framptonorchablis (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

99% of the people bitching about Korean-owned beauty supply stores don't think twice about spending their money at white-owned grocery stores, malls, electronic stores, etc. If you think it's important to keep the money within the black community, be consistent about it. Black people spend money on plenty of things besides hair.

KimLeeX (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Korans cannot stand black folks, yet black people love stuffing there pockets with money. Some of these ghetto tricks can't even afford to put food on their tables yet they are buying weaves and relaxers.

claRAWRbaeby (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

My father employed blacks in our store and treated all customers equally. Yet our store was the only store on our block that was constantly getting broken in to. Customers would say racial slurs to my parents on a daily basis. At school, the black kids would beat me tell me to go back where I came from and how they were gonna burn down my parents store. This is hate. No matter how much you sugarcoat it, it is.

claRAWRbaeby (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Videos like this one makes me wish that we were all color-blind. Why are the people in this video so adamant about buying from only African-Americans? Im Korean and my family owned a black beauty supply store also. I knew the community hated us because we werent black, but what could we do? We lived in that community also and my parents had to put food on the table.

5sizes2big (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

Poor Kizure

5sizes2big (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

I didn't see any blaming going on. He just put a face on the where the money goes. That's what a documentary does. It's not anti-korean.

acapedit (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

I remember how naive it used to be that black people must support black owned enterprises, when anything but has taken place. Walk by 125ST and there's rampart bootlegging, and making money off dead people like Michael Jackson. It's about survival, and I don't think black people in general give a fuck about the morals associated with a few minds, it's take what's mine and spend it on what makes you happy, like jewelry and hair. It's a mentality that ain't got shit to do with race.

acapedit (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

This documentary is unbalanced, and biased. From the start it blames Korean businesses for taking over a sector of the black community. Small minded individuals may not like it, but the higher question needs to be answered: why don't black people support black owned businesses? because capitalism has no ethics. Easy to blame the business minded who just sell people a product to those who spend, it's the distribution of wealth among the poor that is a pressing question. How you spend your money?

denij2005 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

I havent for the last 14 years and try as much as possible to get Blacks to support Black owned business or at least businesses that respect the Black community

jstele (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)

This film was wrong from its conception, not because it was questioning why Koreans were in the black hair care market, but due to the fact that the filmmaker, Aron Ranen, started off with his own prejudices about Koreans owning black hair care stores. He saw a lot of Koreans owning these stores and ASSUMED that something had to be wrong.