Posted on 07/05/2022 4:18:57 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt. The cafe was owned by Kate Egghart and Sonam Parikh, two queer activists who started Mina’s in an effort to create an inclusive coffee shop. However, their employees have claimed Egghart and Parikh are anti-black and “gentrifiers.” Gentrifier is a woke term used to describe those who purposely contribute to the displacement of low-income families. Mina’s World was located just around the corner from Malcolm X Park in Philadelphia and employed mostly minority workers.
Ironically— prior to the allegations from employees—Parikh spoke to Bon Appetit about the opening of Mina’s World and said when she worked at different coffee shops, “white ownership neglected to protect their Black and trans employees. I knew there needed to be a space where you could have an amazingly made cup of coffee that’s not whitewashed.”
Fast forward two years and employees of Mina’s World have put out a public statement where they claimed they were suffering from a plethora of “systemic” woes as a result of the alleged gentrification including “employer opposition” and “anti-blackness.”
Employees expanded on these woes in their public “List of Grievances" which is basically a bunch of empty buzzwords to generate outrage and included no substantial evidence to back up their claims.
As if it couldn’t get any worse, the employees also demanded that the owners “redistribute the business” to them.
Egghart and Parikh responded to their employees’ demands in a hostage-style video in which they repeatedly apologized for being gentrifiers. Egghart spoke next to Parikh saying, “We’re going live as part of a radical accountability process. We’re complicit in the gentrification and anti-blackness on 52nd Street. We put our community at risk with our presence as well as our workers.”
The two owners agreed to attempt to hand over ownership of Mina’s saying, “With the guidance of the workers and Black and Brown Workers Collective, we’re trying to raise funds to buy the business and turn it over to our staff.”
The hostile takeover quickly backfired on the woke employees as the owner of the building where Mina’s World is housed listed the property for sale.
IQ points ... give what the Woke believe.
The woke try to start an Employee owned business by blackmailing the owners? Whodathunkit?
A cautionary tale here: no matter how woke you think you are there will always be others woker than thou.
Employees expanded on these woes in their public “List of Grievances" which is basically a bunch of empty buzzwords to generate outrage and included no substantial evidence to back up their claims. As if it couldn’t get any worse, the employees also demanded that the owners “redistribute the business” to them.
The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.
Wokeness knows no bounds.
I thought Festivus was limited to December 23 (Airing of grievances)
So well-meaning white people moved into formerly sketchy areas. Now their commutes are shorter, or they can take mass transit. They opened restaurants, shops, galleries, and even theaters in these areas that were now burgeoning with activity.
Even though they employed minorities, because the owners are white (even if they are gay) and because the house prices and rents are going up, they are considered the enemy.
Just goes to show you: No good deed goes unpunished.
Now THIS is a real, feel good story with a happy ending. 🤣🤣🤣
The generation who thinks they can pitch a fit and get whatever they want gets another lesson. :D
The only way this business could’ve tanked faster is if it was one of those places that tells customers to pay “what they can”...rather than having a fixed price menu.
commies always eat their own
no one is safe
A perfect example of the uselessness of trying to appease the prog.
They will ALWAYS have something nuttier to be “complied” with each week that the current crop of prog and prog appeasers will have to deal with.
In the meantime normal American Citizens tell them NO.
The prog call them xxxxphobic this, xxxxphobic that, hate monger, etc.
Big deal, they will do that no matter what normal American Citizens do or say.
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WarGmes had it right.
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
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This makes no sense at all. The owners have to raise funds to buy the business? From who? They are the owners. They already own it.
““List of Grievances” which is basically a bunch of empty buzzwords to generate outrage and included no substantial evidence to back up their claims.””
I’m going to do my part by not spending one single second trying to understand people or articles like this. The above quote from the article is exactly what all these idiots in the news do. No substance!!
Best thing we can do is laugh at them and walk away.
They have dug a pit and fallen there in. - some old book that no one should pay any attention to.
They may have been woke, but the building owner was fully awake.
That’ll teach ‘em!
If the Employees ever did succeed in taking over the biz, I bet they would be shocked at what was involved. Plus the fact that you have to put up money for things like salaries, rent, utilities, supplies, insurance and taxes. In other words, they discover there is risk and expense in owning a biz — its not just magical profit.
After making this discovery, they would no doubt try to sue the former owners for “tricking them”.
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