main street public house
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‘Silence Is Common’: White Man Who Put Racist Restaurant Owner on Blast Says White People Need to Speak Up About Racism
For weeks, Don Merckle wondered what he might have done to make the owner of Main Street Public House confide in him about his racism. Was it his tattoos? His trucker hat? His beard? As Merckle, a musician based in Columbia, S.C., tells it, he was in a bar talking to co-owner Jimmy Latulipe about…
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South Carolina Restaurant Closed After Musician Says White Owner Promised to Keep the ‘Nigs’ in Their Place
The white owner of a popular Columbia, S.C., restaurant picked the wrong white man to confide in. Main Street Public House is now closed as the business investigates racist comments one of its owners, Jimmy Latulipe, allegedly made to a white musician he was trying to book. As The State reports, Don Merckle, who manages…