#65. A Bad Manicure

A billion dollar industry

Black women spend countless hours and billions of dollars a year because their own hair is unacceptable to them. Korean entrepreneurs reap the benefits of this mane-madness, owning a virtual monopoly on the industry from distributorship to the shops that Black women frequent (entrepreneurship and the depressing ratio of Korean-to-Black new business starts will be discussed later this month): 

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:

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.

Woman arrested for calling 911 to complain about manicure: MyFoxORLANDO.com

Youth Revolt in the Heartland: More than 100 Black people riot at Milwaukee Mall

"Youth" riot... Black youth riot

Mall envy. Dress codes. Curfews. Flash mobs terrorizing Philadelphia, Kansas City and other major cities.

Can you guess what racial group suffers from the symptoms of mall envy? How about the group that dress codes and curfews target most frequent? Perhaps you could take a stab at which group participated in flash mobs in many major American cities in 2010, based on the successful application of the answers procured from above.

Hint: the same group that decided vintage Air Jordan’s were worth rioting about in both Christmas of 2009 and 2010.

Though recognizing behavioral patterns frequently attributable to a certain demographic that develop from noticing events and crime rates at disparate locations across the country is immensely frowned upon in Black Run America (BRA), it is becoming increasingly noticeable that one particular racial group (we’ll call them “youths” as they do in France) have a propensity for displaying an inability of self-control.

Take for instance the actions of more than 100 “youth” in Milwaukee at the Mayfair Mall (nestled in a city of roughly 45,000 with a population that is just around two percent Black) that was forced to close due to disturbances by these precious “youth” that seem to be germane to one racial group that few dare name:

Police closed Mayfair Mall a half hour early Sunday evening after reports of gunfire somewhere near the mall.  The gunfire reports have not been verified.

The disturbance started when several teenagers started looting inside Boston Store, witnesses said.

A picture posted on JSOnline.com shows several clothing racks strewn across the floor.

Two hours after the mall closed, there were still crowds of teens in the area.

"Just trying to have fun," a teenage boy told TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Lauren Leamanczyk. Witnesses said teenagers continued causing problems after leaving Mayfair.

"They were at the bus stop and then they were running across the street toward BW'3's," one woman recounted. "And then at that time, they were jumping on cars and then almost playing like ditch it in the middle of the street with the cars."

Wauwatosa police said they do not have anyone custody and that Chief Barry Weber would release more information Monday.

The newspaper in Buffalo was attacked by the parents and leaders of the “youth” community after the unflattering articles were published that brought to light the penchant for criminality that these “youth” seem incapable of straying from wherever they might reside.

Any media that dare point out who these “youth” are will be denounced vigorously by the community that spawned these “youth” and their Disingenuous White Liberals (DWL) enablers.

Another story on this “youth” riot can be found here:

“A crowd of like 50 to 60 kids just came barreling through the upstairs door at Boston Store, knocking down everything they could touch. They went running down the stairs. All that we heard was glass breaking. There was security yelling to every manager to lockdown the doors, lockdown the mall, lockdown the store,” the customer said.

That customer sent a few photos to 12 News that show mannequins and items knocked down inside Boston Store.

Images: Mess Inside Mayfair Mall

An employee at a different retailer inside the mall told 12 News that mall security was able to get shoppers out of the building within about 10 minutes, as retailers began to shut their storefront gates.

“With all the noise and bustle it definitely seemed like something was wrong. It felt like people were starting to panic. My employee said she heard glass breaking and so it did seem like it was getting out of control,” the employee said.

Mayfair Mall management released a statement late Sunday night:

“What occurred this afternoon appears to be a group of youth intent on disrupting the shopping experience at Mayfair. The safety and security of our visitors are always our top priority. This behavior is isolated and we will not condone it. To assist police earlier in identifying and apprehending suspects, we made the decision to close the mall shortly before our regular closing time. We anticipate there will be consequences as a result of what happened today.

We are thankful for the support of our public safety team and the Wauwatosa Police Department. We are even more thankful there were no injuries as a result of the youth’s careless actions.”

There are reasons why people hold stereotypes about the certain community that produced these “youth” and it is because of these stereotypes that the phenomenon known as Breathing while Black (BwB) exists. The actions of these “youth” help shape an image of an entire community on the brink of collapse, endangering the upper-class of the “youth” community in the process.

We’ll say what so many people instinctively understand, but because of zeitgeist of the day refrain from doing: the “youth” are Black people and any denouncing by city leaders of these Black people will bring about righteous indignation from the “youth” community leaders and parents.

After all, they are all great kids stuck in a highly segregated city where racism is the real culprit behind the Black kid’s inability to conform to society’s standards.

One prediction: 2011 will be the year that all online newspapers begin censoring comments on their Web sites. The Internet is the last bastion of freedom in America and soon that will gone.

Any criticism of “youth” and their community is not tolerated.

Video can be found here.

Update: the mall had a parental guidance rule (part of the Parental Guidance Program) that Black people protested back in 2009.

 

Pitt Coach Mike Haywood Fired, the crisis of Black employment continues

Lasted less than two weeks at Pitt

In Black Run America (BRA) any vocation that has a dearth of Black participation is undoubtedly practicing racism to keep Black people in their place.

The corollary to this rule is that vocations without acceptable Black participation are invariably operating in a crisis mode and every effort to augment the number of Black people in that field will be deployed so that the crisis can be alleviated.

The postal service and barber shops represent a different story.

Police, firemen, engineers, doctors, lawyers, astronauts, oenophiles... the list is long and undistinguished for the paucity of Black men and women employed in these fields is only due to the insidious practice of racism, the true barrier to equality in employment.

We at Stuff Black People Don't Like harbor a zeal only equaled by Richard Lapchick in following racial matters in college football, the true opiate of American masses.

