Posted on 08/15/2017 7:51:25 AM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO — A Chicago flower company is asking its customers to take a stance against racism – or take their business somewhere else.
Visitors to the website of Flowers for Dreams are presented with a question in a pop-up: “Do you condemn racism, Nazism, and white nationalism?” If they select “Yes,” the website thanks them “for speaking out against hate,” and suggests they make a donation to groups like the Anti-Defamation League.
If they select “No,” the website says: “Thank you but no thank you. We don’t want your business here.”
Clicking “Goodbye” then redirects the user to the home page of the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
Flowers for Dreams co-founder and CEO Steven Dyme said the move was inspired by the events in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend, when a man drove a car into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally.
“For us it felt like seeing the response on social media that people, especially minority communities, felt vulnerable,” Dyme said.
Dyme said many of the company’s customers and employees are from diverse communities, including “all kinds of races and religions,” and it felt like their shared values were “under attack.” So they came on the idea of implementing a pop-up to show their support for those communities – and their opposition to white supremacist groups.
“Our customers and our team members are the same, they all speak with their money as a way to express their values,” Dyme said. “We see ourselves as being a forceful kind of agent of those values to continue to promote them in the world.”
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I don’t like racist knuckleheads of any race either, but this kind of stuff drives me up the wall.
I wonder if he’ll take the pop-up down when some keepinitreal punk robs his store.
Many there are some incredibly douche-y, insufferable people out there....
Kinda like the media ignored the bus barn after Katrina.
At least they tell you up front so you can take your business elsewhere. Don’t you just love it when they create their own personally self inflicted bankruptcy.
Elsewhere it is!
JoMa
Why don’t you relocate your business in another country? You are not wanted here.
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