"I'm not white enough to shop at Home Depot right now"

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

“I’m not white enough to shop at Home Depot right now”

“I’m not white enough to shop at Home Depot right now”

— Coastally1337 (@coastally1337.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T07:17:36.868Z

It is a nightmare for everyone living here. I need to find my passport just so I don’t get kidnapped at the grocery store for not being white.

I will never, ever forgive the rest of America for this filth.

— Coastally1337 (@coastally1337.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T06:02:57.493Z

these videos collected and verified by @nbcnews.com represent a small fraction of many following a pattern: heavily armed authorities, little visible ID, often wearing masks while detaining people, sometimes violently, then putting them into vehicles. www.nbcnews.com/specials/tru...

— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T19:29:48.668Z

[Ritabert]

1. I'm already boycotting Home Depot for other reasons

...and will continue.

[DENVERPOPS]

2. Same here Rita

I have not stepped foot in Home Depot since they started.............The original?/former owner is a MEGA Donor to the Republicans......

Although it is getting harder and harder to boycott corporations for the simple reason that if you want to boycott a corporation for their extreme right politics, pretty soon you wouldn't be able to buy anything.........

Citizens United circa 2010 was a complete upheaval in the power given to corporations.......

By the end of Trump's/Republican's term, I suspect that The United States of America will be changed to: The United Corporations of America..

And the Republicans have the very very best politicians and government that the U.S. Corporations can buy............

[Ritabert]

17. Well said.

[niyad]

4. Same here.

[tinrobot]

3. The Home Depots here in LA are ghost towns

I wonder why.

[Ritabert]

18. Anybody with brown skin is at risk just visiting HD

[progressoid]

5. Fiber optic being installed around here. It is being done by 90% Brown people.

I wonder how long before someone scoops them up.

[twodogsbarking]

6. Same where we live. They have been around for more than a month.

The guys are nice. Work hard in the heat. Glad to have them.

[Justice matters.]

11. The way they are treated by the corrupt repugnant regime...

all the while they pay taxes to contribute without any personal benefit in return is shameful.

Injustice Daily.

[progressoid]

16. Yeah.

They are busting their butts in the heat and humidity.
The only white guys I see are supervisory.

[twodogsbarking]

21. The Medicaid recipients will be expected to do such work.

[70sEraVet]

7. Good point about not being white enough.

I have a good tan, and whatever color my hair used to be, its just white now. And I'm on some medications, that being 'in custody' for a number of hours could quickly become critical.
Being a citizen is not sufficient protection.

[quakerboy]

8. This is all planned

They are starting with the immigrants, and in the process getting everyone acclimatized to unidentifiable, unaccountable armed forces roaming the US, kidnapping and dissapearing people around us.

They started with people they could argue were a legit target for deportation, Now it expands to others more indiscriminately. To get us used to it.

Literally "first they came for" is happening here and now.

[SheltieLover]

29. Prep for midterm polling places

[TommyT139]

35. I can honestly see

...them declaring that any trans person who legally obtained identification, where the gender marker differs from sex assigned at birth, is guilty of a federal crime, has no "legal" proof of citizenship, and can be sent out of the country, exiled.

I
Can
Absolutely
Imagine
That
Happening
Within
Three
Years.

[quakerboy]

36. I will be shocked if it takes that long

Im thinking 6 months, maybe less.

Are you a good American? There will be many.

[TommyT139]

37. You may be right.

My estimate: I was going through Nov 2026, and if the elections are cancelled, a bit of "clean up" time afterwards.

[quakerboy]

38. You dont have to cancel elections

if you have a kidnapping force that can prevent the opposition from voting and software that makes certain the votes come out right.

[Dan]

9. Not white,

But if ever picked up and detained, it would be in everyones’ interest to never let me go.

[Joinfortmill]

10. I think Home Depot needs to take a stand against this, if they haven't already.

[Justice matters.]

12. Let them go bankrupt (to teach a lesson).

Everybody: Boycott them daily!

[MLWR]

13. I haven't been in a Home Depot

since their last CEO told "liberals" we weren't welcome there and to go somewhere else. Since then, I have obliged.

