Chick-fil-A CEO lays racism on white christians

[tnt]

@WuWei

Congratulations.

Yet here you are telling me what I believe.

I didn’t bring you in to it.

Sorry I assumed you practiced christianity. My bad.

[WuWei]

@tnt

@WuWei

Congratulations.

Yet here you are telling me what I believe.

I didn’t bring you in to it.

Sorry I assumed you practiced christianity. My bad.

You should never assume nor presume.

I actually love this post though. So typical.

I’m now either not a Christian or a bad Christian. From someone is, by their own admission, not.

[thinkingman]

@PurpnGold

@thinkingman

where did i say i have an issue with that?

Your posting history, in this thread, seems to indicate you do have a problem… am I mistaken?

yes it would appear so

[tnt]

@Guvnah

And yet you pretend to lecture on what Christianity is/believes/teaches.

I’m not pretending anything. Happy to hear what I have gotten wrong, it’s been a while. But I am well learned in what Christianity teaches.

[thinkingman]

@amadeus

@thinkingman

@moonshine

i will never go to chik fil a

why not?

not enough pandering?

No, because it’s not real chicken. The stuff was never alive. Grown in a petrie dish. Needs some kind of sauce to have taste.

ah ok like all fast food

[Guvnah]

@PurpnGold

Your posting history, in this thread, seems to indicate you do have a problem… am I mistaken?

Grossly mistaken.

Your INTERPRETATION of his posting history might indicate that, but you have a history of misinterpretation and disingenuousness. You’re doing it again here.

[JayJay]

@Guvnah

CfL CEO says:

“about a dozen Chick-fil-A restaurants vandalized in the last week, but my plea would be for the white people, rather than point fingers at that kind of criminal effort, would be to see the level of frustration and exasperation and almost the sense of hopelessness that exists on some of those activists within the African-American community.”

I want to know what’s next. (Not from the CEO. What’s next in the process.)

I see the frustration. I understand it. I know that generations of minorities were gypped (at a minimum) along the way. (Such as government programs to bolster home ownership in the 1930s and 40s shut out blacks. And that the passing of wealth from generation to generation often comes in the form of the family home.)

Cathy says to look beyond the protest destruction and see the frustration. OK, and after everyone sees it (and even acknowledges it), … then what? Do the same after each successive round of looting?

What is the measurable change that would stop the looting?

I don’t know what’s next…it’s a hard question that has to be explored and discussed in a way that doesn’t minimize what people involved think about the issues.

It also involves a discussion where acknowledging a problem doesn’t automatically equate in some people’s minds as “having a guilt trip laid on them for something they didn’t do”…and it also involves understanding that an objection to an idea means one is a racist.

[WuWei]

@JayJay

“having a guilt trip laid on them for something they didn’t do”…

Did you not read Cathy’s statements?

@JayJay

and it also involves understanding that an objection to an idea means one is a racist.

What?

[SixFoot]

So are any libs eating at Chick-Fil-A tonight?

[Guvnah]

@tnt

That’s a good post.

The ‘what’s next’ is the hard part for sure.

I do agree with the CEO that the first step is to recognize and ackowlpgd the shllenges and frustrations Because only then can we find what’s next together…

And until then … ? Ongoing looting and rioting and killing and arson and …

For this wokeness to be effective, they’re going to have to put out concrete goals – achievable goals – else they’re going to lose any sympathy people (other than themselves) might have for the issue.

[JayJay]

Yes- he’s not asking one to feel guilty for something one did not do.

[WuWei]

@tnt

But I am well learned in what Christianity teaches.

I find that hard to believe, given how judgmental you are.

[WuWei]

@JayJay

Yes- he’s not asking one to feel guilty for something one did not do.

Right, he’s saying everyone does it. Well, everyone who is white.

[Guvnah]

@tnt

I’m not pretending anything.

Of course you are. You and several other libs in this thread.

Of course, you’re to libbish too understand it, so you’ll stay convinced that you have any credibility in Christian teaching.

Meh.

[Guvnah]

@JayJay

I don’t know what’s next…it’s a hard question that has to be explored and discussed in a way that doesn’t minimize what people involved think about the issues.

And so the looting and anarchy and mayhem will just have to continue until someone figures it out.

[Bigjohn]

Used to like the spicy chicken sandwich but it’s changed in the last 18 months to a non spicy chicken sandwich

[Guvnah]

@JayJay

and it also involves understanding that an objection to an idea means one is a racist.

Wow.

[WuWei]

@Bigjohn

Used to like the spicy chicken sandwich but it’s changed in the last 18 months to a non spicy chicken sandwich

It might be you getting old…

[WuWei]

Is it racism if I object to cultural characteristics common to only one race?

[WuWei]

Really good thread. Thanks for starting it.