Black residents reject Trader Joe’s because it would attract too many white people

BizPac Review ^ | February 8, 2014 | Cheryl Carpenter Klimek

[Sans-Culotte]

You can’t make this stuff up. Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.

[Vigilanteman]

I like Trader Joe’s. Wish we had one here in Greensburg, PA

[ClearCase_guy]

I've heard a lot about "food deserts" -- areas in cities that have no supermarkets at all. I'm told it's a tragedy, and it's a sign of racism.

The reality is that some neighborhoods just feed on crime and no supermarket can survive in that environment.
Now it appears that the other side of the coin is that the racists who live in such neighborhoods are trying to chase all the white people away, and their food stores as well.

I shed no tears for the so-called "food deserts".

[clintonh8r]

Stupid be as stupid do......

[GeronL]

doubt the “residents” rejected it, it was wacko lefties acting as “community organizers”

[Aria]

oh boy. “We’re miserable and we want to stay that way.” (unless federal tax dollars are sent to appease us).

It’s just hopeless.

I live here, the err...natives in this area are generally very quiet. Their hood isn’t all that bad.

[dfwgator]

Because white liberals know what’s best for the Black Community.

[GeronL]

they want black communities kept poor, it is their gravy train

[oldbrowser]

Minority group leaders have a stake in keeping their community disaffected, miserable and under-served.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Their own worst enemies

[piytar]

It is clear that the race baiters and Marxists consider productivity to be evil. Shock. /spit And they are winning. /shudder

[dfwgator]

“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” - Booker T. Washington

[ClearCase_guy]

Democrats want to help poor folks get checks.
Republicans want to help poor folks get jobs.

A lot of poor folks prefer the Democrat solution.

[Impy]

To me this qualifies as weird news.

[GeronL]

hasn’t that been obvious since the 60’s?

//sarcasm

[Iron Munro]

They found the time to protest against Trader Joe’s by taking a break from complaining about the lack of decent stores to shop in because the racist white run corporations won’t build in the black parts of town.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Sounds like TRADER JOE’S did not grease the palms of the local shakedown crew.

[piytar]

Starving morlochs? I’m OK with that...

[fatnotlazy]

Gee, I thought only white people were racist.