Posted on 05/31/2023 10:49:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A three-year-old video showing Chick-fil-A’s boss shining the shoes of a black man during a plea for white people to fight racial injustice resurfaced this week amid a push by outraged conservatives to boycott the fast-food chain over its hiring of a diversity officer.
Dan Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, got down on his knees at a church in Atlanta in June 2020 as the city was gripped by protests over the police-involved deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks.
“I invite folks to put some words to action, and if we need to find somebody who needs to have their shoes shined, we need to just go right on over and shine their shoes,” Cathy said Cathy. The devout Christian — whose father founded the popular chain in Hapeville, Ga.in 1946 — then stood up and walked over toward Lecrae Moore, a Christian rapper who took part in the roundtable discussion at Passion City Church.
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You know, that’s just the thing to make me want to drive 418 miles to Boise to get some Chick-fil-a.
That little act of groveling certainly didn’t wear well.
Popeye’s Classic Chicken Sandwich is fantastic...
The only thing at Chic-Fil-A I ever found worth eating was the chicken soup...
[Popeye’s Classic Chicken Sandwich is fantastic...]
I love it
The thing I find funny about this is that Dan Cathy seems to be unaware of the fact that most black people don’t wear leather dress shoes that might require shining.
No problem .
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Well, my black daughter speaks proper English, but she doesn’t WANT you to shine her shoes.
sounds like a typical religious nut
Popeyes is great, period.
If I were a person who made a living shining shoes, I would have no problem shining black peoples’ shoes. As far as doing some sort of pennance, I’m sorry that I didn’t commit any racist acts to be penitent about. If I comment on how difficult it would be to shine basketball shoes would that be racist?
If you have something to grivel about, do so with tears. Don’t assume anyone else does.
Red beans and rice - yum
when hell freezes over
I’ve had my shoes shined by probably 100 different people worldwide, never a black. Such a stereotype that blacks are shoeshiners is a lie.
If a person really believes that systemic racism exists and that it has done incredible harm, how in the world do they think such a meaningless gesture as shining someone’s shoes could ever atone for or correct that injustice.
Like woke lawn signs, shoe shining is about doing something that really doesn’t do anything.
Not the founder ... his son ...
How sad that this idiot is destroying a formally great fast-food restaurant.
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