Restaurant in Greenville...Donates 100% of Proceeds to Help Immigrants

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Restaurant in Greenville, Where Donald Trump's 'Send Her Back' Rally Was Held, Donates 100% of Proceeds to Help Immigrants
By Chantal Da Silva On 7/18/19 at 10:35 AM EDT


On Wednesday, President Donald Trump held a 2020 campaign rally in North Carolina that saw supporters chanting the words "send her back" after the U.S. leader renewed his racist attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar. The owner of a restaurant in that city has now revealed he will be donating 100 percent of the proceeds made that day to efforts to support immigrants

In a Facebook post ahead of Trump's rally, Matthew Scully, who owns The Scullery restaurant in Greenville, shared a photo of a sign placed in his restaurant's window announcing that "100% of today's sales will be donated to [the] American Immigration Council in order to help with the immigration crisis at our southern border and to celebrate our diverse community."

"I had already been thinking about the president and especially about his comments over the past couple of days and it's just sort of difficult to wrap your head around it," Scully told Newsweek. "It brought up negativity and division in our community...and that's just kind of hard to sit and watch," he said. "So, we just thought this would be an opportunity to spread a positive message."

Scully could not have known when he posted the sign in his restaurant's window, however, that Trump would escalate his attacks on Omar, as well as fellow progressive Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, who the U.S. leader had tweeted on Sunday should "go back" to the "crime-infested places from which they came."

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https://www.newsweek.com/north-carolina-restaurant-owner-donates-proceeds-immigration-1449992?fbclid=IwAR0OaAlc-kfERZXbbG8LbG8poM0lD5MdjSEI8qhCQmnO0fejrMWc8FoukMk

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1. What a lovely thing to do.