{"id":550713,"date":"2021-06-03T11:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550713"},"modified":"2021-06-03T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:07:29","slug":"county-votes-to-ban-coke-machines-over-leftism-your-bigoted-and-racist-thinking-has-no-place-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/county-votes-to-ban-coke-machines-over-leftism-your-bigoted-and-racist-thinking-has-no-place-here\/","title":{"rendered":"County Votes To Ban Coke Machines Over Leftism: Your \u2018Bigoted And Racist Thinking\u2019 Has No Place Here"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fcounty-votes-to-ban-coke-machines-over-leftism-your-bigoted-and-racist-thinking-has-no-place-here%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=550713&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Coke-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A county in North Carolina is banning Coca-Cola machines in response to the company\u2019s left-wing political agenda, saying they are going to fight back in the culture war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe left wing in America, they defund, they boycott, they cancel, they tear down statues \u2014 all sorts of egregious actions,\u201d Eddie Harris, Surry County county commissioner, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/02\/north-carolina-county-bans-coca-cola-machines-over-left-wing-politics\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe expectation from them is the opposing political side will cower in the corner and we\u2019re supposed to accept that and it\u2019s supposed to be OK. And it\u2019s not OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The county commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of banning Coca-Cola vending machines in county-owned buildings after the company criticized the state of Georgia for passing voter integrity laws aimed at securing elections.<\/p>\n<p>Harris sent a letter on official county letterhead to James Quincey, CEO of Coca-Cola, saying that the company\u2019s position was \u201cwrong on many levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen no public statements from you or Coca Cola regarding the placement of China\u2019s ethnic Uighurs and Turkic Muslim minorities in concentration camps,\u201d Harris wrote in a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. \u201cWhere is your outrage of this persecution in a Communist country in which Coca Cola is heavily invested?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has also come to our attention that your company has adopted policies that disparage people based on their race,\u201d Harris continued. \u201cAccording to a whistleblower, your employees were asked to be \u2018less white\u2019 and another training slide said: \u2018In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white.\u2019 The slide detailing what it means to be \u2018less white\u2019 noted 10 areas in which Caucasians should improve. This type of bigoted and racist thinking has no place in corporate America or our country. People should be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, your corporate political commentary favoring the Democratic Party and their attempts to divide Americans by race and ethnicity are unnecessary in an era where Americans of all beliefs are more divided now than at any time in the last century,\u201d Harris continued. \u201cMichael Jordan once said \u2018Republicans buy sneakers too\u2019 when asked why he didn\u2019t make public comments about politics. Citizens of Surry County and across America are growing increasingly tired of large multinational corporations and their CEOs pushing an increasingly intolerant, bigoted, left-wing, divisive political agenda on its customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to your company\u2019s support of the out-of-control cancel culture and bigoted leftist mob, the Surry Board of County Commissioners voted at their May 17, 2021 meeting to remove all Coca-Cola machines from Surry County Government facilities,\u201d Harris concluded. \u201cOur Board felt that was the best way to take a stand and express our disappointment in Coca-Cola\u2019s actions, which are not representative of most views of our citizens. Our Board hopes that other organizations across the country are taking similar stances against Coca-Cola and sincerely wishes that future marketing efforts and comments emanating from your company are more considerate of all your customers\u2019 viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A county in North Carolina is banning Coca-Cola machines in response to the company\u2019s left-wing political agenda, saying they are going to fight back in the culture war.\u201cThe left wing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279049,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Coke-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"County Votes To Ban Coke Machines Over Leftism: Your \u2018Bigoted And Racist Thinking\u2019 Has No Place Here","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Coke-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"County Votes To Ban Coke Machines Over Leftism: Your \u2018Bigoted And Racist Thinking\u2019 Has No Place Here","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550713","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}