Woke Squad member Ayanna Pressley claims Walgreens is RACIST for closing stores in crime-ridden areas because it is a 'disruptive, life-threatening act of racial and economic discrimination'

UK Daily Mail ^ | 1 February 2024 | JOE HUTCHISON

[dennisw]

Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley has condemned Walgreens for 'racial and economic discrimination' after closing a pharmacy in Boston.

Pressley, a member of the ultra-progressive 'Squad', said the chain was 'abandoning' low-income communities with the most recent closing in Roxbury on Wednesday.

Walgreens announced the closure of several stores nation wide due to what the company has described as 'rampant theft' in some areas.

Pressley said this decision targets areas with significant minority populations, calling for the company to reconsider their decision instead.

In a speech addressing the house, she said: 'This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th.

'Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens.

'Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough.

'Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities.'

Walgreens, which has been one of the chains hit hardest by retail theft, announced its intentions to close roughly 200 stores across the nation last year.

The Walgreens that Pressley had been referring to was the fourth one in Boston to close in a little over a year, according to Boston25 News.

In order to help ease the transition, Walgreens said they would automatically transfer patient files and prescriptions to a Walgreens one mile away.

[drypowder]

analogy; black thugs beat a whitey to death so the whitey is racist for dying.

[dennisw]

She does not have cancer........ Pressley has been diagnosed with alopecia areata. Making her bald.

[antidemoncrat]

Of course it’s racist. Everyone knows businesses should stay open so when the black peoples need something they can just stroll down to the store selling whatever they need and walk of with it free of charge.

[Vendome]

Grow up.

I use to drive 17 miles to get to the grocery store and have a sister who take 45 minutes to get to a gas station before getting to store

[Organic Panic]

Any non black in a black run black majority city would become racist the way things are going in their hoods. Why doesn’t this stupid woman start her own drug store and open it in the hood to show us how it is done in a see of crime and violence.

[thegagline]

It’s racist if you don’t let us rob you, beat you, rape you, kill you.

[Old Yeller]

It’s racists to let blacks take what they want when shoplifting, but if a white person tried it, they would be tackled, tazed and sentenced to 20 years in the pokie.