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.
OK, LMAO here.
Now, if that wasn’t meant to be funny . . .
Finally, somebody with the guts to say “enough”. “No”. “No more”. “I won’t take this”. “Stop”. “I don’t have to and I won’t”. Good job.
CINCINNATI, Ohio [Sep 27, 2004] -- Three years after black groups angered by the shooting of a black man by a Cincinnati police officer began a boycott of downtown restaurants, hotels and events, business is brisk.
No one is saying the boycott is over, but it has clearly lost its clout.
Top performers like Usher and Prince regularly draw thousands of fans downtown. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a new riverfront stop. Convention bookings this year are on pace to finish well ahead of last year's.
No major convention has honored the boycott since the Urban League pulled out in July 2002. Author Barbara Ehrenreich was the last celebrity to cite the boycott when nixing her appearance, in March 2003.
"I haven't seen much evidence of [a boycott] for a long time," Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken says.
Pickets still appear occasionally. Boycott leaders say the boycott -- designed to call attention to economic inequality and improvements in police-community relations -- won't be over until they say it's over, and that won't happen until long-standing racial problems are resolved.
But even they acknowledge that they're working less on a boycott and more on other ways to effect change. The Rev. Damon Lynch III, who led the boycott at its height, is involved in programs to help the homeless and poor and plans to run for City Council next year.
"The boycott as an ongoing tactic needs to be looked at," Lynch says. "While it has provided us with tremendous victories and successes, eventually you can get to a point of diminishing return."
Cincinnati's image took a beating after the April 2001 riots, which lasted for three nights. The downtown boycott, announced three months after the riots, plodded along until February 2002, when actor- comedian Bill Cosby canceled a downtown show. Other celebrities and musicians followed, including the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Whoopi Goldberg and Spike Lee.
The boycott -- and a sluggish economy -- hurt the city's $3.4 billion-a-year tourism industry.
Nine conventions canceled because of the boycott or the city's image in the wake of the 2001 riots, according to the Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Lynch says the boycott "helped bring about a change in direction."
"Cincinnati is not just a good-old-boys club anymore," he says.
But so far this year, 106 conventions have signed contracts to come downtown. And musicians such as Prince, who canceled in 2002, have since returned.
Gannett News Service
Copyright The Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
That event is what made me a dedicated FReeper. There was so much going on, that was being reported here, that was being ignored by the Old Media, that it just blew me away.
The whole event was overshadowed by 9/11 4 months later.
Here’s a compilation of threads I generated, during that event:
Links of Interest on the Cincinnati Riots
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ad646ad6811.htm#9
Ping. I’m going to have to try this guy’s place, on a future visit to the area.
Yes, I know that. Ir’s not beneath liberals, though, to still make the charge.
The WaPost is reporting that O.J.’s lawyer is claiming racial discrimination. Predictable.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830611/posts
.. with some ‘fumunda’ cheese.
If it had been a white guy, he would have been in prison for murder, not out at a restaurant.
Ref your: <<”Sounds like a story right out of the 1950’s.
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!!”>>
Isn’t it sad that this is not a regular occurance in the USA?
The Drive-By Media has totally taken over the country and it is time for us to take it back!
RamS
I would only consider going to eat there after knowning if Jeff would put out all killers who killed and got away with the crime.
Let’s see if he would put out the child killer”killer Roach”former officer Roach” Now Jeff, please speak up a little closer to the Mic! we can’t hear you.........
Wish I were closer so I could patronize Mr. Ruby’s place. He rocks.
Good Lord above, ladies, I need a ruling on the chica in the picture Marteen posted.
Between the sausage-in-a-tube look of that dress, the almost-showing-nips of that cleavage, and the WTF-is-it of that headgear, I am stuned and my beeber is inoperative.
(Not to mention, said chica appears to have man hands.)
A killer is a Killer?....
Roach Killed and went free.
comments HuH?
tranny. gotta be.
I’m not terribly far, maybe 45 minutes. But hell would have to freeze over before I could get the Mrs. [SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED] to drive that far for dinner.
However, we do our Saturday shopping in Louisville about once a month & I could probably swing lunch there. I think I’ll suggest it.
Oops, I checked online and they don’t do lunch. Ah well, maybe an opportunity will present itself.
If Jeff Ruby is a bigot then why is Mr. O’Deen Mayes, solo pianist and vocalist and former vocalist and keyboardist for Kool and the Gang his entertainment at the restaurant every Tuesday and Wednesday? Wouldn’t he choose all white entertainment as well?
http://www.jeffruby.com/index.php?affiliate_uid=louisville
Good for you, Jeff, for asking Mr. Simpson to leave. He was culpable for the murders in the civil courts and a documented abuser/stalker of his ex-wife.
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