CEO faces boycott for appearing with President Trump: Explaining and responding to ‘cancel culture’
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JULY 16, 2020
Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue is facing boycott calls for making positive statements about President Trump. Today's podcast tells his story, then we explain "cancel culture" and discuss the biblical invitation to speak truth with courage and grace.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.4 | Why is a social media campaign trying to boycott a company that is donating |
| 0:24.7 | two million pounds of food to food banks during the pandemic? Last Thursday, Goya Food's CEO |
| 0:30.9 | Bob Unanwe was invited to a ceremony at the White House, where President Trump signed an |
| 0:36.4 | executive order creating the Hispanic |
| 0:38.7 | Prosperity Initiative. Unanway announced his company's food donation and stated, |
| 0:43.4 | We are all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who was a |
| 0:48.7 | builder. And so we have an incredible builder, and we pray. We pray for our leadership, our president, and we pray for |
| 0:56.7 | our country that we will continue to prosper and grow. Backlash was immediate and severe. |
| 1:05.4 | Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro condemned Mr. Unanway's statement on Twitter, |
| 1:11.6 | claiming that he praised a president who villainizes and maliciously attacks Latinos for political gain. |
| 1:18.6 | Americans should think twice before buying their products. |
| 1:22.6 | Chrissy Teigen stated on Twitter that she would no longer buy the company's products. |
| 1:27.8 | Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer and star of the Broadway musical Hamilton, added this tweet. |
| 1:33.7 | We learn to bake bread in this pandemic. |
| 1:36.1 | We can learn to make our own adobocon pimenta. |
| 1:40.1 | This reaction is especially ironic given Mr. Onanway's earlier work with the Obama administration. |
| 1:46.1 | The Goya Foods website notes that in 2011, President Barack Obama honored Goya for its |
| 1:52.2 | continued success and commitment to the Hispanic community, the only company to ever be |
| 1:57.3 | honored by the president. In 2012, Goya collaborated with First Lady Michelle Obama |
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