Black Hair Industry Owns 300 Stores Nationwide & Asians Own 9800! Why? (Replay)

African-American women spend billions every year on black hair products, even though they only make up 10 percent of the american population. They buy 70 percent of all wigs and extensions purchased here in the united states. It'S very important. They take their last dime to get their hair done. They go hungry before they let their hair go to look bad. My journey into the world of black hair begins in oakland california, at the black hair extravaganza. When you look at her, it's like her crown she's a queen, you know so she needs like extra pieces and braids and big hairs like a crown. After african-american style is a very big business. Almost every week they change the style from fair. Everybody wants to be a part of our market because we're the number one consumer we spend ten to one on anybody in here in the retail market. Right now, majority of the retail stores are ramped by koreans and more of the korean stores that are ran by the ninety percent are supported a hundred percent by black african money. It'S so unfair. You know that they take our money, but once again part of it is our blame. We allow what happened. Is this true that the koreans dominate the black hair industry? What you're looking at is one of the black beauty supply magazines that inform people who are interested in black hair products. All the ads and articles are about african americans in their hair and even though all the information is about blacks, half of this magazine is in korean, and this magazine beauty times, which is the number one publication for black beauty store owners, is written entirely in korean. It'S here inside beauty times that i spot dr tony leno, a black hair expert, who writes a monthly column for this magazine, a column which not even he can read. I contact him and he invites me to los angeles, to learn more about the southern california, black hair industry. Now, where we are now, this is the uh famous crenshaw corridor, where most of the major elite, black businesses are right here on the corner of 54 from crenshaw south central los angeles. This is beautiful. Wigs. This is the korean-owned uh hair store. They they sell. Hair of all kinds in your store here, what's percentage of your of your business as afro-american about 100 99.99 and up here on these walls right here, these racks all the way around are the hair that's used for uh for for weaves and for extensions, jenny jackson. They come over here, pick it up in a virgin human hair biblical folks. I thought you know several weeks they are cut inside for her um. I'Ve been known him a long time. Okay, mr price, yeah yeah, that's a little richer yeah. This city alone only had 10 beauty supply stores 20 years ago. Now there are, there are over 100 korean owned beauty, supply stores. Oh you're, looking at a typical beauty, supply store korean owned beauty supply store, but all these products have one common denominator. They are all aimed at the afro community, one of the things that the koreans are doing now and they predicted this themselves back in 1999 and it's happening now, since they control 80 percent of the distribution of afro hair care products, especially professional products that are sold In beauty, supply stores only it only stands the reason they can control what gets distributed. They are creating their own line of products or buying out existing black owned companies. I don't see a reversal of this at all. It'S just getting deeper and deeper the koreans. Controlling the retail and wholesale distribution they're slowly making inroads into taking over the black manufacturers we're going to kazuri products. They are a black owned manufacturer of uh of hair care products, but specialized primarily in curling, irons, pressing combs and the stove heaters that you heat the irons up in this is lucky white who owns kazuri along with her husband. We have been in business for over 30 years and we are a black company selling to black beauty supplies and also to black hair stylist, and we make a quality product. Everyone look at our product as being the best in the industry. However, since the ages have been here, they are cutting us out telling us that our product is not in demand any longer the korean connection about three years ago. They started blacklist our product as they brought their own products in they start to manufacture, curling irons and they duplicate everything that you manufacture. They were duplicated and then they start to slowly cut back on orders, and then they tell you that your product is not in demand, so they would make something that very similar that look like ours and then they try and sell the consumer on this product. Can you show me some products from kazuri kazuri products? This is because this this is all this is a1, so you have maybe three kazuri's and then the rest this casually, this a1 product, this teller, stella yeah, who makes reference who makes stella uh. You know the b cell, the wholesalers and they make this this product. Actually they make a copy. You know for the other brand, you know like uh, a lip plus but they're they're, really trying to shut us out of the industry. They'Re telling you they will no longer distribute your product in these stores. They tell us