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10 Steps For African Americans to Dominate Beauty Supply Store
Originally posted in April 2010:
For too many years, Asians have dominated beauty supply stores and they have become multimillionaires. For some odd reason, black people pay millions of dollars, annually to Asian owned beauty supply stores and do not own any of them. African Americans have successfully dominated the entertainment and athletic industries, but they lack confidence when it comes to owning beauty supply store businesses. In the 21st century, there needs to be a change and it must occur very soon.
Many African American entrepreneurs have made the usual excuse that companies will not invest into there stores, but that is very untrue, because African Americans are manufacturers of the majority of black products, these days: Bronner Brothers, African Pride, Africa's Best, African Wonders, Dudley, Miracle Hair and the list goes on here. Therefore, if African American entrepreneurs can make black hair care products or become a licensed beautician, they can easily own beauty supply stores, it is all in the state of mind, it absolutely has nothing to do with race; although, a black entrepreneur may endure hardships of racism during the process of opening up a store.
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