood with Black residents and Black customers buzzing about the retail shops, that image of the few Koreans in the neighborhood only existing behind the cash register of liquor, beauty supply and other retail shops is still perplexing.
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Perhaps it is because the Koreans saw an unfilled nich in American business and filled it.
That is the problem with immigrants. They see business openings that the rest of us don’t see even though they are right in front of us.
Google this R. Asmerom person and what they’ve written, definitely a racebaiter.
I get so angry when I look at my Black sisters, most of them wearing artificial hair they buy from Koreans stores. I wear my hair natural, as I am a Black woman, and prefer my knotty hair to straight hair any day...
There’s that, but the Koreans also have a wrok ethic that would frighten Calvin and intimidate the Puritans. That’s the real fundamental factor. All the luck and ability in the world is nothing without a work ethic. Say the least that they come to this country and see an opportunity instead of a piggy bank.
Koreans: Doing the Job Black Americans Won’t Do?
(/sarc)
If Koreans own the business then how does this person think it belongs to blacks?!
Exactly really. When you think about it, it’s exactly that.
I think they have an inverse view of how businesses get created. Microsoft didn’t create itself and then decide that Bill Gates would run it. Bill decided to take a risk, work at it, and then it became successful. Same with these Koreans. They realized that there would be a lucrative market, bought the needed items, rented the space, and then opened shop. Go figure, they have become successful. Businesses dont’ just appear and then decide who runs them or who will be declared the founder of tehir company. It doesn’t work like that.
Why do Koreans own so many small mom-and-pop businesses in run down areas of the city?
Because they are willing to go to work 7 days a week, and put in the 70 or 80 hours a week at work it takes to make these buinsesses turn a profit.
“Why do Koreans own the ‘Black Beauty’ supply business?”
I did not realize that Koreans were that much into horse stories, let alone those aimed at pre-teen girls?
Well, as often as they remake the movie, I guess the business really pays well....
/sarc
It’s funny how this is not considered racist. I wonder if they’d punish articles asking:
Why do so many blacks own the prison inmate business?
Why do so many blacks own the crack dealing business?
I’ve actually wondered the same thing, but for a different reason. I’ve wondered what would compel them (Koreans) to move into black neighborhoods where they are exposed to racial antagonism from the locals, just so they can ply their trade, when they could open up shops elsewhere without putting themselves at so much risk of assault. I don’t know very many Koreans, but they seem quite fearless from my limited knowledge of them.
This is a fascinating thread. Thanks for posting this article.
Early in the 20th century there was a successful black businesswoman (I’ve unfortunately forgotten her name) who created a U.S.-wide, beauty-based empire catering to black folk. This briliant woman, a millionairess, was wildly successful but I have no idea if her business was carried onwards by her family after her death. My main thrust is that she could do it so anyone can do it.
What many readers here are missing is this: Korean owned businesses buy from a closed distribution system which is of Korean origin. They purposefully exclude non-Koreans from being involved in this economic chain. It is a legal practice though IMO it unAmerican in spirit.
If blacks don’t like that black owned businesses are shut out of the supply chain, then don’t go to Korean owned businesses. It is that simple.
For example, I refuse to purchase Chinese products (except for porcelain and silk). This is my economic choice. So can anyone choose with whom to do business.
Vietnemese/Korean also seem to have the nail salon industry locked up.
“I refuse to purchase Chinese products (except for porcelain and silk).”
So, do you have anything else in your house besides porcelain and silk, (plus a gun and a dog;) Just kidding, but it is extremely hard to find consumer products which are NOT manufactured by the Chicoms!
Perhaps Koreans are successful in catering to blacks in black communities because they don’t have that legacy of slavery holding them back....seriously, they seem to work harder and longer not expecting something because they are entitled or waiting for a government program.
Could you elaborate on the Korean distribution system? I am fascinated by this, because even in the upscale parts of my town, all the nail salons and hair salons are run by Korean people. Good, Christian Korean people by the way. I have always wondered the connection.
agreed. And it’s not just in predominately black areas. All over my town, they are all ran by Korean people. Just curious.
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