Posted on 05/08/2007 5:17:38 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
Cincinnati restaurateur Jeff Ruby was at his restaurant in Louisville for Kentucky Derby weekend, when an employee approached him, apparently excited that O.J. Simpson was sitting down to dinner.
Ruby said he took another puff of his cigar and another sip of his drink and decided, "I don't want him here."
Ruby said he found Simpson in the Churchhill room of his "Jeff Ruby's Louisville" steakhouse and told Simpson, "I'm not serving you."
Ruby said he did it for the Goldman and Brown families, referring, of course, to the families of the people O.J. was accused of killing.
Simpson was found not guilty in the criminal trial, but liable in a civil trial.
After telling Simpson to leave, he said the former NFL football star was "classy" about it, rounded up his party and left.
Then, Ruby said, he went into the Churchill Room to be sure they were gone and people at other tables started standing. "They all got up and gave me a standing ovation, started applauding."
Ruby said it happened throughout the restaurant.
He added that the next day in the restaurant, "Nobody in Louisville was talking about who won the Derby, who lost, what happened to the favorite, or the Queen. They were just talking about 'O.J. got thrown out of the place.'"
Ruby's Louisville restaurant is the only one he owns outside of our Tri-state area. It's been open about a year.
It would not be a hate crime, nor racial discrimination. Mr. Ruby kicked OJ Simpson out because he was an odious person, not because he was black.
Idiot child of the 60s...
He was there looking for the real killers.Ruby should have let him look in the mirror in the men's roon before he left.
My brother was in town for the Derby. He said the juice was all over town gladhanding and such.
The difference is, the white guy wouldn’t have gotten off, because the white jury would have actually considered ALL the evidence, not just the accuser/accused’s skin color.
It is always lurking right below the surface. And now with with Johnnie Cockrin gone, who will stand up to it?
Good!
When Jeff Ruby came on the scene in Cincinnati in the 70’s, I thought he was a punk....I just re-considered!! Good Going!
Ok... what the hell is wrong with these people? I cannot BELIEVE there are people who want to hang around with psychopaths.
Does he still have the restaurant, The Precinct on Columbia Pkwy?
Good Guy vs Bad Guy!!
Good Guy stands on principle and wins--villian loses in disgrace--and the Good Guy is lauded for being courageous and getting rid of the villan.
No shades of gray, no shouts of racism, no lawsuits, just plain old Good vs Evil, with GOOD WINNING!!
Our pop culture revolves around celebrity. And the celebrity "bad boy" is more glorified than ever. These people are the most sickening of the hangers on; those wanting to bask in the attention given OJ. Pop culture is in your face liberal. Proudly amoral. These people are proud and pleased to see the disgust on our faces.
Buy that man a Miller ... what a stand-up guy.
Yeah, Jeff has several in the area. Precinct, (an old police station), downtown, Montgomery and N.Ky. He’s keeping Cincinnati’s fine dining experiences alive. Not many left.
Please?
You’re right. I should have said “Calling the Justice Brothers”...........
Exactly.
Thanks for the post. We end up doing a family dinner in Louisville every year or two. BIL and his family are up there. I plan on pushing for trying out this guy’s restaurant. The family is all old-school Republicans/conservatives, so I don’t think I’ll have to push hard.
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