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Woman freaks out over Hobby Lobby’s raw cotton display
NY Post ^

Posted on 09/18/2017 6:43:15 PM PDT by TigerClaws

A Texas woman has been getting ridiculed online for being “too sensitive” after she blasted the arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby for selling faux raw cotton stalks — which she found offensive.=

“This decor is WRONG on SO many levels,” Daniell Rider posted on Facebook this past Thursday, along with a photo of the phony textile plants.

“There is nothing decorative about raw cotton…A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves,” she said. “A little sensitivity goes a long way. PLEASE REMOVE THIS ‘decor.'”

Rider, who is black, appeared to take the picture of the cotton herself after spotting it at a Hobby Lobby in Killeen, TX.

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To: Popman

I read the other day about some administrator apologizing for having something or other cotton in his/her office while interviewing a black. Anymore, being a racist is just a matter of self-defense.


21 posted on 09/18/2017 7:11:52 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: TigerClaws

World war z

Can this be contained before it infects the entire world


22 posted on 09/18/2017 7:14:46 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: 4Liberty

Don’t give them any ideas...


23 posted on 09/18/2017 7:16:12 PM PDT by stylecouncilor ("The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra)
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To: TigerClaws

With social media everyone gets their 5 minute spotlight. Usually for being an idiot or nekkid or both.


24 posted on 09/18/2017 7:16:43 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: stylecouncilor

So make her some new underwear from poison ivy leaves so she has something real to complain about.


25 posted on 09/18/2017 7:21:13 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: TigerClaws
I have white aunts and uncles who picked and chopped cotton when they were kids.

These people who are bitching need to give it a rest.

26 posted on 09/18/2017 7:22:47 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: fhayek

Or her cotton jeans


27 posted on 09/18/2017 7:26:14 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TigerClaws

Winter is coming.

Snow is White.

That is going to trigger a lot of people, who will need safe spaces to insulate them from racist precipitation.


28 posted on 09/18/2017 7:26:25 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: TigerClaws

She IS wearing clothes made of polyester or wool, right?


29 posted on 09/18/2017 7:27:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: TigerClaws

Just plain insanity. What must it be like to be so full of hatred, racism and bias that everything is viewed though those prisms. There can be no happiness for those people, which makes me happy.


30 posted on 09/18/2017 7:29:12 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: Popman

I thought Black people liked sweet potato pie. Will they all have to give that up now because of Ms. Rice’s fits?


31 posted on 09/18/2017 7:31:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: TigerClaws

OMG...Now wait just a cotton-picking minute. ;)

The insanity has reached levels never before seen.

So what are women making pillows supposed to use to stuff them? Some sort of chemical stuffing? That would hurt the environment, right? And probably require petro-chemicals?

Let’s just all sleep on hard wood beds, with nothing comfy. If you’re sick and require comfort, too bad. Just lie down on that wooden plank and deal with it. /s

Cotton is a plant, which, I would add, our Dear Lord gave us. It provides comfort and security; it is natural and healthy.

Yes, there were African-Americans who were used in many horrible ways, and that was a terrible chapter in American history.

But let’s not blame a natural gift from the Lord for the sins of our forefathers. This is absolute craziness.


32 posted on 09/18/2017 7:31:36 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Architect of Paradise

These folks would have been right at home in communist Eastern Europe, where black coal dust rained down from the sky.


33 posted on 09/18/2017 7:33:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: TigerClaws

My father picked cotton when he was a child. Where are my reparations?


34 posted on 09/18/2017 7:34:02 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: falcon99
"This decor is WRONG on SO many levels,">

This decor Liberalism is WRONG on SO many levels,”

35 posted on 09/18/2017 7:34:51 PM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: fhayek

Or the blatant racist stereotype Popeyes commercials.


36 posted on 09/18/2017 7:35:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SkyDancer

Yet she has no problems handling the images of dead slave owners in her wallet.


37 posted on 09/18/2017 7:36:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Architect of Paradise

White, puffy, cotton-ball like clouds probably make her apoplectic.


38 posted on 09/18/2017 7:38:25 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: 4Liberty; All

My father-in-law died of a heart attack (his third) while hunting alone (always a bad idea). He started having chest pains and went for his meds...when they found him in his truck in rural Quebec, they found piles of that stupid stuffing on the seat next to him.

He was apparently in too much pain to be able to get to his medicine.

He was a nice man. I feel sad he died alone.


39 posted on 09/18/2017 7:38:29 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: TigerClaws
These folks need mental help.

Nah, they just want MONEY. FREE MONEY.

40 posted on 09/18/2017 7:39:02 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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