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Kind of a nice message but I don't like that this reinforces expectations that going to a barber shop run by a different race is "strange".
Black barbershop are different because black people generally have tight curly hair, which requires different skills and techniques to cut than straight hair.
They are also seats of culture in a way that your local Supercuts isn't.
Americans still feel it's weird, while I grew up with almost only Turkish barbershops in the Netherlands and here it's mostly Indians. The only barbershop I went to in the US was a black barbershop and it was fully worth it. Biggest difference is that they take the time for you, you can have a nice chat etc. Definitely a lot more expensive than in Europe though.
Nowadays I am bald and don't go to any barber shop. But in my younger days I felt that I got better results at a barber who has a lot of customers with similar hair as mine. I am turkish (living in Germany), but (used to) have thin blond hair. So, while I also went to turkish barbers, I chose those who have many German customers.
Tl,dr: This isn't necessarily based in rasism imo.