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Home Depot worker’s “America Was Never Great” hat creates stir
ajc ^ | 5-19-16 | Jennifer Brett

Posted on 05/20/2016 6:36:31 AM PDT by Dacula

A Home Depot employee is causing quite a stir online after a photo of her in her trademark orange apron and a hat that read “America Was Never Great” went viral. “I was honestly shocked — I didn’t expect any of this to happen,” Staten Island resident Krystal Lake, a Bernie Sanders supporter, told the Staten Island Advance. A spokeswoman from Atlanta-based Home Depot said employees aren’t to wear items that reflect political statements, but Lakes says she “definitely” will wear her hat to work again. “I feel it offended a lot of people because a lot of (Donald) Trump supporters live in Staten Island,” she told the Staten Island Advance, noting her hat’s send up of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. “Trump is very rash and in your face, but when someone else has a message against him, his supporters can’t take the criticisms.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: again; america; great; make
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Homo Depot will not fire her.

If she does not like America, then she is free to go back to Africa.

1 posted on 05/20/2016 6:36:31 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: Dacula

Hat endorsed by Mooch Obama.


2 posted on 05/20/2016 6:38:07 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Dacula

Trump?

Sounds like it’s our COUNTRY that “offends” the bitch.


3 posted on 05/20/2016 6:39:56 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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4 posted on 05/20/2016 6:40:20 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Home Depot can fire her or a lot of people will fire Home Depot. Beyond that, she is just asking for someone to get in her face on the job.


5 posted on 05/20/2016 6:40:48 AM PDT by Truth29
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With the soul of privilege, so blatant in her appearance and demeanor, she would be completely out of place in a black culture.


6 posted on 05/20/2016 6:41:23 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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Sounds like it’s our COUNTRY that “offends” the bitch.

Yep. Her hat really ticks me off. I wouldn't care if it said "#NeverTrump". That's political--but this is closer to seditious. I'd leave my cart at the counter full of stuff, walk off, and go down the street to Lowes.

7 posted on 05/20/2016 6:43:53 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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"...A spokeswoman from Atlanta-based Home Depot said employees aren’t to wear items that reflect political statements, but Lakes says she “definitely” will wear her hat to work again..."


8 posted on 05/20/2016 6:44:40 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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“If she does not like America, then she is free to go back to Africa.”

No matter how bad they perceive it is in the United State, no one ever leaves to live in Africa. Why?


9 posted on 05/20/2016 6:45:02 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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A corporation that openly hates America sounds like a legitimate military target to me.

10 posted on 05/20/2016 6:45:05 AM PDT by BiggerTigger
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11 posted on 05/20/2016 6:45:42 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Hillary Clinton stood next to the coffin of an American soldier and lied to his parents' face)
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Definitely the message Krystal lives,,,

Enjoy, Loser !


12 posted on 05/20/2016 6:45:54 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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Send her back to Somali cesspool


13 posted on 05/20/2016 6:46:19 AM PDT by Rebel2016
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She is right, America is not great; IT IS FREAKIN’ FANTASTIC!!!


14 posted on 05/20/2016 6:46:34 AM PDT by rey
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Back when Ferguson was big in the news, I went to a Big Lots store near my home, and one of the black female employees was wearing a Black Lives Matter tee shirt instead of the Big Lots tee shirt which was the same color.

I emailed the home office in Ohio about the incident and within a day they called me and asked for more info. Soon the district manager called me, and eventually the store manager did as well. I never saw that woman in the store again......................


15 posted on 05/20/2016 6:47:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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If I went through her line at checkout, I would have to tell her that is the stupidest hat I’ve ever seen...


16 posted on 05/20/2016 6:48:49 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Dacula

1-800-HOME-DEPOT (1-800-466-3337)


17 posted on 05/20/2016 6:48:57 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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I’d like to see ISIS take care of her...


18 posted on 05/20/2016 6:49:43 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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I would like to see what would happen if she wore a hat in Russia stating “Russia was never great”

She would be sent to a re-education camp before it went viral.

Free speech is a wonderful thing and is one of the attributes of a great country.

Ironically, she is expressing her negative ideas in one of the few countries that would allow such expressions.

She is sadly ignorant of what makes anything great. Let alone the country she was born into.


19 posted on 05/20/2016 6:49:58 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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A spokeswoman from Atlanta-based Home Depot said employees aren’t to wear items that reflect political statements, but Lakes says she “definitely” will wear her hat to work again.

If she wears the hat to work then fire her ass.

20 posted on 05/20/2016 6:50:03 AM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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