Quote Originally Posted by 48091 View Post
http://www.npr.org/local/stories/Mic...adio/150282984

I don't get why this is news. It just seems trivial to me the race of the person who owns a store.

But then again, the city of Detroit manages to discriminate based on a protected class when doing contracts that require so many of the contractors to be "minority owned".
However, the whole point of the artie is that these small business owners may be run out of business by a store purely because of name recognition alone which could mean less investment, fewer shopping options and fewer jobs in the communities they're located. I thinm that is a valid concern in the midst of all this.