Posted on 07/15/2015 10:11:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A QuikTrip convenience store destroyed during unrest in Ferguson will be rebuilt as a community center. Nearly one year ago, massive demonstrations occurred within the St. Louis suburb and across the nation to protest the death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown. He was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.
The center’s creation was funded by three companies: QuikTrip, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Starbucks. The center’s focus will be on much needed job-training and placement for African-Americans. The Urban League has also pledged to train and find jobs for 500 young people in this area by the end of the summer.
A groundbreaking ceremony occurred last week, but there hasn't been a completion date set.
In St. Louis, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is 9.5 percent compared to 4.8 percent for white residents.
The store served as a symbol of the uprising and racial tension occurring within Ferguson. In August 2014, the building was looted, burned and spray-painted with the words “R.I.P Michael Brown.”
Race relations intensified throughout the country as protests were met with heavily armed police forces. In photographs taken in Ferguson, officers can be seen pointing rifles and firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators.
They won’t have to worry about looting.
One of the job training classes offered will be Looting and Pillaging 101.
Imagine being a worker at the first Starbucks in Ferguson. The moment you overdo the latte, or horrors, deliver the wrong coffee to a customer, all hell will break loose. An then again, I could be wrong. I hope so. Maybe those who wish to destroy have left town and since moved up to Baltimore.
I hope they are successful. But,,,,,,,,,......
People will think that building a jobs center is racist, since it assumes folks in Ferguson need jobs and trying to force them to work.
The urban ferals don’t need any training in Looting and Pillaging.......it comes natural to ‘em.
Irony
Should be nice and quiet...
Before it was looted and burned people had actual JOBS at the Quik Trip.
I’ve heard cities doing crazier things, like cities with high unemployment planning to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig up and re-locate a Confederate Army Officer, just because!
It’s like the entire United States was hit with a giant stupid stick.
Heck, you do not have to even worry about anyone showing up to get trained for a job.
I bet there ain’t 500 in the whole hood that want to work
Friend works for Quik-Trip. He told me they had already purposed NOT to rebuild that store after all of that.
I knew it was never coming back. Not that I’m surprised.
I agree, 100%.
Starbucks? Well, we’ll just sit back and wait. The story will write itself.
“...unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown.”
I don’t suppose it ever occurs to these “journalists”, that when you’re 18 years old, 300+ pounds, and 6+ feet tall, fists count as being armed. Especially against someone sitting in the car and unable to defend themselves hand-to-hand. Or that the presence of Brown’s fingerprint on Wilson’s service weapons tell us Brown wasn’t planning on staying unarmed for very long.
“The center’s creation was funded by three companies: QuikTrip, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Starbucks. The center’s focus will be on much needed job-training and placement for African-Americans.”
Nice gesture, but probably futile in the end. Growing markets and the accompanying private sector demand for labor is what would solve the problem of black unemployment in Ferguson. Pledging a certain number of jobs or whatever is just going to lead to largely make-work jobs that probably won’t be sustainable in the long term.
You know the scary part???
This will be a job recruiting center for the federal government. This will be where tomorrows bureaucrats will come from. Guess where the person processing your electronic medical database for the federal government will live...They will be in a federal employees union and can never be fired.
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