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Louisville Businesses Threatened: Cave To ‘Demands’ For Racial Reparations Or Get Bad Online Reviews
Daily Wire ^ | Jul 31, 2020 | Ryan Saavedra

Posted on 07/31/2020 3:12:17 PM PDT by Mount Athos

Businesses and non-profits in the East Market District of downtown Louisville, also referred to as NuLu (New Louisville), have received letters from left-wing activists demanding that they give in to a list of racial reparations or face having their businesses get negative reviews online.

The activists “sent out a three-page contract to NuLu businesses following Friday’s protest where LMPD says 76 protesters were arrested and charged with obstructing a highway and disorderly conduct,” WAVE 3 News reported. “Some also picked up assault charges, accused of throwing bottles at police officers.”

WDRB News reported that the “demands came with a deadline of Aug. 17, or else protesters would respond by launching negative reviews and social media posts about the businesses.”

Local residents that reached out to The Daily Wire were stunned that the story was not receiving more attention in the local media and did not want to be identified because they feared “mob retaliation.” One person said that they felt that this was “criminal extortion.”

“The residents of Louisville, Kentucky are standing strong, educated, and together to express the destruction your business has caused to low-income communities, specifically those with majority black residents,” the letter begins. “We therefore demand representation and reparations in the NuLu business district of Louisville for the gentrification that has taken place. The policies and processes of the revitalization on NuLu has displaced marginalized people from homes their families have often resided for generations, single-handedly progressing the gentrification of black neighborhoods.”

“This process has been happening to black, indigenous, and persons of color at the hands of white, heterosexual patriarchy since the inception of this nation we call home. Black folx [sic] can’t ‘have this own space’ when wealthy white folks see an opportunity to make more money,” the letter continues. “Gentrification is a palatable term that sugar coats one more aspect of an oppressive system targeted at black folx [sic] for 400 years. We are here today to demand representation over tokenism.”

The letter then lists eight “demands,” which include:

Businesses will adequately represent the black population of Louisville by having a minimum of 23% black staff (including management) in front of house positions, and maintain commitment and accountability to increasing that number (accountability roundtable information below).

Retail locations will include a minimum of 23% inventory of black retailers OR make a recurring monthly donation of 1.5% of net sales to black local organizations. Business owners will require diversity, equity, & inclusion training for their staffs, to be conducted by any one of the black women leaders on the attached list. Training will be conducted thereafter on a bi-annual basis.

Customize your own OR display one of the attached written statements in a viable location within your business to increase awareness and show support for the reparations movement.

Non-profits in NuLu district will submit to a voluntary, external audit of their board of trustees and take necessary steps towards 23% representation on those boards.

Business owners & non-profit leaders will participate in quarterly roundtable discussions to be held accountable for their communities to these demands, and work together towards increased equity.

Maintain adequate black representation in any entertainment and performances booked at your business. Dress code policies inherently discriminate against black folks, women, and the transgender community.

You must eliminate dress code policies that promote profiling towards patrons and employees, including their hair requirements or stipulations, which can disproportionately target black folks.

23% black representation on the board of the NuLu Business Association.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blackmobsmatter; blm; extortion; nfac; rico
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1 posted on 07/31/2020 3:12:17 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Extortion?


2 posted on 07/31/2020 3:13:10 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: rbg81

It is extortion. Find them and charge them.

Ever single one.

L


3 posted on 07/31/2020 3:15:15 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Mount Athos

This is 21st century mafia tactics.


4 posted on 07/31/2020 3:15:31 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: rbg81

Just like the politicians in DC. It’s a protection racket, and that’s why there are lobbyists.


5 posted on 07/31/2020 3:16:18 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ― Yogi Berra)
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To: Mount Athos
Somewhere in the list of demands there is a demand to remove beauty items from under lock and key.

Shoplifting Made Easy 101.

6 posted on 07/31/2020 3:16:52 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: Mount Athos

Racial Reparations is Code for Toilet


7 posted on 07/31/2020 3:18:03 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mount Athos

Seems like there needs to be signs on businesses’ doors, “No blacks Allowed”


8 posted on 07/31/2020 3:18:19 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Mount Athos

Or just close down and move out.


9 posted on 07/31/2020 3:18:37 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: Lurker

Calling Bill Barr, you there?


10 posted on 07/31/2020 3:20:25 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Lurker

Nice place ya got here...be a shame if something was
to happen to it...

That in fact is all this is!


11 posted on 07/31/2020 3:20:26 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Mount Athos

Blacks owe Whites everything , especially how to live in a civil manner.

Without Whites there would be no civilization, or modern inventions, or Laws or progress.

End of story.


12 posted on 07/31/2020 3:20:28 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (eeWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: tet68

The people making these threats have addresses.

I’m just saying.

L


14 posted on 07/31/2020 3:22:54 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Mount Athos

Seems illegal somehow. But hey if you have a “friendly” LEFTIST DA you can get away with anything.

Selective enforcement of the law is tyranny.


15 posted on 07/31/2020 3:23:00 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Mount Athos
There is precedent for that little game.

Several people have been sued successfully for giving bad reviews.

The last thing Louisville needs now is more businesses joining those who have packed up, shook the dust and said, Bye, to downtown. Pandemic, quarantine, riots, months of being without customers, and the elected idiots city and state are too frightened to set things aright. Vote Democrat and die.

16 posted on 07/31/2020 3:23:13 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Mount Athos

RICO


17 posted on 07/31/2020 3:23:35 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: rbg81

Absolutely.


18 posted on 07/31/2020 3:26:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Mount Athos

Extortion and racketeering (RICO).


19 posted on 07/31/2020 3:26:13 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Sam Gamgee

Who knows?


20 posted on 07/31/2020 3:27:01 PM PDT by sport
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