A Whataburger in Fort Worth, Texas, became the center of protests after an employee of the restaurant quit over a dispute about her mask. Ma’Kiya Congious told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that she had been wearing her mask with "Black lives matter" stitched on it for days before a customer complained about it on August 4. She had even received compliments on the mask before the complaint. “I asked, ‘Is it something I did wrong?’ She said, ‘They should not allow you to wear that mask...don’t worry about it you’ll be hearing from corporate,’” the 19-year-old told the newspaper. She began recording her bosses berating her after she told them the customer planned to contact management about her mask. “Whataburger wants you to wear a mask that has no opinions whatsoever on them. You’re entitled to your personal opinions, that’s fine. But at Whataburger we don’t want to portray them because some people may be offended. This is a big business ... Whataburger doesn’t want to get into...
