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Remember when Calavera in Oakland got boycotted for wage theft? Remember when Flora Restaurant killed a homeless guy with a baseball bat and nobody boycotted cuz there are so many f*cked up small businesses in Oakland that it would have been impossible to mobilize for it? https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1299792340396240898
Pick any neighborhood in SF or Oakland that got gentrified. All the gentrifying businesses were small businesses. Some neighborhoods are on their second wave of RE-gentrification and those businesses are small businesses too.
There's a small business on Hayes Street in San Francisco called Plantation. And a few doors down there's a trinket store with a racist statue guarding the door that they refuse to remove. I walked out of PakWan restaurant without my food because they assaulted a panhandler.
One Afghan restaurant in my neighborhood allegedly pays the Afghan workers $2/hour and some Turkish/Kurdish restaurants traffic workers, dont pay them, and harass/beat the women.
The beauty supply store owned by Koreans in the Fillmore is so racist and rude that my BLACK friend and I had to leave because they made HER feel uncomfortable. IN A BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE. Some anti-communist or bigoted churches are small businesses too but we are not ready for tha
