Black business owners on Washington's historic U Street see echoes of 1968

WASHINGTON - For the owners of some of the venerable black-owned businesses on U Street in Washington’s Northwest section, the protests against racism and police brutality that have flared on the streets of the U.S. capital seem like an echo of the past.

“It’s saddened me to realize that our sons and daughters are fighting today for the same rights that we fought for back then, 52 years ago,” said Virginia Ali, 86, the co-founder of Ben’s Chili Bowl. “They’re fighting for the same basic human rights that we were fighting for.” Hundreds of buildings in Washington were burned. Some neighborhoods were pushed into an economic tailspin that took decades to recover from, according to historian Jane Levey of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Several businesses, including Lee’s, placed “Soul Brothers” signs on their windows to make clear they were owned by black entrepreneurs. Those businesses were largely untouched in the 1968 unrest, Levey recalled.Ali recalled that Ben’s Chili Bowl, located three blocks away, was the only business allowed to stay open during the curfew imposed to try to quell the 1968 rioting.

The protests in the past two weeks in Washington and other cities in the United States and abroad were sparked by the death of a black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

Which means there hasn't been real change in half a century. Sad.

Wonder why.

India is the home of racism of every possible category. Why criticism of racism is only limited to western countries? Why not bring out the ugly side of India where minorities are being brutalized and ethnic-cleansing of worst kind is going on.

Only this time they're getting a nice little earner from George Soros

I'm sorry blacks have the same rights under the law. Wtf are they talking about

WHY DID THE PROBLEM ONLY ARISE 4 YEARS AFTER HAVING A BLACK PRESIDENT FOR 8 YEARS AND WHY WAS THE PROBLEM NOT FIXED DURING THE LAST ADMINISTRATION HE WAS THE PRSIDENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE FOR 8 YEARS.

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Black business owners on Washington's historic U Street see echoes of 1968For the owners of some of the venerable black-owned businesses on U Street in Washington's Northwest section, the protests against racism and police brutality that have flared on the streets of the U.S. capital seem like an echo of the past. FAKE NEWS. Except everything because it is the same old racist learned as children from the racist parents from the past.
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