https://news.yahoo.com/black-products-black-shoppers-black-152854537.html
Sorry to link to a yahoo article but holy fucking shit.
If you don't have time to read it all, I'll give you the cliffnotes:
>South Korean guy owns a beauty product store for black women and employs black people
>rioters and joggers wanna smash the place up and loot it in honor of Saint Floyd
>Employee pleads with them to not smash windows and let her open the door so they can loot it with no property damage
>she takes too long to unlock the door so they smash the windows anyway
> joggers berate her for helping clean up the mess instead of rioting with them
Here is an archive link for the Yahoo Article:
Incidents like this make it virtually impossible to have sympathy for these BLM protests and the people behind them. Instead of demanding meaningful and attainable changes, these people seem more intent on behaving like thugs and damaging businesses and other property solely for the sake of being violent. That they're hellbent on damaging a business that employs other black residents is another example of the crabs in a basket mentality where those black people wanting to make something of themselves and better themsleves are instead dragged down to stay in a life of misery if they're not otherwise branded sellouts, traitors, or Uncle Toms.
I like how this article tries to paint Koreans as the villains for owning a lot beauty stores, rather than the victims here for having their stores destroyed. Fucking ridiculous.
Maybe the numbers might disagree, but it seems like there are fewer black-owned businesses or -- if nothing else -- back people interested in business management to eventually run a business. If there were more black entrepreneurs, maybe there would be more black-owned businesses to patronize.
Since Detroit gets mentioned here a lot, there was once a section near downtown known as Black Bottom. Before most of it was torn down for a freeway, it was a hub of all sorts of black-owned businesses in the period leading up to the civil rights movement. It wouldn't surprise me if the most successful of these businesses even attracted white customers that wanted their quality products and services.
As attitudes changed, and segregation ended, black-owned businesses became less frequent and lost their niche status. Today, many small businesses and one-person operations are run by immigrants and other minorities -- Asians, Chaldeans, and Africans among others -- that were raised with strong work ethics and the belief that supporting one's self through work is a good, honorable thing to do. These are also the people that are willing to open shops in area where they're needed and nobody else wants to take the initiative for whatever reason.
Until the black community gets an attitude adjustment and adopts that mindset again, this won't change. And I doubt it will so long as too many black people feel education is a white man's institution to be eschewed in favor of living off gibs and winning the Oppression Olympics.
To borrow from SocJus terminology, it's like these black protestors are career-shaming the Koreans for choosing to run their beauty store(s).