This article in the Louisville Courier-Journal is really disturbing.

Protesters are demanding that Louisville business owners submit to their demands, which include undergoing "diversity training" and admitting their complicity in gentrification.

/1 https://twitter.com/courierjournal/status/1288982470667501568

The protesters have created a "Social Justice Rating System" for downtown businesses. The ratings tell whether or not a business is conforming to the "NuLu Social Justice Health & Wellness Code." (I have looked online for this code, but can't find it.)

/2 https://www.bossworld.net/nulu-social-justice

Businesses can be rated either A-"ally", C-"complicit", or F-"failed".

An A-rating is a business that supports "black liberation" and that "meets the requirements of the NuLu Social Justice Health and Wellness Code without critical violations."

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A C-rating indicates a business that has "2 or more critical violations of the NuLu Social Justice Health and Wellness Code." It also may indicate that the business was "closed during the time of inspection."

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An F-rating indicates a business that has "failed to meet minimum requirements of the NuLu Social Justice Health and Wellness Code." If the inspectors judge that the business is not a "safe space for black inclusion," then the business gets an F-rating.

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The protesters are demanding that businesses agree to this rating system and agree to posting the above placards in their store windows subject to regular inspections.

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Some business owners have embraced these demands. Others, like Cuban business owner Fernando Martinez have resisted them and called them "mafia tactics" used to intimidate.

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The Courier-Journal reports that Martinez maintains "that as a Cuban immigrant with Black relatives, he does not need to undergo diversity training."

/8 https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/07/30/louisville-protests-nulu-businesses-respond-gentrification-demands/5546810002/

Martinez writes:

"There comes a time in life that you have to make a stand and you have to really prove your convictions and what you believe in... All good people need to denounce this. How can you justified (sic) injustice with more injustice?"

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@RodDreher writes:

"In Louisville, Kentucky, a black social justice organization...is threatening businesses in the NuLu district with public denunciation if they don’t conform to its demands, including making donations to black organizations."

/10 https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1289252914163138562?s=20