that our product is not in demand any longer, but that's just a excuse not to purchase our products. This is actually a t-bumper by kazuri. I use it all the time. This is the place to be a black hair salon in san jose california. Kassouri products are much in demand. We use them here. We have a set up here. We also have one here we use their their spritz as well. We use their whole lineup, so they are in high demand. We have to look at saving our community as well as saving this industry. We are a nation within this nation and we're just giving everything away, and we cannot do that any longer. We have to stand up and fight, we are. We are beautiful black people if we have to wear our hair short, so be it. Let'S wear it short, but let's get this under control where we control the industry and not let someone else come in and then set up and take all our revenue out of the community. But can mrs white and other black manufacturers fight back against this new star beauty supply the largest wholesaler of black beauty supplies on the west coast? Nustar also manufactures their own products for sale to the ethnic market? Mr moon is manager of nustar. You are a number one biggest ethnic distributor in the west coast. Yes, you guys are we trying to like one stop buying? Now we took them as being a friend and they that they would not come in and try and take over the whole industry. But that's what they have done: they got in now they control it and they are really uh. They are um boasting about it and they're talking about it and then they're laughing at us all the way to the bank. How do the korean retailers get the money to start up these beauty supply stores to find out? I traveled to the university of california at berkeley and spoke with professor john lee many of the ones that started recently came from south korea. That was much and much more enriched, so by selling their farm or by selling their apartment, they could have this initial pot of money to start relatively small businesses in urban areas. Furthermore, they had encouragement, sometimes quite explicitly in terms of funding by relatives, friends and other sorts of religious or whatnot networks to provide them with money to start their business. So it's fair to say that there are all sorts of formal and informal means by which korean americans and south korean business people dominate the market and are implicitly unwilling to let competition challenge their dominance. So the two magazines they're all in korean i mean does that, does that seem like fair business practice yeah? Well, as i said before, um this is one of the mechanisms by which koreans south koreans and korean american merchants um ensure the domination of the market. Later i learned that what we're seeing now the korean domination of the black hair industry had its start back in the early 60s, with the help of both the korean government and the united states government. This is chosun one of the most respected newspapers in south korea and it's inside the archives of this newspaper that i discovered a document from 1965 in which the whig manufacturers in korea convinced the korean government to ban the export of raw hair, making it impossible for Anyone to manufacture wigs from the highly desirable korean hair population, except for the korean manufacturers themselves and six months after the korean ban on the export of hair united states government banned the import of any wig that contained hair from china. This ban on chinese wigs, virtually locked in the wig business for these south korean merchants, so it seems that what we're seeing today, the korean domination of the black hair industry had its start with the help of both the korean and the united states government. Almost 40 years ago, if you blow the whistle on what's going on just like we're discussing now and inform people they'll be surprised and delighted too. Well, i think people are informed, but i mean black people as a whole. They just don't have much unity as koreans. Do or any other race you just don't have much unity as a whole. We don't we don't stick together. Well, you know. This is a new millennium and people. If they look at the past - and perhaps they can um deduce from that that they can change the future based on the past, they can, but the young people have to have to be enlightened. The black dollar needs to be spent with your black people as much as possible. We kind of take each other for granted sometimes, but i think when things like this happen, we always seem to come together. Like other tragedies - and you know human nature - we can come together for human tragedies, but when it comes down to the to the almighty dollar, that's not the case. They did not seem to pull together for the dollar. Denny'S restaurant oakland california, here members of the black beauty supply industry in northern california, have gathered to discuss the korean domination of their industry and the possibility of creating an organization to take back the black hair industry. Now we used to have a total monopoly on this beauty business. Now we've lost it's only about two or three of us in oakland now, and it used to be nothing but us in oakland purchasing these products most of the uh beauty supplies in the bay area. According to place, they have organizations and their