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Today, there are over 9,000 Korean-owned beauty supply stores serving a billion dollar market for Black hair. Between manufacturing, distributing and selling these hair care products, Korean entrepreneurs appear to control all major components. Ranen was inspired to make his documentary because of what he saw as the injustice of unfair business practices.
“It’s really about allowing black manufacturers to get inside the distribution channel,” he said. “‘I mean, if you ask me, ‘what is your vision for the future?’” Well, right away, it’s a 100 black-owned stores opening up right next to Korean stores – a boycott until the Korean stores accept at least 20% black-owned manufactured products. Then we are talking about money in the community.”
We will learn later this week why Black entrepreneurs have yet to fill this void (it deals with a variety of factors, lest of which is a solid credit rating and receiving a loan).
It should be stated that this predilection for grooming ones hair utilizing aberrant methods has enriched many of the Black women working in the salon industry, those who have yet to sell their shops to immigrant entrepreneurs.
Multiple trips a month to the beauty salon help Black women perfect a hair style that is completely unnatural, but the desire to part with large amounts of money for the straightest locks has a match in the affections market for Black style.
No Black woman is complete without fake nails – preferably acrylic – and the desire to have the longest, most pretentious, colorful and ostentatious talons in the neighborhood drives them to endure torturous and expensive visits to the manicurists.
With Korean entrepreneurs providing the bulk of the services to these Black women delirious with notion of affixing Wolverine-like claws upon the end of their phalanges, a veritable cottage industry has arisen that has helped one segment of the population build-up savings while preying upon a narcissistic segment with an average net worth of $5 dollars.
Income inequality exists for a reason and the vainglorious obsession with fastening mini-knives upon ones fingers is a clear indicator of a luxury purchase as opposed to a need for Black people. Such Hate Facts are of trivial concern to a community that spends billions each year making their hair straight and white-looking and gluing protruding weapons of mini destruction upon their fingers.
68 percent of Black women say they buy because it makes them feel good and yet the finished product of using women’s hair from India and the procuring of acrylic nails as a fashion statement should raise serious questions about their fashion sense.
Attempts to scale back the dependence that Black women have on Korean-owned manicure shops have been greeted with an increased desire to have their nails done regardless of the implications of failing to buy Black.
In fact, the self-esteem boost Black women get from a trip to the manicurist is only equaled by their animosity at receiving a bad manicure:
It should be stated that this predilection for grooming ones hair utilizing aberrant methods has enriched many of the Black women working in the salon industry, those who have yet to sell their shops to immigrant entrepreneurs.
Multiple trips a month to the beauty salon help Black women perfect a hair style that is completely unnatural, but the desire to part with large amounts of money for the straightest locks has a match in the affections market for Black style.
No Black woman is complete without fake nails – preferably acrylic – and the desire to have the longest, most pretentious, colorful and ostentatious talons in the neighborhood drives them to endure torturous and expensive visits to the manicurists.
With Korean entrepreneurs providing the bulk of the services to these Black women delirious with notion of affixing Wolverine-like claws upon the end of their phalanges, a veritable cottage industry has arisen that has helped one segment of the population build-up savings while preying upon a narcissistic segment with an average net worth of $5 dollars.
Income inequality exists for a reason and the vainglorious obsession with fastening mini-knives upon ones fingers is a clear indicator of a luxury purchase as opposed to a need for Black people. Such Hate Facts are of trivial concern to a community that spends billions each year making their hair straight and white-looking and gluing protruding weapons of mini destruction upon their fingers.
68 percent of Black women say they buy because it makes them feel good and yet the finished product of using women’s hair from India and the procuring of acrylic nails as a fashion statement should raise serious questions about their fashion sense.
Attempts to scale back the dependence that Black women have on Korean-owned manicure shops have been greeted with an increased desire to have their nails done regardless of the implications of failing to buy Black.
In fact, the self-esteem boost Black women get from a trip to the manicurist is only equaled by their animosity at receiving a bad manicure:
A Volusia County woman was arrested after several 911 calls were made complaining about a bad manicure.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office says on Sunday Cynthia Colston, 44, from Deltona, was fighting with her nail technician at Central Nails on Elkcam Boulevard in Deltona because she apparently didn’t like the length of her nails.
