Anyone feel judged if they shop at a white owned business instead of black owned right now?

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

First of all, I never said I can't find one. I said I'm not going to support a black owned business just because it's black owned, if the product isn't good.

Also, did you read the OP? The entire thing is about her being shamed for not supporting black owned businesses.

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

First of all, I never said I can't find one. I said I'm not going to support a black owned business just because it's black owned, if the product isn't good.

Also, did you read the OP? The entire thing is about her being shamed for not supporting black owned businesses.

Nobody asked you to go to a place with a bad product.

If I said, support your local business do you say "no, im not buying a bad product"... but you say that when asked to buy at a black business... I know you don't see how f'd up your way of thinking is, but it is. Hopefully one day you will see it.

No, she was not shamed, she decided they were shaming her... but they were not. Just like if they said buy local and she decided to have Amazon deliver, was she shamed, no. But all of a sudden, it's black owned business so she is making up the "being shamed" part. Nobody said, shame on you.

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

First of all, I never said I can't find one. I said I'm not going to support a black owned business just because it's black owned, if the product isn't good.

Also, did you read the OP? The entire thing is about her being shamed for not supporting black owned businesses.

Great. I'm glad you can find a good product at a black owned business. When you get a chance support them.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone in our neighborhood organized a food pick up for anyone interested, from a black owned restaurant in DC. I ordered dinner for my family. The food was supposed to be ready at 5:30 - it wasn’t ready until 7:30, one of my items was missing, and the food we got wasn’t very good. So no, I will not be choosing based upon the race of the owner. Didn’t really go well for us.

In the middle of the pandemic I ordered food from the Cheesecake Factory (not a fan, but the kid wanted it), food showed up 2 hours late, was cold, 2 of the items were missing, french fries and the cheese cake.

I called to complain, was told buy the white girl who answered the phone and the white manager, that it wasn't their fault, blamed it on the delivery driver, said they probably ate the food. When I suggested that perhaps, due to the unusual circumstances that they made a mistake, they replied no, not us. Blamed, their incompetence on the delivery guy who just so happened to be black, and apparently a thief.

You would think that the big corporate guys, with the resources to hire/retain competent staff, would have been able to figure out how to get it right, but no. Just a bunch of incompetent idiots.

Someone who refers to a child as “the kid” has no business calling anyone an idiot

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

First of all, I never said I can't find one. I said I'm not going to support a black owned business just because it's black owned, if the product isn't good.

Also, did you read the OP? The entire thing is about her being shamed for not supporting black owned businesses.

Nobody asked you to go to a place with a bad product.

If I said, support your local business do you say "no, im not buying a bad product"... but you say that when asked to buy at a black business... I know you don't see how f'd up your way of thinking is, but it is. Hopefully one day you will see it.

No, she was not shamed, she decided they were shaming her... but they were not. Just like if they said buy local and she decided to have Amazon deliver, was she shamed, no. But all of a sudden, it's black owned business so she is making up the "being shamed" part. Nobody said, shame on you.

They absolutely were shaming her, but you're just going to see what you want to see. Just like you decided I had somehow assessed that there are no black businesses with good products.

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I support going to black doctors, to counter the discrimination from those who won't use them

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Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is knowing that all the virtue-signalers shopping at black-owned businesses today will, in all likelihood, forget about it in a few months and return to their usual shopping patterns.

The virtue signalers might. Regular people might not. It might be a paradigm shift for them.

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Anonymous wrote:I support going to black doctors, to counter the discrimination from those who won't use them

Our pediatrician and dentist are both AA. We’reAA, but I know from discussions with a couple white neighborhood families who use the same practices that they purposefully selected them to show their children black medical professionals.

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Anonymous wrote:This worries me less than people who are spending $5k at Home Depot rather than Lowe’s.

Why? I just ordered $2000+ worth of stuff at Lowes.

I’m glad you bought at Lowe’s! That’s my point.

But why? (I bought at Lowes just because I found better stuff there)

Because Home Depot gave a bunch of money to Trump; Lowe's gave a bunch of money to minority and women-owned businesses, and Lowe's has a black (male) CEO.

But look at the stockholders. Katrina College is a big write off

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Anonymous wrote:I support going to black doctors, to counter the discrimination from those who won't use them

My DH’s urologist is from Cameroon and told my husband that he is fully booked at his group’s practice in DC but withdrew from appointments at his Bethesda practice because no one would book him.

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

First of all, I never said I can't find one. I said I'm not going to support a black owned business just because it's black owned, if the product isn't good.

Also, did you read the OP? The entire thing is about her being shamed for not supporting black owned businesses.

Nobody asked you to go to a place with a bad product.

If I said, support your local business do you say "no, im not buying a bad product"... but you say that when asked to buy at a black business... I know you don't see how f'd up your way of thinking is, but it is. Hopefully one day you will see it.

No, she was not shamed, she decided they were shaming her... but they were not. Just like if they said buy local and she decided to have Amazon deliver, was she shamed, no. But all of a sudden, it's black owned business so she is making up the "being shamed" part. Nobody said, shame on you.

They absolutely were shaming her, but you're just going to see what you want to see. Just like you decided I had somehow assessed that there are no black businesses with good products.

