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

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Anonymous wrote:Yelp now has a black owned filter. I’ve used it.

Wil they also filter so I can identify woman-owned businesses?

I don’t know I don’t work at Yelp.

I think maybe you missed the real point of that post....

Maybe I understood it perfectly but also knew it was a stupid thing to say.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yelp now has a black owned filter. I’ve used it.

I read their press release about this feature, but don’t see the filter option in my DC suburb. Where do you live?

Anne Arundel.

I was actually searching under Gambrills, where I do a lot of shopping. How did you set the filter? I see options like “Good for Groups, Has TV, Gender Neutral Restrooms,” but not the black owned filter.

I just opened my app and when it starts up it’s like the top half of the screen on the home page. Are you using the app?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I felt it on two separate occasions recently. 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.

Tonight I was talking with my neighbor and mentioned where we got takeout food from yesterday. She said they got food from ABC and were only supporting black and minority owned places for the foreseeable future.

It seems so fake to me but are others really doing this?

Your friends sound extremely overbearing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I shop mostly at Amazon these days and I'm sure I'm much more harshly judged for that.

Amzon is owned by its shareholders, and people of any race are welcome to buy their stock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this real? How would you even know who owns a shop, let alone their ethnicity or race? I have no clue and zero time to figure this kind of thing out.

No kidding. I don't go into a store and ask who the owners are, and what their races are.

[Anonymous]

Home Depot info

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/home-depot-boycott-donald-trump_n_5d243d0be4b0cfb595fb2493

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I felt it on two separate occasions recently. 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.

Tonight I was talking with my neighbor and mentioned where we got takeout food from yesterday. She said they got food from ABC and were only supporting black and minority owned places for the foreseeable future.

It seems so fake to me but are others really doing this?

Get new friends. Solved.

[Anonymous]

No, I don't feel judged. Most people I know have no idea where I shop and we don't really talk about it.

[Anonymous]

I do try to shop at black owned businesses, but I don't feel judged for not exclusively doing so.

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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.

Lowe’s tool selection flat out sucks. I literally NEVER find anything I need there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is this real? How would you even know who owns a shop, let alone their ethnicity or race? I have no clue and zero time to figure this kind of thing out.

No kidding. I don't go into a store and ask who the owners are, and what their races are.

This x 1000.

[Anonymous]

I just shop at the places that have what I need/like. I prefer to buy at small locally owned places, but most of the time I don't know (or care about) the race of the owner.
What kind of racist jerk actually does?

[Anonymous]

I have been trying to shop a little more at our neighborhood market. White-owned. Employs mostly POC. Looted and vandalized a few weeks ago. Otherwise, no.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this real? How would you even know who owns a shop, let alone their ethnicity or race? I have no clue and zero time to figure this kind of thing out.

No kidding. I don't go into a store and ask who the owners are, and what their races are.

This x 1000.

Part of buying local usually involves getting to know the small business owners. It’s not hard. They typically work along side any employees they have. And I don’t have to travel outside my neighborhood to find black owned businesses so I’m already getting takeout or a birthday present from these places on a regular basis. I understand that it might be harder for people who chose to live places without many black-owned businesses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been trying to shop a little more at our neighborhood market. White-owned. Employs mostly POC. Looted and vandalized a few weeks ago. Otherwise, no.

That sound is the point of the movement trying to land, but being repelled by your racism.