Posted on 04/09/2024 4:05:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, Liberation Station is being forced to move out of downtown Raleigh after only being open for less than a year.
Liberation Station reportedly opened on Juneteenth last year. The book store is known for hosting events for the community and selling children’s books written and illustrated by Black and underrepresented authors and illustrators. “Unfortunately, we live in a country that has given permission to the nameless and faceless people to make threats and cause harm, emotional harm,” owner Victoria Scott-Miller said.
On Monday, Scott-Miller took to her Instagram to tell her followers that the bookstore will be moving on April 30 after receiving death threats. “Since September, we’ve faced numerous threats following the opening of our store,” Scott-Miller wrote. “Some we brushed off, while others included a disturbing phone call detailing what our son Langston wore when he was at the shop alone.” Scott-Miller runs the store with her husband and 13-year-old son but after receiving those threats they decided to stop working there two weeks ago. “We went away for two weeks just to breathe and process that the thing we had created for good was now attempting to be destroyed and taken away from us in some way,” she said.
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Stereotypes exist for a reason. Maybe read up on that.....
Living things tend to speciate creating new, better forms.
As a multicellular organism, we should just accept the innate desire to bond with like.
It ain't just us!
Does anybody believe this?
She should show the police the threatening letters and emails.
I’ll take ‘100% pure BS because it never happened for $200, Ken.’
Sounds like they don’t do anything to make money.
BS meter just popped the manometer tube golldangit.
First of all, HOAX! Second, IF there was any push back AT ALL it had nothing to do with being black owned. The truth is they invented the claims to advance the “cause.”
That was exactly my first thought.
Great for the optics, but it doesn't ring true. It's race baiting pure and simple.
Yep, they are not making money, but instead of admitting that they failed, they made up this “death threat” story to get attention, sympathy, and maybe some more traffic to their going-out-of-business sale or gofundme.
The irony of this fiction is not lost on me.
At least she was able to open the book store. Imagine a white person dedicating their business to all white clientele, written and illustrated by WHITE, underrepresented authors and illustrators, which would have been burned down opening day, IF the city even allowed it to open in the first place. THIS is the problem, not racism. I am betting this gal got minority SBA money as a starter, NAACP, community outreach funding, etc. Think there are any programs for WHITE people wanting to open a racist business?
Bell Curve Bros.
Yes, Diversity Is About Getting Rid Of White People (And That’s A Good Thing)
Certainly smells like Barbara Streisand…
Just wondering aloud how the balance sheets look on this store. Taxes owed, creditors, leveraged mortgage, if the owners started a “GoFundMe” account yet.
You know how virtually 99% of all the “hate crimes” turn out to be hoaxes by the so-called “victims” themselves, this has that same kinda ring to it. Crime ring, that is.
Were they selling anti-tranny books?
Probably had money issues where they were so they are creating a hoax victimhood thing to get attention for their new spot.
Go to the race card when business goes south.
Statistically most small businesses will fail in the first two years.
I will go with the theory that a small business in a very competitive market place with low margins that set itself in a very low volume subset of that market failed to thrive.
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