No they absolutely did not shame her. Just like if I say support breast cancer and you support leukemia, I am not shaming you. Or I say support the baseball team and you support the football team, I'm not shaming you.

Also you are the one that said I am not buying from a black owned business because I only buy good products. But now that we cleared up that was my bias, I would love to hear what product you found at a black owned business that you love... I'd love to support them too.

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

First of all, I never said I can't find one. I said I'm not going to support a black owned business just because it's black owned, if the product isn't good.

Also, did you read the OP? The entire thing is about her being shamed for not supporting black owned businesses.

Nobody asked you to go to a place with a bad product.

If I said, support your local business do you say "no, im not buying a bad product"... but you say that when asked to buy at a black business... I know you don't see how f'd up your way of thinking is, but it is. Hopefully one day you will see it.

No, she was not shamed, she decided they were shaming her... but they were not. Just like if they said buy local and she decided to have Amazon deliver, was she shamed, no. But all of a sudden, it's black owned business so she is making up the "being shamed" part. Nobody said, shame on you.

They absolutely were shaming her, but you're just going to see what you want to see. Just like you decided I had somehow assessed that there are no black businesses with good products.

No they absolutely did not shame her. Just like if I say support breast cancer and you support leukemia, I am not shaming you. Or I say support the baseball team and you support the football team, I'm not shaming you.

Also you are the one that said I am not buying from a black owned business because I only buy good products. But now that we cleared up that was my bias, I would love to hear what product you found at a black owned business that you love... I'd love to support them too.

I'll give you the 2nd example, but how is this not shaming: " I was talking with a friend and mentioned I went to a local shop on Saturday to pick up a gift. She asked if I had missed her FB post about black owned businesses in our town. I said I hadn’t but I knew exactly what I needed and that they had it based on their Instagram. She just said” hm” and moved on."

Also I did not say "I don't support black businesses because I only buy good products." I said this, "I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them." Stop twisting my words.

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Anonymous wrote:I support going to black doctors, to counter the discrimination from those who won't use them

OMG my grandmother broke her hip when my mom was traveling and she requested a white doctor at a DC hospital, then told me... make sure her doctor is white. Of course they did not honor the request, that would be insane. Who knew that was even a thing... welp it is!

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Anonymous wrote:How the hell would I know if the owner is black or other. If I need/like what you're selling than I'm buying.

This isn't something that's difficult to find out, if you see it as important. Many people don't and that's their prerogative, but you and others claiming this is some kind of mystery or would take up far too much of your time sound more willfully ignorant than anything else. No one is saying you have to, it's just not at all difficult to figure out if you choose to.

The other night I wanted to order sushi and also wanted to support a Black-owned restaurant. Unfortunately, both could not be accomplished with the same order (at least in my area), so I enjoyed my sushi. Maybe next time it'll go another way.

Yeah, no. I'm not going to feel shty about supporting my Greek-owned local taco place. For a bunch of Greeks, they make awesome tacos.

You sound nuts. Nobody is asking you to feel shitty about supporting Greek and taco places, nobody said every meal should be from a black owned business.

the leaps people make when somebody asks to support a business is insane. Why the ire and deflection? You can't find 1 black owned business to support every now and again... that is literally insane.

I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them.

Why am I nuts? This entire thread is about shaming people for not going out of their way to support black businesses.

Wut? You can't find 1 black business that has a "good product"?

You are nuts because this is not about shaming people, it's about saying to be conscious of black businesses and support them when you can. It's no different than saying "buy local" ... what is insane is that you literally think saying "buy from a black business" is shaming and saying "buy local" is not.

First of all, I never said I can't find one. I said I'm not going to support a black owned business just because it's black owned, if the product isn't good.

Also, did you read the OP? The entire thing is about her being shamed for not supporting black owned businesses.

Nobody asked you to go to a place with a bad product.

If I said, support your local business do you say "no, im not buying a bad product"... but you say that when asked to buy at a black business... I know you don't see how f'd up your way of thinking is, but it is. Hopefully one day you will see it.

No, she was not shamed, she decided they were shaming her... but they were not. Just like if they said buy local and she decided to have Amazon deliver, was she shamed, no. But all of a sudden, it's black owned business so she is making up the "being shamed" part. Nobody said, shame on you.

They absolutely were shaming her, but you're just going to see what you want to see. Just like you decided I had somehow assessed that there are no black businesses with good products.

No they absolutely did not shame her. Just like if I say support breast cancer and you support leukemia, I am not shaming you. Or I say support the baseball team and you support the football team, I'm not shaming you.

Also you are the one that said I am not buying from a black owned business because I only buy good products. But now that we cleared up that was my bias, I would love to hear what product you found at a black owned business that you love... I'd love to support them too.

I'll give you the 2nd example, but how is this not shaming: " I was talking with a friend and mentioned I went to a local shop on Saturday to pick up a gift. She asked if I had missed her FB post about black owned businesses in our town. I said I hadn’t but I knew exactly what I needed and that they had it based on their Instagram. She just said” hm” and moved on."

Also I did not say "I don't support black businesses because I only buy good products." I said this, "I'm not going to support them just because they're black. Do they have good products? Then sure, I'll buy them." Stop twisting my words.

So every time somebody says Hm they are judging you.

Glad you will now be supporting black businesses now that we both understand they have great products and services to offer.