WHATTA DICK!!!!!
Looks like I won’t be back to Chick-Fil-A….EVER!!!!
Dan Cathy, CEO of the Chick-Fil-A fast-food restaurant chain, publicly polished the sneakers of the black rapper Lecrae. The son of the Chick-Fil-A founder said he did it to recognize white people’s “oblivion” to racial injustice.
“Most of us white people, we’re out-of-sight, out-of-mind oblivious to it,” Dan Cathy said.
Kneeling at the feet of the Christian rapper during a panel discussion at the Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the CEO then started to polish the artist’s shoes.
“If we… find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we just need to go over and shine their shoes.”
Dan Cathy
CEO of Chick-Fil-A
Shoes or sneakers, it doesn’t matter, according to Cathy, who claimed any personal touch would do, and afterwards, moved to hug the rapper.
Explaining his anti-racism stance, Cathy said, “Our silence is so huge at this time. We cannot be silent.”
He called on white Americans to recognize “the level of frustration and exasperation, and almost the sense of hopelessness that exists within the African American community”.
The CEO admitted that there were “conscious and unconscious biases” within his corporation, and some Caucasian staff who made their black “brothers and sisters” feel they weren’t being treated with honor, dignity, and respect.
Cathy is not unique in his self-humbling attempt to earn the sympathy of the black community. In addition to those taking a knee in solidarity with the protests against police brutality, there have been examples of white residents and police officers washing the feet of their black neighbors.
Calamity Jane