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Veteran who was refused free Chili's meal on Veteran's Day now getting death threats
Daily KOS
Wed November 30, 2016
Area: Dallas, Ft. Worth
A few weeks ago, veteran Ernest Walker's story appeared on social media and news sites: After going to a Chili's to get a promotional free Veteran's Day meal, he was refused after some old racist a**hole complained. Chili's subsequently fired the manager who had acted terribly and privately and publicly apologized to Walker. But since Walker's story went viral, things in Texas have gone from bad to worse.
"We're afraid," Walker said. "My wife is terrified."
The Army veteran said he and his family have been the targets of anonymous threats ever since Walker decided to speak out about how he was treated at Chili's in Cedar Hill on Veterans Day.
"We've received phone calls, and it's always a restricted line," Walker explained. "People are saying, 'hey, we know where you live.""
Throughout all of this, Walker has been nothing if not a truly generous person. He wasn't angry with the older white man who clearly thought that a black man couldn't be a war veteran, and he has said that this event should be a learning tool for everyone.
He and his supporters are hosting a free luncheon for vets next month.
"This country right now is wounded," said Walker. "There needs to be a healing process. For the people that reached out to me from all different colors, races, creeds and religions, that let me know there is hope for this country."
There are the people who want to spew their hate at people of color and people who run counter to the Republican president-elect's vision of a white supremacist American made up of poor white people and billionaires. People like veteran Ernest Walker are the people trying to make America great.
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