FoxNews.com - An Italian restaurant in New Mexico is under fire after making merchandise with a slogan that mimics the Black Lives Matters Movement.

KOAT-TV reported Monday that Paisano’s in Albuquerque is selling “black olives matter” shirts and hats after making national headlines for putting the phrase on a sign outside the restaurant.

Paisano’s owner Rick Camuglia said he emblazoned the phrase on the restaurant's main sign to sell a new recipe: a tuna dish with black olive tapenade.

Camuglia posted pictures of the dish and the sign on Facebook, drawing complaints he was being insensitive and trivializing a movement aimed at trying to stop police shootings of black residents.

Within hours of Paisano’s post, Camuglia told Fox News last month the page was flooded with negative comments and the restaurant was inundated with phone calls.

“People were calling us racist. Saying we were a white supremacist restaurant. Some got really derogatory and just started cursing me out.”

Camuglia insisted he was not trying to stir racial tensions and was only trying to sell food.

He said that people from all over the world has called his restaurant to show him support.

"It's gone so viral. We've gotten calls from Australia, Spain, France, you name it," Camuglia said.

He said that he put the slogan on hats and T-shirts because people who supported the restaurant wanted to by a souvenir of sorts from the restaurant.

Camuglia also told the station that business is booming.

"People have filled the restaurant and told us to leave up the sign," Camuglia said. "That's great, you know, because a lot of people make a living off working for this restaurant."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

I like em both....Black and Green ( but more the green, especially loaded with garlic cloves )

F' them. All three of the sheriff deputies that were shot in Baton Rouge were friends. They were shot because a habitual offender who was selling ectasy pills and bootleg DVD's who didn't want to go back to jail and face a life sentence decided he was once again going to fight the police. I'm told there is clear video evidence (surveillance tapes not publicly released) that his hand was in his pocket where the gun was located.

No offense directed at anyone, but at some point we need to become a nation of Americans without racial qualifiers. Until we do, there will ALWAYS be racism. Let us not forget a very important physical law that speaks volumes of the times, "for every action the is an opposite and equal reaction"

I'm an American. My fathers family descended from France. My mothers family from Great Britian. But, I'm just an American.

Maybe after the reparations the racism will go away... 😟

There is a tackle shop in Ocean City, MD that is getting some press for a t-shirt with White Lives Matter and a picture
of a White Marlin. We are the White Marlin capital of the world, you know.

I'm heading there in a few weeks. Anybody want a White Lives Matter shirt? They also have Blue Lives Matter for the
Blue Marlin fans... I'm getting one of each.

You know what they call a black person that lives in Canada? A Canadian.....Go figure.

What do they call Quarter-Pounders with Cheese..?? 😕

Lunch?

A Royale with cheese [ram27bat]

A sorry excuse for a hamburger

Sure.
Easy for a Limey Frog to say.

I can't knock the black lives matter premise. But the violence and destruction and rioting is Fd up. It's idiot criminals destroying what really is/should/could be a positive social movement. And it needs to be fixed within.

I typed out a very long post to further explain but I figured this is the most concise version.

It's just an excuse for dems to segregate this country. Now they're calling for segregated foodstuffs. It will be a deconstruction nightmare.

Hehehe