In my last post, I said what BLM was doing in Louisville was a RICO violation.
It’s worse than that.
What BLM is doing in Louisville is doing is using a protection racket to arm-twist businesses into participating in a Maoist struggle session.
‘Mafia tactics’ or ‘legitimate’ demands? NuLu businesses respond to protesters
The protesters say business owners in the area have benefited from years of gentrification following the demolition of a public housing complex that displaced many Black families. And they put forth the demands during a demonstration last week, calling on the owners to employ more Black people, purchase more inventory from Black retailers and undergo diversity training.
Phelix Crittenden, an activist who works with Black Lives Matter Louisville, said the demands and related “NuLu social justice health and wellness ratings” were not meant to be a threat but were instead intended to start a conversation with owners about how their businesses can better reflect and support Black people.
Crittenden said several NuLu business owners have volunteered to sign a contract created by the protesters and are open to discussing their roles in gentrification.
But others have expressed anger and an unwillingness to work together, she said.
“How you respond to this is how people will remember you in this moment,” Crittenden said. “You want to be on the right side of justice at all times.”
“The right side of justice” sounds a lot like the “right side of history” argument, which has been used to justify countless atrocities.
It also sounds like a threat and a moving target. It is whatever the protestors say justice is now, however it was defined last week or last year is irrelevant.
The “NuLu social justice health and wellness ratings” are not performed by government, it is an audit conducted by biased activists with a group called BO$$.
These are the signs they demand business owners put up in their windows:
A for Ally.
C for Complicit: “helping to do wrong in some way.”
F for Failed: “ to disappoint the expectations or trust of,” i.e. your business is persona non grata in LuLu.
The code isn’t written anywhere. There is no appeals process. The activists come in, decide if you are being sufficiently obsequious to them, and then slap a sign in your window telling other woke people if they can or cannot patronize your business.
These activists have no right to do this but they are doing it anyway.
BO$$ has a list of NuLu business on its website with their rankings, so anyone can go online and see where they should and should not patron to be on the “side of justice.”
Other businesses have gotten out ahead of this by posting their own struggle session signs in their windows.
This art gallery owner felt the need to grovel and debase herself for something she had no part in and was an overall benefit for Louisville.
This from WLKY:
Reborn public housing projects create safer communities
Jennifer Simmons remembers living in Louisville’s Clarksdale housing project in the 1990s.
“To see a body in the alley was one of the scariest things for me,” she said.
Each revitalization effort required a $20 million federal grant, but supporters say the benefits are safer communities.
“Now, we see all walks of life just walking through, passing by,” Simmons said. “It could be a nice day out, you see people with their pets. It’s just really good to see an environment with someone walking in the street without them getting robbed or any of that stuff.”
WLKY obtained crime data for Liberty Green and Park Duvalle, a public housing community built on the former sites of the Cotter and Lang public housing projects.
There have been no homicides in Liberty Green in the past three years and only one at Park Duvalle.
At one point, Clarksville was the most dangerous, crime-filled neighborhood in Louisville. The revitalization by the city literally saved lives.
Business owners who moved in after the city revitalized the area are helping create a decent place to live and work, but these activists are tormenting them as gentrifiers. The alternative is a violent slum, but that’s what the activists seem to want, as that is what they have created elsewhere (see Portland and Seattle).
Activists should not be allowed to do this to businesses, but they are getting away with it.
For activists to think that they have to authority to rank businesses and demand Danegeld and that they have the power to kill businesses is obscene.
They need to be charged with RICO violations by the federal government.
That, or the next time some activist demands a business owner post an F rating in his window, the business owner blows the activist the fuck away with a scattergun.
I’ll accept either one.
To quote Bono: “Fook the revolution”.
Messing with Cuban Exiles? That used to be a very bad idea. That was where our CIA recruited a lot of hard men for hard jobs in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
“Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.”
Fidel Castro.
October 1956
Sadly, he’s correct, at least according to the current liberal arts environment in many US colleges and universities. (I think I’ll stop using “institutes of higher learning.”)
Demand? DEMAND?
How about this? How about shopowners start greeting these lowlifes with firearms, clubs, knives, and any other weapon, and make it CLEAR to these lowlife grifters that further attempts will end in -fatalities-.
Do the same thing, but opposite intent.
Post a notice that you have an A because you employ 77% white people, and you purchase 77% of your supplies from white businesses. Make the poster look exactly the same, so that unless you get really close you cannot tell.
