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Omaha Steve

(99,556 posts) Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:40 AM Dec 2014

How This Tea Party Hopes to Help Ferguson Merchants

Tea Party wants to HELP?

http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/01/how-this-tea-party-hopes-to-help-ferguson-merchants/

Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97 / December 01, 2014

Photo: Newscom

Natalie DuBose, owner of Natalie’s Cakes & Things in Ferguson, Mo., lost her livelihood last Monday night.

Earlier that night, a grand jury had gone public with its decision not to indict a white police officer for shooting and killing a young black man. Anger quickly spread through a crowd of protesters gathered in the streets of the St. Louis suburb.

They marched and chanted, and some of them looted and rioted, leaving smoldering buildings, broken windows and damaged storefronts in their wake.

Now, DuBose and other Ferguson merchants must rebuild, grappling with how to pay the bills. And Christmas soon will be here.

FULL story at link.

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How This Tea Party Hopes to Help Ferguson Merchants (Original Post) Omaha Steve Dec 2014 OP

That's an oddity el_bryanto Dec 2014 #1

el_bryanto

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1. That's an oddity

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Mon Dec 1, 2014, 11:45 AM

Dec 2014

We'd have to see how they actual behave if they do it. If they are there to patronize the white businesses exclusively than that's pretty racist and nasty - if they are intent on building up all the small businesses effected by the situation, than that's . . .well, good I would say. The motivations are questionable, but still seems more on the positive end of the spectrum.

Bryant

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