What if Blacks had a virtual monopoly on the Asian restaurant market and told several Asians trying to get into the Asian restaurant market that Blacks will not accept Asians in the Asian restaurant market? It would sound just as insane as South Korean immigrants telling Blacks they can’t get into the Black hair care market. It sounds insane, and sadly it’s all too true. In racial terms South Koreans have a lock on the Black hair care market and many of them are telling Blacks that Koreans will not allow Blacks into the Black hair care market.

No matter your race, you’ve got to see this. Because the set of events is really something. Blacks in the hair care market were open to working with people of other races and it appears some of those they accepted into the market are playing racial games in a market not native to them.

Check out this series of videos and I highly recommend you view at least beyond video #1. Just watching the first one will probably leave many Conservatives with the wrong impression. Videos #2 and beyond substantiate some of the claims with facts. You’ll see Liberal shop/product owners and others who are far more Conservative. The first video left me with the impression these folks were just crying a bunch of junk, but the second video and beyond showed the facts that left me saddened that some immigrants obviously don’t know how to do business the American way.

Aron Ranen’s Black Hair Documentary

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• July 2006 Update Part 1
• July 2006 Update Part 2

In my post about razors I mentioned Black Opal products. They are sold in these stores. I used to go to whatever hair care store was near me to buy them. Then I noticed a shop selling some trashy Hip Hop T-Shirts and since that time I buy the products direct from the web site. Although I don’t like seeing Blacks locked out of an industry on the basis of race, I hope that Blacks who are part of this industry do a better job in terms of the products they offer outside of hair care goods. Same for anyone else in the industry and of course I hope they stop trying to play these racial games. Not that I feel all South Koreans are doing it, but obviously far too many are.

When it comes to hair care, it’s a given that a Black shop owner selling Black hair care products has the ability to say “I tried it on my own hair” and no South Korean can do that. So it makes sense for Black consumers to consider shopping at hair care stores that are Black owned.

Hat tip to the Cultural Strategist. He was a little too tied up with some research he’s working on to blog about this, but he passed the video links to me .