Despite taking financial hits due to the pandemic, small businesses around the country are still feeding their communities and finding ways to support racial justice:
. “I’m not going to choose business over people’s lives. This is just way too important, and we’ve had way too many opportunities like this to do something as a country.”Perhaps the most significant feat of solidarity, however, is business owners who stand with the protests that led to the destruction of their restaurants.
On May 29, owner Ruhel Islam woke to find that his Minneapolis restaurant had been nearly burned to ashes, the. The Gandhi Mahal Restaurant is less than a minute’s walk from the city’s third precinct police station, which was also set ablaze. Although it was not an insignificant setback for the family-owned business, Islam said, “Let my building burn. Justice needs to be served.”. “The community is still here, and we can work together to rebuild.
“I want anyone who cares to know that violence against property is nothing close to violence against people,” she . “My business is the tool that I built, in my community, to make my way in this world. It has no value to me, or to anyone, if our world remains as deeply unfair and violent as it is.”
日本 最新ニュース, 日本 見出し
Similar News:他のニュース ソースから収集した、これに似たニュース記事を読むこともできます。
How Atlanta Restaurants Are Supporting Black Lives Matter Protestors“We’re going to set an example by showing people that we can bank Black, we can buy Black, we can support Black, and this is how we make change in our communities.”
続きを読む »
Editorial: Protesters skipped South L.A. and marched in white neighborhoods. Good for themProtesters have taken their anguished cries into affluent neighborhoods across Los Angeles, where residents live at a comfortable detachment from police violence. And it produced results. (via latimesopinion)
続きを読む »
Long Island restaurant owner faces backlash over racist remarks about peaceful protesters"You need to make another video and don&39;t be shy," NAACP regional director Tracey Edwards said. "Apologize to all of us."
続きを読む »
Colbert Taunts ‘Full Of Crap’ Trump With A Scathing ComparisonThe 'Late Show' host ripped into Trump for having peaceful protesters violently removed from near the White House.
続きを読む »