Guest column by Claude
Grocery chain Giant Foods is now labeling foods with price tags that indicate which products are made by companies with non-white owners. This is totally fucked up. How did things get to be this crazy? How much longer before this racism reaches critical mass and blows up?
It’s time for people in those states of all races, genders (male and female and otherwise) to boycott places like this. About 10 days ago a high school friend of mine and I went to lunch at Olive Garden. The African-American waiter asked if we wanted something to drink. I said “a diet soda”. He asked “Diet Coke” and I replied “No, Coca Cola thinks I am too white.” So I ordered water.
A week later the same friend and I went to the Red Lobster and the waitress asked the same question and I gave the same reply. But she answered “Diet Pepsi” and I said perfect and my friend ordered one too. This is what we have to do. My wife now does very little shopping at Ralphs because they took ‘My Pillow’ out of the store. We have never bought one of those pillows but it was because Kroger Foods, owners of Ralphs, didn’t like Mike Lindell’s 3 hour video on election fraud.
I don’t buy Nike, I will never buy an I-phone, stopped watching the NBA (I have been a huge Lakers fan since 1965 and I wanted anyone but the Lakers to win in 2020). The point is we need to keep our eyes and ears open and start boycotting these “woke” businesses. We also need to start spreading the word to others. Create a ‘do not buy’ list and hand it out at meetings.
The civil rights movement of the 1960s was about creating an inclusive society where, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, we judge a person by their character and not the color of their skin. I thought we were making progress toward that and that our society is becoming more and more color blind but that progress started going backward under Obama and now it is going backwards faster than a snowball rolling down hill and like the snowball it is getting bigger all the time.
We all need to stick together and not shop at these “woke” businesses. We must fight this 21st Century version of segregation and racism. If I see somebody and I call them an asshole it is not because of their skin color but because they are assholes and those come in all makes and colors and nobody has a monopoly on assholes.
I have friends of all colors except for American Indian and Eskimo? Why? Just because I don’t know any but if I did and they were nice people they would be friends of mine.
