Razac is black family owned out of Newark.
Dudleys, of course...
Organic Root Stimulator WAS black owned by Gary Gardner, son of the founder of Softsheen Carson. Sold to Dabur, the amla oil folks.
Now you know...Indians don't know NOTHIN' bout no perm. Black people had/have the opportunity to dominate the market, but we keep selling out!
Africa's Best is owned by ORS.Don't tell 'em I told you.
... and more "I can do it all by myself... one day" :superbanana:
if you read the OP you can at least see why having products in stock is an uphill battle.
to the rest of it...
I hope I dont get pummelled for this one..... but
I'm not into this race against that race. I'm all for supporting a group,.. ie,.. buying from black owned stores more often,.. but I'm not into intentionally trying to cripple a group of people because they are business savvy. The guy demanding back his products with a refund check is scared too, and isn't trying to jeapordize his family or his business for someone he doesn't know.
I'm not too educated on korean history, but I know that they've been through the struggle as well. To this day you see alot of korean and chinese immigrants working the city, riding people around on bikes in the freezing cold, walking around hairdresser shops selling socks, getting harrassed by highschool kids when they own food places, you see their kids working since their 12, I had one guy deliver TEN DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD to my house during last years snow storm. He had to get out of his car a half block away and walk the rest to my house b/c my street was not cleared. Why? for 10 dollars?? nope. Because he knows that if he works hard he'll build a customer base and we'll keep coming back. Wasted gas today,... money in the bank tomorrow.
In general... those people are HUSTLERS!! and i give it to them. How about instead of an "us" against "them" attitude,... how about we rewind the clock and analyze how they got control of the hair industry in the first place. How about we empower our people to build businesses with go-hard attitudes instead of building excuses. How about we learn from some of their principles and make our own roads instead of "sneaking" onto the ones they already trampled out.
There are alot of people here and on youtube that has come up with some great formulas for moisturizers, sealers, curl butters,.. etc. Instead of waitng for a big corporation to write a check to help you start I wonder how many would bottle the stuff, fill up a back pack, take an initial hit and give some free samples to salons,... sell it to customers under the hairdryer at the salon (i know you've seen those koreans do that). I say black people in general need to stop waiting for a BIG BREAK and show some tenacity and work for as long as it takes to make it big,.. on their own.
If there is a list out there black owned hair supply stores... let me know... i wud love to check them out and judge them fairly.
If you are an at home Hair Product Chef... (of quality stuff). Let us know!! We'll buy if you have a humble introductory price or sample size.
In summary... Less talking... Less complaining,... Less "they won't help me"
yes, i do suppose we will never get anywhere if your own people believe you are lazy.
i much prefer the deeper analysis of structures and systems but it seems you guys like to just go with the same old same old.
I hope I dont get pummelled for this one..... but
I'm not into this race against that race. I'm all for supporting a group,.. ie,.. buying from black owned stores more often,.. but I'm not into intentionally trying to cripple a group of people because they are business savvy. The guy demanding back his products with a refund check is scared too, and isn't trying to jeapordize his family or his business for someone he doesn't know.
I'm not too educated on korean history, but I know that they've been through the struggle as well. To this day you see alot of korean and chinese immigrants working the city, riding people around on bikes in the freezing cold, walking around hairdresser shops selling socks, getting harrassed by highschool kids when they own food places, you see their kids working since their 12, I had one guy deliver TEN DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD to my house during last years snow storm. He had to get out of his car a half block away and walk the rest to my house b/c my street was not cleared. Why? for 10 dollars?? nope. Because he knows that if he works hard he'll build a customer base and we'll keep coming back. Wasted gas today,... money in the bank tomorrow.
In general... those people are HUSTLERS!! and i give it to them. How about instead of an "us" against "them" attitude,... how about we rewind the clock and analyze how they got control of the hair industry in the first place. How about we empower our people to build businesses with go-hard attitudes instead of building excuses. How about we learn from some of their principles and make our own roads instead of "sneaking" onto the ones they already trampled out.
There are alot of people here and on youtube that has come up with some great formulas for moisturizers, sealers, curl butters,.. etc. Instead of waitng for a big corporation to write a check to help you start I wonder how many would bottle the stuff, fill up a back pack, take an initial hit and give some free samples to salons,... sell it to customers under the hairdryer at the salon (i know you've seen those koreans do that). I say black people in general need to stop waiting for a BIG BREAK and show some tenacity and work for as long as it takes to make it big,.. on their own.
If there is a list out there black owned hair supply stores... let me know... i wud love to check them out and judge them fairly.
If you are an at home Hair Product Chef... (of quality stuff). Let us know!! We'll buy if you have a humble introductory price or sample size.
In summary... Less talking... Less complaining,... Less "they won't help me"
I agree that It shouldn't be a 'us' versus 'them' race thing. 
If black women say that they are being treated rude by the very same people who are profiting from them, then...that's intolerable.
