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.
That was my first thought too.
I’m not staying at a place that makes the bar is Star Wars look normal.
hahahahahahaahah... I almost fell out of my chair. This is them!?!
hahahahhaha.
Oh man.... It would be nice if this is all we’re facing, I don’t see those two characters putting up much of a fight.
sigh... but I know it’s the commies... these are just the ‘tards. Too dumb to know they’re always first in the ditch.
hahah... every time I look. It would be funny if the blonde was holding a pitchfork and they were in front of a farmhouse.
Soon the community will be protesting the lack of good restaurants and coffee houses in their neighborhoods.
It’s never enough.
If whites move in it's called "gentrification".
In Dim logic, whites simply aren't allowed to move.
The employees are looters straight out of Atlas Shrugged. Didn’t work this time.
Black people must just LOVE getting lumped in with the Trannies.
What the heck do they thing this is, Festivus in July?
It’s frankly hard to know where to even start with the bizarro world nature of this story.
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Yeah, probably just wanted out of an over-leveraged enterprise and this was just as good a way as any.
There are still people in NY who despise Rudy Giuliani for cleaning up Times Square.
Something like that, but yes...I remember an article. Couldn’t find out here.
They always turn on each other just like the rats they are.
FTFY
Eek!
Who are those latter-day hippies?
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