[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]
You should persuade them to open a lululemon next door.
[quote]Krinks wrote:
[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]
Al sharpton smdh
[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]
The best I’ve seen was a whole foods in an upper class area on a weekday middle of the day, all the hot women who don’t have to work were shopping then.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
[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]
The best I’ve seen was a whole foods in an upper class area on a weekday middle of the day, all the hot women who don’t have to work were shopping then.[/quote]
The whole foods in Irvine, Ca is also top notch, amazingly they have african american shoppers as well.
Amazing. This piece of land will be a liquor store by the end of the year. Anyone with half an ounce of self esteem should get the fuck out of that neighborhood now.
Do these people avoid learning to read because it’s too “white” also? I hope they don’t try to open a library there…there goes the neighborhood!
THANKS OBAMA
[quote]Krinks wrote:
[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]
Yeah, I suppose so. Being a NYer, I’ve watched as Sharpton and Jackson do their best to keep everyone from getting along and thinking rationally. It just blows my mind that the property was undeveloped for years, the construction of the site would create jobs for a “black owned” construction company, the well paying jobs (with 401k’s I believe) would go to people from the surrounding neighborhood (blacks I assume), quality healthy foods will be available at relatively low costs (as TJs is known for), and one group is overly concerned that too many whites from other areas will descend upon the region and mess things up…
Maybe I’m just too open minded, too rationale, and just too used to people of different races, socio-economic statuses, and religions getting along to fully comprehend how it appears that these people have hurt their own. I’m certainly no brilliant economist to understand the finer issues that seem to elude me -lol
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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]Krinks wrote:
[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.
S[/quote]
*** 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]
Yeah, I suppose so. Being a NYer, I’ve watched as Sharpton and Jackson do their best to keep everyone from getting along and thinking rationally. It just blows my mind that the property was undeveloped for years, the construction of the site would create jobs for a “black owned” construction company, the well paying jobs (with 401k’s I believe) would go to people from the surrounding neighborhood (blacks I assume), quality healthy foods will be available at relatively low costs (as TJs is known for), and one group is overly concerned that too many whites from other areas will descend upon the region and mess things up…
Maybe I’m just too open minded, too rationale, and just too used to people of different races, socio-economic statuses, and religions getting along to fully comprehend how it appears that these people have hurt their own. I’m certainly no brilliant economist to understand the finer issues that seem to elude me -lol
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Odd considering that the Fairway in our ~50% white, ~50% Asian town of Douglaston has 99% black workers.
Maybe this isn’t an accurate summary of the situation, but “white people have the rest of the town, why can’t they leave our part alone?” may explain it.
From what I’ve seen of Portland, for whatever racial diversity the city has, it’s not very well integrated.
From an OregonLive article in 2011:
"Portland, already the whitest major city in the country, has become whiter at its core even as surrounding areas have grown more diverse.
[…]
The city core didn’t become whiter simply because lots of white residents moved in, the data show. Nearly 10,000 people of color, mostly African Americans, also moved out.
And those who left didn’t move to nicer areas. Pushed out by gentrification, most settled on the city’s eastern edges, according to the census data, where the sidewalks, grocery stores and parks grow sparse, and access to public transit is limited.
As a result, the part of Portland famous for its livability – for charming shops and easy transit, walkable streets and abundant bike paths – increasingly belongs to affluent whites."
I spent a couple weeks there, and I didn’t see a whole lot of non-white people.
Trader Joes?..hardly.
You want to draw in the whites, open a Chinese buffet.
The best part of this is the opposition leaders don’t even live in the community…ad the lot has sat empty for 15+ years.
Yea for racism!
After all, who loves inexpensive, quality food and good jobs.
I built a Save-A-Lot once in a disadvantaged community as part of the requirement that people on welfare have a place to shop within reasonable distance.
It got ripped up by people with AK-47’s while we built it, and work was delayed 3 times while detectives conducted their murder investigations that occurred overnight.
Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise for Trader Jacks and the people that would have been working there. Some places are empty, and should be with good reason.
Discriminating against white people is ‘OK’, because two wrongs make a right… apparently.
It seems to me all that it does is make white people who are sympathetic to minority issues less sympathetic, and whites who were indifferent into whites who are antagonistic, and whites already antagonistic into white power sympathizers. None of these are productive shifts.
This actually makes sense and isn’t as much of a race issue as people (racists) want to make it.
The community doesn’t want a store like trader joes coming in because it is the beginning of making the neighborhood nicer. First it’s a trader joes then it’s Starbucks and the next thing you know it’s a nice suburban neighborhood with increased property costs that the “locals” may not be able to afford.
The neighborhood, theoretically, would be newer, nicer and more desirable which potentially could drive out the lower income locals. It’s not a race thing as much as it is an economic one.
I get it.
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
The best part of this is the opposition leaders don’t even live in the community…ad the lot has sat empty for 15+ years.
Yea for racism!
After all, who loves inexpensive, quality food and good jobs.[/quote]
What also struck me was the Mayor saying that he was for the Trader Joes, but all of the others (town leaders) weren’t, and the people from TJ’s themselves were very diplomatic (if they don’t want us, we won’t come to town). So you’ve basically got these ‘black leaders’ keeping their own people from what I can only see as an improved situation.
If I’m seeing this incorrectly through my obvious white, middle class perspective, I’d love for someone to explain it to me. I can’t imagine white folks actually moving into town simply because of a decent supermarket, and any commercial traffic to the store can only help things from where I’m sitting…
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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
THANKS OBAMA[/quote]
Cleveland Show?
[quote]gregron wrote:
This actually makes sense and isn’t as much of a race issue as people (racists) want to make it.
The community doesn’t want a store like trader joes coming in because it is the beginning of making the neighborhood nicer. First it’s a trader joes then it’s Starbucks and the next thing you know it’s a nice suburban neighborhood with increased property costs that the “locals” may not be able to afford.
The neighborhood, theoretically, would be newer, nicer and more desirable which potentially could drive out the lower income locals. It’s not a race thing as much as it is an economic one.
I get it.[/quote]
While I can see thinking behind this statement, and again I’m no brilliant economist, I struggle with stores that will bring low cost, quality goods, and plenty of steady decent waged jobs to the area (for ‘the locals’ I suppose)as a bad thing.
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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
This actually makes sense and isn’t as much of a race issue as people (racists) want to make it.
The community doesn’t want a store like trader joes coming in because it is the beginning of making the neighborhood nicer. First it’s a trader joes then it’s Starbucks and the next thing you know it’s a nice suburban neighborhood with increased property costs that the “locals” may not be able to afford.
The neighborhood, theoretically, would be newer, nicer and more desirable which potentially could drive out the lower income locals. It’s not a race thing as much as it is an economic one.
I get it.[/quote]
While I can see thinking behind this statement, and again I’m no brilliant economist, I struggle with stores that will bring low cost, quality goods, and plenty of steady decent waged jobs to the area (for ‘the locals’ I suppose)as a bad thing.
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Not that I agree and think it’s a good idea but I can see where the opposition is coming from.