If Black Lives Matter, How Come Black Businesses And Neighborhoods Keep Getting Destroyed?
I think a good deal of the protesting is not protesting at all but an excuse to loot and riot.
Brad Palumbo writes at FEE:
It appears that in Kenosha, just as in Minneapolis and Chicago, the fallout from rioting and looting will disproportionately harm minority communities."I always think that people have the right to protest--to peacefully protest--but this goes beyond that," La Estrella Supermarket owner Abel Alejo said. "They were destroying the neighborhoods that they want to protect."
Even a local Black Lives Matter leader denounced this destruction, saying "We're not into doing anything to damage our community... it waters down our message."
A used car dealership was destroyed.
A member of the family who owns the dealership tells me more than 100 cars were destroyed over 2 nights of riots. Around 90 were torched Sunday night & the couple dozen that survived were then torched during the riots Monday night. Estimates $2.5-million in losses.
— Garrett Tenney (@Garrett_FoxNews) September 3, 2020
Palumbo continues:
This damage is significant, but defenders will no doubt seek to downplay it, explaining that "businesses have insurance." Yet the damage goes beyond cold cash. There is also the enormous human and emotional toll involved in having your property destroyed and having to pick up the pieces that even a premium insurance plan can't account for. What's more, lost income and unpaid labor inevitably await any entrepreneur victimized by vandalism.Plus, many small businesses don't have insurance or are underinsured. They will have to bear the costs themselves.
Ultimately, the destruction in Kenosha and its disproportionate impact on urban, minority communities reminds us of a timeless lesson: Property rights are the fundamental basis of a market economy. Yet, despite how critics often portray them, property rights are not simply a matter of protecting the wealthy and big corporations. The protection of private property is what ensures immigrants, minorities, and poor people are not derailed on their climb up the economic ladder in pursuit of the American dream.
And he's right:
"Social justice" agitators who cross the line past peaceful protest and engage in violent vandalism are only sabotaging the same minority communities they claim to care about.
Old news. Black Lives Matter refuses to even talk about, and become violently agitated, when it's pointed out the greatest threat to black males, aged 44 and under: other black males. It would take the cops forty years to kill as many black males as black males kill in a single year.
Black Lives Matter is a distraction from the real issues of the black community.
Patrick at September 14, 2020 12:31 AM
Old news. Black Lives Matter refuses to even talk about, and become violently agitated, when it's pointed out the greatest threat to black males, aged 44 and under: other black males. It would take the cops forty years to kill as many black males as black males kill in a single year.
Black Lives Matter is a distraction from the real issues of the black community.
Patrick at September 14, 2020 12:31 AM
"They were destroying the neighborhoods that they want to protect."
Have you considered that's not their actual goal? I've come to a point I believe the actual goal is to trigger a race war and they feel that looting and burning down minority-heavy neighborhoods is the way to get there. The conceit being that they'll *win* and replace FedGov with FedGov v2.0, a woke socialist utopia.
If that happens, kulaks such as Abel Alejo will become enemies of the people.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 14, 2020 6:17 AM
Black Lives Matter is a distraction from the real issues of the black community.
That and a grift. I'd like to see a forensic audit of their books.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 14, 2020 6:44 AM
After a hundred days, "protest" simply becomes "crime".
Not only are black men responsible for killing over 83% of other black men, they're more than 18:1 ahead of the cops. Who are also sometimes black, Hispanic, female or a combination of these, which we must not say or show on TV.
But ever since 1964 or so, only white men are responsible for what black men do. Institutional racism? Yes, in continually lying about who commits crime and why.
We have a culture war, not a race war, and this is entirely because of public policy.
Radwaste at September 14, 2020 6:50 AM
You don't even have to go that far back to see the long term consequences for these neighborhoods (see Rodney King riots in LA). And the same people will bitch and moan about food desserts and the lack of services in these very same neighborhoods they destroyed in a couple of years.
Shtetl G at September 14, 2020 8:27 AM
“it waters down our message.“ When that is the sympathy for damage they have done it proves the never cared.
Joe j at September 14, 2020 9:33 AM
I walked up Hawthorne Blvd near Imperial highway during the Rodney King riots in LA. Liquor stores, electronics stores, and a supermarket were being looted. But the car lots were untouched. A failure of imagination.
