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.
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