BO$$ Racial Shakedown In Louisville

American Conservative ^ | July 31, 2020 | Rod Dreher

[C19fan]

In Louisville, Kentucky, a black social justice organization with the rather unsubtle name of BO$$ is threatening businesses in the NuLu district with public denunciation if they don’t conform to its demands, including making donations to black organizations. If you want to get a passing rating from these thugs, this is what you have to do:

[C19fan]

A protection racket in all but name.

[Saltmeat]

The Democrats are getting away with what the mafia used to go to jail for.

[Reverend Wright]

Get out of the Blue Areas !

[cuban leaf]

I must be a bad person. I’m having fun with this and consider this sort of stuff to be funny. But then, I left the city nine years ago to move to a rural area. It’s kinda interesting to see a culture get exactly what it deserves.

[qaz123]

Such a simple problem to solve.

Have the Kentucky AG put some undercovers in those businesses and some good hi-tech surveillance systems in the businesses. When BO$$ shows up making demands, get it all on tape. Play their game for a little bit. Then decide not to comply. And when they show up to enforce their rules make the RICO charges...conspiracy, extortion, terroristic threats, damage to property...throw the effin’ book at them.

That will be the end of that.

[stockpirate]

BLM is doing it as are others.

[Patriot_MP]

Having lived there and grew up there — that’s sad change of events... Of course I’ve not been to Louie-ville for over 6 yrs...

Shame - shame -— hope this whole nation turns around NOV 3rd 2020 and sends a message this type of behavior is far from acceptable.

[G Larry]

I know how I respond to “or else” threats.

[G Larry]

I know how I respond to “or else” threats.

[Bonemaker]

That makes two of us. I consider a threat as an attempt and deal with it...on the spot.

[Bonemaker]

“BLM is doing it as are others.”

The shakedown pimps Jackson and Sharpton pioneered the procedure.

[super7man]

In that case they are leaving up to you to decide what the “or else” is. And you are then take appropriate action based on your own understanding.

From the other side, the best threat is the one that leaves it up to the imagination of the receiver as to what it means. The receiver will imagine the scenario that they are least capable of dealing with. It is bullying at its best.

[The Pack Knight]

The whole “gentrification” charge is all but impossible to defend against. The part of town known as NuLu was once poor and crime-ridden. There was a concerted effort to bring it back to life with new businesses and residential spaces — and it succeeded massively. But this effort also displaced some poor black people who lived there. Naturally, you cannot imagine that they were happy about it. The BO$$ activists are trying to extort white guilt money from the businesses there who benefited from gentrification.

White people move away from a city = "White Flight"

White people move into the city = "Gentrification"

Lets face it, you exist only to sit down, shut up, and shell out.

[Demiurge2]

Q: What’s the difference between BLM and the Mafia?
A: Mafiosi make better cannoli.

[Midwesterner53]

Louisville was one of the first cities to get rid of Confederate statues. I can’t believe they still have racial problems!!!!!!!!

[Hambone 1934]

Blacks don’t have long to wait. for a new problem to crop up....65 million+ Hispanics in the US right now,100 million waiting by the walls.....How much pull do you think blacks will have with the dems and the 165 million Hispanic voting machine staring them in the face?????

[reagandemocrat]

Wait. Weren’t they called the “N.F.A.C.” last week? And one of them negligently discharged their firearm and shot three people?

[roostercashews]

I went with my wife to Louisville in early March (before all hell broke out) just to see the distilleries and the area. I was pleasantly surprised at how clean the city is, how nice the people are, and how little (at the time) police presence there was downtown. Even the few homeless we saw stayed clear of us when walking downtown at night. I truly fell in love with the town that weekend.

NuLu will be the crowning jewel (no horse racing pun intended) for the city once it takes off, and it really is off to a good start. But it is still in its infancy as far as most of the businesses opening there, and crap like this can kill it off. It seems the BLM folks want the area to revert back to the crime and drug infested area it once was.

I was ready to go back when all this is over to explore the city more, but I will reconsider if local businesses bow to ridiculous pressure.

[alternatives?]

There used to be a Red Star Tavern in Louisville that made a great cornbread appetizer in an iron pan. Tasted better than cake.

[RetiredTexasVet]

The old Jackson/Sharpton shakedown routine. Contribute to the Rainbow Coalition or something nasty could happen to that nice little business you have.