Black-owned businesses put up signs to stop looting, show solidarity - Business Insider

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Black-owned businesses across the country are putting up signs to show solidarity with protesters and deter looting

, printed 500 signs for black-owned businesses to show support for protestors and ask looters to leave them alone.told the Chicago Sun-TimesSimilar signs are popping up in the windows and on the boards of Black-owned businesses across the country, including in, where store owners spray painted notices on their storefront boards. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, signs saying "Local Black Owned Business. We are in this together.

Critics say that these signs encourage looters to target other businesses. But Barber says the signs are mostly meant to convey solidarity. "I think, more than anything, it gives people pride, unifying them in something they can stand for," Barber said. Black-owned businesses aren't the only businesses that are expressing support for the protests In Seattle's International District, at leastwere damaged during the city's protests last weekend. Afterward, local artists and community members came together to help board up businesses in the area, painting murals on the boards in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Longtime International District resident Dev Kabanela, who helped organize the effort, told Business Insider that the artists chose the images "to undo the myths of separation between Black and Asian peoples." Courtesy of Dev Kabanela

 

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So if its white owned that means go ahead and destroy it?

Sorry but isn't this maybe the first time ever you guys have breathed a word about Black-owned businesses and also have next to no Black editors Just sayin'

probably more because they expect anti-looting 'insurance' in the land of law and order?

Don't forget to smear lamb's blood on your doors

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