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Offline bijou

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Why Do Koreans Own The Black Beauty Supply Business?
« on: September 29, 2010, 05:58:33 AM »
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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. ...
http://atlantapost.com/2010/09/27/why-do-koreans-own-the-black-beauty-supply-business/

This was news to me, but doesn't really get to the answer of why Black business owners have not been able to break into the wholesale market as well as Koreans.
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Re: Why Do Koreans Own The Black Beauty Supply Business?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2010, 06:37:01 AM »
Quote from: bijou on September 29, 2010, 05:58:33 AM
http://atlantapost.com/2010/09/27/why-do-koreans-own-the-black-beauty-supply-business/

This was news to me, but doesn't really get to the answer of why Black business owners have not been able to break into the wholesale market as well as Koreans.

I could tell you but then you'd have to ban me.... :-)


You can read the comments and get a general idea of why.
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Re: Why Do Koreans Own The Black Beauty Supply Business?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2010, 09:52:59 PM »
I have known this for years. Old news for me.
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Re: Why Do Koreans Own The Black Beauty Supply Business?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2010, 07:17:49 AM »
I've found a nice way to put it.

Blacks HATE other blacks that have been successful through honest hard work. If they get rich through sports or drug dealing and dishonesty, then that's different.
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Re: Why Do Koreans Own The Black Beauty Supply Business?
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2010, 10:26:32 AM »
This is like asking why Middle Eastern people own Quick Stops, 7-11's ect........
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