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North Carolina’s 1st Black-Owned Children’s Bookstore Forced To Shutdown After Receiving Multiple Death Threats
Hollywood Unlocked ^ | Apr 8, 2024 | Jamal Osborne

Posted on 04/09/2024 4:05:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, Liberation Station is being forced to move out of downtown Raleigh after only being open for less than a year.

Liberation Station reportedly opened on Juneteenth last year. The book store is known for hosting events for the community and selling children’s books written and illustrated by Black and underrepresented authors and illustrators. “Unfortunately, we live in a country that has given permission to the nameless and faceless people to make threats and cause harm, emotional harm,” owner Victoria Scott-Miller said.

On Monday, Scott-Miller took to her Instagram to tell her followers that the bookstore will be moving on April 30 after receiving death threats. “Since September, we’ve faced numerous threats following the opening of our store,” Scott-Miller wrote. “Some we brushed off, while others included a disturbing phone call detailing what our son Langston wore when he was at the shop alone.” Scott-Miller runs the store with her husband and 13-year-old son but after receiving those threats they decided to stop working there two weeks ago. “We went away for two weeks just to breathe and process that the thing we had created for good was now attempting to be destroyed and taken away from us in some way,” she said.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: blackliteracy; blackowned; hoax; racism
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Sounds like a hoax to me, why would anyone bother making death threats to this business? Opening a book store is a stupid economic decision IMHO, book stores are closing down because of downloadable books.

Also, the target clientele are near the bottom of the education scale which means they don't read, all part of the dumbing down of America.

1 posted on 04/09/2024 4:05:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Definite BS


2 posted on 04/09/2024 4:10:48 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

sounds like their business was failing, they had no idea how to turn a profit and instead decided to blame it on racism. typical.


3 posted on 04/09/2024 4:10:49 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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Also, the target clientele are near the bottom of the education scale which means they don't read, all part of the dumbing down of America.

So don’t even open the bookstore? Pathetic.

No wonder more black Americans don’t join FR.

4 posted on 04/09/2024 4:13:16 AM PDT by Fury
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’m as guilty as hell. Not once did I patronize that establishment.


5 posted on 04/09/2024 4:14:19 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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This is total BS! Book stores have gone the route of elevator operator. Useless and nonexistent. Maybe they think they’ll make bucks on Go Fund Me


6 posted on 04/09/2024 4:18:20 AM PDT by albie
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Liberation Station reportedly opened on Juneteenth last year.

This seems like the sort of fact that could easily be verified, so why didn't the writer do that?

7 posted on 04/09/2024 4:22:16 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Fury

I agree. This forum gets racist at times.


8 posted on 04/09/2024 4:22:43 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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Exactly! Didn’t the owner notice the business conditions for the other book stores? Dinosaurs


9 posted on 04/09/2024 4:22:56 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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would be interesting to know what type of community events were being hosted and if perhaps the choices of the events children were invited to had more to do with this than providing books to non-readers. Imwtk.


10 posted on 04/09/2024 4:23:28 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star n )
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BULL CRAP!! Smollet Hoax!


11 posted on 04/09/2024 4:24:35 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Exactly.. piss poor idea that didn’t work out so blame it on racism.


12 posted on 04/09/2024 4:29:20 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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The book store is known for hosting events for the community and selling children’s books written and illustrated by Black and underrepresented authors and illustrators.

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This is the issue. This is not a children’s book store. It is a leftist cabal meetings spot
That had some kids books as a front.

Remember all leftists lie and look at the agenda of this lie.

Racism racism racism. Kill whites before you are killed.

That is what you address.

The lies and the hate.


13 posted on 04/09/2024 4:32:00 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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I don’t know if they really were receiving threats or not, and if they were it certainly is ugly, but who opens a bookstore these days? Also, they left their 13yr old son on his on in the store?


14 posted on 04/09/2024 4:33:54 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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Raleigh is a woke liberal hell hole. Total BS.


15 posted on 04/09/2024 4:35:33 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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Bookstores have a very difficult competitor named Amazon. Which is why they are very few and far between now days. Blaming the bookstores demise on racism may bring in lots of sympathy money they squandered on the book business.(Hint… Always look for financial incentives)


16 posted on 04/09/2024 4:35:57 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Bookstore for a very very small market that was failing big time


17 posted on 04/09/2024 4:37:32 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Must be nice to be a race that never has to deal with failure from their own actions. Always someone else’s fault (and usually whitey).


18 posted on 04/09/2024 4:41:23 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Blah blah blah


19 posted on 04/09/2024 4:44:43 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Since Amazon, the bookstore business is next to impossible. These death threats might be coming from her banker and accountant.


20 posted on 04/09/2024 4:45:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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