Some stores had signs that said they were BLACK OWNED.
Made no difference.
People wanted to simply get even and they didn’t care whom they hurt.
If I may post an excerpt from Frank Zappa’s “Trouble every Day” from 1966 as it is still relevant today:
Well, I seen the fires burnin’
And the local people turnin’
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite ‘em
And they say it served ‘em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it’s the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin’ “You can’t understand me!”
‘N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don’t appeal to him
(No matter if it’s black or white)
Because he’s out for blood tonight
Owning a business is a white thing. The owners were obviously Uncle Toms. /s