Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n
As is increasingly common, our nation\u2019s traditional day for the appreciation of family, freedom, good fortune and food is under siege by the joyless few who seek to cast our society as racist to the core. Project 21<\/a>\u00a0Co-Chairman Horace Cooper<\/a>, in a pre-holiday appearance on the Fox News Channel, referred to this and the ongoing campaign against Chick-fil-A as liberal attempts to exercise a \u201checkler\u2019s veto\u201d over the rest of America.<\/p>\n Horace joined a panel discussion on \u201cThe Ingraham Angle\u201d about a Campus Reform video<\/a>\u00a0in which college students were quick to call Thanksgiving \u201cracist\u201d because of the alleged exploitation of American Indians and a \u201ccelebration [of] ongoing genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n Panelist Cathy Areu attempted to justify that young people \u201cbelieve\u201d the allegations against Thanksgiving in part because the \u201cAddams Family Values\u201d movie \u2013 a work of fiction as well as a theatrical flop<\/a>\u00a0released seven years before most current college freshmen were born \u2013 \u201cdid make that point.\u201d Areu failed to mention that particular scene<\/a>\u00a0also advocated revenge-motivated mayhem, arson and possible cannibalism as well, but we won\u2019t go there right now.<\/p>\n In explaining the true meaning of Thanksgiving and the harm liberals are trying to inject into it, Horace said:<\/p>\n It\u2019s really sad when you hear people that live in a country where they are blessed in so many special ways, and it\u2019s a time that we would normally think of\u2026 Let\u2019s see family. Let\u2019s see our loved ones. Let\u2019s take some time to be thankful for the great things that are going on. In fact, it\u2019s even a time to reach out to those who aren\u2019t doing so well.<\/p>\n What it\u2019s not a time to do is\u2026 this idea that people are sitting round gloating in some way, or that people are wondering about what happened 250, 350 years ago to which group and that kind of thing.<\/p>\n This is uniquely a time when our country acknowledges how appreciative we are with the things that have been accomplished in our lives and in this country. This is what Thanksgiving is about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The panel then talked about how administrators at Rider University in New Jersey passed over<\/a>\u00a0Chick-fil-A for a potential spot on campus because \u2013 they claimed \u2013 the very popular fast-food chain\u2019s \u201ccorporate values have not sufficiently progressed enough to align\u201d with those of university leaders. It was reportedly the overwhelming choice of the students.<\/p>\n Chick-fil-A has been branded as \u201chate chicken\u201d by some because of the views of some of its founders and top executives about marriage and sexuality issues. But the chain says it \u201ctreat[s] every person with honor, dignity and respect \u2014 regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.\u201d In 2018, Chick-fil-A ranked first<\/a>\u00a0among fast food customers participating in the American Customer Satisfaction Index\u2019s Restaurant Report.<\/p>\n Calling out the petty discrimination against Chick-fil-A on the part of the university, Horace said:<\/p>\n What we\u2019re seeing at a university when it does something like this is it\u2019s no longer teaching young people that they need to understand and be tolerant of different perspectives.<\/p>\n And they are also saying, if you are a young person or even a faculty member who happens \u2013 as I do \u2013 to enjoy Chick-fil-A and the services and great products that they provide, that these people shouldn\u2019t get any voice? They should get any expression of the positive feelings they have about it?<\/p>\n It\u2019s really, really a narrow-minded act of intolerance to say \u201cNo, we can\u2019t have Chick-fil-A \u2013 not at this university\u201d all because a few people \u2013 most of them on the faculty \u2013 just don\u2019t like the particular political views of a few members of the executive board over at Chick-fil-A.<\/p>\n If America\u2019s gonna be run like that, then you\u2019re gonna have to stop shopping at the mall, driving cars \u2013 all kinds of things \u2013 once we start digging into what the executive board of a given corporation thinks about an issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n