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Does A New McDonald's Website Promote Reverse Racism?
McDonald's 365 Black website ^ | 8/19/09 | self

Posted on 08/18/2009 9:55:38 PM PDT by snowrip

This is the text taken directly from the homepage of a new McDonald's website. You can judge the content for yourself.

WHAT IS 365BLACK?

At McDonald's®, we believe that African-American culture and achievement should be celebrated 365 days a year — not just during Black History Month. That's the idea behind 365Black.com. It's a place where you can learn more about education, employment, career advancement and entrepreneurship opportunities, and meet real people whose lives have been touched by McDonald's. Plus, you can also have a chance to win exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. So make sure you visit often — you just might get inspired.

Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald's has branched out to the African-American community nourishing it with valuable programs and opportunities.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: imhatinit; mcdonalds; race
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Apparently, favoring one race over all others is no longer a social faux pas. Everyone is equal, but some are just a little more equal than others.

I left some feedback for McD's on the site, and I'm afraid I'll no longer be a customer.

1 posted on 08/18/2009 9:55:39 PM PDT by snowrip
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To: snowrip

Where’s 247White.com?


2 posted on 08/18/2009 9:58:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone (North Korea? The only buildings in Hawaii at risk of destruction are those housing Obama's records!)
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To: snowrip

I think they’ll catch enough heat about this to soften it down to 365Diversity or some such thing. To put up a black thang as being special is as socially disastrous as to do the same with whites. And I don’t doubt that they mean well, but it is a trap.


3 posted on 08/18/2009 9:58:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: snowrip

Quit eating there a while back except in very extenuating circumstances: Even generic Pepto costs money.


4 posted on 08/18/2009 9:58:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (If we're an Empire, why are Cuba, Iraq, Philippines, Japan & Germany independent?)
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To: NoLibZone

Yeah, like where is there room to be simply human? To have to be “black all the time” must get pretty old.


5 posted on 08/18/2009 9:59:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: snowrip

The McDonald’s corporate geeks had made absurdity and race pimping into a science.


6 posted on 08/18/2009 10:02:29 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m sure it does “get old.” I’m glad I missed out.


7 posted on 08/18/2009 10:02:57 PM PDT by Misterioso
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To: dragnet2

Funny, last time I was at a Mickey Dees, the little Ronald McDonald charity box showed black kids and no whites!


8 posted on 08/18/2009 10:04:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: snowrip
WHAT IS 365WHITE?

At McDonald's®, we believe that European-American culture and achievement should be celebrated 365 days a year — not just during some White History Month. That's the idea behind 365White.com. It's a place where white Americans can learn more about education, employment, career advancement and entrepreneurship opportunities, and meet real people whose lives have been touched by McDonald's. Plus, you can also have a chance to win exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. So make sure you visit often — you just might get inspired.

Like the unique Norway spruce, which provides its community 365 days a year with its beauty and shade, McDonald's has branched out specifically to the White American community, nourishing it with valuable special programs and opportunities.

9 posted on 08/18/2009 10:05:25 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: snowrip

And the new talking point is that patriots are racists. The ‘new way’ of government is black you see, if you want to keep the “old way” then that means that you are a racist. Out with the constitution and in with the thugs.


10 posted on 08/18/2009 10:05:42 PM PDT by antonia (A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow)
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To: snowrip
Just another case of a major corporation having to “play
nice” in this politically correct and charged culture.

Many people of color(case in point), half jokingly quip
that the reason February was slated as Black History
Month is because it IS the shortest of months.

JJ61

11 posted on 08/18/2009 10:06:22 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Nope, I think there will be little backlash. WE do not scare them. Corporations are easily swayed by leftists because they are organized


12 posted on 08/18/2009 10:06:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Even if they DO mean well, to single out an ethnic group for special assistance doesn’t promote equality at all; however, it DOES mean that McDonald’s believes that blacks can only get ahead with special assistance... which defeats the entire entire idea of fostering equality as well.


13 posted on 08/18/2009 10:08:17 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: snowrip
July 13, 2009

“McDonald’s® has really stepped up to the plate with 365Black.”

Kevin M., Radio Personality and Former McDonald’s Employee, Washington, D.C.

A radio personality with a first name and only an initial? Wassup wit' 'dat?

14 posted on 08/18/2009 10:08:26 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Me too. Now, I’ll never eat there again.


15 posted on 08/18/2009 10:10:30 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: snowrip

They have swallowed the Kool-Aid. I remember personally what that kind of fuzzy think was like. Whites presuming to be kind and generous to blacks, while really painting them into caricatures. I would give the boot in a Chicago second to anyone who proposed the idea of “always white” to me, a Caucasian.


16 posted on 08/18/2009 10:11:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"Yeah, like where is there room to be simply human? To have to be “black all the time” must get pretty old."

Yup...especially the criminal part where you have to commit almost 50% of the crime in the US. That's dangerous work.

17 posted on 08/18/2009 10:11:50 PM PDT by blam
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To: GeronL

The right is pretty damn organized at the true grassroots level. As far as this affecting McDonald’s, I just emailed this to Drudge, Rush, and Hannity, so we’ll see.


18 posted on 08/18/2009 10:12:32 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: snowrip
Apparently these morons aren't content to just sell crappy food.

Next time my kid asks to go there I will tell him we don't patronize racists.

19 posted on 08/18/2009 10:12:59 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Hussein Baraka Mook Kebba)
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To: john in springfield

LOL! LOL! LOL!

McDonalds needs to learn when enough is enough. I’m not mad at them for this, like I was for their flirtation with the gays. I pity them.


20 posted on 08/18/2009 10:13:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: Rome2000

Their breakfast menu is pretty good.


