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ποΈ 22 July 2020
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0:00.0 | Just as heads up y'all, the following episode contains language that some people may find offensive. |
0:04.8 | Like most people should find offensive if they hear it, yes. |
0:08.3 | Ha ha ha. |
0:11.2 | Majdiwadi. You may not have heard of him, but he's pretty well known in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
0:17.1 | Three generations of the Wadi family living the American dream on this spot for more than 30 years. |
0:24.3 | Majdiwadi is Palestinian-American. He's a devout Muslim and the CEO of the Holy Land brand. |
0:30.8 | It's a family-owned grocery store and a restaurant and a hummus factory. |
0:34.8 | Sound more familiar now? Maybe you picked up Holy Land hummus at Costco or saw Wadi on the food |
0:40.4 | networks, diners, drive-ins and dives. The whole land is a little piece of the Middle East |
0:46.0 | in the Midwest. Thanks to the Wadi family who came to Minneapolis by the way of Jordan and Kuwait. |
0:51.4 | But a lot has changed since the Wadi's were kicking it with Guy Fieri. |
0:57.6 | Mm-hmm. On Thursday morning, the CEO of Holy Landelian Grocery put out a statement on Facebook |
1:03.4 | saying in part that he had fired his daughter from the company after social media posts that she |
1:08.3 | made with racial slurs had resurfaced. I'm Shireen Madisol Miraji. I'm Gene Demby and this is Code Switch. |
1:16.4 | From NPR. |
1:21.9 | Just three days after police in Minneapolis killed George Floyd and protest erupted in that city. |
1:27.6 | Leanne Wadi's anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-gay tweets were everywhere. |
1:34.1 | God already punished you for being black. So why would you make it worse by being gay? |
1:38.6 | Hashtag shit people in my family say. When a n****** from northeast Minneapolis threatens to come |
1:44.7 | back to kill my dad and his family. Once he's out of jail, hashtag OMG hashtag f****** scared. |
1:51.8 | N****** are poor. She went full hard r. Wow. Yeah, and that's not even the half. Okay, that nonsense |
2:01.6 | that we just heard. She tweeted that in 2012. A few years later in 2016, she posted a photo of her |
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