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Illinois governor mixes, gulps down chocolate milk to symbolize diversity
Daily Dot ^ | 2/22/2018 | ana valens

Posted on 02/22/2018 12:20:29 PM PST by bkopto

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) cares about diversity. In fact, he cares about it so much that he drank your mom’s favorite chocolate milk concoction at a corporate event honoring Black History Month.

The supposed-metaphor happened after Hyatt Hotels’ vice president and global chief diversity officer Tyronne Stoudemire presented a bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup and said that it represents “diversity” through “women, people of color, people with disabilities, the aging population, and generation X, Y, and Z.” Standing on stage right next to him, Gov. Rauner held a glass of milk as Stoudemire poured chocolate syrup right into it.

“It’s not that organizations are not diverse, but when you look at most organizations, diversity sits, what? At the bottom of the organization,” Stoudemire said, CBS reports. “You don’t get inclusion until you stir it up. I want you to stir it up, governor. Stir it up.”

Gov. Rauner went on to do just that, offering to drink the chocolate milk live on stage.

“You’ll drink it? You’ll be proud to,” Stoudemire quipped, after which Gov. Rauner took a sizable gulp, gave a thumbs up, and unsolicitedly shouted, “It’s really, really good… Diversity!”


TOPICS: Extended News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: brucerauner; illinois
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1 posted on 02/22/2018 12:20:29 PM PST by bkopto
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he’s a Republican as well.


2 posted on 02/22/2018 12:22:01 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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God save us.


3 posted on 02/22/2018 12:22:40 PM PST by mbarker12474
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Hey, that’s mulato milk.


4 posted on 02/22/2018 12:22:45 PM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: bkopto

Well, at least he avoided the fried chicken and watermelon faux pas.


5 posted on 02/22/2018 12:22:49 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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To: bkopto

Did they film he using the bathroom, too? ‘Cause that’s the end product.


6 posted on 02/22/2018 12:22:51 PM PST by Noamie
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To: bkopto

What. The. Actual. F?


7 posted on 02/22/2018 12:23:14 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Donald J Trump 45th President of the United States !MAGA)
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To: bkopto

I love chocolate milk.I love fried chicken and watermelon as well.Does that make me a racist?


8 posted on 02/22/2018 12:23:56 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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To: bkopto

Dear God, why have people become so utterly stupid?

Did You intend this to happen, because this getting really bad?


9 posted on 02/22/2018 12:25:17 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: bkopto

If he really respected black people, he would have had grape drink.


10 posted on 02/22/2018 12:25:20 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Gay State Conservative

I love chocolate milk too, but don’t drink it too often. It turns me into one of the cowboys at the fireside scene from Blazing Saddles.


11 posted on 02/22/2018 12:25:35 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: bkopto

When did insanity become so in vogue?


12 posted on 02/22/2018 12:25:36 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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Or Colt 45.


13 posted on 02/22/2018 12:26:14 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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Purple Drank?


14 posted on 02/22/2018 12:26:20 PM PST by bkopto
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You know i just realized “Haitians” sounds a lot like “Asians”. It amazing how much hidden racism I discover every day when I stop taking my medication.


15 posted on 02/22/2018 12:26:51 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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Sherry: If only the world could get along as this ice cream cone.. Billy Paul wouldn't have to kill so many people.
16 posted on 02/22/2018 12:27:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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How embarrassingly cliche! Drinking chocolate milk means you’re not a racist?? Unbelievable.


17 posted on 02/22/2018 12:27:08 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

It worked so well for that NOLA mayor during Hurricane Katrina.


18 posted on 02/22/2018 12:27:12 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: bkopto

Weird virtue signaling bump


19 posted on 02/22/2018 12:27:27 PM PST by floozy22
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It turns me into one of the cowboys at the fireside scene from Blazing Saddles.

They weren't drinking chocolate milk...

20 posted on 02/22/2018 12:28:00 PM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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