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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:09 AM Jul 2025

"I'm not white enough to shop at Home Depot right now"

“I’m not white enough to shop at Home Depot right now”

“I’m not white enough to shop at Home Depot right now”

Gandalf Lundgren (@coastally1337.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T07:17:36.868Z


It is a nightmare for everyone living here. I need to find my passport just so I don’t get kidnapped at the grocery store for not being white.

I will never, ever forgive the rest of America for this filth.

Gandalf Lundgren (@coastally1337.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T06:02:57.493Z


these videos collected and verified by @nbcnews.com represent a small fraction of many following a pattern: heavily armed authorities, little visible ID, often wearing masks while detaining people, sometimes violently, then putting them into vehicles. www.nbcnews.com/specials/tru...

Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T19:29:48.668Z
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"I'm not white enough to shop at Home Depot right now" (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Jul 2025 OP
I'm already boycotting Home Depot for other reasons Ritabert Jul 2025 #1
Same here Rita DENVERPOPS Jul 2025 #2
Well said. Ritabert Jul 2025 #17
Same here. niyad Jul 2025 #4
The Home Depots here in LA are ghost towns tinrobot Jul 2025 #3
Anybody with brown skin is at risk just visiting HD Ritabert Jul 2025 #18
Fiber optic being installed around here. It is being done by 90% Brown people. progressoid Jul 2025 #5
Same where we live. They have been around for more than a month. twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #6
The way they are treated by the corrupt repugnant regime... Justice matters. Jul 2025 #11
Yeah. progressoid Jul 2025 #16
The Medicaid recipients will be expected to do such work. twodogsbarking Jul 2025 #21
Good point about not being white enough. 70sEraVet Jul 2025 #7
This is all planned quakerboy Jul 2025 #8
Prep for midterm polling places SheltieLover Jul 2025 #29
I can honestly see TommyT139 Jul 2025 #35
I will be shocked if it takes that long quakerboy Jul 2025 #36
You may be right. TommyT139 Jul 2025 #37
You dont have to cancel elections quakerboy Jul 2025 #38
Not white, Dan Jul 2025 #9
I think Home Depot needs to take a stand against this, if they haven't already. Joinfortmill Jul 2025 #10
Let them go bankrupt (to teach a lesson). Justice matters. Jul 2025 #12
I haven't been in a Home Depot MLWR Jul 2025 #13
Lowes is at least "neutral" Zambero Jul 2025 #14
I'm conflicted BaronChocula Jul 2025 #24
Home Depots prices tend (or used to) to be a lot lower than Lowe's soldierant Jul 2025 #31
He's an ex owner iemanja Jul 2025 #23
wow! wtf? ecstatic Jul 2025 #26
Same here Traildogbob Jul 2025 #33
They are right wing iemanja Jul 2025 #22
I'm wondering where the day laborers are assembling now Warpy Jul 2025 #15
I have questions... ShazzieB Jul 2025 #19
they could demand the agents leave... ret5hd Jul 2025 #20
The present head of Home Depot is a tump supporter. Keepthesoulalive Jul 2025 #30
"I will never, ever forgive the rest of America for this filth." ecstatic Jul 2025 #25
"Always accuse the opposition of things that you are doing" LiberalLovinLug Jul 2025 #34
I've not shopped at Home Depot in years SheltieLover Jul 2025 #27
Luckily my town has a homegrown alternative to shop at Hassler Jul 2025 #28
Was in a HD in Aurora, CO last week FHRRK Jul 2025 #32

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
2. Same here Rita
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 11:19 AM
Jul 2025

I have not stepped foot in Home Depot since they started.............The original?/former owner is a MEGA Donor to the Republicans......

Although it is getting harder and harder to boycott corporations for the simple reason that if you want to boycott a corporation for their extreme right politics, pretty soon you wouldn't be able to buy anything.........

Citizens United circa 2010 was a complete upheaval in the power given to corporations.......

By the end of Trump's/Republican's term, I suspect that The United States of America will be changed to: The United Corporations of America..

And the Republicans have the very very best politicians and government that the U.S. Corporations can buy............

progressoid

(53,103 posts)
5. Fiber optic being installed around here. It is being done by 90% Brown people.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:03 PM
Jul 2025

I wonder how long before someone scoops them up.

twodogsbarking

(18,512 posts)
6. Same where we live. They have been around for more than a month.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:26 PM
Jul 2025

The guys are nice. Work hard in the heat. Glad to have them.

Justice matters.

(9,705 posts)
11. The way they are treated by the corrupt repugnant regime...
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:41 PM
Jul 2025

all the while they pay taxes to contribute without any personal benefit in return is shameful.

Injustice Daily.

progressoid

(53,103 posts)
16. Yeah.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 02:00 PM
Jul 2025

They are busting their butts in the heat and humidity.
The only white guys I see are supervisory.

70sEraVet

(5,445 posts)
7. Good point about not being white enough.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:35 PM
Jul 2025

I have a good tan, and whatever color my hair used to be, its just white now. And I'm on some medications, that being 'in custody' for a number of hours could quickly become critical.
Being a citizen is not sufficient protection.

quakerboy

(14,843 posts)
8. This is all planned
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:36 PM
Jul 2025

They are starting with the immigrants, and in the process getting everyone acclimatized to unidentifiable, unaccountable armed forces roaming the US, kidnapping and dissapearing people around us.

They started with people they could argue were a legit target for deportation, Now it expands to others more indiscriminately. To get us used to it.

