[Vision2020] Local businessman slandered

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The Daily News was scooped by the Argonaut again. 
http://www.argonaut.uidaho.edu/current/news2.html
Best,
Dale
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Local businessman: comments, actions against stores are slanderous

By Leif Thompson
Argonaut Staff

Gary Greenfield and his business partners, George Kong and Dean Hellekson,
have reportedly been libeled.

 Photo for story <http://www.courtneys.us/images/greenfield.jpg> 

Greenfield co-owns Bucer's Coffee House Pub with Hellekson and co-owns Zume
with Kong. He is the proprietor of Greenfield Coffee Drive Thru. Saturday
the employees of Bucer's, Greenfield Coffee and Zume awoke to find the
outside of their stores plastered with 2-by-4-inch neon stickers that read,
"Warning: Your morning cup of coffee has been supporting racism, sexism and
homophobia."

Greenfield said there were also stickers placed on various horizontal
surfaces, such as light posts, newspaper stands and trash cans in the
downtown area.

Greenfield said he believes the perpetrators are UI students. And his
businesses have been targeted because he is a member of Christ Church in
Moscow. There has been a negative backlash after the publication of a 1996
booklet by Douglas Wilson, who pastors Christ Church. The book is titled
"Southern Slavery: As it was."

JOSH DEAN / ARGONAUT / Bucer's co-owner Gary Greenfield sits in the
coffeehouse Thursday. Displayed on the coffee cup is one of the stickers
that covered the exteriors of both Bucer's and Zume, which he also co-owns,
Wednesday morning,

Greenfield said Wilson does not condone racism and was trying to write an
unbiased history of the Civil War that was free from liberal revisionism.
Greenfield doesn't understand why he is the target of a public backlash.

"Somehow they pulled my coffeehouse into it because I go to that church,"
Greenfield said. "The whole thing has been blown way out of whack,"
Greenfield said Wilson will host a conference on revolution and modernity
next spring. He said the root of the negative perception against Wilson was
a flyer published about that conference.

"Somebody put out a flyer and it was a false flyer, but they did a good job
of it, saying it was a conference on slavery," Greenfield said.

Greenfield said he is against racism in all its forms. He referred to the
love for his adopted daughter Rosie, who had a black father, as testament to
his commitment against racism. Greenfield said Hellekson has adopted black
children as well. Also, Kong is Asian, he said.

"We're so far from racism it's not funny," Greenfield said. "It's
slanderous; it's lies."

Greenfield said his businesses are not homophobic or sexist, either.

"I don't even know where sexism or homophobia came from," Greenfield said.
"I can't defend myself against those things because I don't know what they
mean.

"There have been ongoing rumors that we discriminate against homosexuals.
There are rumors that persist that we've kicked homosexuals out. They aren't
true. Our employees are instructed to serve every customer regardless of who
they are or what they look like," Greenfield said. 

Greenfield said the only people he has ever expelled from his store were
people who were overly intoxicated.

"I am sure there are students out there that probably know who did it,"
Greenfield said. "(The perpetrators are guilty of) the very thing they are
charging me with; they are the racists."

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