Guess Which Merchants Didn’t Get Looted in Ferguson?

Live Leak ^ | November 2014 | Staff

[armydawg505]

The beauty supply store photo comes from the Rodney King riots in LA but the message is clear and results the same.

[Ace's Dad]

volunteer security guards

I like that!

[Rodamala]

I was raised to respect and treat blacks as equals and was taught about past transgressions. Skin color meant nothing to me for 50 years. For my entire life, I tried to pass on my upbringing to the next two generations (my kids and grandkids and their friends and family). Now, at age 55, I am becoming more and more enlightened by the behavior of a large segment of the black population.

I too have a similar upbringing and am not what one would characterize as racist or prejudical regarding race... but although the word "nigger" is seen as outrageous in civil conversation, when this whole rioting and looting started in Ferguson and there was office conversation with one person asking "What are they trying to prove?", the only response I could offer is that regardless of word policing and political correctness... and it would probably get me in trouble here on FR... there is such a thing as a "nigger"... the looters proved that... and they happen to be black. I really wish I could post this without fearing that I am offending someone...it is what it is really... and it just seems that at some point someone has to stand up and say, "no, I am not going to be coy and refer to looters and gangbangers with alternative code words, like 'Amish', 'Thugz', "ferrels' or what-have-you. These inner-city criminals are simply... niggers"

[pallis]

I would much rather live in a community with well armed neighbors, than depend on cops. Good for those guys. Happy hunting!

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Barnes and Noble?

OR any store that sells Fathers Day cards

I don't see why Winston should not win the Heisman again this year.....if Brown is to be celebrated by pop culture, why not Winston.

[bgill]

Obama and Holder should be heads of Black Panther groups

Aren't they?

[ronnie raygun]

sears work boot section,? social service office, employment office, library?

[xrmusn]

I was raised to respect and treat blacks as equals and was taught about past transgressions.
= = = = = = = = = =
Likewise and I tried to instill the same standards in my Children and Grandchildren...Daughters were ‘fine’ with it - so to speak - just didn’t gripe about conditions when I was around and they seemed to have no problems with the children of work colleagues (including a couple of Black Guys (kids) I had worked with).
A little ‘dissent’ came from my eldest grandson (20 now) about how things were being ‘handled’ in school and when working in general..his brother (17) also seemed to have some ‘where did this attitude come from’ with the ‘reaction’ being, ‘You may be right, but YOU aren’t ‘forced’ to hang around with these guys all day every day’

Even recently when you notice how the ‘Whites’ mentioning (Whites aren’t ‘allowed’ to complain) Blacks in colleges (well where people spend a lot of money for their kids to hang out another 4 years) ‘they’ have ‘segregated’ themselves, - I used to muse how strange it must be for their parents and grandparents that had gotten the crap kicked out of them and ostracized because they wanted to (well it turns out the LIBS etal wanted) integrate.

There used to be a ‘translation’ for NAACP
“Niggahs(sic)
Aint
Always
Colored
People”

Sorry, today I am more wont to group ‘them’ all together, mainly because even the known dissenters, are somewhat quiet on this latest round and am sort of ‘forced’ to put them in the category of our “Peace Loving Religion” bros that refuse to take a FIRM STAND against the so called handful of ‘bad apples’ that give the rest of them a ‘bad name’.
According to the ‘Powers that be’.

Heard yesterday where a Rep from NYC (not sure whether he was Fed State or City) but he made some kind of statement ‘on the floor’ about how he didn’t know how to defend his son against ‘White Policeman’....Granted, it may be a valid statement in some circumstances but I can only imagine the ‘$hiite Storm’ that ANY white - male, female, straight, gay etc’ - would cause if they were to stand in a public forum (as an elected official) and say “I don’t know how to get my children ready for a world where they have to deal with Blacks (or Muslims) on a daily basis.

I was one of those (so called race traitors) that believed it was wrong for someone NOT being able to play baseball, drink from a fountain, and whatever transgressions that were laid upon the Black population as a whole JUST because they were Black.

I admit I was not alone and there were many that felt the same way but - in a sense and I will ‘Beat the Dead Horse’ and point to LBJ/Great Society - that the way some of the people are acting are seemingly proof that George Wallace (the OTHER G Wallace), Bull Connor, Orville Faubus etal may have been onto something....

The ‘Black Community’ is beginning to LOSE my support and what with the reaction to how the Government is ALLOWING this BS to take place - I notice the last few days in DC the ‘protestors’ have taken to blocking traffic in and around the ‘Chinatown’ area ... well last night 11PM news dutifully showed the ‘protestors’ and how disruptive they were being while RIGHT UP THE STREET - almost in view of the ‘trouble’ the local NBA team was beating Denver - I bring this up because my cynicism is saying that at least these guys know what faction of society they don’t want to disrupt..don’t let me or ‘force’ me to be late getting to work or going home BUT don’t make it ‘hard’ for the BROS to attend an NBA game....

[Organic Panic]

Didn’t get looted...

Book store
Temp Day Labor Agency
Redwing Workboots Store
Any store with “Now Hiring” in the window

[stevie_d_64]

Or, “Retail Therapy?”

;-)

[ro_dreaming]

Don’t steal
Don’t loot
Hands up
Won’t shoot

[MasterGunner01]

Where were the police?

The pussy politicians told them to stand down.

The smart shopkeepers had armed guards to protect their property and the looters stayed away. Then the cowardly cops who would not defend the shopkeepers from looting and arson told the armed guard volunteers to disband.

WTF?

Why are thge citizens of Ferguson paying for a police department that will NOT protect them or enforce the law?

Time to fire the police department, police chief, and mayor.

[donna]

1992
LA Riots - Armed store owners deter rioters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCiC6qTtjs

[RWB Patriot]

Bear in mind there’s a difference between treating blacks as equals (ie, capable of being just as bad or good as whites) and treating them as god almighty, incapable of being wrong no matter what they do.

[wastoute]

Ditto. Many of us were intentionally deprived of life changing opportunities through Affirmative Action PAYING restitution for what now seems NO RESULT.

[Smokin' Joe]

At the risk of upsetting others, I recall the word being used for those of dubious means and little, if any class, who were given to criminal behaviour. Much like the term "white trash" described a similar segment of a different demographic.

Honest and decent folks were not referred to with either term. As children, we were taught to call our elders "Sir" and 'M'am", regardless, and refer to them as Mr. or Mrs/Miss.

It was indeed a different time.