Black Lives Matter (BLM) is calling for supporters to do their holiday shopping at black-owned businesses in a boycott effort to “end white-supremacist-capitalism.”
The boycott is called #BlackXmas. “We’re dreaming of a #BlackXmas. That means no spending with white companies from 11/26/2021 – 01/01/2022,” states the boycott movement’s website, blackxmas.org.
In a November 26 Instagram post promoting the boycott, BLM’s Global Network foundation wrote, “ Skip the Black Friday sales and buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses.” The post goes on to read, “ White-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life.”
“As BLMLA organizer, Jan Williams, reminds us, ‘Capitalism doesn’t love Black people. [Emphasis added]'” reads the “Black Xmas” page on BLM’s website. “In fact, white-supremacist-capitalism invented policing, initially as chattel-slavery-era ‘paddy rollers,’ in order to protect its interests and put targets on the backs of Black people.”
“#BlackXmas challenges us to shake off the chains of consumerism and step fully into our own collective power, to build new traditions, and run an offense as well as a defense,” the website goes on to state. “Let’s harness our economic power to disrupt white-supremacist-capitalism and build Black community. [Emphasis added]“
The boycott challenges supporters to build black, buy black, and bank black.
In terms of building black, the BlackXmas website encourages followers to “support Black-led, Black-serving organizations” as opposed to spending money “on meaningless items.”
“Buying Black is the engine of #Blackxmas’s cooperative economics,” the website states under the buy black page. “It is intended to help replenish the Black dollar within local communities, and keep the dollar circulating for much longer than when making purchases at non-Black business.”
BlackXmas encourages supporters to bank black. The page reads in part:
The monetary system which creates and maintains the value of the almighty dollar was designed to reproduce imperialism, institutional racism and inequality. In a just world, the American dollar wouldn’t be a destructive economic cudgel used to compel submission to the capitalist order. Perhaps in this world money wouldn’t exist at all and humans would produce goods and services for common welfare with no regard for personal gain or capitalist acquisition.
Alas, black people must survive in the reality of our monetized market economy, thus we interact with banks and finance. From the the moment Afrikans stepped foot in the so-called Americas, we’ve been excluded from full access to safe deposits, savings, fair loans, and equity. Pecuniary knowledge or advancement has been denied to and taken from us despite the best efforts of our ancestors.
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Nevertheless, black-owned and operated banks persist in providing our community with the services we need to live and thrive in this money-obsessed society. Despite the ongoing challenges, they continue to support their skinfolk with access to FDIC-insured accounts. Black communities are disproportionately underbanked, which makes them vulnerable to predatory lenders and check cashing costs. Invest in black people by divesting from your Wall Street bank. #BankBlack today! [Emphasis added]
The website provides maps of where to buy black in Los Angeles, California, Long Beach, California, and South Bend, Indiana. Additionally, videos of multiple Christmas protests are posted to the page, including one on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. The group can be heard saying, “No justice, No Peace! Take it to the streets and fuck the police!”
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Insane: Hammer-wielding thieves invade Concord jewelry store, wiping store clean
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Suspect arrested after throwing Molotov cocktail at Brooklyn deli, slashing man
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BLACK LIVES MURDER AND LOOT AND HAVE FOR A VERY LONG TIME!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/black-terrorism-in-america-murder-loot.html
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites
In reality, BLM is the very embodiment of Marxism, anti-Semitism, and racism—a trifecta of wickedness capable of destroying any society. John Perazzo
Blacks are also overrepresented among perpetrators of hate crimes—by 50 percent—according to the most recent Justice Department data from 2017; whites are underrepresented by 24 percent. This is particularly true for anti-gay and anti-Semitic hate crimes.
