I remember when the city of Inglewood in SoCal - (black area) defeated a Walmart - the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton flew in to help defeat it (at the behest of local unions, etc.). The area was already a “food desert” - and for good reason.
That store would have created 1,000 jobs along with peripheral businesses, which were already in the process of being contracted, there was LOTS of interest.
Walmart also upgraded a local park with plans for more as a condition of moving into the area.
Walmart was defeated - the next day I heard the mayor on Larry Elder’s show - he was so angry he could hardly speak. Said it will remain a great inconvenience for residence to shop for food, all the grocery stores had closed after the Rodney King riots.
My guess is it the store HAD been built, it would now be on that map of store closures. It’s legal (misdemeanor but security and cops won’t go after them), after all, in California, to steal up to $950 a day in merchandise from retail businesses.
“I remember when the city of Inglewood in SoCal - (black area) defeated a Walmart - the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton flew in to help defeat it (at the behest of local unions, etc.). The area was already a “food desert” - and for good reason.”
Jackson and Sharpton are colorful people for the media and have a monopoly on representing blacks, according to the Left...so they’re the ones on the news.
The people who you will NOT see are the black grandmothers who are forced to take a 30 minute bus ride to buy a quart of milk. The media cares about them as much as they care about the Ukrainians who get picked up off the streets in Kiev to be cannon fodder for Russian artillery - nothing about them in the West, only our puppet, Zelensky.
And speaking of buses in that part of California, they used to be pretty good...until the Left rotted out that system to build their shiny trains - again, those same grandmothers were nowhere to be seen.