[Zambero]

14. Lowes is at least "neutral"

[BaronChocula]

24. I'm conflicted

since Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison is black. Yet they folded and rolled back their diversity initiatives. But I was there spending (on a gift card) just yesterday.

Unfortunately Home Depot has a better selection of items, I find. And they keep their Christmas tree lot up longer.

[soldierant]

31. Home Depots prices tend (or used to) to be a lot lower than Lowe's

which I take to mean that they are underpaying their staff shamelessly. I do avoid them when I xan but sometimes I can't. And that goes for both.

[iemanja]

23. He's an ex owner

But still I sold my stock when I heard that.

[ecstatic]

26. wow! wtf?

I wasn't aware of that but thankfully I haven't been there in years.

[Traildogbob]

33. Same here

That was not publicly exposed enough. Why any Liberal would spend a dime there is confusing.

[iemanja]

22. They are right wing

They want this.

[Warpy]

15. I'm wondering where the day laborers are assembling now

It used to be Home Depot between 5 AM and 7:30 AM, before the store opened. Every so often I'd get out of work early enough to see the last of them out there, waiting for work.

Maybe they're lining up outside Costco, about a quarter of a mile away and opening a little later.

ICE hasn't been jackbooting here in NM. Workers haven't gone into hiding -- yet. Given what a putz the founder and majority stockholder of Home Depot is, I can see them reassembling elsewhere.

(I haven't shopped there for decades. I might hold my nose to buy some Behr paints there, that brand is fantastic and HD holds an exclusive contract with the company. I can get anything else they stock elsewhere)

[ShazzieB]

19. I have questions...

I see several comments here about boycotting Hone Depot, and i have some questions about that.

First, how is any of this Home Depot's fault? I know the founders were Trump supporters and big donors to at least his first election campaign. But according to Wikipedia, those people don't own Home Depot anymore. The company went public decades ago and is now mainly owned by institutional investors, to the tune of about 70% of shares.

And second, just exactly what is it that Home Depot should be doing about this? What even could they do? Don't people get arrested themselves if they try to interfere with an Ice Raid? I guess they could bar ICE from their property, at least in theory, but is that really feasible?

I am as horrified and outraged by what ICE is doing these days as anyone else here, and I wish it would stop. I just don't understand how boycotting Home Depot is supposed to help.

PLEASE NOTE: I know some are boycotting them for other reasons, like their compliance with Trump's order for businesses to abolish DEI programs, and I get that. I just don't see how boycotting Home Depot is going to help with this particular issue (the ICE raids), or why Home Depot should be punished because ICE has decided to conduct raids on their property. If I am missing something, please fill me in, because I'm probably not the only one.

[ret5hd]

20. they could demand the agents leave...

and trespass those that refused.

any private property can do the same...no warrant, no entry.

[Keepthesoulalive]

30. The present head of Home Depot is a tump supporter.

He supposedly was upset by the tariffs but not enough to curtail the nazification of America.

[ecstatic]

25. "I will never, ever forgive the rest of America for this filth."

This. 1000%. But I keep going back to the question of: did they really elect him? He was so unusually quiet after the election, like he was waiting for a shoe to drop. He admitted several times that people won't need to vote, etc etc.

Did women really sign away our rights?

It's one thing to be betrayed but there's a level of uncertainty that leaves me unsure of how to maneuver through this.

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. "Always accuse the opposition of things that you are doing"

By making a mockery of democracy, and shouting out ever since 2020 the Big Lie of his inevitable win were it not for the sugtrafuge and machinations, including the evil machines themselves, all controlled by the godless corrupt, communist Democrats whose goal is to destroy America.

Pay no head to the Economist magazines' front cover a month before the 2024 election:

[SheltieLover]

27. I've not shopped at Home Depot in years

since learning owner is a magat.

[Hassler]

28. Luckily my town has a homegrown alternative to shop at

[FHRRK]

32. Was in a HD in Aurora, CO last week

There were over 100 workers in the parking lot and side street.

A lumber yard in my SoCal town maybe would get up to fifty workers. It was raided early this week.