organization most of the time they tell who to sell and who not to sell like five years ago or four years ago, when micro jack was so popular and so hot. They wouldn't sell to me, and the reason they wouldn't sell to me is like glamorous and ebony told them not to sell, and sometimes we used to order through a mat. You know like meredith beard supply because they don't see it, they don't think you're black. The greens don't think no, i mean when they call me. They think that you know i'm a korean store. You know, are you black or asian? How do you feel about that? Are you black or asian? I was like that's crazy. What is what does that have to do with me purchasing a product from you so since they can't sell it to us why we can't show them? Thank you. We have people that are able to get these hair products. I think that's where we need to start, and then we go to the next level, because if they don't want to sell to you, they will figure out a way not to sell to you. A lawsuit will just make them even stronger, stronger willed about it. The way i'm looking at it, if, if you walked into macy's, mercy's discriminated against you, what would you do? Well, you know what it's a whole different world. You have more! Okay, if you, if you don't, if you don't tell me nothing, i'm gon na keep doing it. Okay lawsuits may get the attention. Bad publicity may get the attention, but you know what to get the attention money. If your money does not go to them, and it goes to somebody else and then once you start giving money, you start swaying the way they think. Just a few months after this meeting, bobsa is created, the black owned beauty supply association. Their first event is here at this gospel event on the square in oakland california. It'S here that they begin to raise awareness of the black hair issue and promote a hair show. I got my hair from uh korean beauty supply. What do you think about what they're trying to do? I think that's great. I am just like so on board with that we are a black owned, beautiful shirt, ten in dallas in texas. We are like all about supporting black owned businesses and we complain about that. A lot that there aren't any black owned beauty supplies in texas, so you know, i think it's great. I think it's great. I think it's about time. I just think it's very interesting. I got a little information about it. They had a little line card that gave me names of different people in different areas, which is very helpful, and then they are under association with these irreparable hairdressers. So and that's important too, because your hair is important. Richmond, california, the members of bob's, are meeting here in the back room of a local beauty supply store. Okay, so the total amount to 2007 and finalized plans in a budget for the black hair show they're promoting in just a few balanced weeks. Bob'S a hair shop held in northern california. Thank you, everyone for attending. We really appreciate your time. Funny thing happened in new york. I went into korean store and asked him where, if he could wholesale me some of the things he had, he told me no. I said: okay, if you could tell me where i could get a wholesale, he told me: the koreans are not gon na. Let these [ __ ] get into the business and he's in a black neighborhood in brooklyn. He was korean himself yeah. Is it a korean hairstyle? Do you think black people can get back into that? Oh, they could get back, but the korean's not going to let us in we have to do it ourselves. Clintex laboratories is one of a handful of black-owned manufacturers. Currently, their brand of product is only distributed through hair salons here in the united states. Besides making their own brand of products, they also act as a manufacturer for others. This. This is our compounding area. This is where we manufacture all of our products. This is where i first started when i quit my job. I went and bought these two stainless steel drums and started in the basement of my home after the batch was made. I would take a measuring cup. Go in and fill each bottle one at a time. This is a regular relaxer and the percent of sodium hydroxide is 1.9. Even after more than 20 years in business, steve luster is unable to get distribution for his products from any of the korean distributors. I do not blame the koreans for anything. It'S totally the black consumers, the black business people, the black churches, it's our fault, because we have not taken the time to educate our people on economics on what we need to be doing. To assure that, we have jobs that we have a sound business practice. We haven't taken time to do that if there were two products and one product was two dollars cheaper at the korean store than a black owned store. Where would you shop? Oh, i don't know. I don't know i'll be honest with you: where would you shop two dollars super, probably shop at the korean store? Oh thank you very much. I couldn't get a loan for business but, as you can see, i am in business today. Okay, so you cannot depend on the government for a handout, and you cannot depend on people to help you we. We have enough power as a group. If we have the ability to work together and pull together, we have enough economical resources within our race in our communities. To turn this thing around. What do you think about the idea