The Plot Destroying Black Businesses in Highlands County
Highlands County, Florida located in the Heartland of Florida. With a population of about 100,000. Here we have the highest AIDS rate in the nation, even higher than Washington DC. It is so bad here that people commonly say, “well you have to die from something.” While the nation claims the worst recession since the great depression gone worsted, here we are clearly in a DEPRESSION.
While banks refuse to loan blacks money to operate their businesses, they continue to purchase tax certificates. This is clearly an unethical practice. To say your business too high a risk to invest in but turns around and buys your tax certificates is a contradiction and a plot being used to put small family owned businesses out of busyness permanently.
Take Delaney Avenue, which is an historical site, almost every business on the strip is about to lose their property due to property taxes. I would name them as it is public information, but take my word for it, people are about to lose properties worth $20G to $80G in this buyer market economy for back taxes that is at a small fraction of their valuation. Why? Because the banks will not invest in these properties. Yet the same banks will purchase the tax certificates and call in their markers soon as they can and then auction the properties off putting family owned businesses that have been in the family for generations out of business and this is not right. Just about every business on the Delaney Avenue strip is about to lose there holdings within one year as I write. Is this by chance or a plot?
We saw this happen in Harlem, New York City, when the Caucasians decided the real estate was prime real estate they move the black people out by calling in their markets on tax deeds. After just two years someone can who purchases a tax certificate can request their tax deed here in Highlands County, FL.
You can believe this is happening also at a larger scale in places like Detroit, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, whereby banks are Actually choking off the life of communities and buying them out through the purchase of tax certificates. It is safe investment because they know there are usually no mortgages on these properties because the conspiracy is to not invest in these businesses to allow business debts.
Sad but unethical but reality these are the signs of a depression. However Highlands County Florida is unique, we sit on prime real estate here in Florida, where mortgage foreclosures has already destroyed this state. With lower home ownership, there will be a slow down in the business sector. Here in Highlands County there are few living wage jobs, just a bunch of part time work in retail services, the agricultural industry is on the downturn as workers are hard to come by. Is there a solution? Sure! The American Reinvestment Act. It is simple, just loan every small business 25% on there equity. No that would be too easy, they rather steal our properties.
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When I was a girl, I dreamed that I could seduce the world with a well-placed smile. Get to know the right people and impress my way right out of the hole in which I grew up. I dreamed of glitter and red lipstick and black coffee that didn’t taste burned. American accents and straight teeth and books that weren’t secondhand. In short, my head was filled with glowing images of things that seemed foreign and glamorous. I imagined that I would someday be whisked away to a place that didn’t smell of frying oil and garbage. Everything I’d ever know would simply cease to exist, and for the rest of my days I could masquerade as the lovely American girl with the past that nobody could seem to remember.
Dreams, as you might have realized, are worthless.
When I finally was taken away, my rescuer wasn’t Prince Charming. I wasn’t whisked away in a limousine into a bright and airy future. In reality, I was saved with a rough knock on my front door, barely audible over the roar of a mid-summer rainstorm. I was saved by a man I had never heard of before, who appeared on my doorstep quaking with guilt. My redemption came at the hands of a criminal. And though I hadn’t yet realized it, my life was put back together by the person who had torn it apart in the first place.
This is the full plot:
) when she was thirteen, and must put up a facade of being happy and content with her living situation, when in reality her biological father was deemed an enemy of the state by the Russian government and assassinated when Marija was nine, and her mother was an alcoholic before committing suicide when M. was 11. She lived with her sister, Anya, who was a genius computer hacker (think Lisbeth Salander. She’s the inspiration for A.) Anyways, Anya is soon hired out to do a job for a man (who is actually Liam), to get him out of some legal troubles by destroying evidence. The job is done and Liam’s reputation is safe, but as Anya is on her way to receive the payment for the job, she is shot and killed in an accident. Liam, knowing that it’s his fault, asks Anya what he’d like her to do, and A tells him to take Marija back to America with him. He does, and the story explores how Marija copes with the loss of her sister and her home. The high point of the plot is when she learns that it was Sarah who shot Anya, because she thought A was a prostitute that Liam had been seeing on his “business trips” that he took to meet with Anya. (Sarah followed her husband to Moscow b/c she was suspicious, ect.). This reveals the mental imbalance of Sarah and the instability in her marriage. The rest of the story is Marija “finding herself” and realizing that, in spite of her past, it is up to her to decide her future. How does this sound to you?
A 16 y/o girl, Marija Zsusas (narrator), was adopted by two rich, respected Americans, Liam and Sarah Jones, (from Ann Arbor, if you know what Ann Arborites are like