Morning Greatness: Curing ‘Systemic Racism’ One Food Label at a Time

July 20, 2020

Good Monday morning.

Here is what’s on the president’s agenda today:

The president participates in a roundtable with supporters of a joint fundraising committee at the Trump hotel

Curing “systemic racism” one food label at a time

First they came for Aunt Jemina. Next they came for Uncle Ben’s Rice. Now they are coming for Trader Joe’s.

A petition has garnered 1,700 signatures, not really that many, telling Trader Joe’s grocery store to change the name of some of its products. “The grocery chain labels some of its ethnic foods with modifications of ‘Joe’ that belies a narrative of exoticism that perpetuates harmful stereotypes,” reads the petition.

It cites “Trader Ming’s,” the grocery chain’s label for its Chinese products, “Arabian Joe,” for its Middle Eastern products, “Trader José,” for its Mexican products, and a handful of others as examples.

So this is racism? I shop at TJ’s and I’ve never really noticed the names on the label of my products but I don’t see these names as derogatory. What will these product name changes do to stop police violence? Systemic racism? Failing inner city schools? Substandard health care? Nothing, but that’s because the goal isn’t to DO anything. It’s just about cosmetic displays to virtue signal.

“The Trader Joe’s branding is racist because it exoticizes other cultures – it presents ‘Joe’ as the default “normal” and the other characters falling outside of it,” the petition says. What? These are people with too much time on their hands and what does exoticize mean? It’s FOOD. Chinese food. Mexican food. Middle Eastern food.

Naturally, Trader Joe’s caved.

“While this approach to product naming may have been rooted in a lighthearted attempt at inclusiveness, we recognize that it may now have the opposite effect — one that is contrary to the welcoming, rewarding customer experience we strive to create every day,” Kenya Friend-Daniel, a spokeswoman for Trader Joe’s, said in a statement.

“Packaging for a number of the products has already been changed, but there’s a small number of products in which the packaging is still going through the process,” Friend-Daniel added.

Well we can’t have any “lighthearted” inclusiveness because this crowd doesn’t want inclusiveness, they want strife and division.

Democrats freakout that feds are cleaning up the Portland mess

The riots in Portland aren’t getting any mainstream media coverage because the corporate media don’t want people to see the anarchy and violence in the streets. They want the people to turn against the police and they don’t want people to support Trump’s message of law and order. But malefactors have been running rampant in Portland after dark, attacking a federal court house among other things. Trump sent the feds in to protect federal property because the local whackadoodle mayor, Ted Wheeler, let these insurrections run wild. Other elected officials have claimed the feds are assaulting innocent “protestors.” Pelosi called the DHS officers “storm troopers.”

In a series of statements and Twitter messages, City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty accused the Portland Police Bureau – which Wheeler oversees — of collaborating with the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in what she described as an “aggressive clampdown of peaceful protest.”

In one post, Hardesty refers to federal officers as “45’s goon squad” – an apparent reference to President Trump, the nation’s 45th president.

So far the peaceful protests have cost local businesses $25 million.

Here are some videos of the peaceful protestors:

Antifa rioters continue to break the wooden barriers protecting the Portland federal courthouse. They already tore apart the fencing erected around the building. Video by @FromKalen. #PortlandRiots https://t.co/3HFIsaLsgL

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) July 19, 2020

On 18–19 July, anarchist & BLM rioters attacked 2 locations in Portland. They started fires on street in north Portland & broke into police union hall & also set it on fire. Downtown, they tore down the fence around courthouse & barricaded exits. #antifa https://t.co/bwjblnAlDJ pic.twitter.com/AYMn5bufiK

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) July 19, 2020

Antifa started fires in the street outside the Portland police union hall before breaking inside and setting it on fire. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/Ksw1uTp2v1

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) July 19, 2020

Dem Rep. Meeks: Trump Turning America into North Korea with Feds Taking Protesters off the Street

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