Shocking video shows brazen thieves stealing from Ulta Beauty store
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Man targeted by would-be robbers turns the table on suspects by opening fire in Fairfax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnN0cGgoPs
Surveillance video of Kirkwood home invasion
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Killing caught on camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0XvtpkE78
Intruder shot, killed after kicking in door, charging occupant with a knife
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VIDEO: Burglary suspected thwarted by gun-toting homeowner
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Mother armed with shotgun scares off burglar in Miami Gardens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o2eSvS8KPU
Video: Neptune Beach resident shoots at 3 armed robbers, police say
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Woman arrested in Jacksonville in connection with execution-style killing in New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1bRRHVZUg
Surveillance video shows man stealing coveted puppy from pet store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsqXrzqFD5o
Shooting outside North Miami Beach fast food restaurant under investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwwD7_BAacA
Thieves crash UHaul into auto parts store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fAr-bP3Ds
Woman who livestreamed her looting spree in Chicago released from prison the same day she arrived to serve her 17-month sentence
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/blacks-and-looting-case-against-taeshia.html
By Thomas Lifson
I’d like to be able to say “only in Chicago,” which seems to have become the world capital of street crime, but alas, “criminal justice reform” runs rampant – as do criminals, even those convicted of felonies
Surveillance video shows man stealing coveted puppy from pet store
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EXCLUSIVE: Two San Francisco Prosecutors Quit, Join Effort to Recall City's DA'
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BIG SPIKE IN SHOPLIFTING, THIEVES GET MORE BRAZEN, POVERTY DANGER AHEAD WARNING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BMXf2G6h8
Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-five-bay-area-stores-amid-shoplifting-surge/
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/black-lives-loot-walgreens-closes-five.html
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11 Suspects Sought In $100K Handbag Heist At Palo Alto Louis Vuitton Store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIkiCOuQNE
Video shows suspected thieves sprinting out of California Neiman Marcus with designer handbags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ctqHXAcXM
Brazen shoplifting video in San Francisco becomes issue in California recall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIcsHh8vso
Brazen, Serial Shoplifter Appears In Court As DA Vows To Crack Down On Retail Thefts
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Busting an Organized Shoplifting Ring
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Threats of More Lawlessness in New York
Cal Thomas
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"Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy." - Thurgood Marshall
Eric Adams, the incoming mayor of New York City, met last week with Hawk Newsome, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York, and about a dozen other members of the organization. According to local Fox5 TV, Newsome threatened "riots, fire and bloodshed" if Adams reinstate the NYPD's controversial anti-crime unit. That unit was disbanded last year due to rioting that followed the murder of George Floyd. The unit was credited with reducing some violent crime in the city, but also blamed for a spate of police shootings that targeted residents of Black and brown communities.
Adams reacted by saying he won't stand for inflammatory language or threats. Good for him. One hopes Adams, a former police officer, follows through. There is far too much intimidation from groups that have never held public office or been held accountable for their actions. BLM is not alone. We can also include the Proud Boys, followers of QAnon, and the riotous MAGA crowd that stormed our Capitol on Jan. 6.
Looting and destruction of property seems to have become the norm in major cities. Prosecutors and judges do not appear to enforce the law so much as see the criminals as victims of society's main ills -- racism, poverty, ignorance. They seem to care less about the real victims, who are business owners and law-abiding citizens.
When BLM burst on the scene, many white people, including friends of mine, engaged in virtue signaling by putting the group's logo on their social media pages and their signs in their front yards. Large companies contributed money. Few - and virtually none in the media - delved into the philosophy and background of BLM.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank, did. It found a 2015 interview with BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi in which Cullors said, "Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists." That same year, reported Heritage, "Tometi was hobnobbing with Venezuela's Marxist dictator Nicolas Maduro of whose regime she wrote: 'In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world.'"
Venezuelans who have fled the country would disagree. Others who have stayed struggle to obtain basic needs, including medicine, food, and lifesaving surgery.
The threats of anarchy in New York and elsewhere should be met with a promise from Adams. He should announce that if people break the law they will be arrested and put in jail. If they destroy property or loot, they will be forced to pay back businesses several times the value of the property. If they are on government assistance, their payments will be reduced or eliminated until the debt is paid. Gun ownership should be made easier for business owners and private citizens. Those intent on breaking the law should be advised if they threaten someone with a weapon the targeted person will have the support of the legal system if he or she shoots in self-defense.
