Posted on 04/19/2015 5:39:54 PM PDT by massmike
Jim Boggess, whose "White History Month" sign at his New Jersey deli ignited a firestorm, has posted a new placard.
This one says: "Forced Out of Business." And he's also created a GoFundMe page pleading for money from strangers.
On the crowd-sourcing site, Boggess writes,"On march 1st, I hung a sign in my deli window saying, 'Celebrate your white heritage in March, White History Month". . . Then the bottom dropped out and customers were no longer coming into my deli."
Saying he was forced to close his dying business, Boggess bemoans his fate and says he lost "my American dream."
After five days, Boggess had accumulated $245 and a barrage of blistering comments on his "Jimbos white history sign gone bad" page.
Shannelle Robinson, who is African-American, donated $5. "I hope it helps you to enlighten yourself on the very people you feel you need to compete with for no other reason than you're a spoiled entitled brat," she wrote.
Reg Lane posted, "Begging for money should be beneath a grown man, but if you rap "Baby (G)ot Back and post it I'll give you 3 dollars and 15 cent."
Boggess expressed bewilderment at the reaction to his sign.
"I don't think I deserve this because I wanted to be proud of being white and be able to celebrate my heritage like everyone else does," he wrote.
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“Forced Out of Business.”
No, you forced yourself out of business.
Anyone bet Shanelle is related Michelle Robinson Obama?
Know your market....
Why can’t there be white history month?
he crossed the “holy” Racess Rubicon..into “sacred” territory
“I don’t think I deserve this because I wanted to be proud of being white and be able to celebrate my heritage like everyone else does,”
From now on, he can be proud to be a moron.
“Why can’t there be white history month?”
You can write your congressman and ask him to propose a bill creating a White History Month and Congress can vote.
For the deli owner, his customers voted to no longer do business with him.
And that’s Capitalism.
sounds like he doesn’t know the customers in his market.
he was in new jersey. liberal cesspool. he should move to a red state. they don’t penalize for not being the ‘state approved race’
It’s too bad he didn’t xay, “Come in for a White Pizza
on White history month. Next month come in for a licorse
pizza on Black history month.
Come in in three months for naked pizza on naked
history month.
If anyone organized a boycott they committed a clear-cut racial “hate crime”.
But some racial “hate crimes” are more equal than others.
“If anyone organized a boycott they committed a clear-cut racial “hate crime”.”
I am not all that familiar with New Jersey laws, but I doubt there is a law that requires residents to eat at this guy’s deli.
“he was in new jersey. liberal cesspool.”
Your statement simplifies things a little too much. New Jersey like everywhere else is not homogenous.
He was in Hunterdon County which is pretty darn conservative.
So, you want the white man to keep working like a slave, provide taxes for welfare and the like, and keep his mouth shout about the anti-white racism? Sure. Whatever you want.
If its any consolation, I feel the same way about Black History Month as Reg and Shannell feel about White History Month.
I live in his town and it is not a liberal area at all. The liberal NY/NJ newspapers made a commotion about it, but locally it was not a big deal. I’ve lived here for 30 years and didn’t know the place existed. He didn’t advertise or run specials or participate in promotion of any kind that I can find.
Think his business died for the usual reason; he didn’t know what he was doing.
if a ‘white history month’ sign pushed away customers, then they’re either offended by the concept (like most on the left) or are non-white racists
I think all this kind of stuff is nonsense and that includes that "breast cancer" awareness month when everybody is supposed to wear pink ribbons.
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