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Shakedown: BLM Demands Cut of Louisville Business Profits for Protection

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Listed demands from a BLM affiliate in Louisville include racial quotas for staff and ownership of business suppliers, donations to organizations run by non-whites, and adjustment to dress codes. The posters used the acronym “BIPOC” (“black or indigenous persons of color”) as a euphemism for non-white persons:23% of Staff is BIPOC in Front of House
23% of inventory is from BIPOC retailer(s)
Regular donations to BIPOC organization
Dress code policy does not discriminate against BIPOC patrons of employees.


“Repercussions of non-compliance” are listed in the letter:
  • 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 yours 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.
Shakedown: BLM Demands Protection Fees from Louisville Business
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Shakedown.

Racketeering.

Extortion.

BLM Louisville... Black Looting Mafia.

As Leftists are vocabulary challenged...

Definition of loot (Entry 1 of 2)
1 : goods usually of considerable value taken in war : SPOILS
The soldiers helped themselves to any loot that they could find.
2 : something held to resemble goods of value seized in war: such as
a : something appropriated illegally often by force or violence
the thieves' loot
b : illicit gains by public officials
c : MONEY
would not … spend all that loot on her
— Langston Hughes
3 : the action of looting
general loot of church land
— Hilaire Belloc

loot verb
looted; looting; loots
Definition of loot (Entry 2 of 2)
transitive verb
1a : to plunder or sack in war
b : to rob especially on a large scale and usually by violence or corruption
2 : to seize and carry away by force especially in war
intransitive verb
: to engage in robbing or plundering especially in war


Loot | Definition of Loot by Merriam-Webster
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swing_voter said:
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This is where the OP is sourced from:

Louisville Cuban community to rally in support of La Bodeguita de Mima
 
swing_voter said:
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The Left’s usual dodge... in defense of their Thuggish... Mafia-like behavior.

Thanks for posting.
 
Deuce said:
A forum upgrade that automatically notifies users of websites that whine about ad blockers with one of those popups would be awesome.

I'll stop myself before I derail ranting about how internet advertisers obliterated their own revenue stream through obnoxious, intrusive, and downright dangerous advertisement policies.
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Seems the first from The Army of Narrow Minds and Feeble Excuses has begun assembling.
 
swing_voter said:
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So is the story wrong?
 
Is anyone really surprised that BLM is acting like the mob?

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swing_voter said:
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1000 times more accurate than CNN et al
 
zimmer said:
Shakedown.

Racketeering.

Extortion.

BLM Louisville... Black Looting Mafia.

As Leftists are vocabulary challenged...
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Zimbabwe and South Africa were doing rather well until BLM took over, now they are both 4th world ****holes!
 
eohrnberger said:
Is anyone really surprised that BLM is acting like the mob?

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What we are seeing here is the goal of BLM for ALL of America and they WILL accomplish it through force. They need to be arrested and jailed for extortion.
 
Breitbart fail.
 
Fred C Dobbs II said:
Seems they, like the rest of us, never have all the information. Police bodycam footage shows George Floyd arrest in detail | Daily Mail Online
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Of course not.

The video renders a fuller context, one which would call to question the preferred and demanded political narrative from the left, so the media will editorially cast it to the back pages of print publications and the Internet, where only the very few will will find it.

That's simply a matter of course in journalism these days. How far the journalistic standards of previous years have fallen by the way side. 'Divisive politics Uber Alles!' is the rendered standard and behavior anymore.

Try to tell me that you are actually surprised by this. I won't believe it.
 
eohrnberger said:
Of course not.

The video renders a fuller context, one which would call to question the preferred and demanded political narrative from the left, so the media will editorially cast it to the back pages of print publications and the Internet, where only the very few will will find it.

That's simply a matter of course in journalism these days. How far the journalistic standards of previous years have fallen by the way side. 'Divisive politics Uber Alles!' is the rendered standard and behavior anymore.

Try to tell me that you are actually surprised by this. I won't believe it.
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Not surprised at all, or that it was foreign based. Saw it on Tucker but don't expect to see it anywhere else. It should be worth a thread of its own.
 
eohrnberger said:
Of course not.

The video renders a fuller context, one which would call to question the preferred and demanded political narrative from the left, so the media will editorially cast it to the back pages of print publications and the Internet, where only the very few will will find it.

That's simply a matter of course in journalism these days. How far the journalistic standards of previous years have fallen by the way side. 'Divisive politics Uber Alles!' is the rendered standard and behavior anymore.

Try to tell me that you are actually surprised by this. I won't believe it.
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Heeeeeeeres Tucker! Tucker reacts to leaked George Floyd footage: '''Why haven'''t we seen the rest of the video until right now?''' | Fox News
 
swing_voter said:
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Overall, we rate Breitbart Questionable based on extreme right-wing bias, the publication of conspiracy theories and propaganda as well as numerous false claims.
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Country: USA
World Press Freedom Rank: USA 45/180


Breitbart - Media Bias/Fact Check
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And of course, they are learning from the BEST (well really worst), mr. Donald J. Orange, sorry Trump and his shakedown of TikTok and it's owners (as well as microsoft).
 
Peter King said:
And of course, they are learning from the BEST (well really worst), mr. Donald J. Orange, sorry Trump and his shakedown of TikTok and it's owners (as well as microsoft).
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Breitbart is indeed right wing, but the story is also being published by multiple media outlets; So, in my mind the question now becomes is the story accurate, and if so, do you support these demands?
 
Bum said:
Breitbart is indeed right wing, but the story is also being published by multiple media outlets; So, in my mind the question now becomes is the story accurate, and if so, do you support these demands?
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I support the demands. The area the businesses are located in used to be low income housing, until it was demolished. Most of those displaced have not returned. It is only fair that the businesses which profited from that relocation should pay some form of restitution.
 
Irredentist said:
I support the demands. The area the businesses are located in used to be low income housing, until it was demolished. Most of those displaced have not returned. It is only fair that the businesses which profited from that relocation should pay some form of restitution.
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I do not.
 
Peter King said:
And of course, they are learning from the BEST (well really worst), mr. Donald J. Orange, sorry Trump and his shakedown of TikTok and it's owners (as well as microsoft).
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And you show up just to cry about Trump.
 
Irredentist said:
I support the demands. The area the businesses are located in used to be low income housing, until it was demolished. Most of those displaced have not returned. It is only fair that the businesses which profited from that relocation should pay some form of restitution.
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That is not something that the people being threatened with such intimidation and violence, are responsible for.
The demands also force unreasonable stipulations upon those being threatened.

So are you really in support of all of that. In which I mean the demands, the threats and the possible harm that could come from them following through with such threats?

Not to mention the fact that these people are being labeled as racist, for simply saying no to such demands.
 
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