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   From: d@ray   
      
   Following the death of George Floyd, America’s major corporations united to   
   provide moral and financial support to Black Lives Matter rioters in the   
   name of racial equity.   
      
   In June 2020, Target announced $10 million dollars to support various   
   minority racial causes. Walmart earmarked $100 million to a “Center for   
   Racial Equity,” dispersed as donations to fund Non-Governmental   
   Organizations that preach racism against white people as well as demonize   
   local law enforcement. Home Depot provided $1 million dollars to the   
   Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, an organization that   
   weaponizes civil law to silence news publications and intimidate   
   individuals who engage in criticism of black grievance activists.   
      
   As we approach the third anniversary of the beginning of the capitalist   
   financed race revolution, society-wrecking CEOs and shareholders are now   
   reaping what they sow.   
      
   According to data compiled by the National Federation of Retailers (NFR),   
   theft and fraud amounted to a loss of $61.7 billion dollars in 2019.   
   Following the changes in how states police black people in 2020, the NFR   
   reports that this figure ballooned to $90.8 billion and then $94.5 billion   
   in 2021. David Johnston, an NFR representative, has told the financial   
   press that 2023 numbers are going to be even higher. Target has projected   
   that 2023 will cost the company $1.3 billion in shrink, up from $800   
   million last year.   
      
   The poorly paid work of retail has also become more dangerous. At Home   
   Depot, which positions staff members at exits to check customer receipts as   
   a theft deterrent, employees are regularly assaulted and killed by   
   shoplifters leaving with carts full of stolen merchandise. Customers at   
   high traffic stores like Walmart are also routinely injured and murdered,   
   especially when indignant shoppers make the mistake of intervening against   
   thieves.   
      
   Several cashiers at Family Dollars, Dollar Tree and Dollar General, which   
   attract higher rates of minority clientele and are usually severely   
   understaffed as a cost-cutting strategy, have been butchered with machetes,   
   stabbed, and shot in recent months. In 2023, operating a checkout counter   
   at a dollar store has become a highly hazardous work environment.   
      
   The most shocking aspect of this crime wave is that business owners have   
   been siding with the criminals ripping their stores off against staff and   
   paying customers for ideological reasons. One Walmart security guard, who   
   was shot by a felon while trying to prevent a theft at his store, was   
   written up by his manager as soon as he returned to work after being   
   hospitalized for a procedural violation in the incident. Months later, he   
   was fired and then denied unemployment by management for telling a Black   
   Lives Matter protester harassing customers to “shut up.” Recently, two   
   white female staff members at Lululemon followed a group of black thieves   
   casually walking out of the store with thousands of dollars worth of   
   merchandise to photograph their getaway car. They were terminated for   
   supposedly violating company policy to not intervene against thieves.   
      
   Corporate America continues to evade responsibility for the racial and   
   political situation they have played a large part in creating, preferring   
   instead to punish law-abiding citizens. In cities such as Los Angeles, San   
   Francisco, New York, and Portland, retailers are intensifying local   
   inflation which forces honest customers to subsidize crooks, locking   
   everything behind glass cases, or creating food deserts by shutting down   
   and leaving.   
      
   The easily preventable nature of the problem was recently showcased in an   
   article showing that a mere 327 serial offenders were behind 30% of the   
   shoplifting in all of New York City. The people doing the lifting are   
   black, but they are often stealing on behalf of multi-million dollar   
   criminal operations run by Jewish gangsters from Eastern Europe.   
      
   A law-and-order backlash that typically follows a period of high crime has   
   so far not materialized. Many working and middle class white people who   
   traditionally form the base of anti-crime political movements have   
   continued to leave New York, Chicago and California for whiter pastures   
   like South Carolina, Tennessee, Montana, and Idaho. In minority-majority   
   cities like LA, Chicago, and Philadelphia, pro-crime candidates continue to   
   get elected and re-elected even as these once thriving urban centers become   
   national symbols of dystopian criminality, while in New York, where the   
   supposed anti-crime candidate Eric Adams won the mayorship, the city’s   
   anti-shoplifting plan, centered around offering repeat offenders “social   
   service kiosks,” has been widely mocked.   
      
      
      
      
      
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