21 posted on 08/18/2009 10:13:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: snowrip

McDonald’s has killed more black men than the Klan and the Crips combined.


22 posted on 08/18/2009 10:14:28 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: GeronL
"Nope, I think there will be little backlash. WE do not scare them. Corporations are easily swayed by leftists because they are organized"

You're exactly right. We see that with the recent Glenn Beck situation.

I'm embarrassed that more of us haven't come to his aid.

23 posted on 08/18/2009 10:14:29 PM PDT by blam
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To: snowrip

Our organizations don’t have nearly the numbers theirs does nor the funds. Theirs comes from government grants and dues and Soros.


24 posted on 08/18/2009 10:14:47 PM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: snowrip

Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald’s nourishes its community with its greasy cardboard burgers and fries.


25 posted on 08/18/2009 10:14:47 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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To: snowrip

You are just a bunch of Whining Honkies. Black is in - White is out.

Reality has nothing to do with anything. Feel good political correctness is everything.

Shallow minds rule - Just look what happens in DC, NY & Calif.

Empty brains control (actually - are being controlled).


26 posted on 08/18/2009 10:15:40 PM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: jongaltsr

With all these gestures to the black community (I wonder if they’re being blackmailed, no pun intended) why haven’t they ever done a black Ronald McDonald? Surely clowns come in more than one color?


28 posted on 08/18/2009 10:17:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: snowrip

I was looking at the books at Walmart the other day and noticed they have various sections, like self help, Vampire stories (big right now), religious/spiritual, then the fiction is all done with authors in alphabetical order....then you get to the end and it is all black. Black authors, black people shown on the covers.... as if they couldn’t be mingled in alphabetically with the other authors..... a separate section, like they are segregated or something. Is Walmart racist or purposely merchandising so blacks won’t be lured by white writers....?


29 posted on 08/18/2009 10:20:23 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Are you fishing for the OJoker poster?


30 posted on 08/18/2009 10:21:54 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: HiTech RedNeck
There's enough calories and fat in any of their breakfast sandwiches to give you a hert attack.

Sausage egg and cheese McMuffin is 452 calories and 29.4g of fat.

Most people should take in between 1400 and 1900 calories total a day to maintain weight.

Do the math, no wonder so many people are obese.

The smallest thing on their menu, the small breakfast burrito is 300 calories with 17 grams fat.

Eat a hard boiled egg at home instead, throw out the yellow part, and your talking 30 calories.

31 posted on 08/18/2009 10:21:57 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Hussein Baraka Mook Kebba)
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To: Clemenza
McDonald’s has killed more black men than the Klan and the Crips combined.

but what do they do with the bodies?


32 posted on 08/18/2009 10:22:55 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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To: ari-freedom

Those are cute little girls....


33 posted on 08/18/2009 10:24:25 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Rome2000

Diet specialists generally encourage eating most of your daily calories in the first half of the day.


34 posted on 08/18/2009 10:25:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: GeronL

Yeah, they’re really kicking our asses in the healthcare debate. Just like amnesty.

Funding and organizations matter little when the electorate gets involved and energized. The conservative and “independent” electorates are involved at the neighborhood and community levels... and they are cleaning the clocks of the democrats, who are bussing people in to rallies and sending out calls to action through the DNC itself.


35 posted on 08/18/2009 10:25:31 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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Of COURSE they’re racist!!!!!!!!!!! Their coffee is always black!!! I’ve never seen it all white!!!!!!


36 posted on 08/18/2009 10:25:47 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: Rome2000

Thanks! I don’t like the yellow yolk in hard boiled eggs so it is nice to know I am saving calories by eating only the white!


37 posted on 08/18/2009 10:26:07 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: Rastus

Not too long ago I saw a Ms. Ronald McDonald in a French promotion.


38 posted on 08/18/2009 10:26:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: Rome2000

Eat a hard boiled egg at home instead, throw out the yellow part, and your talking 30 calories.

or you can order a big mac, throw out the bun, burger, cheese and special sauce and only eat the lettuce, onion, pickle and tomato and you’re talking 30 calories.


39 posted on 08/18/2009 10:26:32 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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To: PhiKapMom

Add the mashed hard boiled yolks to cookie dough.


40 posted on 08/18/2009 10:27:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: snowrip

The Unorganized resistance
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319319/posts


41 posted on 08/18/2009 10:29:03 PM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Walmart buying into the condescension-upon-blacks Kool-Aid.


42 posted on 08/18/2009 10:29:44 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (When did it become the Democrat You-Shut-Up-And-Listen-To-Me Tour?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Thanks! Great idea!


43 posted on 08/18/2009 10:31:39 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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This is also fun http://www.myinspirasian.com/


44 posted on 08/18/2009 10:37:55 PM PDT by longhair
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To: longhair
Race?

Race:Yes
45 posted on 08/18/2009 10:43:11 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: NoLibZone
Yeah where's 365White.Com and 365Yellow.Com?

This is discrimination based solely on race.

Pure and simple.

46 posted on 08/18/2009 10:45:43 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: F15Eagle

Can you imagine the overwhelming negative media attention any company would get with a “365white.com” website?


47 posted on 08/18/2009 10:49:03 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: ari-freedom

Those little cuties in the bottom photo are adorable.


48 posted on 08/18/2009 10:49:15 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: hsalaw

I know. I’m so evil. :)


49 posted on 08/18/2009 10:50:35 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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To: john in springfield

The Obama Thought Police will find you,my friend. And when they do... muhuhuhuwhawhahaaaaa!

(cue dastardly music)


50 posted on 08/18/2009 10:52:20 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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