NPR: Black Business Owners Hurt by George Floyd Square.

[Seymour Flops]

It seems that turning a business district into a shrine doesn't do the businesses any good.

REED: I want to leave this area because if I stay here, it only reminds me of what I went through. And I want respect. I want respect for us because they don't know what we've endured. They don't know what we went through. And we sat here, ma'am, and we're collateral damage now to what took place here. And we just want to be respected.

MARTIN: So it's a place where a lot of people come to commemorate. It's a place that people come to acknowledge what happened in May of 2020, but it's not a place that people are coming to shop and get business and get services anymore.

REED: Absolutely.

MARTIN: And that's killing your business. It's...

REED: It's turned into that. Absolutely.

A visit to George Floyd Square in Minneapolis

Five years after the killing of George Floyd, NPR's Michel Martin visits the Minneapolis intersection that has become a memorial to his life: George Perry Floyd Square.

www.nprillinois.org

Today is the five year anniversary of George Floyd's death.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

It seems that turning a business district into a shrine doesn't do the businesses any good.

REED: I want to leave this area because if I stay here, it only reminds me of what I went through. And I want respect. I want respect for us because they don't know what we've endured. They don't know what we went through. And we sat here, ma'am, and we're collateral damage now to what took place here. And we just want to be respected.

MARTIN: So it's a place where a lot of people come to commemorate. It's a place that people come to acknowledge what happened in May of 2020, but it's not a place that people are coming to shop and get business and get services anymore.

REED: Absolutely.

MARTIN: And that's killing your business. It's...

REED: It's turned into that. Absolutely.

A visit to George Floyd Square in Minneapolis

Five years after the killing of George Floyd, NPR's Michel Martin visits the Minneapolis intersection that has become a memorial to his life: George Perry Floyd Square.

www.nprillinois.org

Today is the five year anniversary of George Floyd's death.

Floyd died in police custody.
They did not murder him.
Chauvin's conviction was an injustice.
The Dirty Democrats exploited Floyd's death to agitate the far left bigots for the 2020 election.

 

[Manonthestreet]

So all the business owners were hurt.....not just black.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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As far as I'm concerned, Mogadishu On The Mississippi is history.


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[1srelluc]

Reaction to "let's go down to George Floyd Square".

 

[Manonthestreet]

File this under who'd a thunk

 

[j-mac]

It seems that turning a business district into a shrine doesn't do the businesses any good.

REED: I want to leave this area because if I stay here, it only reminds me of what I went through. And I want respect. I want respect for us because they don't know what we've endured. They don't know what we went through. And we sat here, ma'am, and we're collateral damage now to what took place here. And we just want to be respected.

MARTIN: So it's a place where a lot of people come to commemorate. It's a place that people come to acknowledge what happened in May of 2020, but it's not a place that people are coming to shop and get business and get services anymore.

REED: Absolutely.

MARTIN: And that's killing your business. It's...

REED: It's turned into that. Absolutely.

A visit to George Floyd Square in Minneapolis

Five years after the killing of George Floyd, NPR's Michel Martin visits the Minneapolis intersection that has become a memorial to his life: George Perry Floyd Square.

www.nprillinois.org

Today is the five year anniversary of George Floyd's death.

This was predictable...

 

[IM2]

So again, if I used an example of one white supremacist to make a comment about whites in general, you bitches would whine like no other. In short, this is a bulshit rticlle based on the white racist bias about the Floyd protests by people who want Derek Chauvin pardoned..

 

[j-mac]

So again, if I used an example of one white supremacist to make a comment about whites in general, you bitches would whine like no other. This

Are you kidding? You do that often...

 

[IM2]

Are you kidding? You do that often...

Actually I pinpoint things to describe right wing whites, or white racists, which are not all white people. But you MAGATS are dumb with a victim mentality, so you see white and attribute your thinking to it and start whining about how I hate all white people.

 

[j-mac]

Actually I pinpoint things to describe right wing whites, or white racists, which are not all white people. But yOU MAGATS are dumb with a victim mentality, so you see white and attribute your thinking to it and start whining about how I hate all white people.

You can spin it all you want, fact is you just got busted trying to admonish people for doing what you yourself do....ya know what we call that in the rational world? A liar.

 

[IM2]

You can spin it all you want, fact is you just got busted trying to admonish people for doing what you yourself do....ya know what we call that in the rational world? A liar.

I didn't get busted for anything because I don't do what you accused me of you white victimhood addled dumb ass racist.

 

[BS Filter]

I didn't get busted for anything because I don't do what you accused me of you white victimhood addled dumb ass racist.

When are nasty race hustlers going to stop using skin color to divide people fir political gain?

 

[jotathought]

So again, if I used an example of one white supremacist to make a comment about whites in general, you bitches would whine like no other. In short, this is a bulshit rticlle based on the white racist bias about the Floyd protests by people who want Derek Chauvin pardoned..

There are many examples in the black community where piece of shit individuals, like George Floyd, have been idolized and the narrative was shifted (often into a fictitious direction) to victimize the individual. Just look at the last decade, where many idolized individuals turned out to be criminals: George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, etc. It's more than just "one black guy .." it's the trend the democrats continue to use to marginalize an entire race of people in the United States.

 

[IM2]

When are nasty race hustlers going to stop using skin color to divide people fir political gain?

Ask Donald Trump that question. White is a race and right wing whites are the only race hustlers.

 

[IM2]

There are many examples in the black community where piece of shit individuals, like George Floyd, have been idolized and the narrative was shifted (often into a fictitious direction) to victimize the individual. Just look at the last decade, where many idolized individuals turned out to be criminals: George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, etc. It's more than just "one black guy .." it's the trend the democrats continue to use to marginalize an entire race of people in the United States.

Why do right wing whites make these kinds of comments when you have elevated pure white trash to public office? Whites have a 249 year record of idolizing piece of shit individuals starting with the slave owning, slave raping founding fathers. Right now you have a white convicted felon who has defrauded people out of millions during his life t be the motherfucking president of this country. STFU.

 

[BS Filter]

Ask Donald Trump that question. White is a race and right wing whites are the only race hustlers.

Says the village idiot.

 

[jotathought]

Why do right wing whites make these kinds of comments when you have elevated pure white trash to public office? Whites have a 249 year record of idolizing piece of shit individuals starting with the slave owning, slave raping founding fathers. Right now you have a white convicted felon who has defrauded people out of millions during his life t be the motherfucking president of this country. STFU.

I see .. so because whites have done it, it's now okay for blacks to do it? In your mind, two wrongs equal a right? That's pretty immature behavior.

Besides .. the Democrats cheated in the 2024 election by kicking out the presidential candidate the people chose, and replacing him with an unqualified individual who received ZERO primary votes from the American people. Unqualified and pushing the extremist positions of the left that are not acceptable to a majority of Americans. No wonder Trump won .. so please .. keep up the good work!

 

[j-mac]

I didn't get busted for anything because I don't do what you accused me of you white victimhood addled dumb ass racist.

You really are a joke....

 

[Seymour Flops]

Floyd died in police custody.
They did not murder him.
Chauvin's conviction was an injustice.
The Dirty Democrats exploited Floyd's death to agitate the far left bigots for the 2020 election.

Lacking Jesus, the Dems seek their own martyrs. George Floyd, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Willie Horton, to name a few.

The only requirement is that they be the type person normal Americans would see as detriments to the safety and security of honest people, and that they claim some kind of injustice was done to them.