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A Dairy Queen owner unleashed a racist tirade against a customer. He no longer has a business.
Washington Post ^ | 1/9/17 | Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

Posted on 01/09/2017 9:29:13 PM PST by Timpanagos1

The Dairy Queen owner shouting the n-word at Deianeira Ford told her he could say whatever he wanted at his fast-food restaurant — that any accusations and complaints she uttered would fall on deaf ears.

Ford was vindicated two days later, when her Facebook post about the incident provoked outrage so strong that the Dairy Queen in Zion, Ill., didn’t open for business.

But her victory was tempered by something even more troubling that she heard at a protest: Although she was the most vocal victim of the owner’s racism, she was not the first.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: dairyqueen; fakenews
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To: vigilence

Thanks.

Good post.

Does the franchise agreement read that corporate can yank your franchise for what ever reason?


21 posted on 01/09/2017 10:10:25 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

Hilarious to watch the stupids act like the N word carries the seriousness of say child molestation

He said the word “nigger”

Take his business by God

The horror

And this is the right wing

Color me unimpressed

Any of y’all been around American blacks in large numbers

And listen to them speak to one another?

Your cousins boyfriend ...,the one black in your town .,,who of course acts just like Ben Carson does not count

Sorry

FREEPERS are so incredibly ignurnt about the black race

It’s laughable over and over


22 posted on 01/09/2017 10:13:34 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Timpanagos1

**...he did drop the N-Word on the woman**

As a common matter of daily life....what it the normal greeting for a black greeting a black? Hypocrites.

This DQ owner must be a non-B.


23 posted on 01/09/2017 10:15:31 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: Timpanagos1

Most franchise agreements would have some sort of conduct clause, because they don’t want a business to close because of boycotts or have their reputation damaged because of an operator.


24 posted on 01/09/2017 10:26:25 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: shoedog

I just wonder if there is more to the story.


25 posted on 01/09/2017 10:27:16 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: PCPOET7

There always is.


26 posted on 01/09/2017 10:36:33 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: vigilence

Two questions:

1) Why does it take so long to get a burger and it’s usually cold?

2) Why are some DQs not allowed to sell hamburgers?


27 posted on 01/09/2017 10:39:30 PM PST by Terry Mross (I'm trying to be more tolerant of everyone. Including ignorant people.)
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To: wardaddy
Any of y’all been around American blacks in large numbers

rasing my hand over here, boss.
60's\early 70's blacks be different than todays blacks.

I wonder what her grounds for suing will be ? He excercised is 1st amendment right ?
28 posted on 01/09/2017 10:41:52 PM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: Blue Jays

The flames of the next revolution have begu to . break through the establishments’s “politically correct” firewall. I myself have not filed taxes in 5 years because I do not care to feed the beast that is planning to tax, marginalized, imprison, and h consume me. Why is it that that every effeminate male d-bag that I see has the compulsion to grow a beard? Is it compensation for being emasculated 24x7x365 while they were growing up? This desperate quest for manhood might explain extreme sports, the truest expression of repressed masculinity expressed as a combo of in-your-face-masculinity and death wish.


29 posted on 01/09/2017 10:42:24 PM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

They all think it’s terrific the business was closed. This makes sense?


30 posted on 01/09/2017 10:45:13 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Daffynition

One of our pro football players had an instagram post of himself. He titled it something like “Young rich and ...” Shows him decked out in his bling and fur coat and driving his Rolls Royce. The music playing in the backround from the stereo was rap, with the word “niggah” in there several times and obvious.

An aside - I recall years ago when my son was in middle school - “Its okay to say “niggah” - with the “ah” at the end, that’s like friendly dad. “Nigger” is the bad word.”

I told him, regardless, he better not use EITHER word (he’s white).


31 posted on 01/09/2017 10:46:54 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: stylin19a

“He excercised is 1st amendment right ?”

That’s right.

He exercised his 1st amendment right and neither the police or anyone else in the government arrested him for expressing himself.

Unfortunately for him, the First Amendment does not extend to his franchise agreement.


32 posted on 01/09/2017 10:52:51 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: stylin19a

Part of the answer for your noted difference in black culture from 50 years ago.

From the web:

“Economics professor Walter E. Williams writes: “According to the 1938 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, that year 11 percent of black children and 3 percent of white children were born to unwed mothers.”

In mid-1960s America, the nation’s out-of-wedlock birth rate (which stood at 7.7 percent at the time) began a rapid and relentless climb across all demographic lines, a climb that would continue unabated until 1994, when the Welfare Reform Act helped put the brakes on that trend.

Today the overall American illegitimacy rate is about 40.7 percent (29.1 percent for non-Hispanic whites). For blacks, it is about 72 percent—approximately three times the level of black illegitimacy that existed when the War on Poverty began in 1964.”


33 posted on 01/09/2017 10:55:09 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Blue Jays

#### ‘em. You’re right.

The election’s over so let them print all this bull#### as much as they want.

Come Jan 20, the rules change.


34 posted on 01/09/2017 10:58:21 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: toast
Just because they call us racists doesn’t mean we have to defend actual racists.

Think deeply on this, my friend, because it may be that YOU are an actual racist, lacking only a 6 hour jam session to make you realize it.

35 posted on 01/09/2017 11:01:01 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: Timpanagos1
I hear ya, but this is a payday\go away matter

Legal action is still possible against Dairy Queen, Amen said, especially because other patrons — and even employees of the restaurant — have described racist comments and discriminatory mistreatment. She’s meeting with some of them Monday, so see if there is a pattern that Dairy Queen was made aware of.


36 posted on 01/09/2017 11:03:16 PM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: toast

No, it doesn’t. But something tells me the man did not call her that just for the heck of it. Must have been provoked.


37 posted on 01/09/2017 11:06:47 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: Timpanagos1

“Deianeira” ???

I’m surprised he didn’t burst out laughing instead of going off on a racist tirade.


38 posted on 01/09/2017 11:09:57 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 8, 2016..... Donald Trump schlongs Hillary Clinton. 306 Electoral Votes)
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To: 21twelve

presicely.

Taught 23 years in the ‘hood. If I ever used the word to one of the urchins...I’d be toast. Try as I might to *forbid* the word in my classroom...it was a losing battle.

Got called *cracker* plenty of times. LOL


39 posted on 01/09/2017 11:20:30 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: dp0622

This is an interpretation of the sequence and the facts.


40 posted on 01/09/2017 11:20:33 PM PST by Rapscallion (The opposite of charity is justice. I favor justice every time.)
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