because it was FOR SALE???
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at atlantapost.com ...
The comments to the article are amazing. A real glimpse into the mindset of the inner-city blacks.
I purchase a lot of stuff off of Ebay or from other ‘secondary’ sources. It is possible to buy “new with tags” items at such sources.
True, I spend a lot of time reading labels for the source of a product but I really want to buy items made in North America as much as possible, and specifically U.S.A.
Buying U.S.A. will be more and more difficult especially since Obama is creating an even more hostile business environment than existed before his administration.
I do own dogs — a Golden Retriever and an English Springer Spaniel. Both are definitely ‘gun dogs’.
Indeed, and IMO revealing. That being said, one guy made an interesting point. To a degree, it sounds like the Mormons in Utah and the Amish in Lancaster County, PA:
"I agree with this article, I am black business owner in Syracuse New York (Green Family Closet) specializing in the hair market. I found these same discriminating factors, when I decided to open my store. There are distributors who refuse to sell hair products to owners who are not of Korean decent.(Specifically Janet Collection) They claim that they cannot supply people in a radius of 10-15 miles near each other,yet there are two stores run by Koreans that are supplied by them.
I think this kind of treatment creates a monopoly in the hair industry for Korean owners and displaces African Americans, the leading consumers of these products. I have to note that these distributors are a contributing factor, but I believe that the change can only be made if African Americans are willing to call for the change as well. The fight cannot be reached if we continue to be complacent and accept this as our FATE!"
Gosh, Charlie, that’s all explained in the article at the link. Go to the beginning of the thread and click on it.
Hint: it all started with Korean hair used for wigs!
Easy. Koreans came to his country seeking opportunity. Blacks in this country seek a handout.
And you might also feel astounded by what you feel to be racism in my answer, but according to my wife’s Korean, Black-Beauty-Shop-owning uncle, the answer is a four-letter word: work.
Two posts down, someone from Janet Collection offers to get him what he needs.
I totally agree with you.
“. I don’t know very many Koreans, but they seem quite fearless from my limited knowledge of them.”
After leaving a dictatorship and coming here and coming to a whole new environment, it takes a LOT of courage. And to come with nothing.
I don’t get it. What are you trying to say?
Yeah, I saw that, but wondered why the first guy couldn't get an order. Maybe the second guy poses as a Korean. :-)
I’m trying to say that my wife’s uncle is Korean and owns a successful shop like those described in the article. He and his family and his employees all work their skinny Asian asses off, and own a business. He points out that there are very few tricks or secrets involved, just effort. And many, but not all, would say that such a point made at the expense of his black customers and neighbors might be a form of racism.
They work hard.
They know how to run a business.
They didn’t grow up as welfare families.
because it was FOR SALE???
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