McDonald’s CEO under fire. When is victim blaming okay?

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CHICAGO — The CEO of McDonald’s has sparked backlash after text messages he sent Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed that he blamed the parents of two children who were fatally shot in the city.

Texts that Chris Kempczinski sent to Lightfoot were recently made public after a meeting between the two in April. In the messages, Kempczinski blamed the deaths of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams on their parents.

“With both, the parents failed those kids which I know is something you can’t say. Even harder to fix,” the text said according to the Chicago Tribune.

Jaslyn was killed in a shooting at the drive-thru at a West Side McDonald’s. Just a few weeks prior, Adam was shot and killed by a Chicago officer during a foot chase in Little Village.

A spokesperson for Lightfoot criticized the CEO’s comments in a statement Tuesday and said victim blaming has no place in the conversation.

Kempczinski apologized, saying his words were “wrong and lacked the empathy and compassion I feel for these families.”

A protest was held Wednesday at McDonald’s headquarters in the West Loop in response to the comments the CEO made.

The protest evolved into an assault on McDonald’s pay and labor practices.

“The work we gotta do is to make sure that number one that these workers get a living wage,” Frank Chapman said.

In a statement, Mayor Lightfoot’s said “victim shaming has no place in this conversation.”

“As the Mayor has said previously, families do everything they can – moms, dads, grandparents – to love and support their children, and tragedies can still happen. Victim shaming has no place in this conversation,” she said.
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https://wgntv.com/news/mcdonalds-ce...f-jaslyn-adams-adam-toledo-failed-those-kids/

So the question at hand is when is it ok? In Jaslyn case both parents were ratchet & the father lifestyle was putting her in jeopardy
 
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The Hon. Stringer Bell said:
No matter how bad a parent is nobody wants or deserves for their children to die like that. For him to show no empathy or compassion shows he is a psychopath.
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I agree and disagree with you. Nobody's child deserves that, but I don't think that makes him a psychopath per say. He ain't said nothing that plenty of us were already saying about these incidents. To be fair to Jaslyn's father, perhaps he got his shyt together, but he's got a documented trail of criminal behavior and bangin. It's not inappropriate to consider that he put his baby girl in harm's way. How many times we read about these dudes active in the streets and bringing that nonsense back to their mama's house.

Regarding the Toledo kid, I put the blame squarely on the police. But again it's not unreasonable to ask why is this kid running around reckless at 13 years old running from the police? These parents are failing and miserably.
 
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McRib came back so cacs and c00ns going to continue to eat.
 
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Petty Vandross.. fukk Yall
If you are going to make this argument
What are you doing for underprivileged communities?
Are you working with any of these kids in after school programs?
Are you volunteering your time as a mentor?
Are you actively trying to work on solutions to the violence?
Many people love bringing up this point while doing jack shyt but running their mouths and twisting their fingers
I see it on here
A lot of you nikkas have the same sentiments as this cac
So don’t act like y’all are all bean pies/bow ties and powerfists just because a cac said it
There are multiple threads filled with violence on here
Made by the same posters day in and day out
I’ve read far worse responses to kids being lead astray or doing dumb shyt
The same posters talking that same shyt like this cac already posted on the first page
So my question is what you nikkas doing offline to curve this shyt
And don’t try to spin that question on me
I just got back home with my daughter from volunteering @ University of Houston
Helping kids learn STEM from the community that she wanted to volunteer at
A lot of you got kids and be saying some weirdo, racist shyt your damn selves about black people
While mad at the world because you raised a lazy muthafukka at home
So again
What y’all nikkas doing instead of getting mad and typing bullshyt to run them daps up
 
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