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Originally posted by LadyAKA:
I think you are HATING for the wrong reasons, your father's business did not almost go under because Blacks did not shop there it almost went under because he did not market well, and after he did that, as you stated yourself things got better, MUCH BETTER!!
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Um. F.Y.I, my dad marketed VERY well with the small amount of money we had. Since my father a BLACK video store %95 of the people that it appeals to are BLACK PEOPLE. If BLACK PEOPLE do not come and shop we will make no money.
We didn't have the $$$ to do as much as we wanted with advertising so we did the best we could. In fact we didn't even pay to have that add on the air. My uncle did (another black business owner).
Even if every person that reads this think differently I will stick by my guns.
Like I said before, and like I will say in the future: We as a people make too many excuses. That's one of the reasons other races are leaving us behind in the dust. In the black community everyone is trying to "get theirs" and we don't care where it comes from. We don't think in terms of "us"...we think in terms of "me" and it's doing US no good.
I'm tired of going to my Internship and seeing all the Hispanics, Asians, Indians, Africans, and Latins working as a team and then looking over my shoulder and watching the Black Americans BS each other. It's embarrassing and pointless.
LadyAKA:
I was not talking about just you. There are alot more people reading this than you and me. I said I never see anyone saying that they will look for and try an AHABAI product and that's the TRUTH. Not be mean, but I can't remember "LadyAKA said she tries everything".
I have no reason to hate on anyone because I have everything I could ever want. If anything I'm hating on MY OWN people for not using the potential I know we have.
Sometimes I wonder if we will ever get out of the bucket.