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'Racist' texts from McDonald's CEO to Lori Lightfoot on Chicago shootings met with swift backlash
Fox Business ^ | 11/4/2021 | Emma Colton

Posted on 11/04/2021 5:05:25 PM PDT by simpson96

The CEO of McDonald’s is facing backlash after a text he sent to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed he blamed parents for the recent fatal shootings of two kids in the city.

"He doesn’t know what it is to be poor. People like him look at our community like garbage and at the same time want to sell us their products," Baltazar Enriquez, president of the Little Village Community Council, told The Chicago Tribune of McDonald’s Chris Kempczinski. "We give a lot of money to his corporation. He should put that money back into our community."

A text Kempczinski sent Lightfoot in April and revealed this week show the CEO pinning blame on parents for the deaths of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams. The texts were made public through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by a man in Canada investigating a separate matter in Portland, Oregon.

"With both, the parents failed those kids which I know is something you can’t say. Even harder to fix," Kempczinski texted Lightfoot.

"Thanks, Chris. Great to see you in person. Such a great work space, and your folks were terrific. I said to Joe I would be happy reach out to the operator to offer support. He and his team members have got to be traumatized. Terrible tragedy. Thanks again, Chris," Lightfoot responded.

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KEYWORDS: adamtoledo; baltazarenriquez; bidenvoters; canada; chicago; chriskempczinski; illinois; jaslynadams; lorilightfoot; mcdonalds; oregon; portland
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"We give a lot of money to his corporation. He should put that money back into our community."

Breathtaking.

1 posted on 11/04/2021 5:05:25 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Umm - what he said wasn’t racist.


2 posted on 11/04/2021 5:11:23 PM PDT by Skywise
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""With both, the parents failed those kids which I know is something you can’t say. Even harder to fix," Kempczinski texted Lightfoot."

Thought control by our communist masters is reaching both "comic" & "cosmic" limits...

3 posted on 11/04/2021 5:14:20 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: simpson96

“People of diversity” seem to think it’s acceptable to assault employees and destroy restaurants because “da muthaf*ckin ice cream machine done broke down.”


4 posted on 11/04/2021 5:14:25 PM PDT by rickmichaels (I shouldn't have to press 1 for English)
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To: simpson96

They didn’t “give” money to his corporation, they traded money for food. It’s called “commerce”


5 posted on 11/04/2021 5:16:22 PM PDT by wny ( )
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“He should put that money back into our community.”

He built a restaurant in “your” community, you fricking moron.

L


6 posted on 11/04/2021 5:17:16 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I'm not a fan of McDonald's by any stretch, but I do appreciate how they have the Ronald McDonald House for kids with disabilities and Down's Syndrome, and the community centers by Ray Kroc.
7 posted on 11/04/2021 5:20:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: simpson96

Ah, yes, backlash from the jungle ... so impressed.


8 posted on 11/04/2021 5:22:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: simpson96

“Baltazar”?

Wasn’t that the name of the human scum that teamed up with the Cylons in Battle Star (1st generation, so to speak)?

And he has the nerve to show his face on earth one more time!?


9 posted on 11/04/2021 5:23:01 PM PDT by griffin
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To: Lurker

Zactry!

$20 for flipping burgs is you people being kept down by the man!


10 posted on 11/04/2021 5:25:27 PM PDT by griffin
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I don’t eat at McDonalds, but last time I checked their customers were paying and eating voluntarily.

A difficult concept for Groot to comprehend.


12 posted on 11/04/2021 5:28:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I spent several nights in a Ronald McDonald house in the Midwest when
my son had surgery.

It is a wonderful organization that gives a parents a place to stay and the kids got together at night to play and socialize.

Local volunteers bring in home cooked meals.


13 posted on 11/04/2021 5:34:23 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: simpson96

I don’t know about the Jaslyn Adams case, but there was definitely parental neglect in the Adam Toledo case. He had taken off previously and his mother never filed a missing person report. The final time he took off, she filed a report several days after he was already dead. Someone made the connection between the report and the unidentified body at the morgue and called her. She isn’t exactly Mother of the Year material.


14 posted on 11/04/2021 5:38:32 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: simpson96

Poor doesnt mean you get a pass to raise criminal children.

This is libtards smearing and insulting the poor.


15 posted on 11/04/2021 5:38:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96

Not racist.


16 posted on 11/04/2021 5:39:26 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: simpson96

Is this where I can state the McDonald’s fries are always undercooked and get some improvement in return?


17 posted on 11/04/2021 5:41:32 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: simpson96

Btt


18 posted on 11/04/2021 5:50:56 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: griffin
You're thinking of Baltar...


19 posted on 11/04/2021 5:57:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96

“With both, the parents failed those kids, which I know is something you can’t say. Even harder to fix,”

Not racist. Not apt, but not racist.


20 posted on 11/04/2021 6:01:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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