[NON-BUSINESS] This 16-Year-Old Was Racially Profiled in A Black Beauty Supply Store—So She Bought One.

[BrasSmonkey]

The first step in any Black woman’s haircare ritual is a trip to the local beauty supply store. Ask a Black woman to recall her earliest memory of these essential establishments and it will mirror the memories of countless others: perusing the aisles to determine whether a Just For Me or Dr. Miracle’s box perm would best suit her hair; scanning the different lengths and textures of Sensationnel’s packs of hair for her first sew-in; and comparing Adore’s semi-permanent hair color in Spiced Amber and Cinnamon to see which one makes her look grown, but not too grown. (It was Spiced Amber for me.) Ask 16-year-old Paris McKenzie to recount one of her earliest memories and it’s the one about being racially profiled and followed throughout her local beauty supply store that sticks out the most.

Beauty supply stores can be a Black girl's sanctuary. They are places—like Target or Home Goods—where we often stray from our list of need-to-buy items and walk away with so much more. But these physical spaces where Black consumers spend their earnings are rarely Black-owned or operated. Tobi Idowu of Business of Fashion wrote earlier this year, "Of at least 9,000 shops specializing in Black haircare and cosmetics in the US, 3,000 are Black-owned, and most of the remainder are operated by people of Korean descent," according to report from an organization called the Black Owned Beauty Supply Association (BOBSA).

“I’ve never been in a beauty supply store owned by a Black person," McKenzie tells me. "When I walked into a beauty supply store, either I didn't get assisted well or I was given an attitude or people watched me like a hawk or followed me around the store." Now, sitting between a wall of Freetress braiding hair and a glass display of headbands and hoop earrings in the back of Paris Beauty Supplyz, McKenzie feels at home. That's because the Black-owned beauty salon store has her name on the lease.

The business of beauty is in McKenzie’s blood. For the past 16 years, her mother Senica, a hairstylist and serial entrepreneur, has owned and operated Brooklyn’s Paris Hair Studio and Paris Runway Boutique (both of which are named for her daughter). Growing up, McKenzie shadowed her mom, often frequenting a supply store within walking distance of both businesses. At the time, it was owned by a Korean family with whom both Paris and her mother had a rapport.

McKenzie worked as a shampoo girl at the hair studio before becoming a sales associate at Paris Runway boutique where she learned how to price items and interface with customers daily. "Whenever someone would walk into the boutique and start browsing, I would go over to them and say, This will look nice on you. You should try it on. This looks your style," she says, as she acts out the scenario.

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[TheButcher]

It reads more to more an advertisement for her business than about being racially profiled in a store.

[BrasSmonkey]

It reads more to more an advertisement for her business than about being racially profiled in a store.

man u never been in a store and someone standing behind u. i order a ham and police stood behind me. it was fucked up shit

[TheButcher]

It reads more to more an advertisement for her business than about being racially profiled in a store.

man u never been in a store and someone standing behind u. i order a ham and police stood behind me. it was fucked up shit

Actually a few days ago I went to buy a new mouse at a well know store here. I picked one that was $22 bucks( I never pay more than a few bucks for a mouse) paid for it and decided to have a look around the store.It must have been a good 10 months I had not gone there , and I noticed this guy tailing me. I went this way he came a coupe, of yards behind me. I realized he was security. I said okay you want to play let's play. I started acting suspicious.

I would go up to a rack of goods start looking left and right real fast, to give the impression I was as looking to see if no one was around to pocket something.I did this for a good 15 minutes. In the end I got tired of the game and started walking to the front of the store to leave, he was still behind me, I turned round said, can I help you, lol. He never replied. I just held my receipt for the mouse in my hand strolled out.


So yes I know the feeling this is the first time anyone has done that to me in a store but it was not nice.


Peace

[BrasSmonkey]

im talking years b4 the covid 19

It reads more to more an advertisement for her business than about being racially profiled in a store.

man u never been in a store and someone standing behind u. i order a ham and police stood behind me. it was fucked up shit

Actually a few days ago I went to buy a new mouse at a well know store here. I picked one that was $22 bucks( I never pay more than a few bucks for a mouse) paid for it and decided to have a look around the store.It must have been a good 10 months I had not gone there , and I noticed this guy tailing me. I went this way he came a coupe, of yards behind me. I realized he was security. I said okay you want to play let's play. I started acting suspicious.

I would go up to a rack of goods start looking left and right real fast, to give the impression I was as looking to see if no one was around to pocket something.I did this for a good 15 minutes. In the end I got tired of the game and started walking to the front of the store to leave, he was still behind me, I turned round said, can I help you, lol. He never replied. I just held my receipt for the mouse in my hand strolled out.


So yes I know the feeling this is the first time anyone has done that to me in a store but it was not nice.


Peace

[bestfreeporn]

A black person claiming to be racially profiled in a black owned store?

[Dallastim]

Racism needs to stop now man

[TheButcher]

A black person claiming to be racially profiled in a black owned store?

The sick part of racism is that the individuals with that mind set are just that, sick. So yes I can believe a person being racist towards another individual of their own ethnicity, religion or culture.

[BrasSmonkey]

A black person claiming to be racially profiled in a black owned store?

uh you think it does not happen? asians do it so does india.