Originally Posted by
ccal
This doesn't surprise me one bit, these store owners have always felt contempt and disdain for the people that keep them in business. I've been around and had conversations with a number of middle eastern store owners who have let their guard down and felt they could speak freely to me about my own people and boy let me tell you, they barely tolerate us, if it weren't for us patronizing their business they wouldn't deal with us, their opinion of the very people they serve is so low that if it weren't for the fact they recognize the power of the black dollar they wouldn't even venture into the neighborhoods where their businesses are located. The flip side of this is that we blacks don't like them either, most of the time they are the only store that is close by, so we frequent their business. There is this little dance that takes place, we pretend to like them and they pretend they like us and all the while we really can't stand each other but we its accepted as a necessary evil.