A sign in a store window stirred up racial tension in Flemington, New Jersey this week.<\/p>\n
The sign in the window of Jimbo\u2019s Deli on Main Street says \u201cCelebrate your white heritage in March. White History Month,\u201d as first reported by the Hunterdon County Democrat, <\/p>\n
Curtis, a colored neighbor, said he couldn\u2019t believe what he was seeing. He confronted the owner, Jim Boggess.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t have a clue why I was offended and then why other people would be upset about it neither,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
WCBS 880 couldn\u2019t reach Boggess for comment, but he told the Hunterdon County Democrat, \u201cNo matter what you are \u2014 Muslim, Jewish, black, white, gay, straight \u2014 you should be proud of what you are. I shouldn\u2019t have to feel bad about being white. I just want to be included. Why is this such a big deal? I don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Curtis asked police to look into it but they decided nothing could or should be done.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m never going to step foot back into that establishment, no,\u201d he told Silverman Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Source: CBSnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A sign in a store window stirred up racial tension in Flemington, New Jersey this week. The sign in the window of Jimbo\u2019s Deli on Main Street says \u201cCelebrate your white heritage in March. White History Month,\u201d as first reported by the Hunterdon County Democrat, Curtis, a colored neighbor, said he couldn\u2019t believe what he … Continue reading “Outrage over ‘White History Month’ sign”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17959,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957\/revisions\/17959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}