of a boycott? I think it would be a wonderful thing. I think that would be a thing that would get a lot of people's attention. I think a boycott would change the situations and where they are now like with the koreans, for example, if they don't want to sell certain african-americans, hair or whatnot for their business, so that they can continue to progress a boycott, stopping the dollars. We get everybody's attention. The story continues with members of babsa traveling across the country, including here in pasadena california, where they're informing people about the black hair industry, the network, the the state, including showing them parts of the film that you've seen to this point. Where does the money go? Unemployment? In the black community is 10 percent, and the white community is five percent. The only way we're going to change this trend is to look to each other to uh circulate that black dollar back into the black community. We have the power, i know we have the power, it's just a matter of us going forth and doing it next. Stop atlanta, georgia, then, on to chicago illinois, is the black hair situation in chicago the same as on the west coast. Here in chicago. I randomly select one block in the south side of chicago, and it's here that i find not only one but four korean owned beauty, supply stores on the same block all within a hundred feet of each other. Look at this. This shows how this store is. 33 years old part of the history, but i have to replace with some of these heads - excuse me girls. What town am i in you're in chicago chicago, yeah chicago, and let's see your hairdo whoa turn around? Who did that my mom wow now um? I see a a beauty supply store right across the street yeah is that black owned or korean dog? That'S, i think, that's uh koreano, i'm sorry korean home. What do you think about the koreans? Owning all the black beauty supply stores? Well, it's very not good, because i think the black people should be able to own some things and that's not all koreans should be able to own lot of things, because why they're not doing it is because discouragement and black, most black folks, they're, really uh. Just like going to jail now, because other people are convincing them to do other different things like crimes and different stuff, like that. So that's why? How many black owned beauty supply stores are there in chicago that you know of i don't how long have you been in the business like uh, 14 years ago, yeah 14. You know just like something like this: how many black owned beauty supply stores are there in chicago? How many? Yes black one? I think it's over ten yeah. A lot of you know more 10 stores, oh over 10, i think yeah and how many korean-owned beauties four years. So almost 80 percent uh - maybe i think 300. Some 300 is something in a different store. Nowadays they get braids yeah. This is how they do check it out close look. Those little talked about african-american women straightening their hair. Didn'T he? What do you have to say about that? Well, that was a situation back then that was occurring at the time. It was just a lack of education and misunderstanding, but he didn't mean he wasn't exactly like that. If you get in-depth into things, he don't exactly mean that, as straight as trying to be like white women, you're trying to show them a way that the the the know your roots first - and you can do anything you want to as long as you know, your Roots can't nobody tell you nothing and you're, always gon na, be something brother and the situation doesn't seem much different here in oakland, california, where there are only a handful of black owned stores in over 40 korean owned stores, including this korean shop. That just recently opened up next door to oakland's famous black muslim bakery san mateo california. It'S here that babsa, the black owned beauty supply association, has its first annual unity dinner and, as the saying goes united, we stand. I think we all need to stick together, because it's sad that these koreans are making so much money off of us and they're, not giving back anything to the community they're, not even really giving us jobs, and it's just. We have to do something. I think we should start a huge boycott and try to spread the word. Do a strong media campaign where we don't go into their salons and i guarantee they'll start giving us more respect and we need to start opening up more black beauty as blacks. We are only 11 or 12 of the total population, yet we are consumers of over 33 of all the hair care products sold in this country, and that's why they settled in our neighborhoods and they specialize in hair. We are 80 of the purveyors of hair, the users of hair. So that's why they they came to into our neighborhoods and they can't be mad at them, because we left that market laying right out there in the street and they came along picked it up. So don't wait, don't encourage anybody to throw a rock to a korean beauty supply store. Okay, i think now, though - and i see so much vibrancy here and especially with this new organization - you've got a new feeling of togetherness that we don't even have on the east coast and to the fact that you have decided that it's time now to forget the Mistakes we've made, especially with the koreans, who were smart enough to know that they couldn't