Say what? Please stop with this disrespectful & hurtful narrative that we 1) need saving & 2) that billionaires are the ones to do it.
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) February 25, 2019
We just need the 1% to stop taking our land for nothing + shifting our tax dollars towards for-profit development that makes them richer. https://t.co/6pWYVCutI1
just got held up at gunpoint but luckily a shinola-watch had been vigilantly patrolling the area, arriving promptly, quickly dispatching my would-be assailants. these watches are truly saving detroit, one citizen at a time.
— Illingsworth (@illingsworth) February 25, 2019
what WOULDA helped is investing in all the BLACK OWNED and detroit based businesses on woodward that have all gone bankrupt in the past 10 years, investing in schools, more affordable housing, more jobs, but these mfs would rather say they “fixed detroit” by building shinola 💀
— bridgid (@idiotgemini) February 25, 2019
@Shinola ain't saving a damn thing here! They are the epitome of what is wrong. Coming in and gentrifying our city at no benefit to us! DETROIT Citizens having to move out of their homes due to tax increases. You should've saved that damn movie. #GreenBook #Oscars #PeterFarrelly
— Portia D (@PortiaD21) February 25, 2019
That ridiculous remark by the ‘Green Book’ director about how Shinola is “saving Detroit” proves again how problematic that movie was about race in America. The people who made that movie are clueless.
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) February 25, 2019
— Shinola (@Shinola) February 25, 2019
The Shinola shout-out during last night’s Oscars ($867k exposure value during the ABC telecast) has generated about 160 news media references and 3,500 social media posts thus far pic.twitter.com/vCqUkqT9i5
— Joyce Julius & Assoc (@Joyce_Julius) February 25, 2019
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