To ask you to consider buying your black hair products from black owned businesses?

[kwikfitt]

Another tale of an assault on a black woman shopping for hair products.

This time, a woman from Peckham, shopping at Shaba Hair and Cosmetics (they also have a branch in Dalston, both places in London) was assaulted by men who posessed a hammer and physically ssaulted a woman and her teenage son.

This is on top of repeated concerns about fake products being sold, and general everyday intimidation and rudeness towards their black customers.

The men who own the shop, and worked at the shop, were not black.

Sounds like you want to sweep it under the carpet or avoid race issues.

I think poster just couldn't imagine why the majority white audience would need a black hair or skin product.

This was my first thought

Mumsnet has lots of different threads about random things.

I dont understand the WAG thread but I just scroll past

The OP did say ‘people who buy black hair products’ not ‘people who buy hair products’.
She is not expecting everyone to shop at black owned businesses for all hair products. The post is addressing the issue of a black woman being assaulted while buying black hair products from a business owned by someone of a different race.

No, not at all!

I was only thinking of the target audience. Its an important Message isn't it.

Yes, or perhaps a diverse range of staff

Is this the sort of issue Londoncentric would investigate?

Absolutely shocking, I hope they go out of business!

Yes! Will see if i can tag the owner(?) On twitter

Jim something

Have actually followed him for maybe a decade. I dont have a following but maybe an email as well. Hopefully others will have the same idea

Sorry I’m being stupid here- do you mean it was the shop owner who attacked their own customer?! With a hammer? wtf!
And they’ve previously tried to strangle someone?

I make my own hair creams, with shea butter and oils that I buy from Akoma Skincare, which is black owned. There are countless videos on Youtube, on making hair butters, and creams. I have not gone into a store, and purchased any hair products for years now. A massive plus when making my own hair products, is that they are all natural, and have no nasty chemicals that will mess up my hormones, which are in a lot of hair products aimed at black Women.

How awful, what a horrible man, that poor woman.

I think I'm going to out myself as being extremely naive here.
When you say black hair products this is essentially products for curly hair?
Which isn't just black hair right? It's a huge demographic. And although it started as black hair products (many many years ago when you had to get them from inner city little supermarkets that catered for curly hair) now it's a massive industry.
It might be really helpful to just give the recent history here. So people understand the background more. And also maybe some links to products for people.
I would prefer to buy from a black owned business where I know where the ingredients come from. (Actually I prefer to buy from any small business but I would especially prefer to buy from a black owned business for anything because I realise how hard it is.)

No, these are products designed specifically for afro hair.

They inspired the range of products you now see by mainstream brands for all types of European hair. Before we had "greasy" and "dry" and "normal". Now because they see there is a market for it by those of us curly haired white people who used to buy black products that werent quite right for us, they made stuff for curly hair and the like

Asian and ME people always had their own hair products like Amla.

Can I ask why posters say Boots or black owned only? I use products aimed at black hair, because I was recommended them by my hairdresser, but got them from Superdrug today, does it have to be Boots?

I try to only use POC hairdressers, because white hairdressers usually make horrible comments about my hair texture and cut it badly, or use products that don't suit my hair.

Jim Waterson