I hope I dont get pummelled for this one..... but
I'm not into this race against that race. I'm all for supporting a group,.. ie,.. buying from black owned stores more often,.. but I'm not into intentionally trying to cripple a group of people because they are business savvy. The guy demanding back his products with a refund check is scared too, and isn't trying to jeapordize his family or his business for someone he doesn't know.
I'm not too educated on korean history, but I know that they've been through the struggle as well. To this day you see alot of korean and chinese immigrants working the city, riding people around on bikes in the freezing cold, walking around hairdresser shops selling socks, getting harrassed by highschool kids when they own food places, you see their kids working since their 12, I had one guy deliver TEN DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD to my house during last years snow storm. He had to get out of his car a half block away and walk the rest to my house b/c my street was not cleared. Why? for 10 dollars?? nope. Because he knows that if he works hard he'll build a customer base and we'll keep coming back. Wasted gas today,... money in the bank tomorrow.
In general... those people are HUSTLERS!! and i give it to them. How about instead of an "us" against "them" attitude,... how about we rewind the clock and analyze how they got control of the hair industry in the first place. How about we empower our people to build businesses with go-hard attitudes instead of building excuses. How about we learn from some of their principles and make our own roads instead of "sneaking" onto the ones they already trampled out.
There are alot of people here and on youtube that has come up with some great formulas for moisturizers, sealers, curl butters,.. etc. Instead of waitng for a big corporation to write a check to help you start I wonder how many would bottle the stuff, fill up a back pack, take an initial hit and give some free samples to salons,... sell it to customers under the hairdryer at the salon (i know you've seen those koreans do that). I say black people in general need to stop waiting for a BIG BREAK and show some tenacity and work for as long as it takes to make it big,.. on their own.
If there is a list out there black owned hair supply stores... let me know... i wud love to check them out and judge them fairly.
If you are an at home Hair Product Chef... (of quality stuff). Let us know!! We'll buy if you have a humble introductory price or sample size.
In summary... Less talking... Less complaining,... Less "they won't help me"
I hope I dont get pummelled for this one..... but
I'm not into this race against that race. I'm all for supporting a group,.. ie,.. buying from black owned stores more often,.. but I'm not into intentionally trying to cripple a group of people because they are business savvy. The guy demanding back his products with a refund check is scared too, and isn't trying to jeapordize his family or his business for someone he doesn't know.
I'm not too educated on korean history, but I know that they've been through the struggle as well. To this day you see alot of korean and chinese immigrants working the city, riding people around on bikes in the freezing cold, walking around hairdresser shops selling socks, getting harrassed by highschool kids when they own food places, you see their kids working since their 12, I had one guy deliver TEN DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD to my house during last years snow storm. He had to get out of his car a half block away and walk the rest to my house b/c my street was not cleared. Why? for 10 dollars?? nope. Because he knows that if he works hard he'll build a customer base and we'll keep coming back. Wasted gas today,... money in the bank tomorrow.
In general... those people are HUSTLERS!! and i give it to them. How about instead of an "us" against "them" attitude,... how about we rewind the clock and analyze how they got control of the hair industry in the first place. How about we empower our people to build businesses with go-hard attitudes instead of building excuses. How about we learn from some of their principles and make our own roads instead of "sneaking" onto the ones they already trampled out.
There are alot of people here and on youtube that has come up with some great formulas for moisturizers, sealers, curl butters,.. etc. Instead of waitng for a big corporation to write a check to help you start I wonder how many would bottle the stuff, fill up a back pack, take an initial hit and give some free samples to salons,... sell it to customers under the hairdryer at the salon (i know you've seen those koreans do that). I say black people in general need to stop waiting for a BIG BREAK and show some tenacity and work for as long as it takes to make it big,.. on their own.
If there is a list out there black owned hair supply stores... let me know... i wud love to check them out and judge them fairly.
If you are an at home Hair Product Chef... (of quality stuff). Let us know!! We'll buy if you have a humble introductory price or sample size.
In summary... Less talking... Less complaining,... Less "they won't help me"
I agree with parts of what you say and also respectfully disagree
...But at the same time it was made that way...BYou/we can't be blind enough to ignore when someone is cutting you out of a market for your own people and then profiting solely and completely off of it.
Blacks should be outraged at the level of economic retardation we are experiencing by putting money into a system that we can't expect return from.
I agree again that there should be more 'hustle' from our own, but at the same time, it's offensive that a group of non-black people try to monopolize a market for black people.
Also the poor treatment can't be ignored.
This comment gave me the Holy Ghost...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaI0U1_IW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp4BA0-lYtU&NR=1
#BroFranklin
i have to go to sleep. you are just so ridiculous and are missing the point.
....we HAVE the power to do it right here with this forum...there is already ppl saying they will boycott with us...and they don't all think about hair the way WE think about hair...that says a lot to me
