Food Deserts

Well I predicted it last week that we would be soon hearing about food deserts and bam (!) here it is.

Food deserts in some South Side communities have even fewer choices for groceries after the weekend’s violence.

CBS 2’s Marissa Parra has more from Bronzeville with a look at how it’s impacting the community.

For neighbors, the Jewel-Osco on 75th is the grocery store. But no longer.

“It’s kind of a sad thing to think about,” said resident William Wright. “I take my grandma here every Sunday.”

Not any more.

On Sunday night, it was ravaged by looters, as you can see by the aftermath captured in video from the next day, leaving neighbors frustrated.

“It’s not what you do. It’s how do you do it,” Wright said. “What did we accomplish, aside from take our property value down and embarrass ourselves?”

Good question but that’s what you Africans specialize in. All it takes is the death of some lowlife criminal at the hands of a white cop and you go all Mau Mau and destroy your own neighborhoods. What civilized people do that? And then you have your African leaders like Sharpton egging you on. One African celebrity, who lives in a gated community, cheered the burning of a low income housing project. Now, besides food deserts we’ll hear about lack of affordable housing.

We can’t solve racial problems in this country until a certain race decides it wants to act like civilized human beings rather than rioting at the drop of a hat.

Wright, his grandmother and so many around here are trying to figure out which stores on the South Side are even left right now.

Chicago now has food deserts in places that weren’t food deserts before.

“Bronzeville Mariano’s was looted, the Walmart on 47th was looted. Jewel,” said activist William Calloway.

And the food deserts that were there before are worse now.

“Now you have to go out of your way to get this stuff,” said activist Emir Lions. “People that don’t have a car. People that do not have family and friends.”

“Some seniors can’t travel,” added Calloway.

Boo freaking hoo! Thank your fellow Africans for that.

But don’t worry. Lightfoot is on the case.

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Mayor Lightfoot said she’s hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. But, she’s unsure of one of the biggest.

Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago.

That’s freaking hilarious! Chicongo fought Walmart for four years when they wanted to open stores in Chicongo. Now they’re begging Walmart not to leave. Maybe if you could protect them from rioting and looting Africans they might stay and rebuild. Defund the cops. That will work.

“I think in the case of Walmart, what they were focused on was assessing the damage. They are doing an effort to donate fresh produce, to the extent of what’s left so it doesn’t perish, and other perishables, and they are taking their time, as I would expect.”

There were earlier reports that Walmart expected to rebuild all stores trashed by looters and vandals, but company officials later said they would open some stores and would not say which ones.

They’ll open the stores in the neighborhoods that have the fewest Africans. Stores exist to make a profit. Stores in African neighborhoods not only have to worry about rioting and looting but shoplifting as well. If I were Walmart I would not reopen any store that was burned to the ground. That would be a losing proposition.

10 comments on “Food Deserts

  1. There already was a food desert in Chicongo, even before the rioting, with food already in the stomachs of many “Baby Got Backs”. Some of them are so O’bese (I didn’t know they were part Irish) that if you kicked up any dust around them, it would go into orbit.

  2. Retail inside a Plexiglass cage, nothing on the shelves outside, it all goes through a revolving bulletproof tray. That’s inner city Detroit. They know their clientele.

  3. I feel sorry for the grandmothers, they probably have good sense because they’ve been around longer. But anybody who got their store torched and rebuilds is just plain nuts. They were probably crazy to open in that location in the first place. I grew up in the Washington DC. When I was a kid, there were parts of the city even cops wouldn’t go into. Guess we’re headed back to that.

  4. Where there is no access to food, there is no access to toilet tissue. Both Chicongo and Detoilet should see increases in swimming as both Lake Michigan and Lake St. Clair are turned into giant bidets.

  5. I wonder how long it will take before the citizenry of Minneapolis demands the changing of the suburban city name of “Coon Rapids”, located 13 miles North of Minneapolis.

    • Good one. The Mpls suburb with the most looting and chimping was Brooklyn Park, commonly referred to as Brooklyn Dark if you get my drift. Another shithole that stores were destroyed and looted. Some years ago a whole shopping mall finally closed due to the fact that more stuff was shop lifted than sold. Bars and resturants closed because of 10 police calls a night.

  6. If I would come back- I would be making the best deal of :
    Protection- increased with the best private protection + adding police,
    Taxes- no or lower taxes from the outrageous Chicago and Cook County (community empowerment zone and all that),
    Rebuilding money – % of funds from outside of my company (hit up BLM inc)
    Unemployment Insurance- the city will subsidize % SUTA aka SUI tax .
    Medical benefits – the first five years of the employer mandated portion for FT employers is fully subsidized from (insert you can get to pay it)
    And…. whatever they can squeeze from the city etc, etc.

    Then they both come out, with the PR shit show- win! win! – Mayor works with “our business” partners because you know that ….
    And there should be no amount of money limit set for a improving lives!!

  7. Once flew from home to DC and sat next to an oil company dude from Texas. During our conversation he mentioned that 2 Walmarts near his house had been closed. I couldn’t imagine a Walmart being closed. He related that both were closed due to huge losses from shoplifting. If they don’t make a profit. . .

  8. regardless of color race or priveledge,education level
    every moron knows
    respect is earned
    self-respect and self-discipline
    is where one starts

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