In his mind poor graduation rates of Black players at virtually every major university - he is silent on the equally poor graduation rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) where racism on the part of administrations is highly difficult to place blame upon - is the fault of a unscrupulous white administrators and never attributable to the intellectual inability of these athlete-students.

Blacks comprise the majority of athletes in Division 1 football, yet the lack of Black head coaches violates one of the major rules of Black Run America and, consequently, the profession is in crisis mode.

If Richard Lapchick thought the firing of Ty Willingham from Notre Dame was a sad day in South Bend (he would go on to bring the University of Washington a glorious 0-11 record as coach) what must Mr. Lapchick think of the firing of Mike Haywood from the University of Pittsburgh before he even had the opportunity to coach a game?:

Pittsburgh fired football coach Mike Haywood on Saturday, saying he could not continue in the job he held for only 2½ weeks because of his arrest on a domestic violence charge.
Haywood was released Saturday from St. Joseph County Jail in Indiana on $1,000 cash bond, said an officer at the jail who declined to give her name, after the charge was upgraded from a misdemeanor to felony domestic battery in the presence of a minor.


Within hours of Haywood's afternoon release, Pittsburgh put out a statement from Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg, saying Haywood had been dismissed, "effective immediately," and the school was reopening its search.


"To be clear, the university's decision is not tied to any expectation with respect to the terms on which the legal proceeding now pending in Indiana might ultimately be concluded," Nordenberg said in the statement. "Instead, it reflects a strong belief that moving forward with Mr. Haywood as our head coach is not possible under the existing circumstances."


Pitt moved swiftly to oust Haywood following an arrest that sullied a university that is proud of its Big Ten-like academics. It also raised questions why Haywood -- who had only two seasons as a mid-major head coach, including a one-win season -- was chosen Dec. 16 following a brief search.

Another notch in the battle against the overwhelmingly whiteness of college head coaching has been taken away.

Every year Lapchick - without fail - delineates the twin crisises of poor Black graudation rates and equally pathetic promotion rates of Black assistant coaches to the head coaching position. SBPDL has friends in the collegiate coaching field and it is common knowledge that a competent Black assistant will be rushed up the ranks and  promoted quickly because of the intense desire by politically correct athletic departments bent on ending the crisis of Black head coaches.

One can only imagine every field and vocation with a crisis of Black employees operates under these promoting same guidelines, though many will utilize more unsavory and disingenuous manners to bring closure to this never-ending crisis.

That's called affirmative action, the biggest slap in the face to Black people everywhere since Michael Jackson decided his skin tone needed a revitalization (the NFL has The Rooney Rule, which is a slap in the face to everyone involved).

The lack of Black people in certain vocations is a crisis because it points to an actual crisis endemic within the Black community that few in BRA wish to acknowledge exists. Any company or industry practicing racism in hiring practices will be sued for millions and all fields of employment wish to steer clear of minority litigation.

More Black men will become coaches at the major college level, but we at SBPDL find it sad that Mr. Haywood has become nothing more than a statistic, a fate that awaits so many other Black males in America.

Happy New Year 2011 - Auld Lang Syne finally means something

Nostalgia for the past means a longing for whiteness

I'm not one to pray often or to engage in wishful thinking. But while watching the seconds tick away and 2010 ultimately succomb to a new year - full of incredible potential -  I felt that the ushering in of 2011 was something extraordinary.

Attending a posh party and enjoying the festivities among friends and a throng of revelers, it dawned on me that 2011 is a year I have long looked forward to starting.

Sharing a champagne toast with old friends and listening to the familiar (yet somehow alien) chordes of Auld Lang Syne strike up I became a bit misty eyed when thinking of past memories shared with them; loved ones no longer around to laugh with (one in particular); and the daunting struggle ahead that so many are oblivious too.

There are so many problems plaguing American society right now and yet this nation still has so many wonderful things to offer. This is a beautiful country and no matter what the future holds, there are still so many things worth fighting for and defending.

All of those coincide with what made Pre-Obama America great and I believe a great nostalgia for that place exists in the hearts and minds of most people living in the US today. Normal people who do the living and dying in the United States don't think about things to the extent that we do here at SBPDL, but concern themselves with matters dealing with the day-to-day struggles in Black Run America (BRA).

As the chorus to Auld Lang Syne faded and Journey's Don't Stop Believing serendeptiously took over bringing the crowd of about 100 to continue signing in unison, a smile came across my face that would be extremely hard to replicate.

Peggy Noonan asks this question:

The question it asks is clear: Should those we knew and loved be forgotten and never thought of? Should old times past be forgotten? No, says the song, they shouldn't be. We'll remember those times and those people, we'll toast them now and always, we'll keep them close. "We'll take a cup of kindness yet."

The past can never be forgotten and as BRA goes bankrupt the nostaglia for those "simpler times" will be so thick you'll have to swat it away from your eyes. Watch Turner Classic Movies (TCM) if you have any questions about what is meant by that, as nostaglia for the past is a longing for a return to a nation epitomized by The Greatest Generation.

So here's to those friends, family and loved ones no longer with us or yet to be found on Facebook. May whatever ailments that injured the relationship be healed, for life is surely to brief to hold grudges for eternity.

Always remember the good times you have had and no matter what transpires in the future, you'll get through. The movie It's a Wonderful Life was right - no man is a failure who has friends.

Stuff Black People Don't Like wishes you and your family a Happy New Year. May 2011 be the year you look back on one day and realize that it was the year nostaglia made its long awaited come back.

When nostalgia becomes overwhelming, the ranks of Those Who Can See will represent the majority of the traditional majority American population. In the end, that's all it will take.

I'll drink a cup of kindness to that.