Posted on 01/13/2014 6:26:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Brooklyn - Council Member Inez Barron is opposed to her Council district being the site for Dennys Restaurant reported new location on Pennsylvania Ave between Linden Boulevard and Stanley Avenue.
It is insulting for Dennys to seek to come into a community that is Black and Latino. Just as we fought successfully to keep Wal-Mart with a similar history of discrimination and low wage workers with minimal benefits from coming to our community, we will wage the battles necessary to keep Dennys out, Councilmember Barron says.
"Dennys racist and discriminatory past cannot be ignored. In 1994, Dennys paid out an historic $54 million in a class-action suit after black customers all across the United States were discriminated against, refused service, and forced to wait for their food for long periods of time. They were even forced to pay more than white customers. Even recently, in 2011, Dennys settled another class-action lawsuit for $1.3 million after being sued for not reasonably accommodating a disabled person. This is unacceptable," she adds.
On the same block where Dennys plans to open, there are a plethora of such institutions including McDonalds, Popeyes, White Castle, Burger King, Checkers and Wendys - and a Subways is a block away.
We dont need any more unhealthy fast food restaurants paying slave wages in our neighborhood. Enough is enough. Moreover, East New York deserves better. We will not let up in the fight against Dennys, Barron says.
Currently, Councilmember Barron is looking towards legal action along with seeking a meeting with owners to apprise them of our communitys opposition to such a disrespectful commercial business coming into an already overcrowded fast food strip.
Last Saturday, January the 11th was my and my wife’s birthday. Denny’s has always given a free breakfast to a birthday person.
We had a black waiter, a side order of ham and toast was an additional $1.47, I produced a ten spot and told the waiter to keep the change.
I guess I am racist for tipping such an ungodly amount.
“Glad YOU survived your time there. Ive been posted in several VERY rough schools. And it always seems that most of the teachers who are assaulted and hospitalized are male teachers. I dont know why. I deal with, F__ you b___h, we gonna find you after school and jump you, F___ you b___h, I gonna kill you wid a knife/gun, F___ you b___h, I gonna end/snuff/kill you, etc. My standard reply? You and whose army? Cos I dont see anybody here except you and me. For some reason, that seems to deflate them.”
Yikes, I hope you were getting battle pay! I have done a lot of coaching over the years and have dealt with some tough inner city kids who would go out of their way to push you, to see if you will push back. If you do they almost always back off. One good thing, once you deal with that environment and that kind of behavior, you can pretty much handle anything. Kudos to you for fighting the good fight!
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Council Member Inez Barron needs to open her eyes.
Black neighborhoods, black cities and black countries do poorly compared to white, Asian, Indian, Hispanic, et al neighborhoods, cities and countries because the underlying ideas behind black thinking are stupid. It’s almost always ‘what works in the short run’ rather than ‘what works in the long run’.
Stopping Denny’s or Walmart from coming into a community does NOT make the men in the community start businesses. It doesn’t make them responsible.
That’s unicorn thinking.
In the short run Inez Barron will feel good about herself. In the long run people in her community will pay more for less without a Walmart or a Denny’s. Pay ‘more for less’ long enough and the community become poorer... The woman’s an idiot.
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