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| Citizens Love Doug Merello's Conoco Gas Station |
The whole saga in Ferguson has been orchestrated by the radical left and the drive by media because it fit the narrative that they wanted to push. That narrative is that America is a racist nation and a white racist cop killed a black man for no reason.
The mainstream media has endlessly told this story as a race based story. But there is one story that comes out of Ferguson that the drive by media is not talking about.
Why? Because it doesn’t fit the narrative.
From The Review Journal:
Since looting first erupted following the August police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, nearly all the businesses in a two-square-mile area of this St. Louis suburb have had to board up. All except one — a Conoco gas station and convenience store.This story is so offensive to the left on so many levels. First, real Americans are gathering and using the 2nd Amendment to protect themselves when, as the police chief in Ferguson said, he could not stop the rioters unless he had 10,000 cops.
At least a dozen stores have been set ablaze and others looted in Ferguson in racially charged riots since a grand jury on Monday cleared white policeman Darren Wilson in the shooting, which has torn apart this predominantly black Missouri city.
The unrest surrounding Brown’s death has underscored the often-tense nature of U.S. race relations. But the gas station has stood out as a beacon, literally and figuratively, as nightfall has descended and chaos has reigned around it.
On Tuesday night, as police and soldiers took up positions in the parking lots of virtually every strip mall and big box store around it, the forecourt of the brightly lit gas station was busy with customers.
One, a 6-foot-8-inches man named Derrick Jordan — “Stretch,” as friends call him — whisked an AR-15 assault rifle out from a pickup truck parked near the entrance.
Jordan, 37, was one of four black Ferguson residents who spent Tuesday night planted in front of the store, pistols tucked into their waistbands, waiting to ward off looters or catch shoplifters.
Jordan and the others guarding the gas station are all black. The station’s owner is white.
Ferguson has seen a stark demographic shift in recent decades, going from all white to mostly black. About two-thirds of the town’s 21,000-strong population are black. By some accounts, the Brown shooting has heightened racial tensions in the city. But not at the gas station.
“We would have been burned to the ground many times over if it weren’t for them,” said gas station owner Doug Merello, whose father first bought it in 1984.
Merello said he feels deep ties to Ferguson, and if the loyalty of some of his regular customers is any indication, the feeling is mutual.
Second, this is a story about real Americans.
These guys don’t hate each other because of their skin color. They are real Americans. They judge each other by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
That is something liberals are incapable of doing.
While the thugs in Ferguson riot, real Americans are banding together. It is a pity we are not hearing more stories about real Americans like these men who banded together to protect each other.
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