Posted on 06/05/2020 4:04:32 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Some of the stories told by local residents offer a personal perspective and make you realize precisely what these neighborhoods have lost. Plenty of people there don’t own their own cars and if you’ve ever tried to take a bus to go grocery shopping, you know what a nightmare that is. These are low-income neighborhoods and not everyone can afford to summon a taxi or an Uber (assuming you can even get one to come to make a pickup). Some people are already waking dozens of city blocks to purchase only as many groceries as they can carry by hand.
This is what came of the “protesting” that was, at least in these neighborhoods, little more than a thinly disguised excuse to loot every business, smash every window and engage in anarchy while literally setting the world on fire. And what did it get them? As one resident interviewed for this report sadly noted, they’ve managed to further drive down their property values and “embarrass themselves.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
“Chicago Riots Wipe Out Most Grocery Sources For Minority Residents...”
They’ve been bitching for years about the “food desert”. It’s going to be the Sahara now.
Maybe Mooch will show up and teach them how to garden.
Maybe Mooch will show up and teach them how to garden.
Maybe Mooch will show up and teach them how to garden.
“Maybe Mooch will show up and teach them how to garden.”
...assuming the Guv lets them buy seeds...
That sums it up nicely.
There's a mass exodus happening from the big cities. My townhome in the far, far, FAR Southwest Suburbs of Chicago goes on the market this weekend. Based on a neighbor's experience, I'm expecting multiple bids over asking price.
I bought this place two years ago, rehabbed it from bottom to top. I'm easily going to get my money out of it.
3 Bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, full finished basement w/wet bar and it's 2400+ Square Feet in an already highly desirable area.
I may save some cash and move in with Laz.
Shows you the intelligence of the protesters.
What do you like better, dogs or cats?
Maybe the NFL can send some food to those communities, they won’t be needing all the stuff they normally feed fans with being as their seats will be nigh empty, social justice and all is their main product as of today and its not due to social distancing (which is likely to occur as another side effect of the riots).
Trubisky will win a SB before the WalMarts and CVSs rebuild torched&looted stores there. Progress!! Under Dem control, what a strategy and agenda collided here.
Maybe the NFL can send some food to those communities, they won’t be needing all the stuff they normally feed fans with being as their seats will be nigh empty, social justice and all is their main product as of today and its not due to social distancing (which is likely to occur as another side effect of the riots).
Trubisky will win a SB before the WalMarts and CVSs rebuild torched&looted stores there. Progress!! Under Dem control, what a strategy and agenda collided here.
Or Mike Bloomberg: “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, to be a farmer. It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”
We are going to be on the hook to pay...
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All those woke whites can pool their Soros money, fill up a convoy of UHauls and deliver it to the Sainted. Haul it out in the hot sun, set up nice tables under canopies and provide shopping bags, too.
I’m sure those who stole cars can offer the grannies and mamas rides home and haul the groceries up the stairs.
55 years ago, as a naive young woman, I helped organize and run a co-op grocery store in a mostly Salvadoran immigrant community. My husband and I worked in that store 3 days a week for free. Over and over, we’d see men from the community walk out of the backroom with caseloads on their shoulders.
I told the chief organizer, a social worker from Syracuse University, that stealing was going on. He was not interested, told me to forget what I saw and said to not do anything about it.
I quit after that. At the time, I didn’t get it, of course. I found out later that the organizer was hired and paid well by labor unions. It was just a commie project, getting young, idealistic whites to sacrifice for immigrants (my own grandparents were immigrants who came here to work hard, learned English and loved America). The real organizers didn’t care that nothing was learned or appreciated. The were just facilitating theft and contempt in pursuit of a constituency and at the expense of the young students and idealists who wanted to *help*.
No entrepreneurship was sought or learned by the target community, which was the ostensible goal. It was a source of free food and extra cash for them. The union organizers provided the seed money.
And this was in a period when the immigrant community consisted of tight-knit families, church-going people and strict codes of proper behavior. There was no welfare, just commodities. Girls would be punished for dressing or behaving like sluts. People learned English and the men had jobs.
Look what that led to.
As opposed to 25 years ago, it’s not so easy for the corporations like Target and Walmart to virtue-signal by accepting the losses in those cities (with shop lifting and lawsuits likely being more costly than even looting), and simply increase their prices to cover those costs - thinking of it simply as a tax for operating in the US.
That’s because Amazon and many, many, similar companies exist. So if Target wants to jack their prices another 10%, they will lose a huge amount business. In fact, it’s very possible that stores are gone for good.
maybe all these companies and celebrities should be donating money to rebuild these stores and then start a chain of stores dedicated to these areas.
Good, I hope they starve.
but then abrams questioned the need for farmers.
Good luck with that!!
mayorette (?) of chiraq is begging walmart and others to stay in the city. wonder why??
In the city in our part of our state (decimated by the 1968 riots), small grocery stores open now and then.
Often they have state and local tax benefits to help them work in the “underserved” area. In one case there were actual state grants as well.
The local newspaper has great headlines about how wonderful it is that a new grocery store is opening in the area.
It takes a few months, but by the time the employees, “customers”, and local gangs are finished with them, the stores look like they have been attacked by a swarm of locusts.
The story about the grocery store closing is always in the back pages.
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