Posted on 08/17/2016 8:05:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A New Mexico restaurant generated controversy -- and profits -- this summer with a play on "Black Lives Matter."
Now it's coasting on the uproar that began with its sign and has printed hats and T-shirts with the phrase, jumping straight into the seemingly never-ending national conversation on race.
Rick Camuglia, owner of Paisano's, an Italian restaurant in Albuquerque, put the phrase "black olives matter" on his sign last month to help sell a new tuna dish with black olive tapenade. It worked like a charm, bringing in more business, with some people adding black olives to every dish they ordered.
Of course it upset some people too, who said that Paisano's was trivializing the Black Lives Matter movement, which has protested the police killings of black men in the past couple of years.
Others who have been accused of this -- like the people who have said "All Lives Matter" in response -- have apologized for their words. But not Paisano's. Camuglia refuses to apologize and says he won't stop selling hats and T-shirts with the "black olives matter" phrase on them.
"People have filled the restaurant and told us to leave up the sign," Camuglia told CNN affiliate KOAT. He said he made the T-shirts and other items after getting messages of support from people around the world who wanted to buy some sort of souvenir with the phrase on it.
The view from the other side
That doesn't sit well with others, said Dr. Finnie Coleman, an English professor at the University of New Mexico who's teaching a course on the historical events that led up to the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Many people are very much against any kind of usage of that term or playing on that term or punning that term...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Awwww...thin-skinned black communists/progressives can’t stand it when capitalists make a few bucks off of their widdle hashtag...
Ol - ives Matter.
This isn’t news...just CNN stirring the pot.
#BlackLivesMatter is just a joke.
#BlackOlivesMatter is real disrespect - and that’s why so many decent people go to their restaurant.
Can't you just imagine the parsing, spinning, distortions it takes to connect the thugs and black history to the BLM? I've come to point of disdain for most college level edgumacators as much as the MSM.
Can’t it be both?
The real question is not “Is this disrespectful towards BLM?”
The real question is “Is the BLM movement worthy of respect?”. I say “No”.
Employer: Can you tell me what courses you took in college?
Applicant:I'd rather not
I visited their website to see if they sold the shirts online. No luck, but the photos of their signature dishes made my mouth water!
https://www.paisanosabq.com/home.html
Green Olives Matter more than Black Olives.
stuffed feta and blue cheese olives! Yummy!
CNN needs to get a frigging life.
...so, CNN (Certainly Not News)...where’s the link to Paisano’s? America...nay; the WORLD wants to buy shirts! (You call yourselves a news organization. Pfft!)
Never mind...Freepers on the job while CNN snoozes...as usual. Thanks, TS!
Good.
Are kalamata olives offended? BTW say BLM in Colorado and must people think Bureau of Land Management. I suspect the “professor” would be offended by that too.
There was no base housing so we lived in a little town called Alcala de Gualdiquivir, outside of Seviila. Our house was right across the street from an olive processing plant.
The ladies who worked there pitting olives by hand and stuffing them with pimentos, would give my brother and sister and I each a nickel bottle of Coca Cola and some olives to snack on when we came across the street to visit. Obviously, we were in there almost everyday after the school bus dropped us off.
And that is where, in the third grade, I became a fan of olives, both green and black, and enjoy them as a snack to this day almost 60 years later.
And I must say, Black Olives DO Matter.
BLACK OLIVES MATTER. MSM and the HEALTH COMMUNITY should applaud RICK CAMUGLIA’S (Paisano’s) efforts.
1) Cardiovascular Benefits
2) Weight Loss
3) Cancer Prevention
4) Decrease Pain
5) Improve Skin/Hair Health
6) Reduce Allergies
7) Digest Tract Health
8) Good Source of Iron
9) Improve Eye Health
10) Increase Glutathione Levels
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