Left doesn’t know beans on free speech
I’m buying Goya, even though I don’t know beans about beans.
And while I may be the world’s worst grocery store shopper, I am buying cans of Goya’s Pinto Beans — aka Habichuelas Pintas — in support of Goya Foods President and CEO Robert Unanue and his right to free speech.
While I may be bombarded by beans, what I can’t use I will donate to the local food pantry.
Left-wing loonies want to shut Unanue and his company down because they do not like what he said. I may or may not support or like what he says either, but I do defend his right to say it.
And these are not Boston Baked Beans we are talking about, but the largest Hispanic food distributor in the country, a company that over the years that has donated millions in food to the needy.
So, I am also stocking up on cans of Frijoles Negros (Black Beans), Garbanzos (Chickpeas) and Frijoles Romanos (Roman Beans), topped off with Pico Pica, a Mexican hot sauce.
I may know next to nothing about shopping, or cooking, but I do know injustice when I see it.
The big loser in this food fight is not Goya, but the crazed Trump-hating lefties who called for a boycott of Goya products because Unanue said good things about President Trump at a White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative meeting.
Now, ironically, Goya products are flying off the shelf, being bought by people who not only support a person’s right to speak freely, but are tired of the fascist bullies of the left who would shut you up for speaking your mind.
Unanue, who is of Spanish descent, was at the White House a week ago to attend President Trump’s signing of an executive order allowing for more taxpayer funding for private and charter schools and to “improve access by Hispanic Americans to education and economic opportunities.”
Unanue, who thanked Trump for the executive order, said, “We’re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder. We have an incredible builder and we pray. We pray for our leadership, our president.”
Hardly had he uttered the words than Unanue came under attack by Democrat groupthink progressives who believe they are the only Americans entitled to free speech, and everybody else should just shut up.
U.S. Rep. Andrea Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and failed presidential candidate Julian Castro, not only criticized Unanue, but called for a boycott of Goya’s products as well, suggesting that they buy their beans elsewhere.
Perhaps, if they consulted their bean counters, Cortez and Castro could have suggested that people start buying Bush’s Beans instead of Goya, even though they risked enriching the non-Hispanic Republican Bush brothers, former President George W. Bush and brother Jeb Bush.
But anybody who knows anything about beans knows that the Bush family and Bush brothers are not in the bean business and never were. That idea was simply not worth a hill of beans.
Bush’s Beans, the biggest bean distributor in the country, was founded by another set of Bush brothers down in Tennessee. As a matter of fact, A.J. Bush founded Bush’s Beans in 1904.
However, because the A.J., according to Wikipedia, stood for Andrew Jackson, who was a former president and slaveholder, the leftwing loonies would undoubtedly tear down his statue, if he has one, and call for another bean boycott. It would be funny if it were not so true.
Unanue seemed concerned that the left had nothing to say when he visited the White House when Barack Obama was president. So, you are permitted to praise one president but not the other.
Unanue told Fox News that Goya would not be taken down. “I like the saying there are those who are born to love and build and those (who) hate and destroy. And unfortunately, there is a movement of hate and destruction” by people in the country.
“Who wants to see houses of worship burn, business people have put their whole lives’ savings and to build the businesses and only to have people come along and destroy it? They have no right to do that.”
Unanue was asked if he under pressure would ever abandon Trump as others have done, and he hotly replied: “Hell no, Hell, no.”
Pass the Pico Pica.