We used to have a local neighborhod market that was picked over by shoplifters from the nearby projects - they left
The another one came, and hired security guards - and got accused of racism for challenging yoots with stuffed hoodies and big fat mama’s with strollers laden with stolen goods
They closed the market - now we have a “food desert”
That is the core of the problem: too many excuses for behavior that is just plain wrong by any rational societal standards.Theft ,robbery, and murder are wrongs,no matter the color of the criminal’s skin.
The exact same thing happened here. The civil rights leaders around here say this is just one of the discriminatory hardships that Black people 'must' endure.
Then they go on to show (on TV) women with small children 'having to' ride the city busses to a White neighborhoods to get 'affordable' food.
It is the teenage sons of these same women who have run the businesses out of their neighborhoods with the robberies, stealing and random violence.
It's a joke.
That’s right. Government pollutes the inner cities with family-busting welfare programs, crappy schools, the War on Drugs, and public housing, and then wonders why supermarkets flee the resulting war zone.
“We used to have a local neighborhod market that was picked over by shoplifters from the nearby projects - they left
The another one came, and hired security guards - and got accused of racism for challenging yoots with stuffed hoodies and big fat mama’s with strollers laden with stolen goods
They closed the market - now we have a “food desert””
Until they finally got booted by “urban renewel” the cities around here used to have mom/pop “grocery” stores in the bad areas. These places sold beer, bum win, cigarettes, a few canned goods and had a butcher shops that sold pork, chicken and ground beef only.