I’m a little confused what to think when I read things like this.
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Can a white community stop a business from opening because it will attract too many black to their neighborhood? How would that go over? LOL
Best advice: don’t read the news it will just elevate your cortisol levels. If the news item in question is big enough people will talk and you will hear it from the grapevine. As we know cortisol can hut body fat levels. LOL
It’s Portland, the most backward ass place on the planet. It’s hard to describe how fucking weird that place is unless you’ve lived there. As fucking racist as this whole thing is, I’d bet dollars to donuts that there are WHITE picketers along for the ride. Fuckin’ Portland.
There is the caveat that it’s Portland.
I actually understand the anti-gentrification argument, since it really can lead to a displacement of lower-income households (black or otherwise) as local prices get driven up.
I’m actually interested in how this plays out… does a community have the right to dictate the businesses allowed to operate in it, presuming those businesses operate legally?
Considering Oregon has turned “running and operating a strip club” into a freedom of speech issue – which means Portland has more strip clubs per capita than just about anywhere – I can see this going in a number of different ways.
In contrast, Cleveland found a way to legally force most/all of the strip clubs out of town (the suburb of Brookpark, however, accepted them and their tax revenue).
Not the same thing of course, except in the “the community finds your business undesirable and doesn’t want you to operate here”.
A business can’t say “we don’t accept [insert race]”, but I’m not exactly sure how clear-cut it is for a community to be able to say something like “we don’t want businesses that cater to X”, even if they don’t come out and say it.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
In contrast, Cleveland found a way to legally force most/all of the strip clubs out of town (the suburb of Brookpark, however, accepted them and their tax revenue).
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Wait what? I know I’ve been to one in downtown Cleveland pretty recently, and I hear radio adverts for at least 2 others that are definitely within Cleveland and nowhere near Brookpark. I guess that’s ‘only’ 3 but that’s just what I am aware of.
Total tangent I know.
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
In contrast, Cleveland found a way to legally force most/all of the strip clubs out of town (the suburb of Brookpark, however, accepted them and their tax revenue).
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Wait what? I know I’ve been to one in downtown Cleveland pretty recently, and I hear radio adverts for at least 2 others that are definitely within Cleveland and nowhere near Brookpark. I guess that’s ‘only’ 3 but that’s just what I am aware of.
Total tangent I know.[/quote]
Could be now. I guess things change.
This was around 2001 or 2002 when we met with the city planners in Brookpark for some class project in my Economics class. Us, being in high school, were fascinated with the whole strip club thing, so we got them talking about it for awhile.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
I’m actually interested in how this plays out… does a community have the right to dictate the businesses allowed to operate in it, presuming those businesses operate legally?
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I believe so.
I know a number of high-income communities explicitly prevent stores that would draw lower-income people from setting up shop in their communities.
That’s basically the same thing that’s going on here.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
In contrast, Cleveland found a way to legally force most/all of the strip clubs out of town (the suburb of Brookpark, however, accepted them and their tax revenue).
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Wait what? I know I’ve been to one in downtown Cleveland pretty recently, and I hear radio adverts for at least 2 others that are definitely within Cleveland and nowhere near Brookpark. I guess that’s ‘only’ 3 but that’s just what I am aware of.
Total tangent I know.[/quote]
Could be now. I guess things change.
This was around 2001 or 2002 when we met with the city planners in Brookpark for some class project in my Economics class. Us, being in high school, were fascinated with the whole strip club thing, so we got them talking about it for awhile.[/quote]
Oh damn that’s awhile ago. I’ve never been in the Brookpark area but I did google-fu a bit and see what you mean though, so many clubs.
And here I thought that the nutrition problem of being overfed but undernourished in urban communities was caused by poor selections of healthy fresh foods.
I stand corrected.
Is it possible to have too many white people?
[quote]xboxwarrior wrote:
Is it possible to have too many white people? [/quote]
According to many, yes. Do you live in the USA?
[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
I’m actually interested in how this plays out… does a community have the right to dictate the businesses allowed to operate in it, presuming those businesses operate legally?
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I believe so.
I know a number of high-income communities explicitly prevent stores that would draw lower-income people from setting up shop in their communities.
That’s basically the same thing that’s going on here.[/quote]
How this works is the price on that piece of land is over 2m which is way over priced based on the simple laws of supply and demand and how long its been empty. TJs was only going to open because of a discount of over 75%. Its the discounts which I guess the community has a say over. Its an indirect way of approving what exactly goes there which bypasses simple economics.
I supposed the opposite can be done too by keeping the prices high if the situation was reversed.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
http://benswann.com/black-activitists-and-politicians-force-trader-joes-grocery-out-claim-it-would-attract-too-many-whites/
I’m a little confused what to think when I read things like this.
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*** You shouldn’t be. Blacks and black leaders are the worst racists in America today and they aren’t the least bit shy about it.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
[quote]xboxwarrior wrote:
Is it possible to have too many white people? [/quote]
According to many, yes. Do you live in the USA? [/quote]
Yes I do and I was being sarcastic. Sorry for any confusion.
[quote]xboxwarrior wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
[quote]xboxwarrior wrote:
Is it possible to have too many white people? [/quote]
According to many, yes. Do you live in the USA? [/quote]
Yes I do and I was being sarcastic. Sorry for any confusion.[/quote]
It’s OK. I was joking too, and I got your humor. I was just going along with it. 
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
And here I thought that the nutrition problem of being overfed but undernourished in urban communities was caused by poor selections of healthy fresh foods.
I stand corrected.
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I guess they’ll be ok with a burger king opening up in its place.
A TJ’s finally opened in my town about two years ago and you know what kind of people it seems to attract? Wrong.
It attracts good looking women. Love Trader Joe’s.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
And here I thought that the nutrition problem of being overfed but undernourished in urban communities was caused by poor selections of healthy fresh foods.
I stand corrected.
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I guess they’ll be ok with a burger king opening up in its place.
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I guess they’ll have to be. I mean, who doesn’t want to eat industrial crud products and make $8.00/hr. tops, when the alternative is so gentrified. Eating fresh, healthy food and starting at $14.50 is selling out if I ever heard of it.
Store managers making 6 figures? Probably sticks their pinkies out when doing lat pull downs and should definitely stay in the suburbs.
[quote]on edge wrote:
A TJ’s finally opened in my town about two years ago and you know what kind of people it seems to attract? Wrong.
It attracts good looking women. Love Trader Joe’s.[/quote]
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