There are plenty of current and past Black businesses ignored by Black customers and patrons, to the detriment of those same customers and businesses.
And you will not attain power for Black companies you speak of if you prefer frequenting the Asian hood store as opposed to a Black one or starting one yourself.
Here's a Black man, famous and wealthy named Mark Curry. You may have seen him on TV.
He chose to visit a White town in Colorado, and failed to conduct prior research on Black establishments in the area.
He is then subsequently subjected to a very common and brutal American experience. He was harassed for drinking coffee in the lobby as a Black man by a cac who demanded to know if he was a guest.
Now, we can blame the racist cac hotel for that of course, but we have to divide the blame accordingly and Mark Curry has to carry some as well for blindly walking into a cac establishment as an elderly Black man in Amerikkka and not having the sense to realis he is in enemy territory.
Mark Curry claims he was racially profiled by white hotel staff in Colorado
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Angelina Velasquez
Sun, December 11, 2022 at 5:56 PM·3 min read
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Comedian Mark Curry is being flooded with support after claiming he was
racially profiled by employees of The Mining Exchange A Wyndham Grand Hotel & Spa in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday (Dec. 10).
Curry was apparently lounging in the
hotel lobby when a white male employee approached him and asked if he was a guest and demanded to see his ID. The “Family Reunion” actor, who was on Instagram Live at the time, shared the 26-minute video on his page.
In the caption, Curry wrote: “Black man and a hotel lobby. It’s impossible that he has a room here. No, I have a suite! He walks up to me with no badge on; I don’t know who this man is. And [he] asked to see my hotel key. Wyndham racism. 719-323-2000 call them, please. Jhon Crab, head of security and head of maintenance at the same time.”
The footage showed the man irritably standing in front of him and asking Curry to confirm his guest status. Nearby, a second male staff member stood watching the encounter. Elsewhere, the actor showed the two men as they trailed behind him throughout the lobby.
Once back in his room, Curry stated: “This is some bulls**t. This [is] what we do in America. The motherf**ker was so upset. I don’t know what his problem was. He did not want me in the lobby. He walked up and said, ‘This lobby is private,’ and stopped me.” He went on
to implore his followers to call the hotel and “f**k them up” with complaints about how the staff interacted with him.
The post was inundated with comments from the comedian’s peers. Guy Torry wrote: “I was just there 2 weeks ago. That’s [the] hotel across from the comedy club. They giving you s**t?” D.L. Hughley commented: “You good, my dude? I’ve called the number a bunch of times [and] can’t get [through]!” The “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper” lead also garnered support from his former castmates Raven-Symoné and
Holly Robinson Peete. The latter tweeted: “I watched the whole video. There was no reason for Mark to be singled out except for the fact that he’s a Black man. Since when do you have to identify yourself sitting in the lobby drinking coffee? This would be farcical if it wasn’t so disrespectful.”
