Philadelphia: Bulletproof Glass=Racist

[PolishHeadlock]

Usually the choice politicians and community just bitch further about outsiders and blame the racism.

Depending how deep down the black hole of ignorance the community is.

Riot, burn down your own impoverished streets and target outsiders, and then wonder why the services are so poor and investments avoid your enclave.

Turn around and demand more outside help... forever...

Certainly the system has some blame, certainly the condition the people were taught to be in came from the system to some extent, but like so many things in life, seventy percent of the ignorance was willful and self inflicted.

Ok?

 

[PolishHeadlock]

This nutty bitch trying to stop convenient store clerks from hiding behind bullet proof glass because they could put one of her constituents out of work when they can’t rob the place.

Dude it's not convenience stores. You would never find businesses like this outside of the poorest neighborhoods.

This is a very narrow sect of businesses that have been violating state liquor laws for years.

 

[DickSarp]

Bullet proof glass. Same day Check Cashing. Pawn shops. Liquor stores. All signs of a thriving neighborhood. We have state sanctioned drug dealing liquor stores selling drugs to the economically depressed people who pawn whatever shit they have left to buy more drugs. Then if the unemployment check comes in, we can cash it now and have drugs in our hands the same day.

How could any of that have a negative effect on a neighborhood?

 

[PolishHeadlock]

Bullet proof glass. Same day Check Cashing. Pawn shops. Liquor stores. All signs of a thriving neighborhood. We have state sanctioned drug dealing liquor stores selling drugs to the economically depressed people who pawn whatever shit they have left to buy more drugs. Then if the unemployment check comes in, we can cash it now and have drugs in our hands the same day.

How could any of that have a negative effect on a neighborhood?

The fucked up thing to me is the only people crying about this bill are people that don't live and never go to these neighborhoods.

On one hand you tell the Black community it is up to them to fix their own neighborhoods and when they try demonize them for it.

 

[InternetHero]

Ok?

OK. OK.

 

[uppercutbus]

Fire exits are anti-Semitic!

Locked windows are anti-rapist (aka Islamophobic).

 

[CauseImbetta]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...eepers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

This ties into my other thread about construction workers not being allowed to carry in bad neighborhoods. Now a bill is being proposed to remove bulletproof glass from businesses in bad neighborhoods. PC culture wants to murder people and its blatant now. Protecting yourself in a crime ridden neighborhood is racist.

I would never set foot in a crime ridden shit-hole in the first place.

 

[JonesBones]

In PA liquor stores on run by the state. They are not privately held.

These are stop and go beer stores that illegally sell liquor and don't follow the rules of their liquor license.

There are plenty of places in these neighborhoods' that sell beer and food which comply with the law. Their are also beer distributors in these neighborhoods.

This law is targeting a very specific type of business.

So we can stop pretending that the choice is bulletproof glass or prohibition.

I totally forgot about PA's liquor laws. Fuckin ridiculous. Not being able to buy beer in gas stations, grocery stores or pharmacies. I was shocked. My buddy went into a gas station in PA on a trip down south and was like "Where the fuck is the beer?"

 

[PolishHeadlock]

I totally forgot about PA's liquor laws. Fuckin ridiculous. Not being able to buy beer in gas stations, grocery stores or pharmacies. I was shocked. My buddy went into a gas station in PA on a trip down south and was like "Where the fuck is the beer?"

They've slowly been loosening. You can buy beer and wine in come supermarkets

 

[Victor Maitland]

End result of decision = people who own the stores are forced out and Philly becomes the new Detroit

That will be the face of America in the future that the leftists want.

 

[Fugazy]

These stores are breaking state liquor laws.

They sell shots of liquor illegally, drug paraphernalia (trinket that are sold only to be used as crack pipes), beer to go and snacks.

If these shops were in an affluent neighborhood they would be shut down immediately.

The working families of these neighborhoods want these places to either comply with the law or shut down. Due to state inaction they want city legislation to enforce these standards.

The removing of bullet proof glass was small piece of the bill which I believe has been removed but people latched onto it because they are scared of black people.

These stores operate under a liquor license for food establishments. Basically they are supposed to be restaurants/delis. Instead they are just To-Go beer stores that also illegally sell shots of liquor.

Then they should be held accountable for the laws they are breaking.

This seems like a clear cut case of a municipality needing to enforce their existing laws and regulations. I can't understand the logic in why they would enact new laws that would make their constituents less safe as opposed to enforcing exsisting laws.

 

[nhbbear]

Dude it's not convenience stores. You would never find businesses like this outside of the poorest neighborhoods.

This is a very narrow sect of businesses that have been violating state liquor laws for years.

It’s your backyard. And there are way too many liquor stores in the poor areas, but I fail to see how preventing a safety measure solves any of the cultural, societal, and other problems that lead to so many of these stores being in business.

 

[WTF2008]

There was already a thread about this. Asian store owners are in an uproar.

If you make fun of it, it isn't crazy and weird.

 

[ShadowRun]

Yea who cares about the safeguards for the employee's, SJW delivered again !

