eating while black
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#EatingWhileBlack: An Innocent Black Man Gets Handcuffed While Eating With Family at Virginia Beach Mall
Another day, another task to add to the ever-growing list of things Black folks can’t do for fear of having a completely unwarranted and volatile run-in with the police. On Saturday, Jamar Mackey was enjoying lunch with his family at a food court inside of a local Virginia Beach Mall. Well, that was the case…
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'It's What We Do'? Domino's Pizza Worker Fired After Using Racial Slur on Customer's Receipt
Anyone who patronizes fast food restaurants knows misspellings and outright ludicrous interpretations of your name aren’t uncommon. But that’s not what happened when Myasia Nelson tried to order from a Burlington, N.C. Domino’s last week. According to the Associated Press, Nelson, who is black, walked into the pizza franchise, whose slogan is “it’s what we…
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‘We’re Not Racist’: Maine IHOP Manager Suspends Server After She Asks Black Teens to Pay Up Front for Their Meals
The manager of an IHOP in Auburn, Maine, is making it clear that no one should or will ever have to pay up front for a meal at the establishment after an incident of racial profiling over the weekend. “And we’re trying to let everybody know that we’re not racist,” Melvin Escobar, the manager, told…