Recently in Chicago, a woman received services from an Asian nail salon and tried to leave without paying. Sadly, that happens, but in this case fisticuffs broke out. After reporters arrived on the scene, a local black activist told the business owners to “take your shop back to where you came from.”

Racist, much?

The black activist, Ja’Mal Green, posted the scuffle on his Twitter page, claiming that “Korean workers” (they are Vietnamese) beat up a “mentally challenged woman.” He threatened to descend on the business with “lots of men.” How. . . Klannish of him.

Goodmorning! Yesterday I was made aware of this video by residents and family of this mentally challenged woman who was beat by Korean workers at 604 e 103rd st. This afternoon I will be going up there with lots of men so that they know this will NOT be tolerated! pic.twitter.com/qNIvySBzQ2

— Ja'Mal Green (@JaymalGreen) July 31, 2019

What Green doesn’t say, however, is that this happened because the woman tried to leave without paying her bill. Furthermore, the manager says that the woman threw the first punch at an employee. As Phuong Nguyen said:

“She punched the girl in the face and then hit me too on this side. And my glasses fell off on the ground.”

Things took a turn for the worse when the salon owner, a man, attacked the miscreant and began kicking her. Nguyen said she thought the kicking was wrong, but told reporters that they’re only trying to run a business in the neighborhood.

“We just trying to live here and be part of the community but it seems like, I’ve never experienced this before, it feel a little bit threatened to me.”

But black activist Ja’Mal Green and cronies showed up with words for the Vietnamese salon:

“They should feel threatened by the fact that we going to stop the cash flow going up in there. They need to take their shop back to their own neighborhood. If you can’t respect us when we allow you to be here and make money off us, take your shop back to where you come from.”

Did you catch that? When we allow you to be here. Who the hell is this guy to be a gatekeeper to a neighborhood? You know how some white cities have been accused of keeping blacks from moving in? Ja’Mal Green’s comment about “allowing” Asians to have a business in a black area is just as racist, is it not?

And where to start on the toxic “take your shop back to where you come from”? I guess racist comments only go one way.

In fact, Green even accused a local Fox reporter of trying to “cut his words” to make his comments “racial.” After all, he said, blacks can’t be racist towards “Koreans.”

Let me make this clear @fox32news, be ready for a boycott. @sally_schulze how dare you guys come to the scene & cut words to make it seem like it’s racial. Koreans own half of our communities, blacks can’t be racist towards them. Taking the story away from the beating they gave!

— Ja'Mal Green (@JaymalGreen) August 1, 2019

He also threatened Fox and its reporter on Facebook.

Screenshot, Facebook.

Now this black activist wants to shut down the nail salon.

Shut down Nail Show Design 604 e 103rd st – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/uCJ9TotFHc via @Change

— Ja'Mal Green (@JaymalGreen) August 2, 2019

So who is Ja’Mal Green, and why should anyone care?

In a nutshell, Green is a wannabe Al Sharpton. On his Twitter page, he calls himself a CEO and “Community Organizer.”

“Community Organizer,” huh? Where have we heard that before? Anyway, he’s also appeared on CNN, BBC, Fox, and MSNBC. On Facebook he claims that Ebony magazine called him “the most influential 23 year old of our time.” He also ran for Mayor of Chicago in 2019.

Here’s the young black activist appearing in the friendly confines of MSNBC. He showed utter disdain for the police, and especially then-mayor Rahm Emanuel:

Did you notice at the end of the interview that Green wants economic growth in black neighborhoods? But now he wants to toss out a Vietnamese-run nail salon, which serves a black community, because the owner attacked a thief — yes, a thief — who refused to pay for services. So there may one less business in a poor black neighborhood. One less business to bring in money.

Way to go, idiot.

I hope the Vietnamese people who run the nail salon pull up stakes in that neighborhood. I hope they can find a friendlier area where they can run a successful business. Let Ja’Mal Green and his racist cronies celebrate that empty space where the salon had once been, where no business carries on.

The old adage “poverty causes crime” in neighborhoods doesn’t hold true. What’s true is that crime causes poverty, since successful businesses don’t stay in an area where crime is rampant. And when you add a dollop of racism, don’t expect that ‘hood to thrive.

Featured image: Magalie L’Abbé/flickr/cropped/CC BY-NC 2.0.