Black Community Rejects Trader Joe’s Store Because it Would Attract Too Many Whites

[Sdiver]

Yep, I would say racism is alive and well in the US, due in large part by that stuttering, big eared git, currently taking up/wasting space in the W.H.

Black Community Rejects Trader Joe’s Store Because it Would Attract Too Many Whites

PORTLAND, Ore., February 7, 2014– According to local media outlet, The Oregonian (Highlighted by the Associated Press), African American activists and politicians forced the Trader Joe’s grocery chain to drop their plans for a new store in a predominately black community because the store would “increase the desirability of the neighborhood,” for “non-oppressed populations.”

The Portland Development Commission offered a substantial discount to the grocery chain for a two acre parcel of land that appraised for $2.9 million. The land, which sat undeveloped for years, was offered to the chain for $500,000 in an attempt to bring high paying jobs and prosperity to the neighborhood. The construction project, which was to include a two large anchor buildings and 10 retail shops, was promised to an African American owned construction company. The Portland African American Leadership Forum, along with the Mayor Charlie Hales, sent letters to Portland Development Commission citing that they were “contributing to the destructive impact of gentrification and displacement of the African American community.” They also said that they would remain opposed to all development of the land that doesn’t solely benefit African Americans.

http://www.libertynews.com/2014/02/b...o-many-whites/

[ddoering]

That's pretty short-sited of them. Think of all the people they could have robbed, cars they could have jacked, and logs they could have sucker punched......

[orion5]

The Portland Development Commission offered a substantial discount to the grocery chain for a two acre parcel of land that appraised for $2.9 million. The land, which sat undeveloped for years, was offered to the chain for $500,000 in an attempt to bring high paying jobs and prosperity to the neighborhood.

I love how the land sat vacant for years, now they have a bird in hand, they not only strangle the bird, they shit on it, then call a press conference to explain how/why they strangled and shit on it.

[mojaveman]

They don't have to worry about this white boy because I've never liked Trader Joe's anyway. I do my grocerie shopping at Stater Brothers or Albertson's.

[Mills]

Originally Posted by ddoering

That's pretty short-sited of them. Think of all the people they could have robbed, cars they could have jacked, and logs they could have sucker punched......

I mean really, especially in that part of the united states................as the percentage of persons that are carrying firearms are between slim and none.

[Dusty]

lol "The Great Unifier"

[Richard]

Seems a bit more complicated than summarized by Liberty News.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...to_pull_o.html

Richard

[PRB]

No matter what the initial reasoning for being pro/con it is still only about skin color.
As long as that is a denominator it is without merit.

[Peregrino]

So the community activists will slit their own throats for "affordable housing"? If it were anyplace around here, the locals who actually live in the area - not the outsiders agitating against gentrification (read "dilution of their power base") - would be vocally opposed to affordable housing because they know what comes with it. Don't know about the Left Coast but around here that usually means Section 8 Housing, crime, drugs, and a further precipitous slide towards anarchy. A vacant lot is safer/smarter.

ETA: I've always appreciated the irony involved in blacks and progressives applauding blacks moving from (fleeing) black neighborhoods for suburbia (white neighborhoods) but those same black (and progressive) leaders protesting the inverse, i.e. "gentrification" of black neighborhoods (white influx - amazing how the word chosen to describe it is "gentrification").

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Peregrino

So the community activists will slit their own throats for "affordable housing"? .........

Nope, the activists didn't have a dog in the fight. They all lived outside the impact area.

The people impacted by it wanted a store and the other shops it would bring.

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by ddoering

That's pretty short-sited of them. Think of all the people they could have robbed, cars they could have jacked, and logs they could have sucker punched......

LOLOLOLOL

[cbtengr]

"The King neighborhood was already changing. Nearly three-fourths of the community was African-American in 1990, according to U.S. Census figures. By 2010, only a quarter of the area’s residents were African-American."

So where did these people go and why did they go? The troublemakers make their living by keeping the people oppressed, no oppressed people no reason for agitators. Jesse and Al owe all they have to the oppressed.

[Remington Raidr]

Originally Posted by cbtengr

"The King neighborhood was already changing. Nearly three-fourths of the community was African-American in 1990, according to U.S. Census figures. By 2010, only a quarter of the area’s residents were African-American."

So where did these people go and why did they go? The troublemakers make their living by keeping the people oppressed, no oppressed people no reason for agitators. Jesse and Al owe all they have to the oppressed.

The article Richard referenced says the opposition states they were "forcibly removed".

What we have here is a failure to provide gubmit freebies to make a deal work.

Hey, it IS Oregon. Relax and spark up a fat choom, bro.

[Oldrotorhead]

Originally Posted by Richard

Seems a bit more complicated than summarized by Liberty News.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...to_pull_o.html

Richard

Yes, the development was at a stand-still. That didn’t erase the decades of displacement or bring affordable housing to the neighborhood.

The activists said they will continue working on a plan to bring African Americans and other low-income people who had been “forcibly removed” back to the inner city. Their group still wants the development commission, the city’s economic-development arm, to build affordable housing on the property.

If I understand this they want a bigger tax drain and lower standards in the area? Well that is a great idea.

[Lan]

Having worked construction off MLK in NE Portland, and having lived in NW Portland, I can't say I blame the black community, honestly. Gentrification is one thing, letting NW'ers move in is another