Coddling criminals invites more lawlessness. Watch videos of people looting stores in San Francisco with no reprisals. Watch video of the Capitol riot. Police seem afraid to intervene given the anti-police sentiment. Shop owners, too. Criminals rule in many of our cities. Leftist judges and district attorneys who let them get away with their crimes, or minimize their penalties, should be voted out of office in cities where they are elected, just as is now being done with some school board members who have promoted teaching of subjects opposed by parents.
Eric Adams should not be bullied. Thurgood Marshall would likely have had his back.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-five-bay-area-stores-amid-shoplifting-surge/
Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge Michael M. Santiago/Getty
PAUL BOIS
The ongoing shoplifting surge has forced Walgreens to close five more San Francisco stores as local law enforcement continues to do next to nothing to curtail the problem.
In a statement to SF Gate , Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso confirmed “organized retail crime” has strangled San Francisco stores.
“Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,” Caruso said. “Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average.”
“During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment,” he added.
Asha Safai, San Francisco Board of Supervisor for District 11 admitted to feeling “devastated” over the closure a Walgreens store that has “been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades.”
“I am completely devastated by this news – this Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades. This closure will significantly impact this community,” he tweeted.
Safai told SFGate that the shoplifting had crippled the store’s bottom-line and endangered the staff and customers to an unhealthy degree.
“This is a sad day for San Francisco,” Safai said. “We can’t continue to let these anchor institutions close that so many people rely on.”
Shoplifting has skyrocketed in San Francisco recently, likely a result of Proposition 47, which dictates stealing would not be a felony in California if the item stolen did not exceed $950.
The damage has been felt across a range of business outlets.
In May of this year, The San Francisco News described the situation as being “out of control,” noting that 17 Walgreens have had to close in the past five years due to rampant shoplifting in the city.
17 Walgreen locations in San Francisco have closed their doors within the last five years according to a report from the SF Chronicle. Ten of these closures transpired from 2019 to this year with the last Walgreens store to close its door as of this writing, back on March 17. The cause of the closures is due to rampant shoplifting and looting that has transpired at Walgreen locations in the city believed to be perpetuated by an organized crime ring.
On Thursday, May 13 a hearing was held by the Board of Supervisors with retailers, the SFPD, the district attorney’s office, and probation departments. Brendan Dugan, director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations, believes that San Francisco is at the center of organized retail crime. He brought up a state bust in the Bay Area from last year in which $8 million in stolen merchandise was confiscated from five suspects. The merchandise came from CVS, Target and Walgreens stores from all across San Francisco.
The lack of enforcement made shoplifters so nonchalant and casual they would often steal in broad daylight while awestruck customers documented the crime on their iPhones, allowing for some viral internet moments.
Crime Economy Law and Order California San Francisco shoplifting Walgreens
San Francisco Safeway Cuts Hours Due to Rampant Shoplifting 383 waltarrrrr / Flickr / CC / Cropped
JOEL B. POLLAK
A prominent Safeway supermarket in the Castro district of San Francisco is limiting its hours due to rampant shoplifting, the latest example of a retail store closing or limiting its operations in the left-liberal city due to out-of-control petty crime.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:
Shoppers at the Safeway in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood will see a noticeable change to the store: It now closes at 9 p.m. due to what one supervisor described as “out of control” shoplifting.
Once open 24 hours a day, the Safeway store on Market and Church streets now has the earliest closing hours of all the Pleasanton-based supermarket chain’s San Francisco storefronts, most of which stay open until midnight.
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[San Francisco Supervisor Rafael] Mandelman said theft at the Safeway at 2020 Market Street has been “out of control” and recently met with Safeway representatives “to better understand the issues at this store.” He said he also planned to meet with the San Francisco Police Department and the office of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin “to see what is currently being done to deter theft at Safeway, and to figure out a plan to do better.”
Earlier this year, Walgreens closed 17 stores in the city due to shoplifting, which skyrocketed after California voters passed Proposition 47, a ballot initiative aimed at criminal justice reform, which reclassified thefts up to $950 as misdemeanors. As a result, such thefts are rarely prosecuted.
