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Riots, arson leave Minnesota communities of color devastated(Now, ethnically diverse neighborhoods are grappling with the loss of jobs, services and investments)
Star Tribune ^ | JUNE 2, 2020 | Maya Rao

Posted on 06/04/2020 6:47:35 AM PDT by sickoflibs

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To: Fireone

And Self-Help Books!


61 posted on 06/04/2020 10:12:39 AM PDT by NorthStarOkie (Choose: America used to be a heavenly place. Not so much today. Thank you Madeline Murray O'Hair)
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To: sickoflibs

“Tamay guarded his lifelong dream the first few nights of the riots, but stayed home on Friday night to abide by the curfew, assuming that he had nothing to fear with the National Guard in town.”

There’s a lesson somewhere in there.


62 posted on 06/04/2020 11:29:13 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: dowcaet

I often wonder if even President Trump, a veteran of what is likely the most vicious marketplace in the world (Manhattan real estate), is taken aback by how much suffering the dems are willing to visit upon those whose interests they purport to represent in order to further their political interests. I know I am.


63 posted on 06/04/2020 12:07:56 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (If elected, Biden will be the first President subject to the 25th amendment upon taking office)
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To: sickoflibs
Anyone who rebuilds in one of these hellholes deserves to be burned out again.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

64 posted on 06/05/2020 5:54:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (The mood in the country changed last night - - the 'white guilt card' died.)
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The shutdowns of businesses help fuel these riots, too many people with no jobs.

You've been out in the sun too lone sick...

The last year has had the largest grown in employment for blacks since the beginning of record keeping.

"Jo" didn't help. The thugs burned, looted and rioted anyhow.

What should happen?>

Decent people who owned businesses and cared about their communities need to move out of these democrat hellholes and start over in a Red State.

Thugs and white Antifa can stay and burn down their hellhole every year to celebrate the first burnouts.


65 posted on 06/05/2020 6:01:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (The mood in the country changed last night - - the 'white guilt card' died.)
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The shutdowns of businesses help fuel these riots, too many people with no jobs.

You've been out in the sun too long sick...

The last year has had the largest growth in employment for blacks since the beginning of record keeping.

"Jobs" didn't help.

The thugs burned, looted and rioted anyhow.

What should happen?>

Decent people who owned businesses and cared about their communities need to move out of democrat hellholes and start over in a Red States.

Thugs and white Antifa can stay and burn down their hellholes every year to celebrate the first burnouts.

66 posted on 06/05/2020 6:03:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (The mood in the country changed last night - - the 'white guilt card' died.)
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To: sickoflibs

Some cities freak out over a devastating virus but sit on their hands over devastating morons burning down their city.


67 posted on 06/05/2020 6:08:54 AM PDT by jetson (chiwowa)
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Damn, this article is a rich target...

“There’s the freezer right there; the kitchen was right there,” Tamay said, pointing as he climbed the pile of rubble. “Seventeen years of work is gone.”

I would cheerfully punch in the mouth anyone spouting "non-violent/property crime/let them riot" nonsense. This is a big deal. Most people don't understand small businesses.

A building owned by Latina entrepreneur Maya Santamaria also burned down — and with it, the Spanish language radio station La Raza.

LaRaza would approve.

“Small, minority business owners found themselves with the businesses that they worked their fingers to the bone building destroyed, looted, vandalized and burned down,” Santamaria wrote on a GoFundMe page. “Some had no insurance. Others have no resources.”

For those with a brain, let them think.

Jeff Lusuer empathized with the protesters as he boarded up his West Broadway barbershop, where looters had broken in and stole some supplies. His other barbershop, on Lake Street, burned down amid the riots.

Lusuer said his insurance should cover the losses, and that people have a right to be angry and the protests are a way to get their point across. As a black man, he said, he’s fed up with police too.

If true, why did he feel the need to board up the business?

People of good will(and common sense) of all colors understand the white/black/POC nonsense is a lie. People such as this understand if there's a divide, it's between those who invest 17 years of work in a business, and those who torch it in an evening in the name of 'justice.'

It's a divide between those who build, and those who burn and riot.

68 posted on 06/05/2020 8:02:15 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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RE:”I would cheerfully punch in the mouth anyone spouting “non-violent/property crime/let them riot” nonsense. This is a big deal. Most people don't understand small businesses.”

A more complicated question is if officers should go into a violent situation with a large risk that they will be prosecuted for it.

If they hold off till it's over they can just come in and let parametics pronounce the dead.

69 posted on 06/06/2020 5:43:01 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Joe Biden:"If you don't support me then you ain't black"(explains the polls on blacks and Trump))
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To: sickoflibs

The riots are not helping to reduce racism, they are promoting it. The protesters “outrage” is fake, a pretext to create chaos and loot.


70 posted on 06/06/2020 5:47:03 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: sickoflibs

Action, meet consequence.

L


71 posted on 06/06/2020 5:47:59 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: null and void

Exactly right. Eventually some hard working legal immigrant will open a liquor store that’s sells a few odds and ends that qualify as food. But the only jobs there will be held by immediate family.


72 posted on 06/06/2020 5:52:39 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Dante3; Lurker; gogeo; jetson
You might find this interesting, hundreds of whites on hands up denouncing their white privilege

This is my state MD Montgomery county where illegals are legal.

twitter : hundreds of whites with hands up denouncing their white privilege

Jim Jones stuff.

73 posted on 06/06/2020 5:59:40 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Joe Biden:"If you don't support me then you ain't black"(explains the polls on blacks and Trump))
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“Jim Jones stuff.”

Make some Kool-Aid.

Lots of it.

L


74 posted on 06/06/2020 6:09:10 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: sickoflibs

Sue the protest organizations.


75 posted on 06/06/2020 6:11:48 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: sickoflibs
Good for the Star-Tribune for reporting this.

Agreed. Reasonably well balanced article for a ridiculous newspaper.

But the author needs to take the next step and explain how locals are used as pawns by radical WHITE leftist revolutionaries to accomplish their goals at the expense of these poor folks.

Lib media needs to start connecting the dots OR be complicit in the exploitation of their own readership.

76 posted on 06/06/2020 6:17:06 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: allendale

Do you at all..suppose some don’t vote that way???


77 posted on 06/06/2020 6:19:06 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Mar's isn't a place to raise your kid...)
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To: sickoflibs

I don’t expect them to. I think of it as ‘sheltering in place.’

Police are expected to follow civilian leadership. Citizens get the leadership they elect.


78 posted on 06/06/2020 6:22:48 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: sickoflibs

They broke it, they bought it.


79 posted on 06/06/2020 6:25:14 PM PDT by jersey117
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