Posted on 06/01/2018 3:45:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two employees of a bakery in Portland, Oregon were fired earlier this month for denying a black woman service because the business had closed.
"Back To Eden Bakery" released several public apologies and statements following the incident, before letting the employees go. In one Facebook post, the bakery's co-owner wrote, "We are doing business in a gentrified neighborhood in a racist city within a racist state of a racist country.”
In one statement, "Back To Eden Bakery" says that according to its own surveillance video, a black woman named "Lillian", who is well known in the area as a "professional equity activist", entered at 9:06 p.m., after the bakery's closing time. Employees had also turned off the "Open" sign, but several customers (all white) who had already ordered were still inside. Two other white women who went to the bakery two minutes before "Lillian", and were also informed that the business was closed for the night.
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So you established that as a policy and told your employees to follow it?
Doesn't sound like that is the case here. They were following policy until the policy changed ex post facto.
Who goes to a bakery just as they are closing the doors with the expectation that they will receive a full-service experience? Folks already inside were promised service when the ‘Open’ light was lit. Once it’s off, you can’t _expect_ that even if you get through the door.
“f the same rule applies to all your customers, its not racism.
Its only racism if you treat black customers differently from white customers.”
Is it racist to serve whoever you want in the business you own on the property you own. Does property rights (long gone) supersede racism? If the business is racist and you don’t like it, go somewhere else.
Gotten a bit of it out here. Mostly worried about the range, we’ve got End of Trail coming up and will have about 900 people on site to get out on tiny roads if things got bad.
You ought to come out and see it.
https://www.sassnet.com/EoT/index.php
Let me know if you’re interested.
PS. Don’t worry about the “open to the public” dates, I can get you in on the earlier days if you want.
No other outcome was ever possible. Given the current insane hysteria over Starbucks, any white who breathed within ten miles of a non-white would be branded racist.
SO the owner fires two employees when he needs to add at least 10. After all, there is now no such thing as “after hours”. Business has to stay open 24/7/365 to accommodate anyone who wants to be served at any hour.
Thanks for the invite. Gonna be visiting relatives out of town most of that time. Will be back around the 20th. So maybe I can get there. Will have to see.
No she wasn’t trespassing...
the door was open, there were still customers inside...
They should have locked the door if they were closed...
they didn’t, so technically and probably legally they were still opened...
otherwise...how did she get inside ??? She didn’t break in to enter...
those two white women would have also been trespassing if she was...
they also went into the store after 9PM...2 minutes before the black woman did...9.04PM...
If the video shows 2 white women being turned away the fired employees have a case but the video wont show what the conversation was...only that the 2 white women turned and went back outside before the black woman came into the store...
but what if the 2 white women had asked for an item that the store was out of or didn’t sell and so they left ???...we don’t know why the women didn’t stay to purchase anything..
This is not as cut and dried as it appears...theres some necessary info that is not and may not ever be available...
HEY !!! What if the 2 white women were lesbians and asked the baker if he would bake a wedding cake ??? He said no so they left...is a law suit from them also forthcoming ???
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Bakery will be getting new ownership in the near future; and that new ownership will already be trained.
“Never leave a customer at the door.”
Yes, but that’s the decision of the business owner not his employees. So if his (her) policy is to serve people who show up right after closing, that should have been made clear to the employees. Otherwise, just when IS the shop CLOSED? My father ran a men’s clothing store. After the appointed hour, he stationed an employee at the door, who locked it and stood there to unlock it to let the customers who were finishing their purchase after closing, could be let out. Often, he did that task himself, and on occasion, when someone showed up after closing with a reasonable reason to be accommodated, he let them in.
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