Black-Owned Feminine Care Company is Attacked Over Target Commercial

Last month, Target released a new campaign for Black History Month highlighting entrepreneurs and how their businesses got started. One of those entrepreneurs was Bea Dixon, owner of the Honey Pot, who wanted to empower her community, specifically other black women, to own their businesses as well. Unfortunately, the move triggered some fragile trolls online.

Dixon started the Honey Pot when she found out she had contracted bacterial vaginosis which left her ill for months. She was interested in natural remedies that could help her with her ailment. She shared that she had an ancestor visit her in a dream who offered a vision of what would heal her: plant-based solutions consisting of herbs and botanicals. The idea was to help other women heal using holistic, natural ingredients.

She appeared on a recent commercial for Target to tell her story. “The reason why it’s so important for Honey Pot to do well is so that the next black girl that comes up with a great idea, she can have a better opportunity. That means a lot to me,” she said in the commercial.

Unfortunately, not everyone was thrilled about Dixon’s desire to help young black girls. Many white female shoppers expressed their anger in negative comments online, leaving 1-star reviews to diminish her brand reputation.

“Denoting products as being about/for one particular race is just wrong. I will not purchase any of these products. This should be for all women. What are you telling young girls of any other race?” said one angry reviewer.

“I received a bottle of one of the honey pot cleansers in my BUMP box subscription my husband bought for me during my pregnancy, I thought the product was just alright… then I saw the commercial where the founder of the company stated that it’s to empower black women- not ALL women, only black women… it made me feel that the company is not only racist but small minded and not worth purchasing, I will tell all my friends and anyone who asks that the products are not worth purchasing… very disappointed in the company and founder,” said another reviewer.

In an effort to combat the wave of negativity, many of Dixon’s supporters fought back, leaving positive reviews of their own experiences with her products.

“All those one star reviews can stay mad that this product isn’t for them. It’s probably not for me either but it deserves to be rated fairly by the beautiful and powerful black women it was made for,” said one review.

“The negative comments only prove the point that no one wants black women to succeed. As if saying I hope this inspires other black girls excludes white women who literally have to do nothing and are rewarded for it. The jealously jumped out quick,” said another.

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Meet the 27-Year-Old Millionaire Who Saves 80% of His Income

Todd Baldwin is a 27-year-old millionaire who saves 80% of his income a year and refuses to spend his money on restaurants and the movies, CNBC reports.

Baldwin brings in roughly $615,000 ($305,000 after business expenses) thanks to a few streams of income from rental properties, his day job working in commercial insurance sales, and the extra income he makes as a secret shopper. The majority of his revenue comes from the six rental properties that he owns with his wife, Angela. They earn $460,000 per year in rent. After expenses, including mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, and utilities, they keep about $150,000 of that per year.

“Although our net worth is seven figures, we don’t do a lot of the typical things that most people envision millionaires doing. We are super frugal,” Baldwin said. The millennial millionaire refuses to spend money on entertainment, he told CNBC Make It, “but only because I know how to get paid for that.” Baldwin is a “secret shopper” who gets paid for dining out, going grocery shopping, seeing movies, and even visiting hotels and casinos.

Being a mystery shopper, the exact amount you earn per outing will vary. Most companies pay a flat rate between $5 and $25. You’ll spend another 30 minutes to an hour writing your report for the company you shopped for, according to realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com.

Baldwin has made about $30,000 since he started mystery shopping years ago in college. The surveys he fills out after the experience aren’t too time-consuming. For that reason, he has a hard time justifying spending money at movies and restaurants. “If a buddy wants to go to a bar or someone wants to go see a movie, I usually try to wait until I can get a mystery shop,” he says, “because if you’re going to go there anyway, you might as well get it for free and get paid on the top.”

In a world where most people make spontaneous purchases, Baldwin’s frugal spending habits are a smart move. According to Entrepreneur.com, three of the main reasons that millionaires go broke or bankrupt are they didn’t have several streams of income, they made pricey or emotional purchases, and they didn’t track their spending.

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Black-Owned Feminine Care Company is Attacked Over Target Commercial

Last month, Target released a new campaign for Black History Month highlighting entrepreneurs and how their businesses got started. One of those entrepreneurs was Bea Dixon, owner of the Honey Pot, who wanted to empower her community, specifically other black women, to own their businesses as well. Unfortunately, the move triggered some fragile trolls online.

