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Originally posted by Poplife:
So to help even things out, the least we can do is buy items from black owned company's so we are putting some of the money back into our own communities...where it should be. People like Dudley's give scholarships to young black people so they can go to college. You'll never see Paul Mitchell doing that.
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Yes, Dudley's is one example of a black company giving back, but how many of those other black companies named are doing the same? Moreover, how do one know that those non-black-owned companies aren't giving back?
My point is there are other ways to support black businesses than just hair products alone.
For me personally, I support the smaller black-owned businesses within my community more than the corporate ones. I just think more justice is done when I know that the owner of a small soul food restaurant can make a profit to put food on the table for his family and a decent roof over their heads. Rather than the owner of say, Black Magic earning money off of a stock dividend and buying his teenager a Lexus.