make it with the white companies. They would not get across those big white distributors who represented the major white lines like redken, matrix, paul mitchell. They couldn't cut it, they washed his eyes, and so they turned to us who were open young and probably didn't realize the value of our industry, and they made it big with us. But we've got to forget that now it's hard and we've got to outsmart. What is out there and let's go together to do it? Who knows what will happen tomorrow? I just got ta stay in the game for no other reason to see what happens next, what will the future of the black care industry be? Can bobsa and the african-american community be successful in taking back part of this industry? It'S ironic, but true that the first american woman self-made millionaire was an african-american named madam cj walker, who earned her fortune through the manufacture and distribution of black hair products. This is an update to my original black hair documentary. The black air documentary established the korean takeover, the black beauty supply industry and how a group of african americans were inspired by the film to create babsa, the black-owned beauty, supply association, their goal to take back the black hair industry and keep the african-american dollar in the Neighborhoods in which it's spent now here's an update to the original film. It begins in atlanta georgia, where members of babsa black owned beauty supply association, attend the nation's largest black hair, expo it's here that bobsled wants to educate people on the need for black owned beauty supply stores. Me i'm heading there to document what they're doing and to see if the koreans have a presence at this prestigious show. Bob'S members give out information, hats and copies of my black hair documentary. Okay, call you i'm going to be a party. Oh yeah! You are a part of it right. Okay, don't forget! I want i'll call you what about the korean presence? Do they have a grip on this convention? It looks like they do watch out sure in an effort to see how far the korean influence spreads. I traveled to houston texas, the sunny side district. Yes, black cowboys in front of a korean-owned beauty supply no less, and the story is the same here as i've discovered across the country in a neighborhood that needs black jobs and economic development, with some of the biggest retail business and growth, black beauty supply stores. None of which are owned by african americans and it looks like hair, is very big in texas, very big. It seems to me there's like eight beauty, supply stores in the lat in these three blocks. Well, we've been the business 22 years so 23 years, 22. 22 years old, are you in the hair business? Sir uh? I i'm preparing. What is his story? Oh he's, gon na open this uh beauty center beauty shop here in houston. Yes, are you helping him get it together? Yes, he's my brother-in-law, your brother-in-law, and how long has he been here from korea one month, one month, when do you expect his store to be open next month? But what happens when african americans do open a store? Does the community support them and how do the koreans react? The story - it's quite simple - there's been a black beauty supply store at this mall for over 22 years and three years ago it was purchased by rhonda jones and her husband, who mortgaged their home and bought the slack beauty supply store from its original owners. Less than six months ago, a korean-owned beauty supply store, opened up six stores away in the same mall and they open up how close to you about six doors, away, six, seven between six and ten doors away, and when did they open up? They opened up the beginning of this year, the only the only the only reason i think that they open up next door is because ronda this store has doubled their business in the last year. She started running radio advertising and she got. They got word that she was doing a fantastic business out here before they didn't even worry about it. So i think that's the reason that they decided to come out here. I feel like they came here to this area to benefit from the reputation and clientele of this store. That'S what i think in an effort to educate consumers. Ron has been giving out copies of my documentary black hair, more than 2 000 copies of the dvd. I go over to ebony beauty supply and it turns out that the owner has seen the movie also. Why did you decide to open up six stores away from ellen allen? Why did you choose this location? I mean. Why did you choose? No? No! No! No! No! No, i want to know that you, you are black people association works. You make today, i'm a documentary, filmmaker documentary and i'm filming you maker, you make a pmb association, some cd like have you seen the documentary black hair? 30 minutes? Yes, that's my film! You read this: you think this is a pair. What is this? Let me take a look here, they're going to do just the weeks ago. You know try to three a young lady hiding to outside. You know just provide this. My customers into the customer stays gon na, give it to this one. What do you think this one? I don't know even i can do you say you konian guys bad guys. You know like make feeling like that. No man, we are working hard. My my older peoples are more working hard. They build up the business right now. That'S why they want to get the whole 90 90. Whatever you, your dvd, told them. 90. 