Asian Americans REGRET OFFENDING Black Americans after their Stores Remained Empty

[00:00:06]This is why when y'all say black people can't come together, I just shut my mouth because y'all is showing out on this Asian boycott. Saturday, June the 6th, empty.

[00:00:15]Nail salons, empty. Y'all is showing out. Now, if you recall, he's the one that told us that we couldn't survive without any Asian owned um you know, uh stores in our community and told us if we did a boycott, he would take away the laundry mat, mats, right?

[00:00:31]They would not have laundry mats for us as if we don't own washers and dryers in 2026.

[00:00:38]Now, some of you actually seem to be surprised at the Asian community, some of them anyway, that are really thinking that we're ignorant and too ignorant to have our own.

[00:00:49]Guys, don't forget about 2023. Do y'all remember in 2023 when they ended affirmative action? And that was in part to the Asian community.

[00:00:59]They let themselves be pushed to end affirmative action.

[00:01:04]>> I don't understand how the most educated group of people, Asians, can't figure out why black Americans are trying to boycott their businesses. It's so crazy to me that Asians think black Americans are doing this to get back at us or that this is a generalization of all Asians that we are all racist like Brick Chow.

[00:01:20]The boycott is pent-up frustration from years of black Americans dealing with Asian owned businesses and constantly getting racially profiled, followed, and the overall lack of respect that they have to deal with even though they are these businesses' said main customers.

[00:01:33]Mind you, Asians that own said businesses in predominantly black neighborhoods extract that money and go take it back to their own communities.

[00:01:39]So, black Americans are collectively trying to say, "If you're going to come in here and take our money and leave, the very least you can do is treat us like a normal human being and not assume that every black person that walks in the door in a black neighborhood is a criminal."

[00:01:53]Seems pretty reasonable to me.

[00:01:56]>> Y'all must have forgot how powerful black people are.

[00:02:01]No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Y'all must have forgot how powerful we are when we come together.

[00:02:08]We can move mountains.

[00:02:12]We made a multi-billion dollar company shaking its boots. We damn sure can come together and stop spending our hard-earned money in places where we are not welcome.

[00:02:27]>> Something interesting is unfolding in communities across America right now.

[00:02:32]For years, people have heard the phrase the black dollar has power. Some agreed, others dismissed it. Some believe consumer spending could not possibly make that much difference. But today, a growing conversation is challenging that assumption. Across social media platforms, more black consumers are talking about where they spend their money, who they support, and what economic empowerment truly means. After that Asian comment dared them to boycott Asian businesses.

[00:03:03]And as these conversations grow, some Asian business owners are beginning to realize something important that customers are not obligated to spend their money anywhere. Consumers make choices, and when large number of people change those choices, that impact must be felt in businesses, and Asian stores are feeling it.

[00:03:23]Now, a larger debate is emerging. Black consumer spending, community economics, and the role respect plays in the business success. Let's talk about it, good people.

[00:03:34]>> Y'all must have forgot how powerful black people are.

[00:03:39]No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

[00:03:41]>> [music] >> Y'all must have forgot how powerful we are when we come together. We can move mountains.

[00:03:50]We made a multi-billion dollar company shaking its boots. We damn sure can come together and stop [music] spending our hard-earned money in places where we are not welcome.

[00:04:06]All these corner stores that's in our hood, all these nail salons and these liquor stores and these rice houses [music and singing] and Chinamans in our [ __ ] hood, all we got to do is [music] carry our money where we are is appreciated.

[00:04:22]>> [music] >> All we have to do is stick together and we can make these [ __ ] feel us.

[00:04:28][music] See, they don't believe fat meat greases when it comes to the black Americans, >> [music] >> but when we stick together, we are powerful. Do you hear what I tell you, me?

[00:04:42]Shop black owned and stop spending your money in these places where we are not welcome. That little boy was not the first and sadly, he will not be the last.

[00:04:55]Let's make these [ __ ] feel us.

[00:04:58]Shop black owned.

[00:04:59]>> The way y'all keep coming with excuses as to why these nail shops and other Asian businesses and restaurants and stuff are empty, y'all really don't believe that when black people set their minds to it that they can actually stick to it and make differences. But then again, yes, y'all do. It's why y'all try so hard to convince us like white supremacists have always done for so many years that it doesn't matter when we unify when clearly it does. But to see y'all writing all these excuses, it's a Monday or it's still too early or this or maybe just people are standing on their word, black people, and keeping their money in black businesses.

[00:05:42]Bravo, black people.

