Black residents reject Trader Joe’s because it would attract too many white people

[ltheghost]

instead of rejecting it, why didn't they just patronize it? apply for jobs there?

The Million Dollar Question. lol

 

[godkiller]

Sensationalist title. Would the neighborhood people actually shop at Trader Joe's? Probably not. It's about gentrification.

 

[NZA]

i would like to see what findings the local experts or advocacy group presented, but i dont dismiss out of hand their concerns for gentrification. it sucks when your neighborhood improves by moving you out!

and on a side note, that title reads like something out of the onion, LOL

 

[Thoughts]

I aint even mad though....

THIS... fukkouttahere with your $90 organic apple pie.

 

[The Real]

Trader Joe's is a good store. I shop there all the time. The food is very reasonably priced, and very high quality for the price, too, and you can find everything from produce to great readymade foods. They also create decent jobs- a lot of the employees at the Brooklyn store I shop at are Black folks from the hood, and they are paid and treated relatively well compared to other store employees- and it isn't even in a Black neighborhood. IMO they are the ideal store to move into poor, Black neighborhoods, because they actually have something to offer the community. I'd rather they set up shop in the hood than Key Food, Shoprite, Western Beef, and all the other big chains we have here in NYC, and obviously than yet another fast food joint, too. They also offer neighborhood involvement programs that are superior to those tokenist initiatives by other chains.

On the other hand, I'd have to see the evidence for the correlation between the store and gentrification to weigh the arguments of advocacy groups.

 

[thekingsmen]

Shun Trader Joe's grocery store but praise Walmart destroying mom and pop shops, eat at McDonalds and stay at liquor stores, brehs.

 

[ltheghost]

Trader Joe's is a good store. I shop there all the time. The food is very reasonably priced, and very high quality for the price, too, and you can find everything from produce to great readymade foods. They also create decent jobs- a lot of the employees at the Brooklyn store I shop at are Black folks from the hood, and they are paid and treated relatively well compared to other store employees. IMO they are the ideal store to move into poor, Black neighborhoods, because they actually have something to offer the community. I'd rather they set up shop in the hood than Key Food, Shoprite, and all the other big chains we have here in NYC, and obviously than yet another fast food joint, too. They also offer neighborhood involvement programs that are superior to those tokenist initiatives by other chains.

On the other hand, I'd have to see the evidence for the correlation between the store and gentrification to weigh the arguments of advocacy groups.

You forgot to add they have some damn good beer. My bro told me they had good beer and I was like yeah right, "That hippy store doesn't have shyt I want in it." I went and checked it out and the prices weren't that bad but that local beer they had...wooooooo...sorry for being off topic but damn that beer was good. They are more of a helping improve the local area store to me.

 

[The Real]

You forgot to add they have some damn good beer. My bro told me they had good beer and I was like yeah right, "That hippy store doesn't have shyt I want in it." I went and checked it out and the prices weren't that bad but that local beer they had...wooooooo...sorry for being off topic but damn that beer was good. They are more of a helping improve the local area store to me.

True. I'm not big on beer myself, but you're right. Those wine shops they have are crazy. Honestly, I've been waiting for years for some horrible scandal to come out, because sometimes their stores seem too good to be true, like they're actually run by decent people who understand you can make profits while offering good products to lower income and middle class people.

 

[ltheghost]

True. I'm not big on beer myself, but you're right. Those wine shops they have are crazy. Honestly, I've been waiting for years for some horrible scandal to come out, because sometimes their stores seem too good to be true, like they're actually run by decent people who understand you can make profits while offering good products to lower income and middle class people.

If a scandal comes out...I will probably believe it. LOL The products are too damn good. lol (Like they must be stealing the shyt or having child sweat workshops make the stuff) I just never thought of going there for beer or wine! LOL It tripped me out!

