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   On 29 May 2023, D. Ray  posted some   
   news:hsNVszcwdHObACmQPmkMfROGsYRekSNi@news.usenet.farm:   
      
   > 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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   Reap the customers you market too!  All that BLM ass-kissing advertising   
   got exactly what the marketing department asked for - black criminals   
   robbing the stores empty at the expense of mostly liberal clients!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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