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To: jazusamo

Back in the ‘60s I had a friend who owned a liquor store on 7th Street in NW, Washington DC. He was also an avid hunter whose home was filled with what the taxidermists left of the wildlife he’d hunted, mostly in the Pacific NW.

When the 1968 riots erupted following the assassination of MLK, he took one of his favorite toys down to his liquor store where he hung out behind the counter all weekend as DC burned. His was one of the few business establishments along that corridor that was untouched.


8 posted on 08/15/2011 6:45:33 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

Good for him. You do what you have to do and sadly fewer and fewer people are willing to do it.

In the LA riots in the aftermath of the Rodney King thing the Korean business people came together to protect their interests.


11 posted on 08/15/2011 7:02:39 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: EDINVA

What was it? What was left over? Interesting story, but want a few more details...


18 posted on 08/15/2011 8:17:09 PM PDT by GOPJ (One ring to rule them/one ring to find them/one ring to tax them/and in indebtedness bind them.)
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