The crime spike began under former district attorney George Gascón, who is now district attorney for Los Angeles County, and has continued under Chesa Boudin, who now faces a likely recall election.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election . His recent book, RED NOVEMBER , tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak .
ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION OF SAN FRANCISCO IS BLACK. THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIMES.
SEVEN WALGREENS HAVE CLOSED DUE TO BLACK LOOTING.
SEE THE VIDEOS BELOW.
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Is Stealing Wrong?
Not on the Left.
Thu Nov 4, 2021
Dennis Prager
To most readers of this column, the question is absurd. The reason is not because the question is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious.
Am I implying that most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong?
Yes, I am.
As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong. Since I always draw a distinction between those on the Left and liberals, let me add that I suspect most liberals think stealing is wrong. But it almost doesn't matter because they vote for people who do not think it is.
One proof is the passage of Proposition 47, a California ballot initiative passed in 2014, under which theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor and rarely prosecuted. As a result, in Democrat-run California cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, retail theft has soared.
Walgreens stores in San Francisco are racking up four times the average amount of theft in Walgreens stores across the country; spending on security guards in San Francisco is 35 times more than the chain's average in other cities. Walgreens has been forced to close 22 stores in the city since 2016.
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle: "The Safeway located in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood ... was a longstanding, 24-hour fixture in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. But as of last week, the store's hours have been cut back to 6 a.m. to 9 p.m ... A Safeway spokesperson (said) that the cutbacks are 'due to an increasing amount of theft at the store.'"
Further proof that the Left doesn't consider theft wrong — at least when committed by a person of color — was an interview broadcast on NPR last year with the author of a book titled "In Defense of Looting." The NPR interviewer threw only softball questions to the author.
In the last election, Los Angeles voters elected San Francisco's previous district attorney, George Gascon, as Los Angeles's district attorney. It was Los Angeles's way of declaring that stealing is not wrong. And it is worth noting that it is not only racial minorities and the poor who make these elections possible; it is also prosperous whites. The Los Angeles DA is a wealthy white, and he was supported by a white billionaire, George Soros.
It is hard to believe that millions of Americans do not deem stealing from stores morally wrong, so let's try to explain how this has come about.
Reason No. 1 is moral relativism. For as long as there has been a Left, it has rejected moral absolutes. As the great British historian, Paul Johnson, pointed out a half-century ago in his magnum opus, "Modern Times," the secular world applied the relativism of the natural sciences to morality.
Reason No. 2 is the reason for reason number one: the collapse of the Judeo-Christian value system and the accompanying abandonment of, and often disdain for, biblical ethics. Biblical morality posits moral absolutes — meaning that stealing is wrong for everyone, certainly people of every color. Yes, one can offer a biblical defense of a starving man stealing food for his starving family. But that is hardly what is happening in San Francisco and other American cities.
Reason No. 3 is Marxist morality. From Marx to the present, Marxism has divided the world not between right and wrong, but between economic classes. Therefore, it is morally acceptable for members of the poorer classes to steal from members of the more affluent classes. This notion has made its way into young people's minds for decades. About 30 years ago, I spoke to students from four Cleveland high schools. I asked them to raise their hand if they would steal something they really wanted from a department store if they were certain they would not get caught. Nearly all the students raised their hands. When I asked some of them to justify their reasoning, they all said the same thing: they wouldn't steal from a mom-and-pop store, but they would steal from a department store. It is OK to steal from "the rich."
Reason No. 4 is leftists' view of nonwhites, especially blacks, a view that conservatives have never shared. Leftists truly believe that blacks are intellectually and morally inferior to whites. The evidence? They do not believe blacks should be held to the same intellectual and moral standards to which leftists hold whites. Leftists do not defend whites who steal, and they hold whites to higher intellectual standards. Leftists do not argue for lowering math standards for whites, only for blacks.
The bottom line is the Left is immoral. That is why it defends stealing.
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