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@realaugustrush I fail to see how highlighting and raising awareness of Black owned businesses perpetuates racism.

@trevin change it all to white owned. Picture a little clearer. It should be based on the food, not the colour of the owners.

@gruffi67 We live in a white dominant culture that affords a lot of privilege. A few articles that may help bring clarity to why celebrating and highlighting minority groups are not racist in return. https://www.vox.com/identities/2... https://lanthorn.com/64015/opini... http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/...

@gruffi67 You are completely missing the point, educate yourself

@trevin Treating people differently because of their skin color is textbook racism. This product's sole purpose is explicitly to help people be racist in favor of black people. We have a LONG way to go as a society if people like you and those that sadly upvoted your comment somehow cannot understand how grossly unjust something like this is. Just imagine if somebody made a product where the *sole* purpose was to show you which businesses were owned by white people with the implication that you'd support them *because* their skin was white. Racism is sickening and cuts deep wounds both ways. This only deepens those wounds. "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

@karl0s At least the developers have courage and are looking for ways to be a part of the solution, and not sit on the sidelines denying that a problem continues to exist as many folks have done for decades.

@bhold2000 imagine building app with the name "Find local White owned restaurants" (sounds f* uped)

@karl0s you just described every other restaurant app.

@chrismessina You poor naive child :) bul and again bul , i know plenty of places on for example grubhub in Brooklyn, owners are from all over the world

@karl0s ah, condescension! Yes, an effective way to convince me of your perspective! 😂 You said, "Anyway good luck". What did you mean by that? Good luck with getting attention and hype?