[00:05:44]>> 15,700, that's the number of stores that sit empty. A new report by City Controller Mark Levine finds some neighborhoods have been hit hard.

[00:05:54]>> There are parts of Manhattan like Lower Manhattan that have relied historically on office workers for customers and they're really hurting. Chinatown has vacancy of 15%.

[00:06:06]>> The report tracked every visible storefront finding an 11% vacancy rate overall with the Bronx and Staten Island faring the best.

[00:06:15]>> They didn't take such a big hit in COVID and they're not getting hurt as hard by work from home.

[00:06:20]>> North Brooklyn and Western Queens are struggling to fill stores with high rents playing a role. Suzanne Callucci 1010 wins at 92.3 FM.

[00:06:30]>> There is a lot of rising tension between the Asian and Black American community with Black Americans saying, "Let's boycott some Asian businesses." And Asian Americans saying, "Stop attacking our people." And this is all being caused due to the acquittal of Rick Chow in the murder of Cyrus Carmack Belton.

[00:06:46]And it's upsetting seeing this divide occur because we should all be, you know, with each other in a solidarity as minorities, right? I think we can all agree that Rick Chow should be in prison. He shot and murdered a 14-year-old boy. However, combating that with racism against one another? In my opinion, the only person that wins as the result of us attacking each other, you know, us unfairly discriminating against Black Americans, Black Americans unfairly discriminating against Asian Americans, are the bigots that support Rick Chow being found not guilty. One man's actions should not justify demonizing an entire community. Calling in fake orders to Asian restaurants and boycotting small Asian businesses is not the answer. Why discriminate against everybody from Vermont because Chester Arthur was the one that signed the Chinese Exclusion Act? No, I think that's unreasonable. I like Bernie. I hope some justice is served for Cyrus Carmack Belton. And >> This is why when y'all say Black people can't come together, I just shut my mouth because y'all are showing out on this Asian boycott. Saturday, June the 6th, empty.

[00:07:47]Nail salons, empty. Y'all are showing out. Now, if you recall, he's the one that told us that we couldn't survive without any Asian-owned um you know, uh stores in our community and told us if we did a boycott, he would take away the laundry mat mats, right?

[00:08:03]They would not have laundry mats for us as if we don't own washers and dryers in 2026.

[00:08:10]Now, some of you actually seem to be surprised at the Asian community, some of them anyway, that are really thinking that we're ignorant and too ignorant to have our own. Guys, don't forget about 2023. Do y'all remember in 2023 when they ended affirmative action? And that was in part to the Asian community.

[00:08:30]They let themselves be pushed to end affirmative action against the blacks.

[00:08:37]And people always say against the blacks as if we're the only community and we're the number one community to benefit from affirmative action. We weren't, but that's the discussion for another day.

[00:08:46]So, in case you didn't know, the Asian American Coalition for Education, along with 60, 60, other Asian American groups got together and filed several civil rights law complaints against Harvard, okay? And they supported Students for a Fair for Fair Admissions. Now, if Students for Fair Admissions sound familiar, hmm, that's because they are the ones who filed these lawsuits that went to the Supreme Court. Uh President and Fellows of Harvard College and also against University of North Carolina.

[00:09:21]They combined the two. They said that they felt it was so unjust they were expected to perform higher to get into Ivy League colleges, and that's not the case for everyone, i.e., black people.

[00:09:34]They decided to do it in groups so that they could not no one could pick out a specific Asian American to target. But the fact that there were 60 different groups along with the Asian American Coalition for Education speaks volumes.

[00:09:48]Now, once affirmative action ended, do you think there was a big surge of acceptance um into Ivy League colleges for Asian Americans?

[00:09:57]No, poochie pies.

[00:09:59]According to the Manhattan Institute, there was a 2% increase across the board of Asian Americans being accepted into Ivy League schools. However, there was a decline in blacks and Hispanic enrollment.

[00:10:14]Like other communities, Asian communities seem to forget that they benefit from all the hard work that the black community has done. And that's okay if you forget. We don't have to remind you because baby, we just keep doing what we do, which is us. So, I'm proud of all you guys standing in solidarity because they're basically calling us stupid as hell and we're not.

[00:10:34]Leave me a comment >> Look, why is it that when black Americans start protecting black Americans and doing what's best for us, everybody gets mad?

[00:10:42]Why is that?

[00:10:43]See, they want our money but not our blues.

[00:10:46]Right? They want our money, but they don't want anything else to do with us when it comes time to to represent or uh stand with or stand in solidarity with black people.

[00:10:58]They don't want that. When it comes time to vote, nobody wants to stand in solidarity with black people, right?

