Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley seems to think that companies don’t need to make money, but should just be charities that cater to her voters.
Pressley accused Walgreens of “racism” for shutting down a location in Boston that was plagued with so much retail theft that the store could not turn a profit.
The Democrat accused Walgreens of “disruptive, life-threatening acts of racial & economic discrimination” against “black & brown communities” for closing the store in Boston and others in other crime-plagued inner-city areas.
In an address on the floor of the House of Representatives in D.C., Pressley accused Walgreens of shutting the store down because the neighborhood was “a community that is 85 percent black and Latino.”
“This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park,” she added.
“When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood, they disrupt the entire community,” Pressley exclaimed. “And they …
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