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With #BlackBrunch, activists try new way of drawing attention to racial issues
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | January 5, 2015 | Daniel Wood

Posted on 01/05/2015 8:20:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

On weekends, activists dressed in black are entering restaurant after restaurant, chanting and singing. The idea behind #BlackBrunch is to disrupt business as usual at upscale locations.

A half century after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed the Black Panthers in Oakland, Calif., to carry guns and follow police around to record brutality, a new activism tactic has been launched in the same city to address racial injustice – albeit the weapons are different.

On Sunday, activists dressed in black entered restaurant after restaurant in Oakland. Drawing out megaphones, 36 African-Americans chanted, sang, and filed out.

Known as #BlackBrunch, the idea was born right after a grand jury in Staten Island, N.Y., refused to indict a white police officer in the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner. In the past month, similar #BlackBrunch scenes have taken place in San Francisco; Berkeley, Calif.; Baltimore; and Boston. And Sunday marked the first #BlackBrunch in Manhattan....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackbrunch; blackkk; blacks; blackseparatists; brunch; civilrights; civilwar; ferguson; hatecrimes; hatespeech; lunchcounterprotest; neosegregationists; racism; waronwhites; whiteprivilege; whiteshaming
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To: CAluvdubya

Ask the restaurant owners why they tolerate such intolerance.


21 posted on 01/05/2015 8:47:34 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: gaijin
Disrupt Christmas tree lightings, Disrupt WW2 medal award ceremonies

Sounds a lot like the Wet-Burro cult. So much hate. So much intolerance.

22 posted on 01/05/2015 8:48:53 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

They need to shut up, sit down and nosh.


23 posted on 01/05/2015 8:49:50 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Timber Rattler

Ask them to sing “Carolina In The Morning”, if they want to sing! /s;)


24 posted on 01/05/2015 8:51:06 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

food aggression meets micro aggression. Duel to the death!


25 posted on 01/05/2015 8:53:25 PM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: Frank_2001

Can they sing harmony like the Ink Spots?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvwfLe6sLis


26 posted on 01/05/2015 8:58:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ironic thing about this is that they are hitting upscale eateries in big cities. In other words, they are getting in the faces of young, upwardly-mobile, college-educated caucasians who are most likely to be Liberal — and thus most likely to be (at least putatively) in their corner to begin with.

I say cheer them on! They say inside every Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged. Peachy! They’re mass producing the muggings for us.


27 posted on 01/05/2015 8:59:19 PM PST by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: lowbridge

that’s not new for them.....way of life.


28 posted on 01/05/2015 9:00:50 PM PST by annieokie
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To: Frank_2001
Shut up and eat
I have had it
I don't want to hear
Another word here
Life's too short
Let's eat and drink
And be merry dear
Say good-bye now
To the crowd
Pestilent and rude
Life's a Mardi Gras
Shut up and eat
When they shout
And push it in your face
Know by God's good grace
Let good cheer
Prevail this place
May men raise their meads
And shut up and eat.
29 posted on 01/05/2015 9:04:31 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don’t these same people go to Chicago and protest if life matters so much


30 posted on 01/05/2015 9:04:52 PM PST by proudCArepublican
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To: Timber Rattler

“I’d like to see these loud-mouthed morons try this nonsense in fly-over country and then see what happens.”

This will never happen. The hip metro crowd these fools are “protesting” in front of probably find the whole thing to be a much more entertaining accompaniment for brunch than a harpist or jazz trio, it fits right in with their bizarre world view.

From my point of view what we have here is a 21st century minstrel show.


31 posted on 01/05/2015 9:05:52 PM PST by Junk Silver
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To: proudCArepublican

Funny that you don’t see much of that here in Texas.


32 posted on 01/05/2015 9:06:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As long as they keep it up in leftist cities, I don’t see a problem.


33 posted on 01/05/2015 9:10:59 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The clientele should pummel them about the head and shoulders with baguettes until their knees get weak..........LOL


34 posted on 01/05/2015 9:21:43 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: Junk Silver
From my point of view what we have here is a 21st century minstrel show.

Someone needs to request "Mammy."

35 posted on 01/05/2015 9:47:01 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: proudCArepublican
Why don’t these same people go to Chicago and protest if life matters so much?

Have you seen the temperature in Chicago?

Just get up, leave your food on the table, and leave without paying. They can't force me to stay in an unsafe environment. That should end this pretty quick.
36 posted on 01/05/2015 10:11:33 PM PST by Cololeo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These clowns are gonna walk into the wrong place someday. What are they doing anyway? Simply PO’ing people is all they are accomplishing.


37 posted on 01/05/2015 10:54:04 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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To: Cololeo

Your response is the rational one, which if why I think this whole thing is a protection racket. “This is a real nice restaurant you have here. It would be a real shame if a bunch of aggrieved minorities were to come here and vent there unhappiness. But for a modest donation to my I Can’t Breathe foundation, I could prevent such an unfortunate occurrence”.


38 posted on 01/05/2015 11:10:05 PM PST by pluvmantelo (Democrats: the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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To: pluvmantelo

May be. However, if so, they are common extortionists and terrorists. That in itself, fomenting a race riot, gives me the justification to protect myself, and my life, with deadly force if need be. This whole racist black cabal are pushing as hard as they can, so we might as well start dancing.


39 posted on 01/06/2015 12:12:47 AM PST by Cololeo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’d be funny is if restaurants started providing patrons with a can of pepper spray on each table. The next time these clowns chose to invade some one’s space they could be properly hosed down.


40 posted on 01/06/2015 1:52:04 AM PST by SCHROLL
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