![]() Treating people well comes with thinking of them that way.Having achieved this, the entire community experiences abundance, “like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.” It earns the name “repairer of the breach” and can “build the old waste places.”If today’s debate over reparations builds community, that sounds like progress to me, whatever decision is reached.Today’s issue, dedicated to reparations, looks at slavery, forced assimilation, and territorial dispossession – in the United States, Barbados, and Canada. And behind those good actions, Isaiah indicates, are good attitudes – compassion and humility. People feed the hungry, free the oppressed, undo heavy burdens. We have to move forward, somehow. To try to understand what might promote that, I turned to the world’s most-read book, the Bible. This phrase in Isaiah 58 piqued my interest: “repairer of the breach.”Here, the repairer isn’t a carpenter or mason but a caring community. ![]() That’s what researchers working with Saint Louis University are doing to learn about those enslaved by Jesuits at the school.Yet no amount of looking back can recompense historical harms. We can’t go back and undo the horrors of the middle passage or the sundering of families at slave auctions.What restoration is possible centuries later?A first step can be looking back and taking an honest accounting of the past. That’s where the hard work happens to restore, renew, make whole. But the shorter word it comes from – repair – strikes me as even bigger.As a noun, reparations suggests that a decision has been reached about concrete actions to redress past wrongs. As a verb, repair is a process. ![]() We are so happy to help grow the area in terms of employment." To read the entire issue of Miami Today online, subscribe to e -Miami Today, an exact digital replica of the printed edition.Reparations is a big word, 11 letters. "Most of the staff we started with is still here. "We found terrific employees in Hialeah," Mr. Goldman attributes the store’s popularity in Hialeah to word of mouth, as Discovery hasn’t done extensive advertising in South Florida.Īlthough Discovery brought a couple of managers from Chicago to help open the store last year, the current managing team and staff are Hialeah residents. ![]() The clothing ranges from casual wear to dressier apparel to business attire, with nothing priced over $30. Goldman said the clothing offered is similar in every store regardless of location, even in fall and winter.ĭiscovery sells women’s apparel, shoes and accessories at discounted prices. They intend to open two or three new stores per year, he added.ĭespite the difference in weather between Florida and the Midwest states, Mr. Their goal, he said, is to have 20 to 25 stores in Florida and to establish about 10 of those in South Florida. "We wanted to bring our stores to a place where there was a large Latino population and mixed demographics."įollowing the success of the Hialeah store, Discovery’s owners want to continue reaching the Florida market and are currently looking at areas including Kendall, Westchester, Miami Lakes and Miramar as possible new store locations, Mr. "We found that the demographics were very similar to Chicago," said Jeff Goldman, Discovery Clothing Co. The retailer is set to open another store in Florida this November in Pembroke Pines, making it Discovery’s 28th store. Located at 775 W 49th St., the Hialeah store is Discovery’s first and only location outside the Midwest, having opened Oct. One year after opening its doors, Chicago retailer Discovery Clothing Co.’s Hialeah location has exceeded expectations and has become one of the company’s top grossing stores, leading the company to target 10 South Florida locations in years to come.
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