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Good post :yes:

It's time I really decide what I'm gonna do with my natural hair. Been growing it out 2 years now and all I do is straighten it and wear braids because I don't know how to do it otherwise.

Hopefully some of this will help.

Thanks!
 
I'm looking into this now; thank you. I like my daughter hair in its natural state, (this great curly afro), but I need something to put in it so it stays the way I put it.
 
Interesting thread an that link has much possibility. This is type project might help regain some control over the black hair market.

Excellent thread.
 
Mo-Better said:
Interesting thread an that link has much possibility. This is type project might help regain some control over the black hair market.

Excellent thread.
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I might be thinking something totally different but please explain your statement.
 
melonpecan said:
I might be thinking something totally different but please explain your statement.
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Since your here in Atlanta lets use as Atlanta as a base. Presently there's probably more than a thousand black owned shops women can go to for hair treatment. How many are connected?

This website which appears to still be under development but its the only one I've seen to place so many black businesses into one location on the internet. Like I said before the site has lots of potential. Now imagine linking or establishing a central locations for the all your beauty supply needs. They have done that. Just check out their directory, in particular, "Taking it Back Black." http://www.beautysupplyinstitute.com/

Right now distributorship of the black hair product industry is controlled by Asians. I knew this even before Chris Rock's movie on black hair. As a consumer every hair supply location you enter is Asian run. It should make you angry. The Asians are so arragant they have even gone as far as to print black hair product catalogs in the Korean language. This locks them into a position of control. At least someone black is now saying you can't have it all.

This is the potential I was speaking of, take a second look. :yes:
 
Mo-Better said:
Since your here in Atlanta lets use as Atlanta as a base. Presently there's probably more than a thousand black owned shops women can go to for hair treatment. How many are connected?

This website which appears to still be under development but its the only one I've seen to place so many black businesses into one location on the internet. Like I said before the site has lots of potential. Now imagine linking or establishing a central locations for the all your beauty supply needs. They have done that. Just check out their directory, in particular, "Taking it Back Black." http://www.beautysupplyinstitute.com/

Right now distributorship of the black hair product industry is controlled by Asians. I knew this even before Chris Rock's movie on black hair. As a consumer every hair supply location you enter is Asian run. It should make you angry. The Asians are so arragant they have even gone as far as to print black hair product catalogs in the Korean language. This locks them into a position of control. At least someone black is now saying you can't have it all.

This is the potential I was speaking of, take a second look. :yes:
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Ok. I had two thoughts in mind but the one I thought you was speaking on is the one that I was thinking at first.


You are right about the Asian run hair product stores though. And they are EVERYWHERE. I don't know if I'm mad about it though. They saw a 'need' and ran with it. That's like me telling my folks about BGOL cause it got free movies and music and all of a sudden it's 20 new members in one hour.

If anything I'm more upset at the people who show that there is a 'need'. I only seek these stores out when I need like hair bows or some hair conditioner that five stores on the east side won't carry for some odd reason (fuck you Walmart). If the Black community tried to put more time into loving their own hair than loving the style / convenience / perceived greatness of straight hair these shops would be a penny a quarter.


I'm not totally bashing these hairstyles but to me the problem is much more bigger than Asians running a shop.
 
melonpecan said:
Ok. I had two thoughts in mind but the one I thought you was speaking on is the one that I was thinking at first.


You are right about the Asian run hair product stores though. And they are EVERYWHERE. I don't know if I'm mad about it though. They saw a 'need' and ran with it. That's like me telling my folks about BGOL cause it got free movies and music and all of a sudden it's 20 new members in one hour.

If anything I'm more upset at the people who show that there is a 'need'. I only seek these stores out when I need like hair bows or some hair conditioner that five stores on the east side won't carry for some odd reason (fuck you Walmart). If the Black community tried to put more time into loving their own hair than loving the style / convenience / perceived greatness of straight hair these shops would be a penny a quarter.


I'm not totally bashing these hairstyles but to me the problem is much more bigger than Asians running a shop.
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Mel there are those who will always be different. Today natural hair is more abundant than its been since the afro. Today the relaxed look is less in vogue, replaced by the weave. For those with relaxed hair there's indeed a "need."

But my anger is not exclusively towards the Asians. Their takeover of black hair product distribution is our fault. An here's an FYI, Asians are now attending the black owned barbershop school on Cleveland Ave. :hmm:

If we let them they will take over our barbershops too. Come in get your fade touched up and a number #2 and egg rolls to go.

As the job market continues to be nonexistent we need to protect the black businesses that exist. Its apparent were not included in the future plans of this government so we need keep our black owned businesses and develop more if possible. We cannot depend on others we must provide for ourselves.
 
Mo-Better said:
An here's an FYI, Asians are now attending the black owned barbershop school on Cleveland Ave. :hmm:
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Woah. That's heavy.


Mo-Better said:
As the job market continues to be nonexistent we need to protect the black businesses that exist. Its apparent were not included in the future plans of this government so we need keep our black owned businesses and develop more if possible. We cannot depend on others we must provide for ourselves.
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See that is a survival skills that the Black community has lost over the past hundred years in this country. I won't be militant and blame integration because the attitudes that existed before integration are still rampant. But people are so content with the perceived notion that they are equal that people became lazy.


See now I have been trying to find a business I can get into (I am so removed from 'mainstream' thought I didn't know where to begin) but thanks to you just now and LI I think I can better define what I'm going to try to do.
 
melonpecan said:
Woah. That's heavy.

See that is a survival skills that the Black community has lost over the past hundred years in this country. I won't be militant and blame integration because the attitudes that existed before integration are still rampant. But people are so content with the perceived notion that they are equal that people became lazy.

See now I have been trying to find a business I can get into (I am so removed from 'mainstream' thought I didn't know where to begin) but thanks to you just now and LI I think I can better define what I'm going to try to do.
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I think its more than a survival skill issue. Its us! Jealousies and petty differences have divided the black community. Add to this the high crime and drugs, people so filled with hate and distrust they won't even speak to each other in passing. As a people we have lost our way.

We have done more damage to ourselves than all the years of segregation, Jim Crow, the KKK and slavery combined. See back then all we had was us. So we had to trust each other. We need to learn again how to work together and trust each other. By now it should be apparent we can't do it by ourselves.

As for your business venture I wish you the best. Best advice trust your instincts, if you have any apprehensions don't do it.
 
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