Literally "first they came for" is happening here and now.

TommyT139

(2,333 posts)
35. I can honestly see
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:45 PM
Jul 2025

...them declaring that any trans person who legally obtained identification, where the gender marker differs from sex assigned at birth, is guilty of a federal crime, has no "legal" proof of citizenship, and can be sent out of the country, exiled.

I
Can
Absolutely
Imagine
That
Happening
Within
Three
Years.

quakerboy

(14,843 posts)
36. I will be shocked if it takes that long
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 08:21 PM
Jul 2025

Im thinking 6 months, maybe less.

Are you a good American? There will be many.

TommyT139

(2,333 posts)
37. You may be right.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:14 PM
Jul 2025

My estimate: I was going through Nov 2026, and if the elections are cancelled, a bit of "clean up" time afterwards.

quakerboy

(14,843 posts)
38. You dont have to cancel elections
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 01:21 PM
Jul 2025

if you have a kidnapping force that can prevent the opposition from voting and software that makes certain the votes come out right.

Dan

(5,111 posts)
9. Not white,
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:39 PM
Jul 2025

But if ever picked up and detained, it would be in everyones’ interest to never let me go.

MLWR

(987 posts)
13. I haven't been in a Home Depot
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:55 PM
Jul 2025

since their last CEO told "liberals" we weren't welcome there and to go somewhere else. Since then, I have obliged.

BaronChocula

(4,465 posts)
24. I'm conflicted
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 05:13 PM
Jul 2025

since Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison is black. Yet they folded and rolled back their diversity initiatives. But I was there spending (on a gift card) just yesterday.

Unfortunately Home Depot has a better selection of items, I find. And they keep their Christmas tree lot up longer.

soldierant

(9,320 posts)
31. Home Depots prices tend (or used to) to be a lot lower than Lowe's
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:40 PM
Jul 2025

which I take to mean that they are underpaying their staff shamelessly. I do avoid them when I xan but sometimes I can't. And that goes for both.

Traildogbob

(12,979 posts)
33. Same here
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:56 PM
Jul 2025

That was not publicly exposed enough. Why any Liberal would spend a dime there is confusing.

Warpy

(114,555 posts)
15. I'm wondering where the day laborers are assembling now
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 01:37 PM
Jul 2025

It used to be Home Depot between 5 AM and 7:30 AM, before the store opened. Every so often I'd get out of work early enough to see the last of them out there, waiting for work.

Maybe they're lining up outside Costco, about a quarter of a mile away and opening a little later.

ICE hasn't been jackbooting here in NM. Workers haven't gone into hiding -- yet. Given what a putz the founder and majority stockholder of Home Depot is, I can see them reassembling elsewhere.

(I haven't shopped there for decades. I might hold my nose to buy some Behr paints there, that brand is fantastic and HD holds an exclusive contract with the company. I can get anything else they stock elsewhere)

ShazzieB

(22,511 posts)
19. I have questions...
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 02:08 PM
Jul 2025

I see several comments here about boycotting Hone Depot, and i have some questions about that.

First, how is any of this Home Depot's fault? I know the founders were Trump supporters and big donors to at least his first election campaign. But according to Wikipedia, those people don't own Home Depot anymore. The company went public decades ago and is now mainly owned by institutional investors, to the tune of about 70% of shares.

And second, just exactly what is it that Home Depot should be doing about this? What even could they do? Don't people get arrested themselves if they try to interfere with an Ice Raid? I guess they could bar ICE from their property, at least in theory, but is that really feasible?

I am as horrified and outraged by what ICE is doing these days as anyone else here, and I wish it would stop. I just don't understand how boycotting Home Depot is supposed to help.

PLEASE NOTE: I know some are boycotting them for other reasons, like their compliance with Trump's order for businesses to abolish DEI programs, and I get that. I just don't see how boycotting Home Depot is going to help with this particular issue (the ICE raids), or why Home Depot should be punished because ICE has decided to conduct raids on their property. If I am missing something, please fill me in, because I'm probably not the only one.

ret5hd

(22,463 posts)
20. they could demand the agents leave...
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 03:25 PM
Jul 2025

and trespass those that refused.

any private property can do the same...no warrant, no entry.

Keepthesoulalive

(2,258 posts)
30. The present head of Home Depot is a tump supporter.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:18 PM
Jul 2025

He supposedly was upset by the tariffs but not enough to curtail the nazification of America.

ecstatic

(35,051 posts)
25. "I will never, ever forgive the rest of America for this filth."
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jul 2025

This. 1000%. But I keep going back to the question of: did they really elect him? He was so unusually quiet after the election, like he was waiting for a shoe to drop. He admitted several times that people won't need to vote, etc etc.

Did women really sign away our rights?

It's one thing to be betrayed but there's a level of uncertainty that leaves me unsure of how to maneuver through this.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,656 posts)
34. "Always accuse the opposition of things that you are doing"
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:43 PM
Jul 2025

By making a mockery of democracy, and shouting out ever since 2020 the Big Lie of his inevitable win were it not for the sugtrafuge and machinations, including the evil machines themselves, all controlled by the godless corrupt, communist Democrats whose goal is to destroy America.

Pay no head to the Economist magazines' front cover a month before the 2024 election:

FHRRK

(1,410 posts)
32. Was in a HD in Aurora, CO last week
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:49 PM
Jul 2025

There were over 100 workers in the parking lot and side street.

A lumber yard in my SoCal town maybe would get up to fifty workers. It was raided early this week.

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