The owner of Woolworth's is a racist asshole.
Anyway, I don't care much about social positions. Carnegie was pro-black people? That shouldn't make me forget how much he hated unions! Rockefeller was pro-black people? That shouldn't make me forget what a tyrant he was in the oil industry. But a lot of us just look at their activism and cheer them on. In my opinion, big business are all on the same side.
Just about every company owner wants no government regulations but huge government handouts. All these companies were really into openly supporting all forms of segregation until we raged and drew attention to it. You know what? Now they just quietly support it.
We are being incredibly single-minded about this. Woolworth's is not nearly as bad as some other companies out there right now. Have you seen what the prisons have been doing? I bet after we get Woolworth's to change, we'll continue to buy the same stuff, only to find out the money has ended up funding the Dixiecrats.
If we boycotted every company that enforced segregation, we'd starve. And maybe die. We should be focusing on a company that is especially bad (financing death squads or operating sweatshops or something), not a five and dime store that just won't allow black people to sit down and eat. There are much bigger fish to fry than that.
Yeah. I went there. I am not just going to sit down and be quiet about the fact that apparently some in this community do not believe civil rights are very important when it comes to the LGBT community. I was raised, and continue to believe, that as Americans, and as decent human beings, where we draw the metaphorical line is at civil rights. I will not stand by and allow anyone to dismiss them as less important than something else. I will not stand by and allow anyone to complain that, in a time when people in the LGBT community are being abused, mutilated, murdered and suffering the highest suicide rates, that DKos overrepresents LGBT issues.
This site is about electing better Democrats. Well, one of the core platforms the Democratic Party has stood for for many years, that sets us apart from the Republican Party, is our stance on civil rights. Civil rights for all, not just some.