Social media today can bring great change:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Marine who wasn’t allowed into a New Jersey amusement park because he was wearing a shirt with a red, white and blue rifle pictured on it has been given an apology.
NJ.com reports (http://bit.ly/1v9YY2J) Mario Alejandro received a phone call from Six Flags Great Adventure President John Fitzgerald on Saturday apologizing and he accepted. A spokeswoman for the park says it didn’t realize Alejandro’s shirt was related to a military charity.
Alejandro says he went to the park with his family on Aug. 9 wearing the shirt, which was a Father’s Day gift and was bought from a nonprofit that supports Marines. The shirt included the phrase “Keep calm and return fire.”
Alejandro says a security guard told him the shirt was offensive and he had to change.
Source: http://missoulian.com/news/national/amusement-park-apologizes-for-gun-shirt-error/article_0b84ef66-aea9-5919-9755-28b4b27bc51e.html
The corporate world needs to learn, this is a center-right country, most Americans love the military, 90 million of us love guns, and nobody who’s going to Six Flags is paying attention to the T-shirts of perfect strangers. It’s an amusement park, not a fashion show. I’m glad you apologized, Six Flags, next time, mind your own business, worry about things like long lines and obscene concessions prices that stop some people from buying.