Posted on 08/13/2015 2:04:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This week, we received an anonymous letter in response to this window display commemorating the one year anniversary of Michael Brown's:
There was no return address, and it wasn't signed. It was a very short message on a note card telling us that we had lost a customer. In it, the person said we stoked the flames of enmity between races and promoted division. The person asked us why we insisted upon doing that.
It's hard to know how to respond. What I want to do is call up the customer and chat. I want to take him or her out for coffee and talk about what those three words mean and why I and our store feel compelled to repeat them in a window along a busy street in what seems to some to be an act of ill will.
There is no way to do that in this case so allow me to publicly answer this letter in hopes that it reaches the person who wrote it or those who agree with its sentiments.
In all honesty, the window makes me nervous. I come to work every day with the news of protests in our city rattling around in my head. I worry (justifiably, it seems) that we'll lose customers. I worry that some great books aren't getting space in that window. I worry that those who sympathize with the message will think we're trying to cash in on a civil rights movement.
I worry a lot about a lot of things.
I'm a 42-year-old white transgender man. My family's white. Most of my friends are white. I married two white people and gave birth to a white son....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
There’s nothing discuss with those adding fuel to the fire. All Lives Matter. Anything else is racist.
Godless Liberalism happened to the country.
we stopped shooting on sight
There’s nothing wrong with that window that a brick wouldn’t fix.
The text is white. That’s racist. The text should be black too.
“I am a 42-year old transgender man”
That’s as far as I got......
Someone let the freakshow out of the carnival.
But...but...those signs are brick repellent.
As if rioters would ever loot a book store.
Mike Brown's what? Puppy adoption? Won three dollars in the lottery?
I'm a 42-year-old white transgender man. My family's white. Most of my friends are white. I married two white people and gave birth to a white son...
ALLLLLLLRighty then....
"The ink is black/The page is white/Together we learn to read and write...."
“I am a 42-year old white transgender man”
WTF?
Do White Lives Matter?
. What I want to do is call up the customer and chat”
Sure you do, Chump. The EX customer would have to listen blah blah blah to you spouting the Michael Brown the Victim card and all the other pandering propaganda suckers like you have bought in to.
I’ll say it one more time for you: Michael Brown was a thug who was hoisted on his own petard. Officer Darren Wilson and his family were subjected to threats and hatred beyong description . . .
ALL for THE BIG LIE
I’m a 42-year-old white transgender man. My family’s white. Most of my friends are white. I married two white people and gave birth to a white son....
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Too much info...a man has a baby...Okaaaaaaaay
and I thought this was going to be about why black lives mattered and no other color...
I think we should all send him/her/it (??) postcards to confirm that we would not shop there, either. Just so he/she/it is not left to believe that only ONE of their customers or potential customers was offended.
Yes Virginia,
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
Blacklives(are all that)matter!
this man should be locked up in a mental institution and would have years ago. Now we have closed them down and let he loons walk amongst others and even then some tell these loons they are OK and encourage their sick ness
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