[00:11:03]And we try to say, "Oh, this is what's happened to us. This is wrong." No nobody really says anything. We don't see a lot of, you know, think pieces and people talking and all No nobody. We said black lives matter, and everybody kept saying all lives matter.

[00:11:19]Right? It it it never it never comes about that black people have true allies, right? And yeah, don't get me wrong.

[00:11:28]Every now and then, you know, you do You people who under you know, they they want to help, but that's few and far between.

[00:11:36]Most of the time in this country, black people are in it alone.

[00:11:39]So, now that we decided to withdraw our money from people, places, companies, and all of that who don't don't care about our dollar, don't care about us and our rights or anything like that, don't be mad now.

[00:11:56]Cuz y'all weren't mad with us in 2024 when it was time to vote. Y'all weren't mad with us when Mr. Chow just got off.

[00:12:04]Y'all weren't mad. Nobody was mad. And now Carmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder for protecting himself.

[00:12:12]I bet you nobody's mad about that.

[00:12:14]See, so now the black Americans are doing what's best for black Americans.

[00:12:19]Don't be mad.

[00:12:21]>> businesses if that's what it takes to wake her community up, more power to them. And I really need Asians to wake the [ __ ] up cuz I'm tired of getting on this app every business week and having some thug [ __ ] that some Asian person is doing to black people. There's so many other things I want to talk about on this app. Domestic violence prevention, mosquito brains cuz that's what I got my PhD in, my writing process and how I write sci-fi novels and how I write yes, the small business that I run because I write the sci-fi novels. But instead no, I always see some Asian doing some model minority stuff and then I feel a moral imperative to talk about it because it ends up in the death of innocent people like Cyrus Carmack Boulton. I am sick of watching our country slide into fascism and watch the Asian vote be split because so many of us want to ally ourselves with our oppressors. And in my personal life, I'm tired of not being able to trust Asian people that I meet because so many of you would throw Asian people under the bus for white acceptance. And on top of that, a number of my friends are black people and I don't want to have anybody in my life who is unsafe for my friends. Model minority Asians are unsafe for Asians to be around as well and they are potentially lethal for black people. I don't want that in my community. Get that out. And if these Asian stores close, like the ones that opened up in black neighborhoods, and then complain about black people being there, and do racist things to them and profile them, let the stores close. Y'all don't deserve to be there. Have some respect.

[00:13:39]I know Asian people love money. So, black people withholding their dollars might actually get through some of your thick >> Boycotting's not enough.

[00:13:48]Boycotting the Asian community is just not enough for me.

[00:13:51]Um honestly, I feel like you need to understand what we're competing against.

[00:13:55]All right. And in order for us to like really crush our competition and let them know that we really don't need them for real, because we don't. And what that video told me was that their business models. They came here and they made great business models that work in our own community.

[00:14:10]>> This is going >> And we haven't figured out how to do that. So, I'm going to take my accounting expertise and bring it to you. So, first of all, we need to understand what we're competing against.

[00:14:21]All right. Now, one person goes over to Asia, they come here, or that one person comes from Asia, they come over here, they work, save money, buy a building, open up a nail salon. They call five of their family members and say, "Hey, nail salon is up and running. You guys come over here, and we're going to start working." Now, this is the one thing we're missing and we don't understand about our competitor.

[00:14:48]They're not going to pay them the same thing that we would expect here in America.

[00:14:54]Why? Because their expectations are different. They're not coming here thinking they're going to make $17 an hour. They're actually okay with making 10. They're not rich. So, their largest expense is now cut in half.

[00:15:05]Not only that, but their business model makes sense for our own black communities, right? And I'll say for the specific communities that that one man was talking about, right? He's talking about low-income communities.

[00:15:17]Let's keep it a band. And the reason it works for us is because their price point is low. Why is their price point low? Because they do high volume.

[00:15:25]High volume meaning there's five different people, maybe six, seven different employees in in there. They can afford to have a to have six, seven, eight employees there because they're only paying them $10 an hour. They do not have to pay them the standard rate of like 17.

[00:15:40]>> It's not about whether or not they can pay them cheaper or anything like that.

[00:15:46]It's really about the fact that the only reason why they do this and it's not that they're smarter than you. It's not that they're wiser than you or anything like that. Their options are limited because they don't have as much opportunity for you. These are not things that their children is looking to take over. They can't speak the language as well. They're not as educated.

[00:16:08]A lot of times people that come over into this country if they're not going into a huge opportunity, they go on the Wall Street or something like that or they're coming to train inside of our universities and they spent the they spent the lifetime saving up so that they could send their children to our universities who pay an extreme amount of tuition and then ultimately they get a good job, those kids go into a different type of lifestyle and job.

