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Portland bakery fires employees for denying black woman service after closing (more fake racism)
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Posted on 06/03/2018 10:43:12 AM PDT by Cubs Fan

PORTLAND, Ore. — Two employees of a bakery in Northeast Portland 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.

The bakery says "Lillian" left the store briefly and began recording video.

The bakery's statement says that even though it does not consider the employees to be racist and that they were following the business's protocol of closing at 9 p.m., they were fired because "sometimes impact outweighs intent." The bakery also says in the statement that the way the employees went about denying the woman service, "lacked sensitivity and understanding of the racial implications at work."

In the statement "Back To Eden" says the employees were fired because the woman and the "clamoring public" demanded they be fired.

In one statement, the bakery admitted that the employees did not necessarily do anything wrong, "this is more about how a black woman was made to feel" at the business.

(these) statements have since been deleted.


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To: Leaning Right

the employees may be able to sue the bakery for discrimination against them because they are white, the bakery owners have admitted their bias.


21 posted on 06/03/2018 11:16:43 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Most leftists would throw every one of us in Gulag if they could get away with it)
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To: Cubs Fan

i worked in a food shop/ bakery for awhile. It closed at 9:30 pm, and i can assure you we did not re open for anybody. Ever.


22 posted on 06/03/2018 11:18:42 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

ha ha great post. I could see that actually happening, the libs are so absurd now they have almost gone beyond parody.


23 posted on 06/03/2018 11:20:24 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Most leftists would throw every one of us in Gulag if they could get away with it)
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To: Cubs Fan

> the employees may be able to sue the bakery for discrimination against them because they are white, the bakery owners have admitted their bias <

Hmm...come to think of it, you might be right.

In my next of the woods a local white newscaster was fired after she posted something about black-on-black violence on Facebook. So she’s suing, arguing that a black newscaster wouldn’t have been fired for posting the same thing.

Of course, suing is one thing. winning is another.


24 posted on 06/03/2018 11:26:55 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: BlessedBeGod; Cubs Fan
Already posted:

I'm glad Cubs Fan posted it since I missed the other two. They were probably different sources, too.

25 posted on 06/03/2018 11:29:39 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: google,TWITTER,FACEBOOK,WaPo,Hollywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Sort of related was the May 14, 2018 report that a white man went berserk at a closed Burger King and stripped naked in protest against lack of service.

Commentator said maybe he believed the Burger King in full costume slept there at night and only got out of bed to wait on someone pounding on the glass and yelling.


26 posted on 06/03/2018 11:30:32 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorhip or we're finished.)
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To: Leaning Right

white newscaster fired and suing....


Last year in Michigan a female local tv newscaster said off camera but leaked by colleagues: Oh,no, is this another story of a black killing a black in Detroit? We get these all day. I’m sick of black people dying like this.

She was firmly destroyed for “racism” for this actually good opinion. Like Chicago, so many blacks are killed but no one is supposed to express sympathy or outrage or anything.


27 posted on 06/03/2018 11:35:56 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorhip or we're finished.)
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To: Cubs Fan
per article: "We are doing business in a gentrified neighborhood in a racist city within a racist state of a racist country.”

Anyone who's been to Portland knows that this is delusional. Or an outright lie. I guess it's the Big Lie theory at work here.
 

28 posted on 06/03/2018 11:38:17 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Trillian

Thank you Starbucks for setting such an absurd precedent.


29 posted on 06/03/2018 11:41:07 AM PDT by Macrinus
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To: frank ballenger

> She was firmly destroyed for “racism” for this actually good opinion. <

We are, in a way, living in a country something like Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. You won’t be executed for saying something that can be seen as politically incorrect. But your career will be ruined.


30 posted on 06/03/2018 11:48:44 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Cubs Fan

The tyranny of the few.


31 posted on 06/03/2018 11:52:12 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (I speak hyperbolically)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Thank you RWA.

They WERE different sources. also an administrator has told me they are okay with reposting stories after several hours but you should try to reference the original posting. (four hours if I recall, I should ask again though)’

When threads die down people often don’t see them.


32 posted on 06/03/2018 12:01:54 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Most leftists would throw every one of us in Gulag if they could get away with it)
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To: Leaning Right
We are, in a way, living in a country something like Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. You won’t be executed for saying something that can be seen as politically incorrect. But your career will be ruined.

I think it is like the blacklisting era, but ten times worse. how do you destroy free speech in country with a first amednment? Threaten people's livelihoods and they will keep quiet.

33 posted on 06/03/2018 12:04:56 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Most leftists would throw every one of us in Gulag if they could get away with it)
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To: Leaning Right
Of course, suing is one thing. winning is another.

Good point. if you have a mixed inner city jury and you are white you will probably have a hard time prevailing no matter how good your case. or if you opt for a bench trial you could get a kook liberal judge like the ones trying to screw up trumps policies all the time.

34 posted on 06/03/2018 12:11:24 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Most leftists would throw every one of us in Gulag if they could get away with it)
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To: Cubs Fan

“In one statement, the bakery admitted that the employees did not necessarily do anything wrong, “this is more about how a black woman was made to feel” at the business.”

What spineless a-holes. I hope they are sued for wrongful termination and go out of business.


35 posted on 06/03/2018 12:24:32 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Cubs Fan

What is unforgivable is people are losing their jobs for following the rules. Welcome to Bizarro World.


36 posted on 06/03/2018 12:27:07 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the new cult of the Left.)
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To: Cubs Fan

Dont be fooled. Its not about black and white, rather its about the Left manipulating everyone into making it about black and white. We are free individuals. The Left wants us to be no more than members of different tribes with little identity beyond that.


37 posted on 06/03/2018 12:31:22 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: ronniesgal

Closing the store and not allowing in customers after hours is a security measure. It is the vulnerable time when money received is at it highest level. It is a good time to rob, close the doors and have free reign uninterrupted by incoming customers.


38 posted on 06/03/2018 12:38:21 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the new cult of the Left.)
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To: Cubs Fan

the employees are probably racist now.


39 posted on 06/03/2018 12:46:15 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Cubs Fan

Portland, The Bay Area, L.A. (area), and Seattle; the West’s cradles of leftist insanity. Living there as a normal person would be like living in Hell.


40 posted on 06/03/2018 1:08:17 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Moral Equivalent of the Plague)
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