How One Woman's Vandalized Bakery Has Become the Greatest Story to Come Out of Ferguson Riots

Natalie DuBose, the owner of Natalie’s Cakes and More in Ferguson, Missouri, was left devastated after her business was unjustly vandalized during the recent riots over a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

Natalie DuBose weeps outside her Natalie's Cakes and More bakery Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, after vandals broke one of two large windows in her store after a grand jury declined to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown. DuBose's bakery is a black-owned business supported by the protesters. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)

She reached out to her fellow Americans to help her repair her shop damaged by Ferguson protesters earlier this week. Her business had just held its grand opening over the summer.

DuBose set up a GoFundMe page and aimed to raise a modest $20,000. Thousands of generous Americans quickly stunned the small business owner, donating more than $195,000 in roughly one day.

Many conservative websites, personalities and public figures took up the cause, including actress Patricia Heaton, who used her social media influence on Twitter to drive some of her 243,000 followers to the fundraising page. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh also gave out the web address of the GoFundMe page on the air.

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Some offered $5, others $500, and one woman even apparently offered Dubose money from her own Social Security check.

“Thank you to EVERYONE for the kind words, prayers, and emotional support,” DuBose wrote on the GoFundMe page on Tuesday. “I am so humbly blessed!”

In a previous post, she wrote that she had “never felt so loved” in her entire life.

With all the headlines about America’s problems and alleged cases of racism, instances like this can be a breath of fresh air and serve as a reminder of the tremendous good Americans are capable of — regardless of skin color, gender or any other differences that can sometimes divide us.