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UPDATE: Insurance Agency Who Put Up Offensive Juneteenth Sign Suffers Backlash - YouTube
Channel: Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey
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I wanna show you this insurance company
that decided to celebrate Juneteenth in
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a particular way.
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They have now been basically
outed by Progressive Insurance,
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put up the picture for
our mass here, okay?
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This is in Maine,
the insurance company is anti Juneteenth.
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I didn't even know that was a real thing.
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This is the Harry E Reed Insurance Agency,
and
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this is how they celebrated Juneteenth.
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They put up a sign in their window,
they said, Juneteenth, it's whatever,
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we're closed, enjoy your fried chicken and
collard greens.
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That's what they said.
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Now, nobody forced them to do this.
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Nobody told them that this would be funny.
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Nobody said you need to be offensive.
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They did it on their own, all right?
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So, since the image of the sign has
been circulating, people have taken
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online to review the site, Yelp,
to condemn the insurance agency,
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prompting Yelp to disable users
ability to post on the company's page.
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It says, this business recently
received increased public attention,
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resulting in an influx of people
posting their views on this page.
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So we have temporarily disabled
the ability to post here,
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as we work to investigate the content and
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alert on the Harry E Reed Insurance
Agencie's page reads what I just quoted.
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Now, Harry E Reed Agency, interesting.
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They are actually affiliated
with Progressive Insurance.
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So, Jeff Sibel, a spokesperson for
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Progressive said in the statement,
and I quote, we're aware and
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appalled by the sign recently posted
at the Harry E Reed Agency and
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are terminating our
relationship with the agency.
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We're committed to creating an environment
where our people feel welcomed,
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valued and respected and
expect that anyone representing
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progressive to take part
in this commitment.
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The sign is in direct violation of that
commitment and does not align with our
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company's core values and code of
conduct according to the statement.
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Now, this is so deep,
you gotta think about how deep this is.
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Racism is such a complex and
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adversarial dynamic in our social culture,
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literally, you have an established,
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reputable company in Maine.
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Who has a day off from work,
the employees get to just go home,
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you don't even have to be at the office.
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But the racism runs so
deep that they are willing to risk their
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livelihood to make a statement
about how racist they are.
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You gotta think about
the psychology involved in that.
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You could have just said that at home,
talk to your friend or
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family members about it, maybe even posted
it on social media and got away with it.
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But you put it in the window
of the establishment.
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You wanted people to identify the values
of your company with your racism.
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That's what you wanted.
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And I'm sure this company
has black customers.
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I'm sure this company probably
has black employees or
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at least works with vendors
who are african american.
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They didn't care.
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This is my point, you don't have to
agree with everything in society,
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but when you decide to make a public
statement, when you decide to submit
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your ideology to the public, expect one or
two things, public praise or
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public ridicule, you submitted it,
so that we can talk about it.
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So don't go running now.
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All right, Dina, thoughts here?
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>> Yeah, I mean, I 100% agree with you.
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It is shocking for a business whose
dependent, I mean, the amount of
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advertising and marketing companies
do in order to attract customers,
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to have an employee be, or I don't know
if it's the owner of whoever that was,
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to take that kind of action to be so
offensive is shocking.
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They do have a First Amendment
right to put that sign up.
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Your neighbor would have a First Amendment
right to put that sign up.
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So, in some ways maybe it's lucky that
it was on a business because they had
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the consequence of a business and
they had their business harmed by it,
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which is a kind of natural
consequence of it.
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I think we don't realize sometimes
how little rights maybe we have about
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how offensive other people can do,
even if it's kind of in your face,
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with regard to speech, because speech
is so protecting this country.
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So, in some ways it's kind of lucky that
it was on a business and they were able to
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have progressive kind of disengage, and
that was its own kind of check on it.
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>> Yeah, it really was.
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