There are a myriad of reasons why a person would choose one business over another to continuously patronize. If you are an entrepreneur/property owner like me you actively seek the best product or service in your particular locale. I have lived in places where there were very few people of color or none who produced the product or service I required.
All of my adult life I have always gone to black doctors, lawyers, tradesmen, car dealerships, hair salons, accountants, designers, makeup artists, painters, repairmen, artists, musicians, plumbers etc I actively seek black and brown people to do business with because this was practiced in my immediate and extended family growing up.
Obviously, as a minority living in a predominantly white society I have patronized white businesses. You cannot avoid it. Ultimately, most people want the business that will provide the best good or service regardless of the color of the owner. On a very personal note, I take great pride and love in doing business with people who look like me.
Why it is that some black people will have a negative experience with a black business and essentially refrain from going to other black businesses that provide that good or service based on that isolated incident with the black/brown business? I have always found this practice irrational. It is almost an indictment on all black people. I feel this is unfair and morally wrong. Many not all black people have this mentality. They will give a white or Asian business countless chances to phuck up but have the black owned business make one little error and it is the end of the world.
No need to post the psychological and historical reasons why they may act that way. We all know that plus it has been beaten like a dead horse.
My question is what are you doing as a black person to stop this destructive practice? I actively chastise my black and brown friends who might succumb to holding the black/brown business to near impossible standards while giving the white businesses a frequent free pass.
Please share your own experiences.