Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. Black-owned businesses at George Floyd Square are experiencing financial collapse. Did anyone doubt this would occur?
Let’s run the tape back a bit and replay the approach to that fateful day in May 2020:
The community had grown older, become less polished, was perhaps slightly weathered on the edges. The police presence was not well supported or appreciated. People with a greater amount of disposable income chose elsewhere to shop. The nicer businesses moved out in greater numbers. Liquor and illicit drugs became a large percentage commodity and public drunkenness and being stoned in public became second nature. Throw in open prostitution and gambling, as well as a greatly reduced police presence because they had long become seen as a threat to people’s livelihood and lifestyle, and the community democrat leadership ordered them to maintain a low profile.
By this point what had been allowed to become rampant was a witches cauldron that exploded that day when George Floyd jumped into the boiling pot and chose to combat the disrespected and hated police rather than succumb to a quiet arrest. Today the altercation sight is a memorial, police have abandoned the area, and a dangerous autonomous zone where crime has spiked and business evaporated is what remains.
Will other democrat led cities and towns heed the apparent lesson here? Or will America continue to experience similar decay and death?
The black-owned businesses near the intersection where George Floyd died last May are pleading for help after suffering from plummeting revenue and skyrocketing crime.
Black-owned establishments near the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, which once thrived, have had to resort to a GoFundMe page after police have abandoned the area, which has since become “a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spike and business evaporate,” according to the New York Post.
“38th and Chicago, recently renamed George Floyd Square, has always been home to some of Minnesota’s most burgeoning Black businesses,” the GoFundMe page reads. “This intersection has been home to a thriving Black, community and cultural corridor. However, since May 25th, its reputation has evolved and will now forever be connected to the memory of George Perry Floyd Jr. and the subsequent destruction of our city that followed.”
“In the fight for justice we must not forget the fight of economic justice of (a) once-thriving community,” the page added. “We business owners know that the fight for justice doesn’t just include justice from the legal system, we must also include justice for business impacted.”
“The city left me in danger,” the owner of the Smoke In The Pit restaurant told the Post on Thursday, who asked to be identified as Alexander W. out of fear of retribution. “They locked us up on here and left us behind.”
“They left me with no food, no water, nothing to eat,” he said. “The police, fire trucks, can’t come in here.”
As the New York Post reported:
On Thursday the intersection was essentially abandoned — save for the occasional gawker who posed for photos in front of a mural outside Cup Foods, the convenience store where Floyd allegedly passed a counterfeit $20 bill.
At least five stores along one block are shuttered. Owners and workers at most of the stores that do remain open were too afraid to comment to The Post.
“Look around, things are empty,” said Richard Roberts, who works at the nearby Worldwide Outreach for Christ church. “What can we do about it?”
“Sometimes it’s good and sometimes bad,” Roberts said. “It’s not stopping violence.”
A sign near the entrance to the “autonomous zone” calls the area a “Sacred Space for Community, Public Grief, and Protest,” according to Fox News reporter Matt Finn, who took a photo of the flier listing guidelines for visitors. The sign “urges visitors to ‘honor the space as a place to connect and grieve as caring humans,’” but notes that white people visiting the memorial should abide by a more restrictive set of rules.
White people are asked to “decenter” and “come to listen, learn, mourn, and witness.”
“Remember you are here to support, not to be supported,” the sign says.
Additionally, white people must “contribute to the energy of the space, rather than drain it” and bring their own “processing” to “other white folk” so as not to further endanger or “harm BIPOC.” They must also “be mindful” of whether their “volume, pace, and movements” are “undermining” their efforts to “decentralize.”
What say you Def-Con News readers? We’re being pushed and directed where to go and what to think. I say we humble white folks are long over due taking back our great nation. How much further down the rabbit hole will we be pushed? President Trump you are missed, sir.
