UZ on Arab liquor stores

Further to her earlier post about the torchings in California of Arab-run general stores which sell booze, she has a lengthy post, Pops, focusing on one particular Arab booze dealer in New Jersey, his racist attitudes and the ill-effects his business had on his predominantly poor black and Hispanic community, and the false justifications these people make for their dirty trade. Izzy Mo had a long post about Arab-run corner stores and the effect they have, particularly on relations between Arabs and Afro-Americans.

I have to say that, unlike UZ, I have no sympathy whatever for the racist idiots who run these places – a group of Afro-Americans have decided they won't tolerate these crack houses in their communities, and may Allah find them a better way of dealing with it than this, but it reminds me of the recent riots in Birmingham and how the riots were caused by what was perceived as Asians muscling in on traditionally black areas of business: the hair and beauty industry which serves a mainly black customer base. Then again, I don't see anyone asking why the black customer base was more than willing to jump ship when the Asian-run shops undercut the black shopkeepers' prices! In the same way, communities claim that they are being priced out of their own home villages and towns by wealthy urbanites, but when they sell up, will they sell to the local or to whoever's money is right?