Don’t Be McFooled – Atlanta Protest

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Don’t Be McFooled – Atlanta Protest (Atlanta, GA) – The “Don’t Be McFooled” Movement held a protest in Atlanta to speak on the systemic racism that McDonald’s has shown towards their black owner-operators. Through a McDonald’s corporate whistleblower, the black owners of McDonald’s found out that they have been mistreated through location setup, financial setbacks, and through force of selling their ownership to white owners.

Don’t Be McFooled – Atlanta Protest 

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Let me tell you how we got to this point and draw the Really Black conclusion. In the fall of 2014, I met the Byrd Brothers, Darrell and James F. Byrd Jr., Black McDonald’s franchisees at a Memphis Grizzlies basketball game. They told me that they had eight (8) McDonald’s stores, four (4) each, and McDonald’s was forcing them to sell four (4) stores, two (2) each, to Fred Tillman, who’s White and at that time was the largest McDonald’s USA franchisee.

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