Posted on 04/30/2015 3:15:11 PM PDT by njslim
A Colorado heating and cooling company was caught refusing to do business in a Denver neighborhood because residents there are "colored people" and "they don't pay their bills," according to an undercover investigation by Fox affiliate KDVR.
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I’m sure many, if not most, black business owners would agree, at least to some degree. They may not admit it openly.
Water already is in Detroit.
If you can be forced to bake a wedding cake for a perverse ritual of abomination, you can be forced to do business with people who do not pay!
The article doesn’t say how many veterans live in Montbello or whether they have trouble finding another heating and cooling company.
There’s companies that won’t operate in places because of racial lawsuits from potential employees or new employees.
If black people don’t pay their bills. Black people don’t pay their bills. That does not sound racist to me.
It would be racist if: “I’m not serving that neighborhood because they are colored.” instead of “I’m not serving that neighborhood because the colored people don’t pay their bills.”
Sounds like fact to me.
You got it. MLK blvd runs right through Montebello. It is a really bad neighborhood. I used to flip wrenches in the area.
Time to over-regulate Big AC!!
Where in the body of the article was the phrase “colored people” attributed to an owner or employee? They referenced the neighborhood as a ghetto.
Does no one on this thread even know what the word racism means?
It means judging others primarily by their race. That is a liberal trait.
Some of you are not conservatives. Pure and simple.
Good for them. Maybe instead of investigating why a legitimate company won’t service deadbeats, this “journalist” should be investigating why deadbeats expect people to work for them for nothing.
I think the “don’t pay their bills” part is the real reason
Exhibit 1: Ferguson, MO
Exhibit 2: Baltimore, MD
Is that like HVAC stamps?
Ice people need A/C. Those from lower latitudes should be OK with just a fan. Problem solved.
Back during the Carter years, I was trying to sell Real Estate. The company I worked for had converted an apartment building on Van Aken Blvd., in Shaker Heights, to condos. Very nice condos! I sat there every day, showing them to people. One day a Black couple came in, and looked around, and asaked prices on two certain units. Two hours late a White couple came in and asked about the same two units, and the prices. Prices were the same for both couples. We were desperate to sell these units.
A couple months later, in comes the Black couple again, and two hours later, the same White couple. They were obviously from the govt. trying to catch us charging more to Blacks.
Two months later, same deal. I had had it with them wasting my time, but I bit my tongue.
Then a fourth time, and I let loose! I couldn’t believe they didn’t realize they were dealing over and over with me! I guess all Real Estate salesmen look alike? I told them I knew what they were doing, and that I was done with their wasting my time. They’d found nothing to complain about, and I told them not to come back without a mortgage agreement. Never saw them again.
Carter? Mortgage rates were over 20%. I went broke and had to leave the family business and work night shift in a machine shop to try and pay off my bills.
No it doesn’t. MLK Blvd. ends where it runs into the old Stapleton Int. Airport property at its eastern most point. Montbello is about five miles northeast of that. I grew up in a neighborhood about a mile south of where Montbello was built seperated by I-70. It was dangerous to go there in ‘74.
...course not
Re: I’m sure many, if not most, black business owners would agree, at least to some degree. They may not admit it openly.
That of course would be largely limited to transactions requiring regular monthly payments.
Technically you are correct. The boundaries are the same but the blight has spread. The jungle is much bigger now.
MLK Blvd. runs west from Stapleton through black neighborhoods that are much older than Montbello which was built on property annexed by Denver for tract homes specifically built for blacks. It was an intentionally built ghetto for all practical purposes.
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