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Black Friday Chicago: A Win for Obama and Rahm Emanuel
Breitbart.com ^ | 27 Nov 2015 | Lee Stranahan

Posted on 11/27/2015 5:34:44 PM PST by Rockitz

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — After a day of protests meant to shut down Black Friday shopping to bring attention to black issues, by 4:30pm local time Michigan Avenue had mostly returned to normal. Traffic had returned to the street and shoppers were out in force, but pockets of activists still remained and continued to block the entrances to business.

As the sun set in Chicago, the reality was still setting in: the Black Friday Shut Down was one of the left’s most successful direct actions in a recent memory. It was disruptive–but it was peaceful. And it was effective.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; chicago; counterproductive; epicfail; illinois; noweveryonehatesthem
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Proved me wrong. I posted earlier that I thought it would regress into Christmas "looting."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3365492/posts

I guess we shamed them into acting out of character.

1 posted on 11/27/2015 5:34:44 PM PST by Rockitz
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To: Rockitz

Looting? On Michigan Avenue in Chicago? That’s a cop beatdown, cell phone cameras or not.


2 posted on 11/27/2015 5:36:35 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Rockitz

Well, I guess the terrorists were right about conducting some kind of terrorist act today. I thought they were just being full of it. Mobs blocking doors to businesses is terrorism. #blackfridaysmatter.


3 posted on 11/27/2015 5:39:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: Rockitz

I would just love to lead a white protest mob into south Chicago to shut down every business, protesting the murders committed every night.


4 posted on 11/27/2015 5:40:24 PM PST by FLCowboy, (Good is the enemy of great)
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To: khenrich

Do it, but pray before the event and have some security.


5 posted on 11/27/2015 5:44:16 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Rockitz

Nothing was achieved but for increasing fear of Black people.


6 posted on 11/27/2015 5:46:49 PM PST by ChiMark (America no more)
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To: Rockitz

It’s one of the few times in the year when the media’s third string gets to get off the bench and beat John Kerry to the best spot in front of the camera.


7 posted on 11/27/2015 5:49:48 PM PST by This_far
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To: Rockitz

RSNA starts Sunday afternoon and they would have squashed them if the protesters got out of hand. The radiologist’s wives and kids come to Chicago to shop for Christmas and many of the company exec’s wives too.


8 posted on 11/27/2015 5:53:15 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Rockitz

You never asked your parents when “children’s day” was?

Looters don’t have a day or a season.

(while they don’t know it, they also don’t have a goal, life or prezzy)


9 posted on 11/27/2015 6:01:24 PM PST by This_far
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To: Rockitz

While I don’t think the Republicans (Trump or Cruz) will win Illinois’ electoral votes next year I think you’ll see a much closer race than anticipated. The backlash is building everywhere across this country and I think the Democrats and the GOPe are going to learn that Richard Nixon was absolutely right when he said a “Silent Majority” exists in America.


10 posted on 11/27/2015 6:01:32 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Rockitz

See that poster ‘Capitalism killed LaQuan’? Hardly— perhaps if LaQueue had a capitalism provided job he wouldn’t have been going around with a knife slashing up stuff or high on PCP and ignoring police warnings to stop.


11 posted on 11/27/2015 6:01:58 PM PST by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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The sign being helg up proclaiming that "Capitalism killed Laquan" is only further proof of their strong desire of returning to the plantation and work for the slave owner.

Is that why they resist self-empowerment so much?

12 posted on 11/27/2015 6:07:00 PM PST by saywhatagain
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To: Rockitz

There was enough thuggery everywhere else to make up for it.


13 posted on 11/27/2015 6:12:00 PM PST by o_1_2_3__
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To: Rockitz

What the BLM mob did, even if peaceful, was to show that they were nothing but street thugs, anti-capitalists, and anti-black/minority worker haters.