 

[Hulk Hogan]

THE RACIAL ANGLE IS CONSERVATIVE SPIN, BROTHER! HIDDEN DEEP AMONG HUNDREDS OF BULLshyt REDDIT POSTS, HULK FOUND THE TRUTH, DUDE!

If the municipal legislature (wealthy white people) tried to sell a piece of city property in a black neighborhood worth $2.9M to a wealthy private developer for $500K using subsidies meant to be used assisting the local poor community to cover the difference, you WOULD expect to see some community uproar about it. Especially when that was given without the accompanying mandates to build affordable housing and employ members of the pre-existing community.

Oh wait, that's just a very simplified explanation of what is happening here. That the article glossed over the glaring municipal corruption angle to focus on the racial aspect, which immediately destroys its credibility. Of course, it's a conservative PAC's website, so it had none anyway.

This all makes a lot more sense when you read the source article. It makes even more sense when you read the actual letter from the PAALF. Note that it does not actually read like it was drafted by an arm of the Black Panthers.

This was a straight-up corrupt commercial real estate transaction and an abuse of community development subsidies (read: projects that require money to be spent for the benefit of the poor and usually have low-income-housing mandates and local employment mandates, which these projects appear to have).

TL, DR: The source linked by OP glosses over the crux of the dispute (municipal corruption, misuse of low income community development subsidies, and marginalization of low-income populations using the money that was supposed to be used to empower them) and misrepresents the PAALF's letter to deceive readers of the nature of the dispute. Linked article is shyte.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/12/portland_african_american_lead.html
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/929379/paalf-letter-regarding-trader-joes.pdf

CORRUPT LOCAL GOVERNMENT STOLE FROM THE WORKING CLASS TO GIVE TO THEIR RICH BUDDIES, MEAN GENE!

 

[godkiller]

This is the Trader Joe's opposition document: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/929379/paalf-letter-regarding-trader-joes.pdf
A quote:

"Gentrification, and the economic inequality it produces, is not an
unforeseen byproduct of increasing density or improving the livability of
streets."

 

[thekingsmen]

True. I'm not big on beer myself, but you're right. Those wine shops they have are crazy. Honestly, I've been waiting for years for some horrible scandal to come out, because sometimes their stores seem too good to be true, like they're actually run by decent people who understand you can make profits while offering good products to lower income and middle class people.

Their garlic mustard is the best mustard ever...."I put that ish on everything".

 

[The Real]

THE RACIAL ANGLE IS CONSERVATIVE SPIN, BROTHER! HIDDEN DEEP AMONG HUNDREDS OF BULLshyt REDDIT POSTS, HULK FOUND THE TRUTH, DUDE!


http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/12/portland_african_american_lead.html
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/929379/paalf-letter-regarding-trader-joes.pdf

CORRUPT LOCAL GOVERNMENT STOLE FROM THE WORKING CLASS TO GIVE TO THEIR RICH BUDDIES, MEAN GENE!

Damn, Hogan bringing that fire as usual. Excellent post... brother.

If a scandal comes out...I will probably believe it. LOL The products are too damn good. lol (Like they must be stealing the shyt or having child sweat workshops make the stuff) I just never thought of going there for beer or wine! LOL It tripped me out!

Me, too. I'm scared it's going to be some soylent green type shyt.

Their snacks, too. I'm addicted to these:

 

[ThatTruth777]

THE RACIAL ANGLE IS CONSERVATIVE SPIN, BROTHER! HIDDEN DEEP AMONG HUNDREDS OF BULLshyt REDDIT POSTS, HULK FOUND THE TRUTH, DUDE!


http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/12/portland_african_american_lead.html
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/929379/paalf-letter-regarding-trader-joes.pdf

CORRUPT LOCAL GOVERNMENT STOLE FROM THE WORKING CLASS TO GIVE TO THEIR RICH BUDDIES, MEAN GENE!

those dirty rat b*stards

 

[DEAD7]

Their garlic mustard is the best mustard ever...."I put that ish on everything".