To Patrick and Radwaste, a pastor nicknamed "White Mike" gave a Ted Talk about blacks killing blacks, 2015. The title is "Black Murder is Normal," Pastor Mike Smith.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D1DxHL2i3cZo&ved=2ahUKEwiw-tCGienrAhUW7J4KHXx7C5kQwqsBMAB6BAgFEAQ&usg=AOvVaw3DOBuBd1Kjw8XC7L0edzwY
Spiderfall at September 14, 2020 9:43 AM
Yes, they have insurance now - because they were able to get it. Once the risks rise above a certain level, the insurers will no longer issue insurance in those areas, will charge more, or will restrict the policies issued to exempt civil unrest damages.
We have a distorted view of insurance in this country. Insurance is not simply a corporate payoff in case something bad happens. Coverage and pricing are based on risk. The insurer agrees to pay for any damage to your business if it thinks the risk is low enough that it'll never have to pay out more than the total of premiums that it takes in plus the money it expects to make investing those premiums (adding another level of risk).
Once something happens to distort the existing risk profile, the insurer has to adjust that pricing and coverage to account for the action and any subsequent increase in risk in that geographic area or that business/industry. Another option is to exempt the risk-distorting action from coverage - i.e., hurricanes, civil unrest, etc.
So, that outbreak of once-in-a-lifetime civil unrest is, to the insurer, a viable risk that could, conceivably, happen again next year. As such, it must be included in the risk profile - thus raising costs and reducing coverage for businesses.
Conan the Grammarian at September 14, 2020 11:28 AM
But the car lots were untouched. A failure of imagination.
Not really
You have to register a car to use it, part of that process is proving you bought it
The state doesnt have anyone checking registration tags on Nikes and Samsung Tvs
lujlp at September 14, 2020 12:48 PM
Those that downplay the destruction should have all their worldly possessions destroyed as well. Then we'll see how justifiable they think that kind of behavior is.
ruralcounsel at September 14, 2020 2:51 PM
I'd love to see a breakdown of who the rioters are. I have been assuming it's a combination of...
Opportunists who want to steal stuff
Middle class white kids who want to feel edgy
Far Left (all races) anarchists wanting to start a revolution
Far Right neo nazis wanting to start a race war
Pyros and other people who like to destroy things for fun
People seizing the opportunity to wreak vengeance on a neighbor who wronged them
People who are so hurt and outraged they just lash out
Am I missing any?
Yeah RuralCounsel, I have several friends lecture their Facebook following about why it is wrong to criticize the destruction (no one is criticizing the peaceful protests).
I bite my tongue but kinda want to say if they're so concerned, why don't they give up their rental/business properties to a black family? They wouldn't even have to take the whole loss, sell it for what the insurance would cover minus the raised insurance payments you'd have to pay for a while. Put your money where your mouth is, if the idea is that people need to suck up and deal with the financial hit, YOU take the financial hit, and do it in a way that might actually help a Black family get ahead. No? No takers?
NicoleK at September 14, 2020 9:14 PM
Am I missing any?
ex-cons who want revenge on police/society
media who think this will harm the right or will sell airtime.
Joe J at September 14, 2020 9:36 PM
Am I missing any?
dems who hate trump so much they are willing to burn it all down to "get" him
anarchists
right wingers who want to start a race war? yeah, probably 2 or 3...
cc at September 15, 2020 11:11 AM
Most of those middle class white kids aren't what I would call kids. After you hit 30 you should be an adult. Should be . . .
Ben at September 15, 2020 1:17 PM
"YOU take the financial hit"
Most leftists want the government to do this, so they support higher taxes for the rich and don't confuse them with facts about the high tax rates the rich already pay.
But doing anything directly, other than putting up a yard sign showing that they're Good People? Nah.
szoszolo at September 15, 2020 1:28 PM
> dems who hate trump so much
> they are willing to burn it
> all down to "get" him
'No one must *ever* dislike Trump! You'd have have to be insane!'
Crid at September 15, 2020 6:17 PM
It is more like 'No one may ever like Trump! He is the Debil! The DEBILLLL!' ~Crid
Ben at September 16, 2020 5:05 AM
It's almost like your egos are covalent with his own. If only psychology had a term for that!
Crid at September 16, 2020 3:02 PM
Got that backwards again Crid. Your ego.
Do you live in opposite world?
Ben at September 17, 2020 5:47 AM
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