Did you know that a majority of beauty hair care products targeted to African-American women are manufactured by non black owned manufacturers?
Wow! This is really eye-opening and it actually pisses me off. I know business is business, but when you start making knockoff items just to block out black owned businesses (i.e. kizure) then you deserve to get your ass kicked. Black people we need to wake up, everything is being taken away up from under us and we’re letting it happen.
All yall need to watch this and then discuss! Parts 2, 3, and 4 are also on youtube, but you should support it and purchase the dvd!
The DVD is $14.95 at www.blackhairdvd.com and will go directly to the filmmaker, and his efforts to continue making this film.
Shout out to M. Arango for sending me this link!!
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There were many Black owned hair care businesses as well as other successful Black owned businesses during segregation. It wasn’t until integration came about, that the White man started offering Black business owners money to buy out their businesses, and many Black owners foolishly fell for that and sold their businesses to the White man; and as a result, Black businesses have almost become extinct because of that and they have never recovered. That was just the White man’s way of taking businesses away from Black people, so that the Black community couldn’t continue to prosper and so that Black monies would no longer circulate in the Black communites. They knew that Black monies would have to be spent with them. And that’s exactly how everything turned out. And now Black people are doing nothing, and they are at the mercy of White people, Asians, and yes, some Hispanics. And that is really really messed up!
This is an issue that runs so deep. It’s not just simply an issue of capitalism at its best for me personally. I have been in these Korean-owned beauty shops and followed like I was about to boost a perm kits. I don’t like it. Almost always, there’s some steretypical ghetto girl arguing with the Asian store owner while steadily slapping her products on the counter, steadily complaining–CHA-CHING! But then again, I was in the store to witness it, right? I’m not mad at the Koreans for being business savvy. They did their homework and they KNOW that black (women) spend more on their haircare products than any other race. Hey, if I was part of the a group that was organized and stuck together, I would get my people together and set in motion a plan to make millions. But alas….I’m not. It’s a part of our history not to trust and support each other, since the days of slavery-divide and conquer, that’s how you maintain power. Unfortunately, it’s still prevalent in the black community and a major reason that Koreans have been able to dominate the market over the past few years. Sure, many blacks have been denied business loans, but do you really think that if we stuck togther as a people that we could own more businesses in our own community? I don’t mean to simplify the problem, but we have to take a look at ourselves before anything else. There in lies the problem. That Oprah comment was sad but true. I’ve seen that many times myself where black folks living in poverty, but they always got they hair “did.” That money could have gone for anything else, but we’ve conditioned ourselves to believe that that’s more important than anything else-like mabe food or to pay a bill. Instant gratification instead of looking at the big picture or what may happen down the road. That’s why there aren’t that many black owned businesses in black communities and why in black communities, many of the houses are being sold to new immigrants. This bothers me so, I’m starting with me. I don’t shop at these Korean beauty supply places. I purchase most of my products for my natural-kinky-curly nappy hair online from black owned businesses and like the previous blogger said, most of the products of these Asian beauty supply places are petroleum and mineral oil laden. Just think if 20,000 other black women decided not to shop at these stores-if they visited these stores 12 times a year, which we all KNOW is a conservative estimate, that would be the beginning of the end, or at least put a hurting on them. As a Psychology major, I understand that many blacks suffer from learned helplessnes and we think that any attempt to change the way things are is an exercise in futility. We HAVE to get out of this way of thinking and look at the big picture and prepare for the future of our children. That’s what the Koreans do–so, why shouldn’t we? Damn, I feel like not only are we not getting ahead, we are losing ground that we gained during the civil rights era. It’s like this, if you’re not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. We have to be willing to put our money where our mouths are. I made the choice to support my own people-I will pay more to support black businesses if I have to. The Korean business people have put a lock on the black hair care industry and have shut African-Americans out-it’s so ironic, considering that their hair is COMPLETELY different from ours (a fact that may not be totally relevant,well it is a little, but still ironic) . I’m telling you, now even Filipinos are getting into the black haircare biz! I can’t control what other people do, so I’m taking responsibility for my own actions. If everyone felt the same way, there wouldn’t be Asian owned beauty shops in our community.
The underlying reason why these Asian people make so much money on black hair care is that black people in general hate their natural hair and seek to change it with chemicals or cover it up with wigs and weaves.
If black people realised their uniqueness and loved themselves enough to be happy with the hair that they were born with and work with that hair then the Asian hair care industry would die.
I personally wear my hair natural and I don’t go near any hair stores. I don’t use products with mineral oil, petrolatum and alcohol. I buy my hair products from a majority-black-owned company called Carol’s Daughter. I live in Canada but I buy it online either from http://www.carolsdaughter.com or http://www.sephora.com. If more African Americans were conscious enough to support black businesses like Carol’s Daughter and to love the hair they were born with, they would be a lot better off mentally and financially.