Funny Portland bakery fires employees for denying black woman service after closing

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Strenuus said:
Took out the part comparing it to a poster here. Dont do that. Thats not going to be conducive to a healthy dialouge. Thank you.
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Yes I see you have a new rule to edit post now.
And also you will delete them based upon your criteria. What is it? The post must please you?

Well Kiss it fella.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Seems like a pretty cut and dry lawsuit of wrongful termination.

I get that this is an at-will state, but when you fire someone for doing what you told them to do, that's a lawsuit.
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I don't know! Seems like a service to me! Working at a place that fucked up should be terminated ASP.
 
Such Bullshit! This is an issue where social media controlled the owners' decision. If they have closed for years under this protocol, then it doesn't matter what color a person is. I smell employee lawsuit.
 
I will say this, anywhere I have worked, if you forgot to lock the door and someone came in, you served them.

If they allowed the people in the door, that's on them.

If the person knocks on the door and it's locked, you kindly say we're closed and usually that's the end of it.
 
How do we know the cops didn't plant the gun in his back pocket after realizing their fuck up.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
At Portland's 'reparations happy hour,' people of color get $10 and a place to meet

It's been four years since Ta-Nehisi Coates made an exhaustive case for reparations in the pages of The Atlantic.

And on Monday, white Portlanders who agree with the idea had the chance to kick in $10 and buy a drink for a neighbor of color. It was an event billed as a "reparations happy hour" by prominent local activist Cameron Whitten, 27, and hosted by Brown Hope, a nonprofit he co-founded.

The premise was simple: Black, brown and indigenous folks could show up and collect $10 at the door donated by their white neighbors. In total, 40 people attended Monday's event.

"The best part for me was showing up like Portland Oprah and see their eyes light up when I handed them $10," Whitten said. "Because it was about more than that."

The reparations happy hour signified the transformation of an idea that progressive Portlanders support into something tangible for the city's residents of color.

"We do a lot of talking. We do a lot of making excuses," Whitten said. "But how often do we actually recognize and acknowledge someone's suffering? We're so used to being denied any sort of justice that $10 is a respite."

North Portland's Backyard Social hosted the inaugural event for two hours starting at 6 p.m. The next one, Whitten said, will be at the Back to Eden Bakery, where a black woman was kicked out earlier this month by a pair of employees who have since been fired.

That event is scheduled for June 20.

Whitten said the happy hours were borne of "a dire need to connect folks" in an environment that's often hostile to people of color.

"Portland does not feed their spirit," he said.

In fact, the longtime activist, best known for a 55-day hunger strike in front of City Hall to protest housing issues and his presence on the front lines of the many Portland demonstrations during the first year of the Trump administration, recruited seven white allies to fend off possible threats from alt-right groups threatening to disrupt the happy hour.

"We see a lot of folks who want to paint us in a bad light just because black, brown and indigenous people want a safe space," Whitten said.

The happy hour is just one of many events Whitten and Brown Hope are organizing to address inequality across the city. He's finalizing details for another event in August. And fundraising is currently in the works for a $2,000 Brown Hope Prize for an individual or group that promotes the organization's core mission.

"Our goal is to heal from the disease of racism. And we see that happening through deep civic empowerment and through trauma-informed activism," he said.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/05/reparations_happy_hour_portland.html
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The guy behind this is Cameron whitten, the most closeted racist that poses as a social activist when really he does shit like this. I watched his livestreams when all the protests were going down in Portland because it was the only ones up and he most definitely is out of his mind.
 
backtoeden - Copy.JPG Wow. Well, at least the owner clarified his position...



"we are a welcoming environment for those that share our values of inclusivity and dismantling the white supremacist hetero-patriarchy....we know we are in a gentrified neighborhood in a racist city in a racist state...simply firing the employees in question is good enough."

Edit: Well, poo. I guess they privacy'd it. Good thing I screengrabbed it.
 
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BrianFromWA said:
Wow. Well, at least the owner clarified his position...



"we are a welcoming environment for those that share our values of inclusivity and dismantling the white supremacist hetero-patriarchy....we know we are in a gentrified neighborhood in a racist city in a racist state...simply firing the employees in question is good enough."
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Is the owner some dirty dread head white woman from the Bay Area originally?
 
Chris Craig said:
Yeah it means he was drunk in his own house, not illegal
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You can drink until alc poisoning in your own house. If you make a neighbor call the police then what happens after that is debatable. The jury said the guy was 99 percent at fault.

I wasn't there.
 
BrianFromWA said:
"we are a welcoming environment for those that share our values of inclusivity and dismantling the white supremacist hetero-patriarchy....we know we are in a gentrified neighborhood in a racist city in a racist state...simply firing the employees in question is good enough."
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Do black people actually respect crackaz who go overboard like this? Or this is a signal to other white people that they too can feign respect for the black community, while further destroying their neighborhoods with $6 lattes and displacing minorities to the burbs?
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Do black people actually respect crackaz who go overboard like this? Or this is a signal to other white people that they too can feign respect for the black community, while further destroying their neighborhoods with $6 lattes and displacing minorities to the burbs?
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EL PRESIDENTE said:
Do black people actually respect crackaz who go overboard like this? Or this is a signal to other white people that they too can feign respect for the black community, while further destroying their neighborhoods with $6 lattes and displacing minorities to the burbs?
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Clearly, the business is a front for something illegal. NOBODY hangs out at a bakery til 9PM.

What bakery is even open til 9PM?

The 2 caucasian women who were turned away clearly have a racial discrimination suit against the owners who stupidly admitted it online.

The workers have the same basis for a suit also.

Know anyone who wants to buy a former bakery? :dunno:
 
MARIS61 said:
Clearly, the business is a front for something illegal. NOBODY hangs out at a bakery til 9PM.
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I can imagine it. It's 9:20 PM right now, and reading this has me in the mood for doughnuts.
 
Is this doughnut shop next to a bar? Perfect.
 
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