I’d like to see the Chicago Tribune (it would have done this in the old days of Bill Kling, their sane liberal column Mike R?, and John Chamberlain), is to see how many black and other minority store workers lost commissions or even pay on Black Friday due to the fact that the protesters scared off potential shoppers.

Oh, they really socked it to the white business elite. Sort of shooting themselves in the foot because they hurt the decent working class and either didn’t consider it important or they ignored them totally (most likely the latter).

Then Jesse The Ambulance Chaser Jackson shows up like E. Coli at a party and says, “Here I am”, to which we say, “Who the hell are you and why should we care that you are here?”

I guess Rev. Charlatan was too busy getting a “free buffet” somewhere else to show his criminal face in ChiTown.

What Chicago saw, besides the liberal/leftist cowardice of its top officials from the Ballerina Mayor Emanuel to the so-called Chef of Police McCarthy and some woman named Alvarez (hey, the BLM people are anti-Hispanic), is that “THE WORKING CLASS DOESN’T MATTER” and that street mobs rule the city.

I haven’t been to Chicago since 1961, and I left it with a very dangerous throat infection which plagued me for decades. Have no plans of ever going back.

If the trash want the city, they can have it. I prefer my Democrat-dominated over-taxed county over the cesspool of murder and crime known Chicago. At least our murder rate is almost nil except for an occasional gangbanger taking out another banger from the next country.

And in my county, we are legally armed (which also accounts for our lower crime rates than, say, Democrat Fairfax County or Prince George’s County, the center of black crime in suburban Maryland’s western side).

Coming to a theater next year, Kurt Russell, recreating his role as Snake Pliskan, in the new film “Escape From Chicago”.


14 posted on 11/27/2015 6:57:29 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Rockitz
#BLACKFRIDAYSMATTER


15 posted on 11/27/2015 6:58:18 PM PST by QT3.14 (Will America rise up when it's too late?)
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To: Ouderkirk

I have attended quite a few RSNA shows in Chicago. Its always on the week after Thanksgiving. Its a huge event. Tradition has it that they held it then so shopping can also be had during the show. Its held at the McCormick Place which is a huge venue. BLM buncha idiots— like those Chicago shoppers had anything to do with LaQuan’s death— another lowlife moron now deceased because he was unwisely stupid.


16 posted on 11/27/2015 7:13:57 PM PST by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: 1rudeboy; TheRightGuy; GOPsterinMA; 1010RD; BillyBoy; hockeyfan44; fieldmarshaldj; Rockitz; ...

At about 2:PM a CATHOLIC PRIEST friend of my mom tried to shop and the thugs wouldn’t let him in the store.

If I were the Governor I’d have had the national guard out there since yesterday in anticipation of this. Maybe some nice jets of freezing cold water to greet any jackhole protester.

The stores lost a bundle I’m sure, loss for Rahm, not a “win” cause it wasn’t even worse.

And screw anyone who roots for looting and violence in Chi, some decent people live here and we don’t appreciate you.


17 posted on 11/27/2015 7:34:06 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Rockitz

I’m in a suburb of Chicago visiting for the holiday and just was watching the 9pm WGN news. They had a live report from in front of a Macy’s store on Michigan ave where these blm’s were flappin their gums. They showed footage of blm’s stopping and shoving a person of Asian decent from entering. The Asian guy was like ‘Macy’s didn’t do anything, I didn’t do anything”. Female blm got all up in his face, calling him a racist.

These blm’s don’t realize how stupid they look.


18 posted on 11/27/2015 7:45:14 PM PST by sjm_888
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To: Impy

The malcontents. Worthless. No respect. Yes - send in the troops.

Then they wonder why no one invests in their neighborhoods (”food desserts”). Why? To put up with their savagery?

A holes that cheer on this type of economic terrorism are bigger aholes than the terrorists themselves.


19 posted on 11/27/2015 8:05:11 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: This_far

“You never asked your parents when “children’s day” was?”

Man, I remember THAT conversation! hahahahah


20 posted on 11/27/2015 8:20:51 PM PST by ransomnote
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