Posted on 12/24/2020 1:13:18 PM PST by TigerClaws
The owner of a gas station that was at the center of racial controversy is now selling his business.
Following 66 days of non-stop demonstrations outside the Exxon gas station off Flat Shoals Rd, organizer Joe Jones is pleased that the owner is planning to sell.
“We sent a clear message that we will no longer tolerate disrespect,” Jones said.
Protests started in mid-October after a clerk at the store was caught on camera saying, “I don’t give a [expletive] about the Black neighborhood.”
The store’s owner, Rahim Sivji, apologized and parted ways with the clerk. However, Jones said they continued to protest due to claims of racism and abusive behavior customers reportedly experienced over the years.
“We have to understand our power, the power of dollar, the power of Black economics and we have to be intentional with our spending,” Jones said. “It is a privilege to get Black dollars.”
This week, Sivji and Jones signed a memorandum of understanding in which Sivji agreed to sell the store, with an option for Jones to buy it. As a result, Jones agreed to end demonstrations outside the store while it is on the market.
“They tried to put me out of business,” Sivji said in a phone interview with CBS46.
Sivji called Jones’ tactics “harassment,” adding that he lost between 70-80% of revenue during the protests.
“It got to the point where I’m thinking if I have to save my life or my store, I say the hell with my store, I want to save my life,” he said. “That’s what’s important to me.”
Jones, who is crowdfunding to purchase (Donation Page) the store, said demonstrators wanted to show how relentless they could be in their fight for fair treatment.
This was an effective boycott that led to tangible results,” Jones said. “This is the perfect opportunity to take this situation and try to promote a situation of Black ownership.”
Munir Meghjani, a mediator between the two parties, told CBS46, no matter who becomes the new owner, he will recommend that person sit down with Black community leaders in the area in hopes of preventing a similar situation.
“I think it was a clash of two cultures that have misunderstood each other for a long time,” Meghjani said. “I think a lot of good can come out of this.”
This is why the left gets what it wants and we don’t. Until we make politicians feel like this, then we will continue to be ignored.
Another business that will cease to be. No jobs. No taxes generated.
What a moron
“It’s a privilege to get Black Dollars”???
Who provided those dollars in the first place???
Welfare??
An actual job with a paycheck signed by a white person???
AND——NO ONE THERE TO SELL GAS TO THEM WHEN THEY NEED SOME!!!
This, children, is how you create a “food desert.”
In a sane world this would be prosecuted as blackmail.
Jones sounds like a terrorist turd. Destroy a mans business, then raise funds to buy it.
Legal mafia. Endorsed by the left.
CMoN MaN!
He will run it at a loss for less than a year until selling for twice the price.
But the taxman will have the last time.
Typically gas stations in minority neighborhoods, and elsewhere, are owned by Chaldeans as are most of the party stores since they're the only ones willing to put up with the racial crap in those neighborhoods..
He's smart to sell, and he will be successful wherever he decides to set up shop. As for Joe Jones, if he wishes to purchase the gas station, he's going to get an eye opening education on how well the Chaldean community sticks together. When it comes to gas distribution to the stations, the main distributors are also Chaldeans..........
Mr. Jones will be out of business before he even gets into business..............LOL!
And the black community and their white liberal friends will complain about the food deserts in black neighborhoods.
In a sane world, Paul Howard wouldn’t be the DA.
“...the power of black economics...”
Speechless.
They are not "getting what they want".
It is just irrational destruction.
We cannot get what we want, which is justice and the rule of law, with irrational destruction.
They are like babies throwing tantrums.
“...since they’re the only ones willing to put up with the racial crap in those neighborhoods.”
For some insane reason, soon after they retired, my Aunt and Uncle decided to buy and run a falling-down Dollar Store in a falling down neighborhood.
They lasted about 2 years.
Brian first owned a gas station in Detroit for a number of years and the stories told me of their experiences with the minorities by his sons would curl your hair. That's why he moved out to my suburbs........
Chaldeans are very, very close knit and in the urban areas where they own markets and small party stores, if you're are supplier such as a bread supplier, they won't deal with you unless you are Chaldean.
A close friend of mine was such a bread supplier who was virtually shut off from that market until for whatever reason, he was accepted by that community and his business took off via word of mouth within that community........
A lot of folks here are ignorant of the Chaldean community and assume that all refugees from Iraq are muslim.......They couldn't be more wrong.
A couple years ago here in S.E. Michigan in Sterling Heights, the Muslim community was attempting to build a mosque in Sterling Heights and the mass protest that took place was primarily the resident Chaldeans who had come here from Iraq to get away from the Muslims..........
As a side note, I would suspect that most of the gas stations where you live are owned by Chaldeans also........
Some blacks just like to steal shit they don’t have, people have always felt this way regardless of their heritage. Of course plenty of blacks see racism as the reason someone of non-African heritage owns something.
LeBron James could buy the store but he ain’t stupid
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