Woman arrested for calling 911 to complain about manicure: MyFoxORLANDO.com
During the fight the nail technician was slightly injured but it was Colston who called Volusia County Sherriffs deputies to the salon.
Not to be outdone, one portly Black woman was charged extra for her visit to a manicurist because her corpulence stressed the weight capacity of the chair she sat in:
It's normal practice for nail salons to charge for extra designs and services, but what about extra weight? According to WSB TV, that was exactly the case for Michelle Fonville. The Georgia woman received a startling surprise after receiving a manicure, pedicure and eyebrow arch from Natural Nails in Dekalb County, Georgia, when the owner tacked on an extra $5 dollars to her bill for being overweight.
Salon manager Kim Tran explained to Fonville that the extra fee was meant to cover the cost of replacing the $2,500 salon chair, in the chance that it broke.
"I said, Ma'am, you can't charge me $5 more. That's discrimination because of my weight," Fonville told WSB TV.According to the salon owner, the chairs are only meant to withstand 200 pounds and anything above that weight has the potential to damage the chairs.
"Do you think that's fair when we take $24 [for manicure and pedicure] and we have to pay $2,500? Is that fair? No," said Tran in her defense. Tran has since refunded Fonville her $5 and told her to take her business elsewhere.
Fonville, who was close to tears when given the news, would like more customers to learn about the salon's unfair practices.
"The word has to get out there that these people are discriminating against us because of our weight," she said. "I mean come on, we're in America. You can't do that."
For those paying attention, if dietary habits continue unabated then in 30 years all Black women in America will be considered morbidly obese. Those extra dollars for straining the integrity of the manicurists chair will add up quickly for Korean-owned stores and stress the already dwindling bank accounts of image-obsessed Black women.
Worse, that $5 dollars could have represented her entire net worth.
With the amount of time, energy and money invested into their nails, Black women can scarcely tolerate a bad manicure. Lining the bank accounts of Korean immigrants with yet another visit to their shop is simply out of question as it should be obvious what is the next entry into the Stuff Black People Don’t Like.
The so-called jezebel or diva look is believed to be universally applicable to Black women, and a bad manicure threatens to sabotage en entire industry.
Worse, that $5 dollars could have represented her entire net worth.
With the amount of time, energy and money invested into their nails, Black women can scarcely tolerate a bad manicure. Lining the bank accounts of Korean immigrants with yet another visit to their shop is simply out of question as it should be obvious what is the next entry into the Stuff Black People Don’t Like.
The so-called jezebel or diva look is believed to be universally applicable to Black women, and a bad manicure threatens to sabotage en entire industry.
12 comments:
Of course the blacks don't want to set up their own distribution channels to compete with the Korean dominated ones. That would be too much like work. And too much like "thinking work." And it could be that noone, including blacks themselves, wants to distribute the black manufactured products because they suck.
It's easier to just bully their way into the network created by Asians, using the race card ploy.
I recently saw "Good Hair", Chris Rocks's documentary about black women and their bizarre hair habits. Half the film was Rock and belligerent blacks complaining about white and Asian involvement in the black hair industry.
Mr. Rock also highlights white peoples fear of natural black hair, this being the reason why black women burn their hair with chemicals and attach Indian hair to their head with tracks (at a tremendous cost in the area of $1,000 to $3,000).
The basic conclusion is that all black behavior is whitey's fault. Another triumph of black analysis.
"a boycott until the Korean stores accept at least 20% black-owned manufactured products."
Black women boycotting hair salons???
That's about as likely as blacks boycotting fried chicken establishments.
Yeah, people, stop discriminating against corpulent willpower-free sows! SBPDL, this post is an instant classic. Ranen sees dollar signs but isn't addressing the real issue here: namely the neurosis that plagues a very large and I would even say the majority of black women. The neurosis of wanting, more than anything, another races hair. Yeah the nails are tacky too. But even worse than the dander and poo filled frito corn chip fingernails (c'mon, how can you even clean yourself properly?) are the tree climing toenails. I know many of them believe themselves to be all "saxy and sheet", but when you have a child "driving the car" what can it do but crash.
