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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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Oh, the irony.
1 posted on 07/15/2015 10:11:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They won’t have to worry about looting.


2 posted on 07/15/2015 10:15:47 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One of the job training classes offered will be Looting and Pillaging 101.


3 posted on 07/15/2015 10:17:03 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Husker24
They won’t have to worry about looting.

Depends on whether it has an auto doobie/drank machine. Ferg pharms are tapped out.


4 posted on 07/15/2015 10:19:37 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Imagine being a worker at the first Starbucks in Ferguson. The moment you overdo the latte, or horrors, deliver the wrong coffee to a customer, all hell will break loose. An then again, I could be wrong. I hope so. Maybe those who wish to destroy have left town and since moved up to Baltimore.


5 posted on 07/15/2015 10:20:30 PM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope they are successful. But,,,,,,,,,......


6 posted on 07/15/2015 10:31:27 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: lee martell

People will think that building a jobs center is racist, since it assumes folks in Ferguson need jobs and trying to force them to work.


7 posted on 07/15/2015 10:50:02 PM PDT by lcw7112002
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To: mass55th

The urban ferals don’t need any training in Looting and Pillaging.......it comes natural to ‘em.


8 posted on 07/15/2015 10:50:58 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Husker24

Irony


9 posted on 07/15/2015 10:55:28 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Should be nice and quiet...


11 posted on 07/15/2015 11:09:40 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Before it was looted and burned people had actual JOBS at the Quik Trip.


12 posted on 07/15/2015 11:13:00 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: lcw7112002

I’ve heard cities doing crazier things, like cities with high unemployment planning to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig up and re-locate a Confederate Army Officer, just because!


13 posted on 07/15/2015 11:13:35 PM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s like the entire United States was hit with a giant stupid stick.


14 posted on 07/15/2015 11:35:14 PM PDT by conservativegranny (Cruz 2016)
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To: lcw7112002

Heck, you do not have to even worry about anyone showing up to get trained for a job.

I bet there ain’t 500 in the whole hood that want to work


15 posted on 07/15/2015 11:40:07 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Eagles6
Before it was looted and burned people had actual JOBS at the Quik Trip.

That is so frickin' old fashioned.

Job center is a 2-fer: Fake jobs referred by federal 'bammy bums.


16 posted on 07/15/2015 11:41:24 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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Friend works for Quik-Trip. He told me they had already purposed NOT to rebuild that store after all of that.

I knew it was never coming back. Not that I’m surprised.

I agree, 100%.

Starbucks? Well, we’ll just sit back and wait. The story will write itself.


17 posted on 07/15/2015 11:55:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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“...unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown.”

I don’t suppose it ever occurs to these “journalists”, that when you’re 18 years old, 300+ pounds, and 6+ feet tall, fists count as being armed. Especially against someone sitting in the car and unable to defend themselves hand-to-hand. Or that the presence of Brown’s fingerprint on Wilson’s service weapons tell us Brown wasn’t planning on staying unarmed for very long.

“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.”

Nice gesture, but probably futile in the end. Growing markets and the accompanying private sector demand for labor is what would solve the problem of black unemployment in Ferguson. Pledging a certain number of jobs or whatever is just going to lead to largely make-work jobs that probably won’t be sustainable in the long term.


18 posted on 07/16/2015 12:01:49 AM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You know the scary part???

This will be a job recruiting center for the federal government. This will be where tomorrows bureaucrats will come from. Guess where the person processing your electronic medical database for the federal government will live...They will be in a federal employees union and can never be fired.


19 posted on 07/16/2015 12:26:20 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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Guess where the person processing your electronic medical database for the federal government will live.

No worries, by then there won't be any healthcare, except for elites.


20 posted on 07/16/2015 12:39:46 AM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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