Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy Suggests White People Repent & Shine The Shoes Of Black People
Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy is suggesting that white people repent of racism and shine the shoes of black people. During a recent church service, Cathy suggested that one way to express their “shame” and atone for racism in the U.S. is for white people to buff black people’s shoes.
Cathy recalled a story told to him about a revival in Texas, where a young white man expressed his conviction by kneeling down before an elderly African American man and shining his shoes. Before standing up, with a shoe brush in-hand, and walking over to Christian rapper Lecrae, he stated, “So I invite folks to just put some words to action here.”
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He continued, “If we need to find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we just need to go right on over and shine their shoes and whether they got tennis shoes on or not, maybe they got sandals on, it really doesn’t matter. But there’s a time at which we need to have, you know, some personal action here. Maybe we need to give them a hug, too,” to which Lecrae joked back, “And some stock in Chick-fil-A.”
While holding up his brush, Cathy affirmed, “I bought about 1,500 of these and I gave them to all of our Chick-fil-A operators and staff a number of years ago and so any expressions of a contrite heart, of a sense of humility, a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment, but yet with an apologetic heart, I think that’s what our world needs to hear today.”
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