Posted on 04/19/2015 5:39:54 PM PDT by massmike
Jim Boggess, whose "White History Month" sign at his New Jersey deli ignited a firestorm, has posted a new placard.
This one says: "Forced Out of Business." And he's also created a GoFundMe page pleading for money from strangers.
On the crowd-sourcing site, Boggess writes,"On march 1st, I hung a sign in my deli window saying, 'Celebrate your white heritage in March, White History Month". . . Then the bottom dropped out and customers were no longer coming into my deli."
Saying he was forced to close his dying business, Boggess bemoans his fate and says he lost "my American dream."
After five days, Boggess had accumulated $245 and a barrage of blistering comments on his "Jimbos white history sign gone bad" page.
Shannelle Robinson, who is African-American, donated $5. "I hope it helps you to enlighten yourself on the very people you feel you need to compete with for no other reason than you're a spoiled entitled brat," she wrote.
Reg Lane posted, "Begging for money should be beneath a grown man, but if you rap "Baby (G)ot Back and post it I'll give you 3 dollars and 15 cent."
Boggess expressed bewilderment at the reaction to his sign.
"I don't think I deserve this because I wanted to be proud of being white and be able to celebrate my heritage like everyone else does," he wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
it begs the question, if you didn’t know the business and you’ve lived there for 30 yrs... how’d the media find it?
“I see nothing! Nothing!”
If a boycott was organized against a negro businessman for an equally innocuous racial comment then you would feel the same?
Because whites now are considered the minority..remember, we are “Entitled” therefore white people no longer are important..its all about blacks and mexicans now, and lets not forget the gays and muslims, they are the protected class now
“If a boycott was organized against a negro businessman for an equally innocuous racial comment then you would feel the same?”
Boycotts are not against the law.
The deli owner had the right to put that sign in his business and people had the right to stop doing business with him.
So, in accepting your premise, if blacks promote "black history moth", they're morons too?Careful with your answer, you might be called a rayciss.....and btw way. reading your further comments, this was not the result of capitalism.
Capitalism hasn't existed this country since 1913
If one mixes politics with their business, they run the risk of driving away customers.
You didn’t answer my question
The purpose of a deli is to make money for the owner and offer food to paying customers.
Promoting a political agenda should not be part of the business plan.
But does someone have the right to encourage others to boycott a negro’s business for similarly no good reason?
I suggest you don’t try it.
“But does someone have the right to encourage others to boycott a negros business for similarly no good reason? “
Yes.
That would be covered under the First Amendment.
I admire your consistency and you should be right.
Would that $3.15 be coming out of your welfare check, Reg?
You never go full retard.
“If one mixes politics with their business, they run the risk of driving away customers.”
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Bears repeating. Consumer dollars are scarce. No use making a tight economy even tighter.
I wonder if Mr. Boggess realizes that March happens to be Irish-American Heritage Month.
He could've put up a sign that read "Irish-American History Month" in his window, and no one would've minded.
"White" has never been an ethnicity. Ever.
When "white" people talk about their heritage, they talk about their Irish, English, Polish, Italian, Swedish, etc., ancestors.
From the sound of it, this deli was in the tank already, and this “White History Month” brouhaha was a desperate attempt to get some business. I suspect he would have gone bankrupt regardless.
or
a White Congressional Caucus ? or
NAAWP ? or....
You’re avoiding the question, so surprised....
“Why cant there be white history month?”
Because the Congressional Black Caucus feel it be discriminatory. s/ off
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