“...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........