{"id":1851044,"date":"2023-02-17T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851044"},"modified":"2023-02-17T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:30:33","slug":"god-has-never-failed-us-how-a-christian-business-owner-lost-everything-for-refusing-to-bend-the-knee-to-blm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/god-has-never-failed-us-how-a-christian-business-owner-lost-everything-for-refusing-to-bend-the-knee-to-blm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018God Has Never Failed Us\u2019: How A Christian Business Owner Lost Everything For Refusing To Bend The Knee To BLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgod-has-never-failed-us-how-a-christian-business-owner-lost-everything-for-refusing-to-bend-the-knee-to-blm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851044&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Juan-Elias \u201cJuany\u201d Riesco watched his city explode and his family\u2019s empanada restaurant collapse during the summer of 2020, when riots broke out across the nation in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. Riesco was 29, and unlike many small-business owners in Chicago, he never bowed to Black Lives Matter. He also never lost his faith.<\/p>\n<p>The second son of immigrant parents, Riesco had helped transform his family\u2019s tiny grocery story on the city\u2019s west side into a popular restaurant. Players for the Chicago Bulls were known to frequent Nini\u2019s Deli for its Cuban-Mexican fusion dishes, inspired by Mexico, where Riesco\u2019s mother, Julie, was born, and his father\u2019s homeland of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would serve them the same exact way we would serve the single mom who lives down the street,\u201d said Riesco, noting Yelp named Nini\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/dining\/ct-food-yelp-top-places-to-eat-chicago-ninis-deli-0107-20200107-sz2dq5an2vbincndm3isgmq3qu-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest-rated<\/a> Restaurant in Chicago and Illinois. The family\u2019s success led to brand deals with Nike and Adidas, glowing praise from local media outlets, and even made Riesco something of a local celebrity who delivered keynote presentations at Apple Store openings.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant\u2019s runaway success came to a halt in the summer of 2020, he said, when Nini\u2019s was the \u201conly business that didn\u2019t make Black Lives Matter oriented posts within moments of everything happening.\u201d According to The Daily Wire, Riesco said that he was hesitant to endorse the social movement immediately because he was concerned about its tenets not being in line with biblical values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely needed some time to pray on it,\u201d He said. \u201cI was getting a lot of pressure to make a post about Black Lives Matter and how I stood with George Floyd and stood against the police. And as a born-again Christian, I do not stand against the police. And I also do not stand arbitrarily for any political movement just because people are telling me to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riesco shared a statement about how valuable all life is, despite the fact that other businesses had posted black squares on their social media accounts days before. \u201call lives are made in God\u2019s image.\u201d Local social justice activists were furious at the statement and drove his family out, including out of Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>Riesco still had the faith of his Christian parents and the solid stock that his parents passed on to him. Riesco\u2019s father, Jose, immigrated to the United States from communist Cuba after serving a five-year prison sentence for helping his neighbors hide their guns from the Castro regime. He later married Riesco\u2019s mother, who had immigrated to the Chicago area from Mexico alongside her parents and siblings, and the couple earned a living through the small grocery store they managed underneath their apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Jose, Riesco&#8217;s older brother, and Jose learned from their father, that communism, which was openly Marxist Black Lives Matter, is a dead end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven before my family was Christian, I had always operated under the principle of \u2018better dead than red,\u2019\u201d He said. \u201cBetter to be dead than to be a communist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juan and Jose were both troubled teens despite all the lessons learned from their childhood. Both Juan and Jose gravitated to petty crimes and joining the wrong crowd. Juan is open about his past homosexuality. He moved to San Francisco to be with the right crowd. But when his parents threatened to stop supporting him unless he moved back home, and after Jose\u2019s profound religious conversion, things changed for both Riesco boys.<\/p>\n<p>Within months, Riesco was able to, just like his older brother and kneel before Jesus. He was quick to start using biblical principles in every area of his life, including the family&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started to apply Christian ethics to our business,\u201d He remembered. \u201cAnd I believe God honored that because I was seeking Him first, ultimately, and allowing the things that I was learning through the reading of the Bible to influence my workplace. The only reason why we were good servants is because we believe Christ first served us, and so therefore we would gladly and willfully serve our community or whoever came into our business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of that mattered to the mob demanding atonement from Riesco\u2019s family for a killing committed by a Minneapolis police officer who was already under arrest and would later be convicted of murder. The crowd demanded \u201ctotal submission,\u201d Riesco recalled, &#8220;If not in person, then via social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany times the people who have these worldviews are insecure in their spiritual identity,\u201d He said. \u201cWe know that the Bible says \u2018There is no rest for the wicked.\u2019 We know they will never find that rest they\u2019re searching for, no matter how many likes, retweets, or positive and reaffirming comments that they get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the negative comments and threats of death that Riesco received via social media,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan-Elias \u201cJuany\u201d Riesco watched his city explode and his family\u2019s empanada restaurant collapse during the summer of 2020, when riots broke out across the nation in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. But unlike many of his fellow Chicago small business owners, Riesco, who was 29 at the time, never bent the knee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1851047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7425,6479,13956,4284,4592,5886,4686,5987,6263,7397,9029],"class_list":["post-1851044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-god","tag-bend","tag-blm","tag-business","tag-christian","tag-failed","tag-knee","tag-lost","tag-owner","tag-refusing","tag-us"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}