Ferguson Protesters: Rebuild Our Looted Businesses, Or There Will Be Hell to Pay

[mrclose]

This should be the start of another very long Ferguson thread!

(Video at link)

Now local Ferguson residents are warning officials to rebuild the businesses, “Or, there’s gonna be hell to pay.”

CBS interviewed three young men in Ferguson, Missouri this week.
One protester Gunny warned officials:

“To be honest, if they don’t come and restore these neighborhoods for these people, like when you gotta go travel miles to Walmart and to get gas and stuff like that, it should be right here. If they don’t restore this community for people who stay here it’s gonna be hell to pay…

A second protester chimed in:

Yeah, that’s why people looting, because they can’t get no jobs.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/ferguson-protesters-rebuild-our-quiktrip-or-there-will-be-hell-to-pay-video/

[ExGeeEye]

I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the many great contributions of the Black community and their culture to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture.Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real Estate values are fueled by the influx of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation. Absolutely, it is imperative that businesses go into these communities and provide jobs, goods and services to these wonderful people. 

[mrclose]

^^^^^^I demand a /sarc tag after that!^^^^^^
 

[thundley4]

Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture.Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people

Many of their problems can be traced back to the liberal democrats convincing blacks that they are victims of white people.

[BlueStateSaint]

I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the many great contributions of the Black community and their culture to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture.Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real Estate values are fueled by the influx of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation. Absolutely, it is imperative that businesses go into these communities and provide jobs, goods and services to these wonderful people.

 

H5 duly given!

[Wineslob]

DO NOT give Obumbles speech ideas!

[Gina]

I don't replace my son's toys when he pitches a fit and breaks them and I surely ain't giving a bunch of low life dipshits new stuff either.  Take care of it yourself you low life's.

[JohnnyReb]

Poor dears, they have to carjack a ride and drive 5 miles to shoplift at WAL-MART.

[RayRaytheSBS]

So let me get this straight... People who let their friends from Saint Louis come to their town and damn near burn it to the ground are surprised when businesses are not wanting to rebuild in their neighborhood... And are threatening that there will be hell to pay if they don't rebuild in a high risk environment where they will have to worry about theft and robbery on a daily basis?

Can they not hear how stupid that sounds? If I was a business from there, the riots would have convinced me to either move my business away, or just close up shop for good. No one will want to rebuild in an environment where they have to worry about all those unnecessary risks.

All I can say is wow... just wow...

[SVPete]

The conspiracy-theory mindset of those guys is what holds them back. "They" must rebuild the businesses! "They" must set things up so black youth get the jobs! If those guys and their friend want a better life, they should become "They". They should: take their $$, and buy a burned out business; hire all those ready-to-work black youths to do the clean-up and rebuild; use their $$ to equip and stock the business; hire some of those ready-to-work black youths to staff their business.

Were they to do so: they would learn that running a business is not waving a magic wand to print $$; they would learn how many of their neighborhood youth really are ready and willing to work; if they were successful, there are folks in their neighborhood and nearby who would gladly punish them for their success.

Despite that gloomy prospect, Ferguson people becoming "They" is the best hope for that city not becoming a Hellhole like Detroit, Watts, South Central LA and Oak Park Sacramento. There is no way corporations (large or small) are going to invest $$ in a community that riots and loots businesses. Individual owners of businesses are going to find: insurance companies are reluctant to insure a business in a neighborhood that riots and loots businesses (or charge 2 arms and 3 legs to do so); suppliers are reluctant to sell their goods and send their delivery people into a neighborhood that ...

[BlueStateSaint]

The conspiracy-theory mindset of those guys is what holds them back. "They" must rebuild the businesses! "They" must set things up so black youth get the jobs! If those guys and their friend want a better life, they should become "They". They should: take their $$, and buy a burned out business; hire all those ready-to-work black youths to do the clean-up and rebuild; use their $$ to equip and stock the business; hire some of those ready-to-work black youths to staff their business.

Were they to do so: they would learn that running a business is not waving a magic wand to print $$; they would learn how many of their neighborhood youth really are ready and willing to work; if they were successful, there are folks in their neighborhood and nearby who would gladly punish them for their success.

Despite that gloomy prospect, Ferguson people becoming "They" is the best hope for that city not becoming a Hellhole like Detroit, Watts, South Central LA and Oak Park Sacramento. There is no way corporations (large or small) are going to invest $$ in a community that riots and loots businesses. Individual owners of businesses are going to find: insurance companies are reluctant to insure a business in a neighborhood that riots and loots businesses (or charge 2 arms and 3 legs to do so); suppliers are reluctant to sell their goods and send their delivery people into a neighborhood that ...

It seems that "they" need to learn this lesson the hard way.

[SVPete]

It seems that "they" need to learn this lesson the hard way.

The histories of Detroit, Watts, Oak Park, and South Central suggest to me that the street-level victimologists in the St. Louis area are unlikely to learn much of anything good from this.

[Wineslob]

Damn, it's gonna be hard to get blunts down there.

[JohnnyReb]

Damn, it's gonna be hard to get blunts down there.

They will walk a mile for a camel blunt.

[thundley4]

There was a story about a local store there, where the owner is having to buy from stores outside the area and pay retail prices, because he won't take the risk of totally restocking his shelves until this problem passes.