How would you like being faced with having to decide between Steve Bannon and the woman calling him a “piece of trash”?
Then there’s the aspect of who’s friends with whom, an old embezzlement case.
This was how most of you came to hear of Black Swan Books in Richmond. I recognized the name of the store because there is a Black Swan Books in Staunton, which is connected to the Richmond location.
Owner Nick Cooke would probably rather you had heard his name any other way, but as the story goes, a woman, as yet unidentified, was yelling at Bannon at the Richmond Black Swan Books, and confronted by Cooke, who asked her to leave.
When she declined, he threatened to call police, then followed through. The woman then left, and that ended that.
Except that the story got out, and, well, this is life in America, circa 2018.
The Staunton store posted a note to its Facebook page acknowledging the incident, sparking an ongoing discussion that has come down along the familiar fault lines: boycott vs. own the libs.
What it all comes down to is, if you own a business, you pretty much spend most of your day hoping that it doesn’t somehow get caught up in this stupid culture war that is going to be the ruin of us all eventually anyway.
Black Swan Books is in trouble for siding with Steve Bannon and not the lady yelling at Steve Bannon. The Red Hen in Lexington is in trouble for siding with its employees and not Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
No doubt some of you are going to be mad at me for siding with common sense and not otherwise taking the bait to call out Bannon as a white supremacist or Sanders for lying for the president or the libs for not being civil.
This is why I’ve taken up drinking in recent months, incidentally.
Column by Chris Graham
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