Washington Post: Race hate toward immigrants in small town America
Oh, except their ironic story about Snow Hill, MD undermines their Narrative about Springfield, OH.
Here’s a pretty funny story in the Washington Post about anti-immigrant racial hatred in an American small town. Read superficially, it starts off sounding like the Post’s standard narrative about the evil whites in Springfield, OH who are so racist as to not welcome the tens of thousands of Haitians pouring in, except that …
Well, you’ll have to read below the paywall where I sum up the ironies of what the Post will show you in mind-numbing detail but won’t quite come out and blatantly tell you because it would be inappropriate in Diverse America in 2024 to point out clearly what the facts say about food deserts, immigrants, anti-immigrants, etc etc.
From the Washington Post news section:
How a grocery store fight fractured a Maryland town along racial lines
All residents of tiny Snow Hill wanted was a better grocery store. The efforts to get one reopened generational wounds.
“Generational” is a recent fad term that is used to imply that the ancestors of white people today were mean to the ancestors of black people today generations ago, which is why blacks in 2024 still have problems and why whites in 2025 must pay.
Snow Hill, population 2,200 was 57% white and 39% black in 2010, with 2% Hispanic and 1% Asian.
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By Tim Carman
September 21, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. EDT
SNOW HILL, Md. — A 2.5-ounce bag of cheese puffs appeared to be the final straw for Tarak Patel and his Food Rite supermarket, the only one in this tiny town on the Eastern Shore.
For months, Patel and his store had increasingly become targets of online critics, who had grown tired of the crapshoot that was shopping at the Food Rite, where practically every item, locals claimed, needed to be inspected for mold or an expiration date. The grousing came to a head on Monday, Feb. 12, in a fairly innocuous post to the Neighbors of Snow Hill community on Facebook. A woman by the name of Mary Mac [black] snapped a picture of some Rap Snacks cheese puffs, whose best-by date was Nov. 30, 2023 — or more than two months before she purchased the bag. Mac didn’t say anything sensational about the grocery store or Patel in her post.
She simply wrote: “Good ol foodrite.”
Her comment echoed the general resignation that many in Snow Hill had come to feel about the Food Rite, an independent grocery store that, like others of its kind, faces mounting financial pressures to serve rural communities. Over the years, grumbling about the supermarket had become as common as the loblolly pines in the forests of the lower Eastern Shore where Snow Hill was established in the late 17th century. If folks weren’t accusing Patel of selling expired snacks, sour milk or discolored meat, they were lamenting the sagging infrastructure of the Food Rite itself, a building that’s nearly seven decades old.
What stood out about the cheese puffs post wasn’t the content but people’s reaction to it. The photo and comments, all of which have been deleted, divided members of the online Neighbors community in ways that previous posts about the Food Rite had not, locals said. Black residents who criticized Patel and his store, including Mac, were belittled and sometimes humiliated by White residents, several people said.
So, now we are on track for The Narrative: once again, whites are racists toward blacks.
But then it gets more amusing:
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