Posted on 12/16/2022 7:57:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Remember the old “Whites Only/Colored Only” signs on water fountains and bathrooms in the old Jim Crow South? Thanks to Google, that kind of open, in-your-face racism is back with a vengeance. Google is so concerned that you not be racist that it is doing the most racist thing a major corporation has done at least since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: it is planning to mark the race of the owners of various businesses so that racists of all varieties can patronize only the stores of their favored group. Have Google’s far-Left ideologues really thought this through? If they really want to eradicate racism, this is just the way not to do it.
Jeremy Kauffman of LBRY.com tweeted Thursday that “Google has launched a new campaign called ‘Buy Black’ that encourages people to shop based on the race of the store owner. Stores in search and map results will be given icons indicating the race of the owner to make this easier.” Kauffman also pointed out that Google has been pushing this initiative hard for the last month: on Nov. 17, it published a video called “Buying All Black” and subtitled “A Google #BlackOwnedFriday Anthem,” featuring Ludacris and Flo Milli.
“We’re celebrating the third #BlackOwnedFriday,” Google announced happily, “with 70+ Black-owned businesses, a new track, and a block party in Atlanta. Join Ludacris and Flo Milli on their journey searching and shopping Black-owned, and then shop the 100+ products you’ll see throughout the video. Watch the music video, shop the products, and search to support Black-owned on Black Friday and every day.”
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Google has launched a new campaign called "Buy Black" that encourages people to shop based on the race of the store owner.
Stores in search and map results will be given icons indicating the race of the owner to make this easier.
pic.twitter.com/zPAmNLErZg— Jeremy Kauffman 🦔 (@jeremykauffman) December 15, 2022
Great. That’ll eradicate racism, all right. What could be less racist than all the woke shoppers dutifully following Google’s lead and shunning businesses owned by white, Hispanic, Asian, and other people and buying only from black-owned businesses? There’s just one minuscule problem with this scenario: at least for now, white people are still allowed to use Google. White racists and white supremacists, you know, those people whom the Biden administration keeps telling us are the biggest terror threat that the nation faces today, can also use Google, at least until they’re finally all rounded up and sent to re-education camps. Until this problem is corrected, white racists can use the new Google race markings not to patronize, but to avoid, black-owned businesses. For that matter, black racists can use Google’s new race tags to avoid white-owned businesses, but no one is worried about that, as that is exactly what Google wants.
Can’t you usually tell just by the name?
The whole MLK judge on the contents of character thing, Democrats weren’t buying it, quite the opposite.
This is already being done with the “gay friendly” markers on Google business maps. Of course, it’s being pushed, and if you refuse... let’s just say you don’t get top billing.
If I see race as a descriptor in a business, I will intentionally avoid black owned in an effort to punish the woke crowd.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ludacris/buyingallblack.html
Here is the song. This is created fashion.
For some reason the psychology of many people including myself will trust word of mouth versus artificial pushing by a government company based on melanin...I will assume any product that requires such fake pushing is by default inferior
This is a Great idea and I fully support it. I have already vowed to NEVER have any business dealings with non white minorities in an effort to make damned sure none of my White Privilege corrupts their mind and soul. This will make it much easier to avoid those businesses.
Since they are seeking to bifurcate the country even more, I suggest that we help them accomplish this.
Sauce for the goose and all.
But then again, I don’t use Google.
You mean like the place you buy supplies for certain celebrations? You know, “The Kwanzaa Hut”. I wonder if this will backfire. Actually I, could be just me, don’t use ‘goggle’ for anything.
This can drive away customers just as easily as attract.
America gone full negro. All the other races are going to lose business so the “white guilt trippers” will be able to pacify the negros.
Glad they’re doing it. Makes it easier to buy alternative products.
Historically, we have purchased from our local community, are local merchants.
Whether this fashion takes hold, I don’t know but it goes for a lot of other communities too.
When I was younger we were finally getting pasts the racism thing. Now it is back with a vengeance.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Remember that?
What if the black owner votes Republican? According to Brandon...
Not. At. Gunpoint.
This will stop people from accidentally wandering into a minority-owned business. #sarcasm
I stopped using Google ages ago. Everybody should stop complaining about them and just switch search engines.
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