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Destroyed QuikTrip in Ferguson to Be Rebuilt as Job Center
Black Entertainment Television ^ | July 14, 2015 | Isabelle Thenor-Louis

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 center’s creation was funded by three companies: QuikTrip, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Starbucks. The center’s 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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Local News
KEYWORDS: ferguson; looting; missouri; riots
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Prediction now: a) it won't work, because people have to be willing to actually work and not suck from the teat of government, and b) next time there's a riot, it too will be looted.

Nobody can help the Gibsmedats. They only want to be more and more dependent.

21 posted on 07/16/2015 12:53:38 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They should call it the

"Ferguson Close No Cigar Job Center"


22 posted on 07/16/2015 1:45:06 AM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


23 posted on 07/16/2015 2:23:36 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Organic Panic

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...


24 posted on 07/16/2015 2:39:14 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: backwoods-engineer

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).


25 posted on 07/16/2015 2:53:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a metaphor-destroy capitalism, replace it with government.


26 posted on 07/16/2015 3:36:37 AM PDT by almcbean
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They should have built a Pillbox.


27 posted on 07/16/2015 3:50:44 AM PDT by WildWeasel
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To: kearnyirish2

We should insist they publicize their “free paternity testing”.


28 posted on 07/16/2015 4:09:36 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The answer is “the Ferguson job site”

The question is, “what is the least visited building inthe city”


29 posted on 07/16/2015 4:12:53 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: billyboy15

“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”.


30 posted on 07/16/2015 4:31:50 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: 867V309

Threefer. The center needs an executive director at $300K/year.


31 posted on 07/16/2015 4:37:24 AM PDT by steve8714 (I love Geico Rick.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Building a vacant building..


32 posted on 07/16/2015 4:38:47 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

As my Oriental friends would say, “Rots of Ruck” with that.


33 posted on 07/16/2015 4:53:58 AM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: DemforBush

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.


34 posted on 07/16/2015 4:54:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: lcw7112002
-- People will think that building a jobs center is racist ... --

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.

35 posted on 07/16/2015 5:03:26 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Echo chamber, you mean....


36 posted on 07/16/2015 5:16:46 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A Negro thug was shot dead, reaching for a policeman’s holstered firearm.


37 posted on 07/16/2015 5:24:37 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: DaveA37

That would be a classic example of a no show job.


38 posted on 07/16/2015 5:26:56 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
... unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown.--

He was unarmed? Why weren't we told about this, before? Another MSM cover-up?

39 posted on 07/16/2015 5:27:42 AM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: JPG

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”.


40 posted on 07/16/2015 5:42:47 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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