It is exactly the same thing, isn’t it? If 23% of your employees are POCs, that means 77% are white.
What of you are a specialty retailer or restaurant?
A Kosher Deli? Sushi bar? Imported chocolatier? Western wear? Tea shop?
How many BIPOC suppliers are there for Swiss chocolate, pickled herring, or beaver pelt cowboy hat bodies?
What if you have less than four storefront employees? A fine art dealer may only have one or two people working. I’ve been in plenty of art galleries or small retailers that have only one employee out front.
These demands can’t apply to a lot of business, the mob clearly would destroy those businesses without consideration.
What if you are a sole proprietor business? Maybe you and your spouse run the business by yourselves?
Should you divorce your spouse and marry someone of the correct skin persuasion?
On your first point (sole proprietor or mom/pop shop), you didn’t build that yourselves, you need to give back to the community that supported you and hire the correct demographic of workers, whether you need the help or not.
On your second point (divorce and marry the “correct” melanin content person), don’t tempt them. Marrying within your relative skin tone will be a sure sign of racism unless you’re black or brown. Heaven help you if you’re white and live in an area that’s 92+% white — like many middle- and upper-Midwest states — and your prospects are essentially zero; most people choose to marry within their race regardless of what their race is.
Then again, having nobody politically-correct to marry will certainly lower white birth rates … which is a “happy” side-effect, I’m sure.
“BO$$” strikes me more of a gang culture thing than revolutionary. Either way, string ’em up.
Make sure to look at the “REPERCUSSIONS of NON-COMPLIANCE” section in the PDF:
Failure to accept and adhere to this contract will result in the following measures:
* Reduction in Racial Index Score/bias report to the Better Business Bureau.
* Social Media Blast: Notification, via all social media platforms, of non-compliance.
* Boycott: Public boycott. coordinated through social media and mail announcements, of your NuLu establishment AND any other business ventures owned by you.
* Protest: Visible, media-covered demonstration/sit-in outside your establishment.
* Invasive Reclamation: Placement of booths/tables outside your establishment where competing Black proprietors will offer items comparable to those offered by you.
It’s mildly amusing that the signs use the language, “shall remain posted for public notice”, as if they carry any legal weight.
But enough business owners will believe it — or be intimidated by it — that they’ll dutifully keep the placards up.
The question is, how long before bribes and “protection payments” are demanded to keep the ‘A’?
“How long”? The answer is “right now”. Read the criteria, right on that placard — “regular donations to BIPOC organizations”. Whatever a bipoc may be…
Use of that phrase is cargo cult legalism. They see it used, assume its mere presence makes it happen.
ANOTHER example of Domestic Terrorism…
But too many seem to be ignoring that fact.
Look up Domestic Terrorism Definition.
They are using “Peacefull Protestor” to hide what they are.,
Tell me HOW this whole thing isn’t Domestic Terrorism.
US politicians, Corporations, MSM thay are ALL guilty of supporting Domestic Terrorism.
Domestic Terrorism, This is what all this is and needs to be the “conversation”
In case anyone needs a reference, the “domestic terrorism” is in 18 U.S.C. 2331, section 5, and reads:
All of BLM’s and Antifa’s recent “peaceful protest” activities meet this definition.
Relatedly, the throwing of modified fireworks (a.k.a. IEDs) at/into the federal courthouse in Portland meet the definition of 18 U.S.C. 2332f — “Bombings of places of public use, government facilities, public transportation systems and infrastructure facilities” — and is punishable by “imprison[ment] for any term of years or for life, and if death results [from the crime], shall be punished by death or imprison[ment] for any term of years or for life.”
We’ll see if the local U.S. Attorney Billy Williams gets the go-ahead to press such charges.
With the news that Democrats during an election “wargame” decided to call for secession if Trump wins, I think it’s fair to call them enemies of the United States. Every executive who gave money to BLM should be on trial for treason.
And Democrats seceeding after losing an election? I think we’ve heard that one before.
Yep. “back to the plantation you go!”
And the Louisville Urban League has declared the Cubans are “racist” for objecting.
Good Lord – why don’t these clowns slap up a “Judenfrei” sign next to it while they’re there. they’re anti-semitic enough and I’m certain any Jews working there would result in a violation. But these are the idiots claiming Trump is the fascist…
Some may be idiots, but the people controlling this and funding it aren’t. They are evil people with evil intentions. The important questions are (1) who are they, (2) what precisely are their intentions?