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Owner of San Francisco's Ritual Coffee fires her husband for using racial slur
SF Gate ^ | June 10, 2021 | By Madeline Wells

Posted on 06/10/2021 4:05:41 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

Eileen Rinaldi, owner of Ritual Coffee Roasters, has fired her husband after he used a racial slur against a Black man, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another). The incident occurred outside of the company’s warehouse on 17th Street in late May.

"He reported to me that he had a verbal altercation over a parking space while managing a construction project," wrote Eileen Rinaldi in an Instagram post about her husband, John Rinaldi. "He said that during the altercation, an individual called John a racial epithet. John said he then made the horrible mistake of repeating the racial slur back to the individual, something that he never should have done. This incident is extremely upsetting to me. While he had only this freelance construction role at Ritual in the last year, I’m deeply regretful for allowing John to oversee this project or to do any work with Ritual."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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KEYWORDS: chat; fired; husband; localnews; racialslur; sanfrancisco
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To: EEGator
If my wife fired me, I’d get an eight ball and 3 hookers..

Calm down, Hunter.

21 posted on 06/10/2021 4:35:16 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Seruzawa

22 posted on 06/10/2021 4:36:40 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: NohSpinZone

Oh good God.

I don’t know where to start.


23 posted on 06/10/2021 4:39:22 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: Lisbon1940

Too many men are “woke” (sic).

We aren’t all men on FR.


24 posted on 06/10/2021 4:41:50 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: NohSpinZone

Ugh! Yet again, ANOTHER mousey looking lefty woman! What kind of man sees this and says to himself “Ooh! I must mate with that! She must take my seed and produce my mousey human progeny!”??


25 posted on 06/10/2021 4:42:10 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: EEGator
If my wife fired me, I’d get an eight ball and 3 hookers...

...and possibly a STD.

26 posted on 06/10/2021 4:51:26 PM PDT by ytrebil
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To: ytrebil

Meh...


27 posted on 06/10/2021 4:52:05 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

LOL


28 posted on 06/10/2021 4:54:20 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It isn’t always easy to tell.
There are some freepers I thought were women that I found out were men and vice versa.


29 posted on 06/10/2021 4:56:18 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: NohSpinZone

Her husband just tapped his inner rapper.


30 posted on 06/10/2021 4:58:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NohSpinZone

How could she do this? Frickin Wop! D’oh.


31 posted on 06/10/2021 4:59:05 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: NohSpinZone

Sorry to hear about Eileen’s brain damage.


32 posted on 06/10/2021 5:01:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: NohSpinZone

So the guy that said it back is the bad guy but the one who started it isn’t?

Sounds pretty typical. The one who retaliates is ALWAYS the one who gets in trouble and the one who provoked it gets off with nothing because suddenly they are the victim.

It’s disgusting.


33 posted on 06/10/2021 5:24:02 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.…)
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To: SamAdams76
My gut tells me it’s a false story concocted by the couple to drum up business through virtue signaling.

My arithmetic suggests that you may be right.

"SAN FRANCISCO — At Ritual Coffee Roasters, a cafe in San Francisco's Mission District, the aesthetic is early socialist but the clientele are latter-day capitalist."

San Francisco Metro office buildings were running 16.7% office occupancy (by office workers) as of June 2, 2021 which is even worse than New York City (18.2%). So, yes, they probably aren't getting a lot of office workers walking into their cafes.

34 posted on 06/10/2021 5:26:45 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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To: Sooth2222

And if if that doesn’t work, perhaps they could hire Jussie Smollett to help develop their business.


35 posted on 06/10/2021 5:29:31 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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To: NohSpinZone

I bet she’s a really fun gal.


36 posted on 06/10/2021 5:29:40 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Freedom4US

You should see her dance to the Indigo Girls on “Folk Night Thursdays”


37 posted on 06/10/2021 5:34:28 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: NohSpinZone

Racists are people who are obsessed with race, make everything about race, and project their own maniacal racism onto all the people they hate.


38 posted on 06/10/2021 5:35:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Lefties call anything they can use to subjugate other people "science.")
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To: NohSpinZone

“...a Black man...

A member of the Black family, huh???

Is he any kin to Clint Black, the singer???


39 posted on 06/10/2021 5:35:52 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: NohSpinZone

Perhaps next time she can fire herself, as she dives into a swimming pool full of human feces.


40 posted on 06/10/2021 5:40:40 PM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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