another Lincoln misquote for ulterior motive

[David Lockmiller]

Elijah Scott, a 16-year-old working at a Kroger grocery store in Springfield, Ohio, threw on his Colin Kaepernick 49ers jersey Sunday before he headed out to work. His store was having a special Sunday "Wear a Football Jersey Day" for its employees to celebrate the start of the season.

However, when Scott's lunch break came around, he was pulled aside and asked to go home and change, according to the New York Daily News. A customer that visited Kroger that day was offended by Scott's "disrespectful" jersey and told the store manager that he "wasn't going to shop there again" if Scott kept wearing it.

When Scott's mother Diane called Kroger's manager to find out what happened, she found the store "doubling down" on their stance. "It was September 11th," she recalled the manager saying, "and Elijah was on company time and would not be allowed to disrespect customers."