Dixon started the Honey Pot when she found out she had contracted bacterial vaginosis which left her ill for months. She was interested in natural remedies that could help her with her ailment. She shared that she had an ancestor visit her in a dream who offered a vision of what would heal her: plant-based solutions consisting of herbs and botanicals. The idea was to help other women heal using holistic, natural ingredients.

She appeared on a recent commercial for Target to tell her story. “The reason why it’s so important for Honey Pot to do well is so that the next black girl that comes up with a great idea, she can have a better opportunity. That means a lot to me,” she said in the commercial.

Unfortunately, not everyone was thrilled about Dixon’s desire to help young black girls. Many white female shoppers expressed their anger in negative comments online, leaving 1-star reviews to diminish her brand reputation.

“Denoting products as being about/for one particular race is just wrong. I will not purchase any of these products. This should be for all women. What are you telling young girls of any other race?” said one angry reviewer.

“I received a bottle of one of the honey pot cleansers in my BUMP box subscription my husband bought for me during my pregnancy, I thought the product was just alright… then I saw the commercial where the founder of the company stated that it’s to empower black women- not ALL women, only black women… it made me feel that the company is not only racist but small minded and not worth purchasing, I will tell all my friends and anyone who asks that the products are not worth purchasing… very disappointed in the company and founder,” said another reviewer.

In an effort to combat the wave of negativity, many of Dixon’s supporters fought back, leaving positive reviews of their own experiences with her products.

“All those one star reviews can stay mad that this product isn’t for them. It’s probably not for me either but it deserves to be rated fairly by the beautiful and powerful black women it was made for,” said one review.

“The negative comments only prove the point that no one wants black women to succeed. As if saying I hope this inspires other black girls excludes white women who literally have to do nothing and are rewarded for it. The jealously jumped out quick,” said another.

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‘The Proud Family’ reboot confirms more original cast members, headed to Disney+

Disney has confirmed that it’s bringing a reboot of its beloved animated series The Proud Family to its streaming service, Disney + and it will feature a LOT of the original cast members.

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is already in production and will include its original star, Kyla Pratt as the voice of Penny Proud. Tommy Davidson (Oscar Proud), Paula Jai Parker (Trudy Parker Proud), and Jo Marie Payton (Suga Mama) will also reprise their roles from the original Disney Channel series that ran from 2001 to 2005.

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Soleil Moon Frye (Zoey), Karen Malina White (Dijonay), and Cedric the Entertainer (Uncle Bobby) will return as well.

“In our minds, the show never really went away, as we still had tons of stories left to tell. It’s the perfect time to bring back this show, and we can’t wait to take fans, old and new alike, on this journey with us,” executive producers Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar said in a statement.

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Back in August, Tommy Davidson first tipped us off that a reboot of The Proud Family was in the works. He told @WhereIsTheBuzzTV that Disney+ would revive the series, but then we didn’t hear anything further for three whole months. Davidson played Oscar Proud on the show.

The show was created by Bruce W. Smith, and was one of only a few animated series at the time to feature an animated, middle-class Black family as main characters.

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NYPD drags sleeping Black couple off train after mistaking them for suspects

A New York couple was enjoying an innocent date night when authorities forcibly removed them from the subway in what has now been confirmed as a case of mistaken identity.

In a video filmed by passenger Neely Grobani, who then posted it on Twitter, the unidentified duo was seen pleading with police officers as they were dragged out of the train car.

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“We all wondered what was going on as about 15 cops stood on one side the closed doors and we all sat on the other,” wrote Grobani wrote in the accompanying tweet. “As soon as the doors opened, the cops rushed in and grabbed the young man I was sitting across from. They grabbed his girlfriend as soon as she tried to follow him to figure out what was going on.”

According to the NY Post, authorities received a 911 call of a man with a gun responding officers swarmed the Brooklyn subway believing they’d found someone who matched his description.

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— Neely Grobani (@Neelstarr) February 24, 2020

“Get off of me! Get the f–k off of me!” the distraught woman can be heard screaming, at one point inquiring as to why they were bothering her date.

“‪It became really clear that whatever they were looking for was not on this couple,” the witness recalled while speaking to PIX11. “It was stressful and I wasn’t sure what I could do in that situation — and the one thing I could do was film it, so I did.”

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She also pointed out that the man and woman were actually taking a nap together in their seats before the NYPD stormed the train car, and woke them up with no context.

‪“The fact that they were looking for something and there were people on the train, they could’ve asked: ‘Did anyone see something?’ They didn’t engage at all. It was upsetting and concerning to me,” Grobani said.

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