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

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kwikfitt · 05/08/2026 19:58

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.

OP posts:
Yello24 · Today 20:14

Just googled Shaba. Clearly one to be avoided and should be shut down for selling dangerous skin whitening creams. But why should other small businesses run by S Asians suffer?

emuloc · Today 20:16

kwikfitt · Today 20:13

There are numerous testimonies of the experiences of black women when visiting these hair shops, unfortunately

Unfortunately that was my own experience, on several occasions, back in the Day.

TY78910 · Today 20:21

Wait, can someone link to an article? Are you saying that the owner of Shaba encourages these assaults or that they do nothing about the assaults?

fashionqueen0123 · Today 22:42

TY78910 · Today 20:21

Wait, can someone link to an article? Are you saying that the owner of Shaba encourages these assaults or that they do nothing about the assaults?

I can’t find anything except for one with the owner restraining someone who he said was shop lifting.
It would be good if the OP could post a link.

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