This threat of boycotts sounds very Jacksonian. HESSE Jacksonian. Threaten a boycott and watch the white man snivel, pee his pants, and cough up a beer distributorship, a scholarship program, or direct payouts to Operation Pus. Examples including but not limited to Anheuser-Busch, Denny's, and Toyota.
What the Jacksonians in this case do not realize is, the Koreans will simply tell the "activists" to take a long walk off a short pier. The only white man I ever saw do this was T. J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor.
I loled at the thought of "black-owned" manufactured products.
Damn this site cracks me up. After reading this post I can't figure what folder to keep SPDL in. Politics or economy. If you want some giggles read the comments in the top link that this post is based on. Some black female talking about all the grandiose achievments of blacks while whites were living in caves. She goes on to highlight how blacks are now dominating athletics and music. Well that's a far cry from building the pyramids,advanced math and the written word she cites. Don't cha be knowin yalls history? No worries though brothas and sistas. We be gotten r grove on now.
@ D J:
I'd never heard of this T.J. Rodgers or Cypress Semiconductor until you mentioned it here. Thanks for the education.
To everyone else, Rodgers' letter in reply to a religious order that happened to be a stockholder of Cypress demanding a more politically correct board of directors is something you'll want to read. It's on the Cypress Web site, and I hope SBPDL will allow the link to it that I post here to not be blocked so that others here might take a few minutes to read it.
http://www.cypress.com/?rID=34986
--Mencken--
Mencken: several years back, Jesse Jackson brought his Traveling Rent-a-Rant Show to San Jose CA to stir up the usual issue. The hi-tech industry was not hiring enough blacks. While the other companies stood hat in hand blubbering and stuttering, Rodgers told Jackson that he already had the workforce he wanted. And, that he hired those who had made the effort to become knowledgeable in the fields necessary to obtain a job at Cypress.
This precipitated an article in the San Jose Mercury, and the letters POURED in. The SJM devoted an entire section to publish them. The overwhelming percentage supported Rodgers, and many were from employees with Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Thai, and European names. Several told Jackson what he could do with his efforts.
Well just to be fair, the ideal of beauty for just about all Eurasian societies is best illustrated by Playboy. Skinny waistline, long legs, a tight apple bottom, and a nice rack. Black women can neither afford nor aspire to such an aesthetic, and as Sir Mix Alot tells us, his preference is for more cushion.
Hence, a rotund girth, flowing locks of horse hair, and eagle talons as you put it, are simply their society's ideal for beauty. Who are we to judge? I think that the Koreans have the right idea, don't judge them for it just profit off of them for it.
If there are people that think smearing horse manure on their face is the way to go, more power to them. By the way give me your welfare check, I'll bring the wheelbarrow of poo right over.
One last thing I just wanted to toss in, did you know that Huck Finn is going to be censored?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013844418_twainchange05.html
"If you want some giggles..."
Oh dear God, now the psycho black woman who says things like "giggles" is posing as an anonymous. I remember how she bad mouthed anonymous posters as being cowards on a few occasions. Funny, now she is back, she just cannot stay away!
Our favorite mini-sheboon is back, and she eeked:
Damn this site cracks me up. After reading this post I can't figure what folder to keep SPDL in. Politics or economy. If you want some giggles read the comments in the top link that this post is based on. Some black female talking about all the grandiose achievments of blacks while whites were living in caves. She goes on to highlight how blacks are now dominating athletics and music. Well that's a far cry from building the pyramids,advanced math and the written word she cites. Don't cha be knowin yalls history? No worries though brothas and sistas. We be gotten r grove on now.
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I thought she was gone, but clearly she's looking for white DNA so her first litter will be prettier and smarter than if she breeds with a bluegum.
My new ghetto name: L'ces (pronounced "lapostropheces"--that ' don't be silent, biotches.
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