Cuban Immigrant and business owner Fernando Martinez called out the “mafia tactics” being used by BLM in Louisville KY.
A BLM related group calling itself “Occupy NuLu” , named after the Louisville neighborhood known as “New Louisville” posted a list of demands from local businesses and non-profits. Some of those demands?
- Businesses must hire 23% black employees (including in management) by August 17 and agree to increase it by 5% every month.
- Businesses must agree to buy 23% of their inventory from black businesses or give up 1.5% of their net sales to black organizations.
- Businesses must agree to diversity training for their employees with ‘educators’ approved by them.
- You must put a sign in your business either the one they give you or something similar, confessing your guilt in the gentrification of the neighborhood and support for reparations.
- Non-profits in the area must “submit” to a voluntary audit of their boards, with have that 23% representation on their boards.
And if you don’t go along with their program? They will put you on “social media blast,” push a “public boycott coordinated through social media” of any business you own, protest outside your establishment and even place booths outside your business where people will try to sell whatever you are selling to interfere in your business.
It gets worse, after Fernando said he wasn’t going along to get along, the group came to his business and tried busting up the place. From a release from the Louisville Cuban community:
La Bodeguita de Mima was forced to close July 24 during a demonstration that shut down East Market Street, at which several protesters presented Martinez with the list of demands and said he “better put the letter on the door so your business is not f*cked with.”
The restaurant remained closed the next two days because “management and staff were concerned about safety,” according to the release. “30+ staff members (mostly immigrants) were unable to earn a paycheck.”
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Martinez said he came from Cuba on a raft at age 18. Many of the supporters at the rally for his business came from Cuba under similar circumstances and held signs saying they left Cuba to get away from socialism.
Good on Mr Martinez for standing up for what he feels is right and not bowing to the pressure.
I have a hankering for Cuban food now.