Chick-fil-A faces backlash from two-year-old video of CEO

A video with Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy was controversial about 2-3 years ago and has resurfaced. It's controversial again and conservatives are calling for boycotts, but some of the headlines may have been deceiving or misleading, leading to the backlash after Dan Cathy shined a Black man's shoes during a panel.

This took place a few years ago at the Passion City Church in Atlanta where it was Dan Cathy, Christian musician Lecrae Moore, and Pastor Louie Giglio. Cathy told a story about racism and suggested that everyone in the world have an "apologetic heart." That's around the time in the video where he started to shine Lecrae's shoes and the video turned into a wildfire of viral social media posts.

Cathy said: “I invite folks to put some words to action here... And if we need to find somebody that needs to have their shoe shined, we need to just go right on over, and shine their shoes, whether they got tennis shoes on or not — maybe they have sandals on — but it really doesn’t matter.”

Despite Chick-fil-A having strong Christian values, they're now facing potential 'Budlighting' boycotts once again, even though this video is several years old. News outlets and social media users are making suggestions that may be in or out of context, but it's going fairly crazy once again. Yahoo News reported on this two years ago giving some more insight to what happened then, and is likely happening again:

Cathy and his family, who own Chick-fil-A, are known for their Christian values, which influence business decisions, such as shutting doors on Sundays. The executive later revealed that he bought about 1,500 shoe-shine brushes a few years and gave them out to members of the Chick-fil-A staff.

While Cathy’s message was intended as a display of repentance, it was ill-received by some individuals on social media, with conservative pundits and politicians among the unimpressed.

Chick-fil-A has a fairly good history of having strong values, so maybe we should give Dan Cathy the benefit of the doubt and watch the full video to see what the true context was. After watching the video, then we ask if Dan Cathy inappropriate or was he taken out of context? You be the judge.