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    LJ909Monique Judge
    11/29/17 12:21am

    I mean we could invest in Black businesses. I would love to. Especially in LA. There arent many left and the ones that are either have been replaced by Hispanic businesses or are gone completely. But many Black businesses dont make you want to spend your money there. From shitty customer service to just being plain out of the stuff they need to sell to keep said businesses open, you gotta make me want to spend my money there.

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      HeyBartenderLJ909
      11/29/17 1:13am

      They don’t want you to support black businesses anyway. Have you not noticed that every time they say support this or support that, that they always say “donate to black organizations” like BLM or BAMN. Honest question here though... What has BLM or BAMN done for you? Besides sit back and collect all these donations, for what? What have they done to help you? Are you living in a better house in a better neighborhood? I bet they are. Do you have food on your table every day and night? I bet they do. When was the last time your phone was shut off? I bet theirs never is and I bet they have the best most expensive phone out there. At least if you donate to red Cross or  the salvation army if you need them they at least show up. I hope everyone wakes up this holiday season and stops donating their hard earned money to places like these until they show proof of how they are helping you and not using your money to benefit themselves.

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      CheetahTorpedahLJ909
      11/29/17 9:39am

      Maybe I’m just going to the wrong (or right, depending on how you look at it) businesses but my experiences have been universally decent. I have run into service issues with one particular black-owned restaurant but I’ve also had service issues with non-black-owned places as well. I go to a black acupuncturist, train with a black personal trainer, and go out to support black bands and artists. I also hit up black-owned businesses online and have had some outstanding experiences. I know that many small businesses in general don’t have their shit together but I don’t think that’s exclusive to black-owned businesses. It bothers me when people give this as their main reason for not buying black because it’s easy to generalize from some shitty black-owned businesses to all black-owned businesses.

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    HeyBartenderMonique Judge
    11/29/17 1:25am

    And I as a white woman would love to support black businesses this holiday season but I can’t use any of the clothes, products or food without being called out for cultural appropriation. It’s not that we don’t shop these places because we are racist but let this white woman walk out with some weave or some gold hoop earrings and then watch my ass either get stomped or degraded by yelling and screaming for not being a woc. You can’t have it both ways.

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      MajorBurnHeyBartender
      11/29/17 8:23am

      Really?! Why is your product list a bunch of racist stereotypes?

      You are fine to wear gold hoop earrings.

      White women also wear weave, they just call it “extensions”. Did you know the hairdye with the Black lady on the box will also color white hair?

      You may eat at any resturaunt representing any of the many countries Black people live in globally including Southern and Soul.

      You can use lotion, hairmasks and soap, perfumes etc. Did you think all we have is relaxer and dark tinted foundation?

      Black designers make more than dashiki. Try Rocawear, HGC Apparel, FUBU, On.Us.Tees, Glossrags. Or do a google search.

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      CheetahTorpedahHeyBartender
      11/29/17 9:12am

      You can’t wear any makeup by Beauty Bakerie or Coloredrayne? You can’t eat at a black-owned restaurant? You can’t buy skin products like lotions or soap from a local, black-owned business? Shockingly, black-owned businesses don’t just offer ‘black’ products. Or are you so much of a racist that you think that black-owned business = hoop earrings and weaves? Or is this an attempt at internet humor that, unfortunately, falls flat with me because I’ve met white people who legitimately seem to think that buying black means stocking up on UltraSheen and hamhocks? 

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    BadOmbreMonique Judge
    11/29/17 1:36am

    I’m all for buying local and buying black, but what is a white or black corporation? Once you get that level of organization, you’ve got your fingers in so many pies it gets harder to discern. Are you talking a black board, CEO, owner, president...?

    One other thing:

    but we have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative that is really the root of these police killings.

    We’ve got to do better with language. I assure you, people who are already woke AF will have their eyes glaze over and roll out of their heads when they read that many buzzwords back to back. This isn’t a woker-than-thou contest, y’all.

    Don’t let keepin’ it real go wrong, it what I’m admonishing.

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      Too Grey to FunctionBadOmbre
      11/29/17 9:16am

      It is precisely a woker-than-thou contest. And here’s the secret: whatever you do, you never win.

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    othersider92Monique Judge
    11/29/17 5:41am

    There is no way that the plan will work.

    Very few black businesses exist and the ones that do are merely marketed towards blacks. What’s worse is that the corporations that do exist, very few of them are based in the US, they’re all internationally owned which makes the plan impossible to fulfill.

    Our world is screwed anyway; everybody has fought so hard for an inclusive world and Donald Trump and his cronies are going to take away everything and send everybody into a nuclear war just because he doesn’t have the cahoves.

    What everybody really needs to be doing is not some protest but action. If I were you I’d be calling congress, recording police abuse, even going up to the local police station and telling every one of them off in a civilized manner.

    After all, the only way the world can truly evolve is if we got rid of the corporate BS.

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      CheetahTorpedahothersider92
      11/29/17 9:25am

      Actually there are plenty of black businesses, they just tend to be small rather than massive corporations. Supporting them and other small businesses may not to do much to get rid of Trump and his cronies but it is a way to create economic growth locally and to improve our immediate surroundings. You can do that while also calling congress, recording police abuse or going up to the local police station and telling them off. Black people pump a lot of money into the economy. A lot of it is spent outside of our communities and with large corporations that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Opting to buy small, buy black, or not buy at all can be a form of protest and is actively showing the strength of the black dollar.

      The fact that you immediately dismiss them as being ‘merely’ marketed towards blacks is a good example of how ingrained the idea is of black businesses inferior and unimportant.

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      MajorBurnothersider92
      11/29/17 9:38am

      SHE LITERALLY LINKED YOU A PAGE WITH LINKS TO BLACK BUSINESSES. THERE ARE BUZZFEED LISTICLES.

       There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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    GuyFromNewarkMonique Judge
    11/29/17 8:31am

    I cant buy non of this stuff. Non of the shirts are in 3x and anything else i wanna buy is too expensive.

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    sparknblazeMonique Judge
    11/29/17 9:04pm

    There is also a “Black Wall Street” app that helps you find local black owned biz.

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    BurnardLoweMonique Judge
    11/29/17 6:13am

    Looks like errybody finna get loosies this year.

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    Queen of the Harpies was Grr!Arrgh! but Joss had to go and be grossMonique Judge
    11/29/17 9:46am

    Thanks for this! I’m trying to get more of my regular spending in the hands of POC, especially WOC, but it’s hard to individually identify minority-owned businesses, especially outside of one’s immediate community.

    The fancy stationary store I just found an easy dustance from our place is about to ger a bunch of my money.

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    Too Grey to FunctionMonique Judge
    11/29/17 9:14am

    Is the link to #blackxmas working for anyone? I’m getting an error message.

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    LoremIpsum010101Monique Judge
    11/29/17 12:53am

    “Capitalism is bad, so don’t buy from White corporations, buy from Black corporations. To prove that Capitalism is bad. By buying. From corporations.”

    Sounds legit.

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