Posted on 07/15/2015 10:11:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A QuikTrip convenience store destroyed during unrest in Ferguson will be rebuilt as a community center. Nearly one year ago, massive demonstrations occurred within the St. Louis suburb and across the nation to protest the death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown. He was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.
The centers creation was funded by three companies: QuikTrip, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Starbucks. The centers focus will be on much needed job-training and placement for African-Americans. The Urban League has also pledged to train and find jobs for 500 young people in this area by the end of the summer.
A groundbreaking ceremony occurred last week, but there hasn't been a completion date set.
In St. Louis, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is 9.5 percent compared to 4.8 percent for white residents.
The store served as a symbol of the uprising and racial tension occurring within Ferguson. In August 2014, the building was looted, burned and spray-painted with the words R.I.P Michael Brown.
Race relations intensified throughout the country as protests were met with heavily armed police forces. In photographs taken in Ferguson, officers can be seen pointing rifles and firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators.
Nobody can help the Gibsmedats. They only want to be more and more dependent.
They should call it the
What an appropriate replacement for the capitalist pig who kept his foot on the face of the masses by selling them stuff for a profit. A job center will go a long way to heal things but there won’t be any place to get the jobs with the employers unfortunately burned down.
It says it will be a “community center”; it will be ground zero for gibsmedat activism. The only jobs here will be those signing up felonious & dead voters...
It will fail because anyone who wants to work would never live anywhere so many people who don’t can gather so quickly (and steal everything in sight).
What a metaphor-destroy capitalism, replace it with government.
They should have built a Pillbox.
We should insist they publicize their “free paternity testing”.
The answer is “the Ferguson job site”
The question is, “what is the least visited building inthe city”
“Destroyed QuikTrip in Ferguson to Be Rebuilt as Job Center”....
Why not give those who destroyed it “jobs” (without pay) so they can learn a trade and become productive society instead of their staying street rats and gimmedats? Actual “on the job training”.
Threefer. The center needs an executive director at $300K/year.
Building a vacant building..
As my Oriental friends would say, “Rots of Ruck” with that.
Silicon Valley is in the midst of its biggest job boom ever. They should teach them codin’ n stuff. They’ll be in big demand with their excellent STEM abilities.
Not all job centers (whatever that is) are racist, but this one is.
The center's focus will be on much needed job-training and placement for African-Americans.
Echo chamber, you mean....
A Negro thug was shot dead, reaching for a policeman’s holstered firearm.
That would be a classic example of a no show job.
He was unarmed? Why weren't we told about this, before? Another MSM cover-up?
What a bad joke...these ferals don’t want “jobs”...they want your stuff for free. Unless they are training these degenerate losers to be civil and civilized, they will never get “jobs”.
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