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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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.
Definite BS
sounds like their business was failing, they had no idea how to turn a profit and instead decided to blame it on racism. typical.
So don’t even open the bookstore? Pathetic.
No wonder more black Americans don’t join FR.
I’m as guilty as hell. Not once did I patronize that establishment.
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
This seems like the sort of fact that could easily be verified, so why didn't the writer do that?
I agree. This forum gets racist at times.
Exactly! Didn’t the owner notice the business conditions for the other book stores? Dinosaurs
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.
BULL CRAP!! Smollet Hoax!
Exactly.. piss poor idea that didn’t work out so blame it on racism.
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.
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?
Raleigh is a woke liberal hell hole. Total BS.
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)
Bookstore for a very very small market that was failing big time
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).
Blah blah blah
Since Amazon, the bookstore business is next to impossible. These death threats might be coming from her banker and accountant.
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