99. 90 doesn't matter, you know they are all lose life or losing family. They don't have a time they are not going to enjoy anything just that they are working for the new generation. Someone has tried to set fire to ebony beauty supply three times in the last six months: pittsburgh, california, the police department, sam enan, president of bobsa, arrived for an interview with a fire department, arson investigator, to discuss the situation at antioch, plaza whatever it is, i'm sure It'Ll be cleared up, did you expect any? You know, violence to accompany babsa i mean. Is this something you thought might happen that people would react violently after watching the video uh, not really it's more economics than anything else. You know we want to enlighten the black community economically hi um. This is just strictly an interview with me and i don't need to talk to anybody else. He doesn't need to come in. Okay, that's fine! Can i come in? No, you can't um. Can i talk to the detective that we spoke to this morning? Um, if he's here, you can ask i'm lieutenant brian addington, i'm with the pittsburgh police department. We are investigating a series of arsons that occurred on atlantic plaza. They occurred. The first one occurred on december 9, 2005 at ebony beauty supply. We had another one attempt arson that occurred on january 9, 2006 at m, a bb supply and another arson that occurred on january 19, 2006 at radio shack right next to ebony beauty supply. So this is where the fire started inside no starting. That'S where the fire started. Huh yeah, with this, it is an ongoing investigation. There have been two arrests that have been made. We do have additional suspects, but being that is an ongoing investigation. We'Re not going to comment any further on any additional witnesses that we might have or reasons why we would interview them. Dbt, uh parents, uh police, got dead. The police have uh surveillance, camera yeah dvd. I made it so they um you. You were able to see who did it on camera right. It'S not probably sketching we're not going to comment on the source of evidence. The case has been reviewed by the district attorney's office and criminal charges. Alleging arson have been filed by the district attorney's office against both those two individuals. Oh they just they want to know what the connection with bapsa and l, l and l l is a member of babson. Evidently ronda's husband has been arrested. He'S still under investigation is that a dumb thing he did if he did, that i mean huh. That was that was dumb. If he did do that, i mean that. Don'T make any sense, i didn't know he was that kind of street. Now i was just at the police department interviewing them and they actually mentioned that your husband is a suspect. What do you think about that? I think it's. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous, that's what i think is there anything you have to say about. No, i'm not going to say anything if my husband is a suspect in a crime who is a person, who's never been arrested, never even been a police car. Of course, i don't have anything to say about anything like that. I mean that's very serious. That'S very serious, and i would you know, of course i don't have anything to say about that. Members of babsa visit ebony beauty supply. Did you say you cannot open business picture? No. I didn't say that no, no! No! No! No. I didn't say that no. I did not say that, okay, whatever no problem, no problem, no, but i didn't think you were gon na come right here. You know because my friend was over there and then he moved over here and now he's over there by uh food for less stress huh. You know how much stress november personally, you know three times three times on the fire inside yeah, but i really i didn't know anything about it. I really didn't know anything about it until i came over here and saw you what you guys need when things calm down a little bit: okay, okay, because it's not worth it when you agree when you agree when you get don't give head, give me a headshake Wreck come on, creates a forum to discuss the challenges of owning black owned beauty, supply stores here in the united states. One of the key factors that we've missed out on is our consumer base. We'Ve got to get our people to consciously turn and focus in on what is needed for economic revitalization. I remember that i can make as much money as with as many products as i can make, and it never went through anybody but black hands. It went from to black distributors to black salons to black, to a black client. You know and i never had to even see an outside dollar and was happy with it. Now, if i don't sell the koreans, you know my kids not going to college and if we had more black distributors, more black beauty supply houses that would that would solve a big portion of yes. We can later on that evening. Fabza has its annual unity dinner. I thank you and consider the black dots connected, but is unity enough? Where are the rap stars, entertainers and sports figures? Why haven't they stepped to the plate and delivered economic assistance to the disenfranchised black neighborhoods of america? Will they see the opportunity in the black hair business, for microeconomic development to help african americans and