Italian Restaurant Owner Posts Offensive Billboard Mocking #BlackLivesMatter
In a year where the nation has witnessed numerous deaths of black people at the hands of police, we’re not here for jokes, quips, or anything cute surrounding our lives.
Enter: the d***head owner of this Italian restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico…
Via NYDailyNews
Albuquerque eatery Paisano’s wanted a cute way to advertise its tuna and tapenade special. So they decked out the sign out front with a pun that owner Rick Camuglia found amusing: “Black Olives Matter, Try Our Tapenade.”
“We put up what we thought was a cute play on words, which we do commonly here at the restaurant,” he told NBC affiliate KOB.
“We were trying to promote our pan-seared Ahi tuna with a black olive tapenade relish.”
Bruh…
“As a woman of color I find your posting offensive and in very bad taste. You simply wish to rub salt in an ugly festering wound which evil minded people refuse to allow to heal,” one woman wrote on their Facebook page.
“The civilized world No longer has any tolerance for your hateful public display of what passes to you as humor.”
However…
“I think it shows an interesting state of affairs of where our country is that people, first of all, can be offended by a statement about a vegetable. Black olives matter, and it does matter in our tapenade,” Camuglia said.
Even though Camuglia removed the sign, he says he doesn’t regret posting it and has no plans to apologize.
SMH. Can’t even apologize. White just GOTTA be right. SMFH.
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