[00:16:34]They don't come back and take over the family business. They're not trying to work for that and nothing like that. The business ultimately dies with the parents.

[00:16:41]>> And to anybody else that want to join in but to my black community.

[00:16:46]Don't [ __ ] with them Asians.

[00:16:48]>> I've seen different videos of black Americans saying that the Asian community needs to make it right with the black community because of the 14-year-old black boy that was shot and killed by Mr. Troy, an Asian man, because his case was dismissed and he wasn't charged with murder. Now, I have a question. How has a black community made it right with the Asian community when it comes to cases like Cordell Goosby? Ring a bell? A black man who murdered an Asian woman, Anh a and her unborn baby. She was 8 months pregnant and his case was dismissed.

[00:17:24]This was one out of the hundreds and thousands of Asian hate cases caused by black people. If you all really want to hold other communities accountable, then that same accountability applies to the black community. But we all know that the black community hates accountability.

[00:17:47]>> [music] >> I'm sorry, but I don't like how you're getting up on here mad at that Asian man because he on here calling your [ __ ] bluff.

[00:17:54]>> [music] >> He's not wrong.

[00:17:56]Because you're all the same [ __ ] that couldn't even boycott Walmart and Target when it was needed when they snatched the DMV out of the way. But now when it comes to another minority, oh let's show him, right?

[00:18:06]>> [music] >> You all don't want to boycott the white man, but you're all you're quick to put another [ __ ] minority down.

[00:18:12]That's crazy. And I get what you're all saying, too. I get that.

[00:18:16]Hello, I'm black. I get it.

[00:18:19]>> [music] >> But let's be for real.

[00:18:23]If you're all still shopping at Walmart and Target, you're all still going to be shopping at these Asian places.

[00:18:28]>> Black people talking about boycotting all the Asian restaurants and placing [snorts] the order at the Asian restaurants and not picking up the order, not paying them, and all and boycotting all the Asian businesses and restaurants here in America and all. But here's the thing, do we have to take it this far? Like yeah, I get that Rick Chao was found not guilty for shooting that innocent black boy in the back. But come on now, do you have to take it to this extreme? on, make it make sense and all. Like yeah, we out here protesting and all and we want justice for that little boy and his family and all. But come on now, you don't have to take it to the extreme like not all Asians are like not like racist I mean. Like you can't just sit there put every Asian in the pot and thinking okay one disrespect us they're all racist. No, not all Asians are racist and all.

[00:19:29]Like come on now make it make sense. Now what if it was the other way around?

[00:19:34]What if that black boy was an Asian boy and he walked into a black business and black folks start chasing him and shooting him in the back and all. What if Asians did that to us? Call a soul food restaurant place order and don't pick up and don't pay them black folks.

[00:19:52]Make it make sense it will be an outrage here in America for real and you know that.

[00:19:57]>> Then what?

[00:19:59]Like this is crazy.

[00:20:06]This is crazy. Like how How bold could you be?

[00:20:21]It's like premeditated because it's like we just got the word from the side and the side of the apartment building.

[00:20:29]There's no way you could have done that.

[00:20:31]>> And that there you guys is the prime reason why we need to stand firm in what it is we're doing when it comes to these Asian businesses that are within our communities.

[00:20:42]This type of [ __ ] right here.

[00:20:46]They don't care.

[00:20:47]They don't care.

[00:20:50]They're only in a uproar right now is because they see they see that their [ __ ] is about to blow up. They see the money coming out of their community left and right. They can see it happening.

[00:21:05]They know that they are too dependent on the black dollar for their businesses to thrive, for their businesses to sustain.

[00:21:14]That's why they're so outraged with the with knowing that we are doing a ban of their businesses. Cuz it's not even a boycott. We're not even doing boycott no more. So, let's take boycott out of our vocabulary right now. This is a ban. And a ban means we will no longer we will be no longer engaging with any of their businesses that are within our communities.

[00:21:39]Any of them. This is the [ __ ] right here that tells us they could care less about anything that's going on in society surrounding their their community.

[00:21:51]Because how do we have a business that feels okay to have such a a image on the window of their establishment?

[00:22:04]On the window of their establishment.

[00:22:08]Like this [ __ ] is bold as [ __ ] North Carolina, who owns this business?

[00:22:15]Who owns this business, North Carolina?

[00:22:19]We need to know who owns this business.

[00:22:23]Drop it in the comments if you know who is the owner of this business.

[00:22:27]We need to have a conversation.

