re: #230 Honorary Yooper

I was thinking those riots between Jews and Blacks in New York. I remember them on the news. IIRC, it started when a kid got hit by a car.

nationalcenter.org

In 1995, the building’s owners decided to raise the rents on the business tenants. It’s not an uncommon thing to do - many landlords have and continue to do this across Manhattan and across the country. But, because they couldn’t afford the rent increase, several businesses, including some black-owned ones, were forced to move. The man who would be king, the Reverend Al Sharpton, decided to protest this - not by deriding the church elders, the landlords of the building, but by loudly denouncing the Jewish owners of Freddy’s Fashion Mart.
He insisted that Freddy’s owners were bloodsuckers and white interlopers who were forcing the other tenants out of the building to further their own “racist” agenda.