Louisville businesses targeted by black reparation activists
Kentucky businesses have been threatened with negative reviews online should they refuse to comply with the demands of activists who are calling for race-based reparations in the form of a three-page contract. Residents describe the demands as “criminal extortion.”
WAVE 3 News reports that the activists sent out the contract to NuLu (New Louisville) businesses in the East Market District of the city, following a protest on Friday in which 76 protesters were arrested and charged for obstructing a highway. Some protesters were reportedly charged with assault for throwing projectiles at police officers.
According to WDRB News, the list of demands issued a deadline of August 17, at which time activists would then post negative reviews on Yelp and other online platforms to non-compliant businesses in the area.
“The residents of Louisville, Kentucky are standing strong, educated, and together to express the destruction your business has caused to low-income communities, specifically those with majority black residents,” reads the letter. “We therefore demand representation and reparations in the NuLu business district of Louisville for the gentrification that has taken place. The policies and processes of the revitalization on NuLu has displaced marginalized people from homes their families have often resided for generations, single-handedly progressing the gentrification of black neighborhoods.”
In addition, the letter claims that the “process” affects “black, indigenous, and persons of color at the hands of white, heterosexual patriarchy” since the founding of the United States of America.
“Black folx can’t ‘have this own space’ when wealthy white folks see an opportunity to make more money,” it adds. “Gentrification is a palatable term that sugar coats one more aspect of an oppressive system targeted at black folx for 400 years. We are here today to demand representation over tokenism.”
The letter emphasizes the term “folx” over “folks” when referring to black people and other non-white persons.
The preface is followed by a list of demands, including:
- Businesses will adequately represent the black population of Louisville by having a minimum of 23% black staff (including management) in front of house positions, and maintain commitment and accountability to increasing that number (accountability roundtable information below).
- Retail locations will include a minimum of 23% inventory of black retailers OR make a recurring monthly donation of 1.5% of net sales to black local organizations.
- Business owners will require diversity, equity, & inclusion training for their staffs, to be conducted by any one of the black women leaders on the attached list. Training will be conducted thereafter on a bi-annual basis.
- Customize your own OR display one of the attached written statements in a viable location within your business to increase awareness and show support for the reparations movement.
- Non-profits in NuLu district will submit to a voluntary, external audit of their board of trustees and take necessary steps towards 23% representation on those boards.
- Business owners & non-profit leaders will participate in quarterly roundtable discussions to be held accountable for their communities to these demands, and work together towards increased equity.
- Maintain adequate black representation in any entertainment and performances booked at your business.
- Dress code policies inherently discriminate against black folks, women, and the transgender community. You must eliminate dress code policies that promote profiling towards patrons and employees, including their hair requirements or stipulations, which can disproportionately target black folks.
- 23% black representation on the board of the NuLu Business Association.
No businesses in the area have publicly agreed to comply with the list of demands as of yet, but local residents speaking to the Daily Wire expressed upset that the story received too little attention in local media, but refused to come forward publicly out of fear of “mob retaliation” from the activists.
- By Ezra Levant
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