Niggardly Coal Miners are Offensive

[Ben]

SJW enters a restaurant in Phoenix and is offended by an old photograph of coal miners with soot on their faces.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/01/29/essayist-and-poet-looks-at-photo-of-coal-miners-after-work-sees-offensive-blackface/

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/01/28/downtown-phoenix-photo-men-soot-blackface/2683881002/

[Firethorn]

"Tells me that I'm not welcome here" - referring to the picture.

Good.  You're annoying, they'll get more business without you.

I mean, who's supposed to be the culturally tolerant one here?

[charby]

The coal miners are/were stingy?

[Hawkmoon]

At the downtown Phoenix restaurant, my concern that the photograph of men in blackface was a threat to me and my face and voice were ignored.

You gotta be [bleep]in' me.

This dude isn't an essayist -- he's an idiot looking for excuses to play the victim card.

[MillCreek]

Can you really be so ignorant as to not recognize coal miners with coal dust on their faces?

[230RN]

Yeah, and black lung disease is racist, too.

[HankB]

And with their orange faces, Oompa Loompas are mocking our President.

[WLJ]

Throw him into a coal mine for a day and then take his photograph and put it on the internet.

[WLJ]

And with their orange faces, Oompa Loompas are mocking our President.

Can't find it now but could swear I remember seeing a photo where someone had photoshopped MAGA hats onto the Oompa Loompas

[WLJ]

Oh wait, this might explain it 

Rashaad Thomas is a husband, father, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, poet and essayist. Reach him