keep the dollar in their neighborhoods products? Look familiar at first glance. It seems as if we're in a store here in the united states of america, a black beauty supply store. Now the products here may be similar, but the country is different. We'Re in london, england, inside a black beauty supply store, and yes, the situation is the same here in the uk as it is in the united states, how many black owned shops do you know of in london black one yeah in terms of really very few? Why do you think that is, i honestly don't know people coming in here, customers asking that question all the time. Why is it that all these shops owned by indian people - i don't have an answer for that, my family and they were into it. So i just like kind of started: it i've been doing it like for eight years now, okay and i'm happy doing what i'm doing is good. You know you know we're so politically and economically naive in this country. It'S untrue. We do not understand the power of the pounds that we carry in our purses and our wallets. To be honest, this it's not really a question of color for me, i just want to get my products and go home like maybe it should be. We have to understand that we have to be willing to protect and keep what we could potentially have control of and what we did have control of, but they have to realize that we as a community are not stupid and in time there will be a backlash. It'S not going to slow down it's going to grow and grow. It'S like beauty see. Everybody wants to look good all the time and everybody wants to have their hair. Looking nice and everybody wants nice skin and nice makeup. It'S really just a really great market natural or relaxed hair care in the black community is of prime importance representing one's identity, uniqueness and style. Consumer market analysis from mental reports stated that 51 of these black consumer trend, setters use styling products compared to only 34 of us consumers overall, the sales of the overall black hair care market in 2015, or an estimated 2.7 billion dollars, black owned beauty, supply association, bopsa Notes that the black hair care and cosmetic industry nationwide and internationally is a 9 billion dollar industry that serves millions of african americans. However, the black care care industry is predominantly controlled by a conglomerate of korean store owners and suppliers who are able to drive down prices collectively, buy in bulk and buy out their competition, but bapsa founder sam enon has found a clever way to get around this monopoly. Recently invited to china this past october, enon has made an historical agreement with the chinese government and its hair manufacturers, creating an alliance named enterprise of black hair alliance to change the distribution of hair in the united states bouncing past its korean middlemen. During the welcoming 10-day celebrated visit enon and his bobset team visited from beijing to shanghai touring the different factories, the new 250 000 square, foot factory, unwee, union, hair arts and culture, a limited liability company will be selling directly to the customers by collaborating with bobsa. Read more information in detail in a news release posted at news.amptv now naacp is calling for a boycott of a charlotte beauty supply store after the owner was caught on cell phone video kicking and choking an african-american woman. Oh, are you you're tricky? Let me it started off when the owner says the woman shoplifted a product that quickly then escalated to the physical fight you're, seeing here he took it upon himself to treat her in ways that no woman should be treated. In fact, no person should be treated. I wasn't crazy, you know no matter what's the reason, but i feel very sorry to do to her. That was the owner who says he does apologize. He also plans to turn the video over to the police, showing them the alleged theft. Make sure that you all come out and support these wonderful, black-owned businesses that are investing in the community every day. We cannot afford to continue to invest in places like misha. They have more than one location and we're going to shut all of them down. We'Re no longer giving them our dollars. If we continue to unify, we can run our own neighborhoods, we can invest in our own communities and we can own all of these businesses. It is possible. The purpose of the day is, you know we out here shutting down this sworn own business in lieu of what happening in charlotte with the foreign business owner who choked out one of our sister's kicked sister and everything like that him and his wife, or some other Female or whatever, so the thing is black people need to be monolithic. We need to think to stop thinking individualistically that happened in charlotte, but it also happened in chicago. If you, if you ask me, because that sister in charlotte is my sister here in chicago, you can't keep harming us and then tell us you're sorry, we don't want that. We want black women and children protected. She we're outnumbered. Did oh i'll help you a licensed borrower? Can i get a haircut? You cannot teach her right here. Can i can i? Can i get a job? You got an open station down there, hey hey you're in a black neighborhood black man can't get a job man! No, that's all i need to know. I guess the struggle is over. Huh do do do. Do you