 

[Victor Maitland]

Green light for criminals to attack stores !
or is that crazy talk?

 

[deadshot138]

https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesm...-proof-glass-in-stores-yt87dI-ptU6ELH-OXaI-0Q

Think it’s passed officially. And to the argument that bulletproof glass keeps down the black communities, fuck You. The glass is reactionary to repeated robberies and harassment to people just trying to run a business by pieces of shit who would rather steal and rob than work. The people who live there should understand why he businesses take these measures. I have shopped at places with bulletproof glass and didn’t feel alienated or offended by the experience. I’ve been to drivethrus where you never even saw the cashier, it was just a rotating metal cylinder through which money and food were exchanged. No crime=no glass.

 

[deadshot138]

Also how about the government overreach here, telling businesses what they can and can’t do outside the confines of the law? More socialist SJW bullshit.

 

[clmetal]

Entertaining

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/n...cle_b111c7c8-e501-11e7-a170-ff8d2ea6a42c.html

 

[kahiljabroni]

https://whyy.org/articles/time-philadelphias-stop-gos-stop-go/

I’m angry that the stop-and-go issue in Philadelphia has been mischaracterized as a debate about bulletproof glass. In reality, it’s about small convenience stores or delis that have routinely been allowed to skirt the law in black and brown communities.

The combination of state liquor and restaurant licenses these stores operate under require that they provide seating for 30 people and onsite bathroom facilities. The stores often have neither, and the undermanned state liquor control board, which oversees these facilities under state law, has rarely shut them down.

But the problem with stop-and-go businesses is more than a legal issue. It’s an ethical issue. The owners of these stores operate with predatory efficiency, providing everything necessary for their customers’ demise while at the same time refusing to give anything back. As a lifelong Philadelphian who has lived in the neighborhoods where these nuisance businesses have thrived, I need our city’s leaders to know this: It’s time for the stop-and-go to stop and go.

Eighth District Councilwoman Cindy Bass agrees. It’s why she introduced bill 170963 to regulate stop-and-go businesses at the city level.

“What we have is businesses that sell beer, which is supposed to be consumed off site, but it’s consumed on site,” Bass told me in an interview. “You have shots of alcohol being consumed on site. You have cold medicines that are used to be converted to illegal drugs, and you have crack pipes being sold. Then you have candy for children, which, in my opinion, is grooming the next generation of customers for this type of business.

“Anything you need to get high you can get at a stop-and-go. If they were selling hypodermic needles, there’d be a call to shut them down, but because they’re selling crack pipes and alcohol, there’s not the same sense of urgency.”

Bass is right. Unfortunately, that message has been lost in the uproar over bulletproof glass. The store owners have argued that the bill — which requires stores that claim to be restaurants to operate as such — would bring bloodshed by requiring stop-and-go stores to remove bulletproof glass.

In truth, the bill does not require the immediate removal of the bulletproof glass. Rather, it mandates that the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections decide on the bulletproof glass in 2021. L&I could very well decide that the bulletproof glass can stay in the stores. But, by pretending this is a safety issue rather than a legal issue, stop-and-go owners can continue to skirt the law without being forced to change their predatory business model.

Disdain for customers
That makes me angrier than anything else. Because the people who are siding with stop-and-go owners on this issue have never lived in the neighborhoods they claim to know so much about. If they had, they would know, as I do, that the majority of people in our neighborhoods go to work every day, struggle to pay their bills, and strive to live in peace with their neighbors. They would know that the vast majority of businesses in poor black and brown neighborhoods — including numerous Asian-owned businesses — operate safely without plexiglass.

But the narrative that stop-and-go owners have spun is one that shows a disdain for the customers they claim to care so much about. That’s the message I got when I read in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News that Asian American Licensed Beverage Association chairman Adam Xu told 200 stop-and-go owners not to use guns, but in the next breath said, “If this bill passes, nobody should remove their bulletproof glass … we will tell the entire city government and all citizens of Philadelphia: ‘We love the community like everybody else. We do not want gun violence.’ ”

In my view, such statements are not made out of love. They’re made out of fear. And if stop-and-go owners are afraid of the black and brown people in my community, they shouldn’t claim to love us. They should leave.

Because here is the truth: Love doesn’t sell crack pipes to addicts, or peddle illegal loose cigarettes in a community that desperately needs tax revenue from legal tobacco. Love doesn’t sell shots of liquor to alcoholics from one hand, and bags of potato chips to children from another. Love doesn’t threaten to ignore the law in order to keep selling poison to a community that is already distressed. Love doesn’t assume that every customer who walks through the door is a criminal.

Love, most of all, doesn’t kill a community one serving at a time.

If stop-and-go stores can’t operate within the law, they shouldn’t be allowed to operate at all. Instead they should simply stop and go.

These stores are filling an obvious demand in those neighborhoods and those products happen to be legal. I there was demand for fresh fruit and books then that's what these stores would carry.

 

[PolishHeadlock]

These stores are filling an obvious demand in those neighborhoods and those products happen to be legal. I there was demand for fresh fruit and books then that's what these stores would carry.

They are operating illegally