Also, the target clientele are near the bottom of the education scale which means they don't read, all part of the dumbing down of America.
She should show the police the threatening letters and emails.
I’ll take ‘100% pure BS because it never happened for $200, Ken.’
Sounds like they don’t do anything to make money.
First of all, HOAX! Second, IF there was any push back AT ALL it had nothing to do with being black owned. The truth is they invented the claims to advance the “cause.”
That was exactly my first thought.
Great for the optics, but it doesn't ring true. It's race baiting pure and simple.
Yep, they are not making money, but instead of admitting that they failed, they made up this “death threat” story to get attention, sympathy, and maybe some more traffic to their going-out-of-business sale or gofundme.
The irony of this fiction is not lost on me.
Certainly smells like Barbara Streisand…
Just wondering aloud how the balance sheets look on this store. Taxes owed, creditors, leveraged mortgage, if the owners started a “GoFundMe” account yet.
You know how virtually 99% of all the “hate crimes” turn out to be hoaxes by the so-called “victims” themselves, this has that same kinda ring to it. Crime ring, that is.
Were they selling anti-tranny books?
Probably had money issues where they were so they are creating a hoax victimhood thing to get attention for their new spot.
Go to the race card when business goes south.
I live in Raleigh and can tell you this is hard to believe. This city is left of center and downtown is a melting pot for sure. I’m guessing they ran into financial problems but blamed the nasty racists for their failure.
“Liberation Station”
Indeed, an uppity leftist hate-whitey indoctrination facility. I would think in NC they were mildly unwelcome, but any death threat was likely a hoax, or another one trying to fake a hate-crime.
From a different article:
“Scott-Miller blamed much of her decision on the police department’s slow reaction to threats against the bookstore.
She said, “I don’t want to speak ill of the police. But there is so much we often have to do to prove our discomfort and lack of safety, and we didn’t want to go through that part. There’s a disconnect in the human experience, in particular the experiences of Black business owners in the city, and that part needs to be addressed. But that’s not something I am going to assign myself to do.””
So, it sounds to me like the police asked her for proof and she didn’t want to go through the hassle of providing it for them...
Opened a bookstore aimed at a certain demographic that makes up 28% of the population of town. While there would be some cross over of people not in that demographic they most likely have reduced their potential customer base to 50% of the town. From that 50%, what percentage are avid enough readers that they would come in more than once a year to buy anything.
Not a sustainable business model. Not closing because of threats, closing because of economics but with a political agenda.
I kinda call “ false flag” on this to cover a failing business
If there are threats, track down the culprits and prosecute them. In this day and age there is no excuse for the threats as reported, nor any excuse for not finding the people responsible. Without that effort, I wonder if this is simply an excuse for a failing business. Maybe racist books don’t sell?
The store is not making any money, so they made this up as an excuse for going out of business.
Looking at the list of collections, "Diaspora Collection", "Neurodivergent Affirming", and "Socio-Economic collection", it is not hard to see why they went out of business. Parents want to raise their children without politics and indoctrination forced on and fought over every decision they make.
Catch up quick: Victoria Scott-Miller and her family were inspired to start their own bookstore after Scott-Miller and her oldest son spent nearly five hours at a major chain bookstore hunting for uplifting books featuring characters of color. They walked away with just five.
That experience inspired Scott-Miller, alongside her husband Duane Miller and two sons, Langston and Emerson, to open a pop-up bookstore out of the trunk of their car to sell books their sons could see themselves in.
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The big picture: Liberation Station joins a growing cohort of Black-owned businesses near the historic Black Main Street, once a thriving hub of Black businesses near the intersection of Salisbury Street and Hargett Street.
Nearby Black-owned stores include clothing boutique Nashone and Black Friday Market.
“This is our love letter to the city of Raleigh,” Scott-Miller said in a release.