Posted on 01/06/2016 5:24:24 AM PST by Kaslin
After seeing what happened in Ferguson and how the local government enabled Baltimore rioters by “giving them space”, why would anyone open a business in an area with a higher chance of being destroyed in a riot?
I could answer the authors assertions as to why but the best answer is because its not profitable to do so unless you like running negative inventory and negative balance sheets.
For major grocery chains its simply not worth it.
In my small town, the only major grocery chain store has no guard and no bars on the window.
I can leave my bike in the shopping cart area inside the store unlocked and go shopping without fear of it getting stolen.
In a high crime neighborhood, you don’t have that sense of security.
And every day life is a struggle.
And if they do, it will look like a fortress with wire mesh screens, cashier cages with plexi-glass panels, razor wire atop the building, and everything in total lock down.
They got tired or being robbed.
A family member owned a store- The mall was 90% white clientele, but 70% of her shoplifting and bad check problems were from blacks. If you are black and offended by this, why?
Since she could not put up a sign saying "NO checks from black people" she just had to put up a sign saying "no checks"- which is how a significant portion of her customers liked to pay. So... business went down.
My formerly flaming liberal family member is now a conservative and worries that she is a racist- I had to tell her that it's not racism if its the truth.
When are the so-called 'black leaders' -who seem to be a lot of "reverends' - NOT talking in their churches about how it is a sin to steal?
As always, blacks are unwilling to take responsibility for their own failings, and blame them on whitey.
Good shot...............
Yet black crime in places like Ferguson and Baltimore is encouraged, if not celebrated, by black "leaders."
Sadly, he is accurate in his descriptions of establishments in the nice or affluent parts of a city and the predominately black, crime riddled parts of the same city. The businesses in nice areas keep stuff outside during non-freezing temps all day and overnight. Plants, displays of non-perishables, herbs, etc. In the crime riddled areas, the only thing seen outside the small convenience stores are cigarette butts, soda cans/bottles, and discarded lottery tickets. I have family members, elderly ones at that, still living in what once was a working-class section of the city. Their house and most houses around them are neat and tidy. The same cannot be said of the neighborhood as a whole. Other family members have begged them to move. They refuse.
Dr. Williams is indeed correct. The myriad of deficiencies in the black community can only be addressed and corrected by those that live there. Everything else is a wasted effort.
bkmk
My town had 4 Winn Dixie stores at one time. After Winn Dixie chain was restructured, we have two, 2 miles away from each other. One is near a housing project is basically there to keep the other , in a prime growth area(annexed into the city limits for that reason),is there to serve the well to do families who pay the lions share of property tax. Long time tax paying residents of this town are SOL left to either drive 10 miles to get to the nicer store or go to a growing choice of discount grocery stores, or the Walmart grocery stores. We had a 79 year old man killed at a discount grocery on mother’s day last year gunned down by a punk who had a monitor device on that should have kept him home under house arrest, had anyone monitored him. Young Black Males and old white citizens the most likely to be killed here. By young black males.
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