Every Black shopping district
has these foreign owned jeans and sneaker stores, these foreign-owned
supermarkets, and these jewelry and 99 cent store places. And the protocol for
shopping in these stores usually consists of the following rules:
All Bags must be checked at the door. Because the owners of these businesses
believe every Black person steals.
If your packages are lost the store is only
responsible for $15. After
insisting Blacks check their bags at the door, the employee who is supposed to
be watching your packages will leave their station to do other work in the
store. And if your packages that may contain a laptop or an expensive
smartphone get lost or stolen under their care…Oh well, They’re only responsible
for $15.
You will be followed around by salespeople. Again, because Black people steal. In these
kinds of establishments salespeople here don’t sell merchandise. Hell, most of
them don’t even know much about the merchandise. They’re glorified security out
to make sure your Black ass doesn’t steal anything.
All the expensive stuff will be locked up. Any expensive or popular merchandise will be locked up in a
glass case and you’ll have to ask a clerk to get it for you. Or it’ll be placed
in a section of the store with iron bars (Saw this with Tommy Hilfiger Shirts
back in the 1996 at a Dr. Jays on Third Avenue in the Bronx) Again, because
Negroes steal, the expensive stuff has to be locked up in a super secure area
to keep them from shoplifting.
If you order fast food, there will be
bulletproof Glass and a revolving door. Some grocery
stores and Fast food restaurants like KFC and White Castle are so afraid of
your Black ass sticking them up they use bulletproof glass to partition the
counter from the dining area. And in these establishments you place your order,
pay, and then after they fill your order, they give you your merchandise in a
revolving door of bulletproof glass. Again, that’s to keep your Black ass from
sticking them up. Because the Negro is a savage.
Your money will be scrutinized for its
authenticity. If you spend anything higher
than a $5 bill in one of these establishments, cashiers will hold it high in
the air to make sure it’s an authentic $5, 10 or $20 bill. Because most of
these jivetime Negroes think they’re so smart they can pass funny money of as
real.
If you present a $50 or $100 bill you will be
asked where you got it from, especially if you are a Black man. In the eyes of these store owners Negroes
can’t make over $100 unless they’re selling drugs or participating in some sort
of illegal activity.
If you want to use a credit card, you must
present photo ID. Because
Negroes don’t have good credit. And if they own a credit card it must be stolen
from some good White person.
If you want a refund, you can’t get one. In these kinds of stores there is no such
thing as a cash refund even with a receipt and photo ID. Once you buy something
here, you own it.
If you want an exchange you can’t get one. If something doesn’t fit or someone doesn’t
like it, you can’t exchange the item. Again, all sales are final for Negroes
even though there are signs throughout the store saying there’s a return policy
with a receipt.
If a product is defective, you can’t get a
refund. In these establishments
there is no such thing as a refund. If you bring back a defective item even
with a receipt, some of these store owners will even question if you bought the
item there, even though they sold it to you.
In a White or middle-class
neighborhood, businesses with these kinds of racist and illegal business
practices would be met with resistance. Peoplewould just not shop there.
Unfortunately In the face of
all this mistreatment the Negro does not take any action to stand against these
foreign owned businesses and the everyday racial profiling that goes on there.
He just sits there and accepts this abuse.
Why? Because he has to have
the latest Air Jordans before all the dudes on the block get them. Because
social currency with his friends is more valuable to him than his own dignity.
Shopping in an inner-city
shopping district is a frustrating hassle due to foreign owned stores such as
these. When I was a kid I’ve gone on many a shopping trip where we had to visit
these kinds of stores FIRST to avoid the bag checks. And me and my family
members had to watch how we walked and what we touched to let everyone know we
weren’t stealing anything.
The way these businesses
treat Black people is reprehensible and the way they exploit young brothers and
sisters to get their cash is egregious. These businesses want Black dollars but
don’t want to value Black people enough to treat them with respect when they
shop there.
But because no one teaches
the Negro about their personal intangibles such as dignity and self-respect
when they are young, they camp outside at these same stores to buy $200
sneakers from a business owner that wouldn’t give them a job making $10 an hour
to work there.
Because, again, Negroes
steal. So that business owner won’t have him work where he shops. And even
sadder, the Negro never comes to understand that he or she is more valuable
than all the merchandise in that foreigners’ store.
When I was a kid I grew up
believing many of these unethical and illegal practices were just how things
were supposed to be. That this was shopping in the ghetto. I had to settle for
less.
But as I got older I learned
that’s not what shopping is supposed to be about. That I deserved better. It
was my money, and the merchant had to EARN IT. I did not have to accept
substandard as the standard for being a Black customer.
In business the customer is
ALWAYS RIGHT. And the customer has the RIGHT to NOT SPEND THEIR DOLLARS from
businesses that do not RESPECT THEM.
50 years after the Civil
Rights movement, most Black folks don’t understand IT’S YOUR MONEY. MAKE
WHOEVER WANTS YOUR MONEY WORK FOR IT.
Black folks don’t understand
the power of their dollars. Which is why foreign-owned businesses like this
thrive in our communities for decades. And while these institutions disrespect
us, insult us, and racially profile us when we shop at these establishments,
Black folks get the poorest quality products and even poorer customer service
from surly and rude employees who act like they can’t be bothered with taking
the money that pays their salaries. It’s time Black people started showing
these business owners the value of the Black dollar.
Brothers and sisters you
don’t need Jesse, Al Sharpton or any Civil Rights group to protest the business
policies of these stores. Just don’t shop there.
Better yet, shop at
Black-owned businesses in your community. Black Group Economics is how we put racist
businesses like this out of business in the Black community.
I haven’t shopped at a
foreign-owned jeans and sneaker store in places like Fordham Road or Third
Avenue here in the Bronx since 1997. And I make it my BUSINESS to AVOID any
store with a bag check policy, or a dysfunctional return policy that makes me
jump through hoops just to return something. I understand it’s my money, and
the business owners have to WORK to EARN it. If enough brothers and sisters
understood this valuable life principle, business in the Black community would
get it together and start doing business on the Black customers’ terms.
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