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Twitter users are going in on \u201cBodega Bro.\u201d<\/p>\n
Griffin Green, a recent college grad from the midwest, received backlash this week after posting a\u00a0TikTok<\/a>\u00a0criticizing\u00a0NYC bodegas\u2014small convenience\u00a0stores that sell a mix of food and staple\u00a0household items.. The 22-year-old claimed he had just moved to the Big Apple for a tech job, but was struggling to find a place where he could shop for groceries.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOK, so I just moved to New York and I\u2019m going to go grocery shopping, and so I type in like, \u2018grocery stores,\u2019 on my Apple Maps, and every fuckin\u2019 one I go to \u2026 they\u2019re\u00a0like this shit,\u201d\u00a0Green said, before pointing the camera toward two corner stores. \u201cLike bro, that\u2019s not a grocery store. Like, I\u2019m trying to get, like eggs, yogurt, like cheese\u2014shit\u00a0like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Green then begins filming inside one of the stores and proceeds to joke about the hot bar offerings.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve literally been to like five of those now, and I don\u2019t know what the fuck I\u2019m about to do for dinner,\u201d he continued. \u201cLike, where are the Krogers and, like, the Whole Foods at? I\u2019m about to eat fuckin\u2019 cereal and ramen for dinner, like what the fuck?\u201d<\/p>\n\n Social media users immediately slammed Green\u2019s comments as racist, and accused him of mocking the food desert issue in NYC\u2019s underserved communities. The backlash intensified after some pointed to another video in which Green spoke about being the only white person in his gym.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m in the Bronx for a few weeks so I\u2019m like the only white dude in this whole gym,\u201d he said, \u201cSo I got this NAACP shirt so these people vibe with me more.\u201d<\/p>\n Online sleuths quickly discovered Green had relocated to NYC to work for the software company Outreach. After the videos were brought to its attention, the company confirmed Green was no longer an employee.<\/p>\n\n A representative for Outreach claimed Green\u2019s termination wasn\u2019t due to\u00a0the aforementioned videos, but because he shared his confidential employment\u00a0letter online.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is against company policy for employees to leak private and confidential information, and grounds for termination,\u201d Andrew Schmitt, Outreach\u2019s vice president of communications, told\u00a0Reason<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWe remain committed to building our culture that finds strength in our diversity, equity and inclusion\u2014and a company where all can succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n Green says he\u2019s now \u201cstuck\u201d in NYC with a one-year lease and is seeking to find a new job. He\u2019s asking the public to donate to a crowd-funding campaign that will help cover his living expenses in the meantime.<\/p>\n\n \u201cPeople can be painted as these mean awful people when really they\u2019re just trying to explore new things,\u201d Green told Reason. \u201cI was exploring New York for the first time \u2026 I didn\u2019t know that people do grocery shopping at these corner stores. It was more of an intent to almost like make fun of myself for being a new person in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twitter users are going in on \u201cBodega Bro.\u201d Griffin Green, a recent college grad from the midwest, received backlash this week after posting a\u00a0TikTok\u00a0criticizing\u00a0NYC bodegas\u2014small convenience\u00a0stores that sell a mix of food and staple\u00a0household items.. The 22-year-old claimed he had just moved to the Big Apple for a tech job, but was struggling to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6701,2046,442,111,270,5,7,8,498,273,301,93,6179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bodegas","category-bronx","category-controversy","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-social","category-featured","category-music","category-news","category-nyc","category-racism","category-social-media","category-tier-one","category-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131663,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131661\/revisions\/131663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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