[00:22:30]We need to understand what what what what are What was your intention with this?

[00:22:36]Cuz I don't want to hear no [ __ ] about it's a joke. It's a play on a movie.

[00:22:41]What did I think it's a play on um Don't Be a Menace to Society. Uh one of the parodies movies by the Wayans brothers. I believe that's where it comes from.

[00:22:51]Yeah, y'all don't get to play with us like that.

[00:22:55]None of y'all get to play with us like that. See See, y'all y'all gotten too comfortable. And we've allowed y'all to get too comfortable.

[00:23:03]We've allowed y'all to get too comfortable thinking that y'all can play with us because we put it in our music, we put certain things in our music. The imagery that we depict in in in in movies, etc. Y'all think because y'all can consume it that y'all can cosplay and act like you live you you about that life.

[00:23:32]Yeah, y'all, even as a black community, we need to be careful at the type of imagery that we're putting out here.

[00:23:40]Because then we encounter [ __ ] like this, and they're going to easily easily have a way out or a excuse. They're going to be excused.

[00:23:53]Their apology is going to be riddled with I had a lapse in judgment.

[00:23:59]I've consumed this type of, you know, I've supported the black community. I've seen this movie, I've seen that movie. I purchased the music. I paid to go to concerts.

[00:24:12]Because we let them in too freely.

[00:24:15]We let them into our spaces too freely.

[00:24:21]That this is the type of thanks that we get.

[00:24:24]A [ __ ] slap in the face. This is wild. This is insane. If you're in North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina to be exact, who owns this business? Drop it in the comments if y'all are familiar with this business from the Greensboro, North Carolina area.

[00:24:39]And when did that signage go up? When did that that imagery go up on that window? Cuz based off of that that video, it's it's come up recently.

[00:24:48]And to know what is going on in their neighboring state, right above them in South Carolina, or should we right below them in South Carolina, you knew exactly what you were doing when you put that [ __ ] on that window.

[00:25:01]Drop in the comments, y'all, and let's talk about it, cuz we need to know who the owner is of this business and when that [ __ ] went up in that window.

[00:25:08]Let's talk about it.

[00:25:10]>> For decades, economists and marketers have recognized black consumers as a significant force in the American economy. Every year, black Americans contribute hundreds of billions of dollars in purchasing power through retail spending, food purchases, transportation, entertainment, housing, technology, and professional services.

[00:25:34]Companies spend enormous resources trying to understand consumers' behavior because they know every customer matters. The reality is simple. No business in America survives without black dollar. A growing number of black consumers have begun discussing a simple idea that if businesses depend on their money, then where they spend it matters to benefit them. And now, they argue that their community should be intentional about supporting businesses that respect them, investing in entrepreneurs from their own communities, building economic independence, and creating local wealth.

[00:26:12]To them, this is not about anger. It is about strategy and accountability. One lesson repeated throughout business history is that businesses thrive when customers feel valued, respected, appreciated, welcomed, and not threatened. When consumers believe they are being disrespected, ignored, or stereotyped, trust is the one to suffer.

[00:26:36]And once trust is damaged, rebuilding it can be difficult. That's true regardless of race, industries, or location. Now, many Asian business owners understand something and respect is earned, not guaranteed. In today's economy, consumers have more options than ever before. People can choose different stores, different restaurants, different service providers, and different brands. And as a result, businesses constantly compete for loyalty. When spending patterns shift even slightly, owners must pay close attention. What many people are learning from this is that economic influence does not always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like supporting a local business, choosing one store over another, recommending a company to a friend, and investing in community entrepreneurs.

[00:27:32]Small decisions multiplied by millions of people can create significant economic effects. That's why conversations about consumer spending continues gaining much attention online and in reality. Black folks argue that the future is not simply about where money is spent. It is also about ownership. And their conversation increasingly focuses on supporting their black-owned businesses, building wealth, investing in property, and creating jobs for their own children. The goal is long-term economic strength, not short-term reactions. And the ultimate lesson applied to every business owner in America is, no matter who owns the business, no matter who the customers are, success depends on good relationships. People support businesses where they feel welcomed, respected, and appreciated. And in competitive economy, businesses ignore that reality at their own risk. That's one Asian man spoiled everything for the entire community. So, perhaps the biggest story here is not about one community or one business. It is about a growing awareness of economic influence. People are realizing that money is not just something they spend.

[00:28:46]It is something they direct. And where they direct it can shape neighborhoods, businesses, and opportunities for future generations because at the end of the day, every dollar tells a story. Thank you for watching. This is Mercy Realities.