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To: Ilaine who wrote (161)	8/18/2006 7:34:57 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 441

Shame on him. The convenience stores in urban neighborhoods are expensive, just like the convenience stores in suburban neighborhoods. There's no way they could sell for Wal-Mart prices. But they are the only stores there. In that sense, it's a rip-off, but that's not the same thing as the Koreans, who have been the only people hungry enough to open stores there, ripping them off. Anyone who opens a store in an underserved neighbor deserves better treatment than Young gave them.

To: Ilaine who wrote (161)	8/18/2006 10:22:35 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 441

When people have no choices, and they are forced in to buying food, and poor quality food at that, at prices much greater than suburban white and minority shoppers enjoy, it's no wonder that a spokesman for those poor communities might feel they are being ripped off. That the people making their profits on these desperate people might be"hurt" because someone mentions they are taking advantage of people who have no where else to shop is a little amusing. It's too bad Andrew mentioned race (even though he was accurate as to who owns these stores), but the phenomenon he describes is worthy of discussion, and a little rage (imo). I'm not sure how much we need to constrain the truth that certain communities feel in the service of PC. I like PC to a certain extent, but the latest racial faux pas that have been in the news seem to be taking the matter to absurd lengths. This one, for example, was downright strange: Message 22730860 Even your remark could be construed as racist- if you were a politician you'd be apologizing for this "For fresh vegetables, though, nothing beats the Koreans. And in Atlanta, black people eat a lot of fresh vegetables, like collard green."

To: Ilaine who wrote (161)	8/18/2006 11:06:29 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 441

you'd be crazy to buy American food there, not enough turnover to stay fresh. At least, that's true in the suburbs of DC. For fresh vegetables, though, nothing beats the Koreans. Korean markets in the areas in question, I expect, are not like Korean groceries here in our burbs. At least the ones in underserved areas of DC aren't. They don't sell Korean goods. They sell canned spaghetti and cigarettes and iceberg lettuce and are indistinguishable from any other convenience store other than by the ethnicity of the proprietors.