BLM Sends Threatening List Of Demands To Kentucky Business Owners

It was not enough for BLM to destroy historical statues, they now have their eyes set on small businesses if they don’t comply with their demands. Kentucky’s Black Lives Matter members distributed a 3-page letter which included a list of demands telling business owners new standards they would have to enforce or else. The letter explained that BLM would protest any business that didn’t comply and would discredit them with the Better Business Bureau as well as make it known they were an enemy of BLM on social media.

The Demands:

1. “Businesses will adequately represent the black population of Louisville by having a minimum of 23% black staff (including management) in front of house positions, and maintain commitment and accountability to increasing that number (accountability roundtable information below).
2. Retail locations will include a minimum of 23% inventory of black retailers OR make a recurring monthly donation of 1.5% of net sales to black local organizations.
3. Business owners will require diversity, equity, & inclusion training for their staffs, to be conducted by any one of the black women leaders on the attached list. Training will be conducted thereafter on a bi-annual basis.
4. Customize your own OR display one of the attached written statements in a viable location within your business to increase awareness and show support for the reparations movement.
5. Non-profits in NuLu district will submit to a voluntary, external audit of their board of trustees and take necessary steps towards 23% representation on those boards.
6. Business owners & non-profit leaders will participate in quarterly roundtable discussions to be held accountable for their communities to these demands, and work together towards increased equity.
7. Maintain adequate black representation in any entertainment and performances booked at your business.”
8. “Dress code policies inherently discriminate against black folks, women, and the transgender community. You must eliminate dress code policies that promote profiling towards patrons and employees, including their hair requirements or stipulations, which can disproportionately target black folks.
9. 23% black representation on the board of the NuLu Business Association.”

This is called extortion. BLM here is forcing businesses to comply or they will try their best to ruin them. The businesses have until the 17th to comply, but no one should. If BLM wants to encourage change that is fine, but strong-arming businesses is not ok. The police should be called in if BLM starts hassling any of these businesses. A business owner has the right to hire whoever he/she wants and get merchandise from whoever he/she sees fit. This is just more of that civil attitude from BLM, threatening to suffocate any business that refuses them.