Posted on 06/05/2020 9:46:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
There’s a 6-mile long commercial corridor in South Minneapolis called Lake Street, and it has been destroyed.
“We no longer have pharmacies in our community,” said ZoeAna Martinez, who works for the Lake Street Council, a business association. “We no longer have gas stations as well. Our largest grocery stores are also gone,” Martinez said. “Right now, our community, we live in a food desert, which happened overnight.”
In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, hundreds of businesses have been damaged or burned to the ground. The same has happened in cities around the country.
“Pretty much half of a city block completely burned down Sunday night,” said Bea Rider, interim executive director of the New Kensington Community Development Corp., a neighborhood group in Philadelphia. Pharmacies, bodegas, clothing stores, check-cashing spots — all gone. And these losses hurt certain groups more than others.
“Low-income families who are underbanked, so they rely on check-cashing businesses, they’re definitely feeling a pinch,” Rider said.
Also, people who don’t have cars to drive to an intact store in the suburbs. And seniors who may have trouble getting around and who are more likely to need prescriptions filled.
“This is all in the background as the pandemic is still very much with us, and some businesses had curtailed certain degrees of operation because of that,” said Tabitha Montgomery, executive director of the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association in Minneapolis.
Community groups and churches are trying to fill the gap with donated supplies, but that’s a short-term fix. And Montgomery said she thinks the neighborhood will bear the scars of this moment for decades, even after the stores are rebuilt.
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I think the rioter stole more then enough food. Oh, wait they never thought of food only snacks and TVs’. Sorry.
I have no sympathy for communities where the people who live there destroy them and then complain. But for the last week and a half, I’ve been seeing videos of white kids who obviously do not live in the urban areas they are rioting in. They come in full of the revolutionary BS they’ve been taught all their lives, wreak destruction while wearing their corny masks and then they retreat to the suburbs and the safety of their mom’s house.
No problem - they can just order from Amazon and Grubhub.
The screeching children who threw a big temper tantrum are going to go hungry? They deserve worse.
In other news.....DU-UH!
Bezos could probably use a tax write-off...............
What? Did they eat all that looted food already?
Yup. Even after ponying up half of his fortune to muhcenzee he’s still on track to become the first trillionaire.
They will blame Trump for it all...................
If I was a business destroyed in that area I would not rebuild. If it survived I would be planning on moving somewhere else.
Ungrateful assholes.
It is always a pleasure to provide words of wisdom from our former and beloved President Obama: “Elections have consequences!”
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So does pretending he is a natural born citizen.
Democrats, you own this!
Instant gentrification and riches.
quick, dismantle the police- that’ll solve everything /s
It just means that the suburbs are going to profit off the big city sissies that decided to burn down their convenience.
“Right now, our community, we live in a food desert, which happened overnight.”
That’s because it’s an IQ desert.
They want the taxpayers to build them new homes, etc.
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