Racism? Or Market Forces?

You know the answer already, I'm sure

Black women are facing an 'afro tax' on hair products

Either The Metro is rapidly become an incredibly woke news site, or it always was and I just never read enough Metro stuff to notice

If it's not trans loons they're defending, it's black people they're making up racism for 

You know when faced with that headline, that nobody has actually put an 'Afro Tax' on any hair products. You'd think with the current obsession with 'Misinformation', news sites could actually get it trouble for bare faced lies, but apparently not

You probably also know that it's a non-story, and not even worth reading. Let's take a look:

Phillippa, has loosely coiled hair[...] says she could easily spend £45 in one hair shop while looking for appropriate care products.

Particularly now, while the cost of living hangs heavy, this disparity between what Black and white women are spending on their hair is stark 

Phillippa believes there’s ‘not enough variety’ in mainstream shops, which means she has to fork out on higher priced products. Her friends feel the same too.

Over a third of Black women go to specialist shops to get what they need, and nearly half say the top hair care brands on the market don’t suit textured kinky or curly hair.

Mori, a 31-year-old Black woman, says: ‘I spend far more than I’d like to – easily £60.

‘I constantly feel neglected and ignored by the beauty industry, and it’s hard to access the right products due to where I live.’

Afro hair products can be up to 70% more expensive, which is a steep jump.

Ok, that's enough

So black people hair products are more expensive than white people products? Why is this? Although the article doesn't actually use the words, it is heavily implied that the hair care industry (Big Hair?) is systemically racist and the only reason hair products for black people are more expensive, is because Big Hair hates blacks

As usual, the truth is hiding in plain sight, right there in the article

Black adult women in the UK account for 10% of hair care spending –

I feel an epiphany coming on

although they make up only 2% of the UK adult population. 

What is the one common denominator between niche products that are only purchased by a tiny percentage of the population?

They're more expensive

I would invite any of these women to start their own hair care business and see if they can do better