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Black-Owned Atlanta Restaurant Faces Boycott Calls for Serving a Republican
Salem Media ^ | 24 July 2026 | Sarah Andersdotter

Posted on 07/25/2026 6:38:05 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701

Toast on Lenox is a popular Atlanta brunch spot that's beloved for its good food and the warm and friendly service you typically receive from the moment you walk in the door. It opened in the city's Buckhead neighborhood in 2021, with a second location opening up in Midtown in 2023. It's sort of an upscale-casual place that serves updated takes on Southern dishes. Advertisement

Many in Atlanta also celebrate its popularity because it's a successful black-owned business, co-owned by Tamara Young and Chef Virgil Harper. And that's fine; it's a free country, and people are welcome to celebrate what they want and what matters to them. Personally, when I go out to eat, I really only care about things like flavor and service, not the race of the owners. I grew up with parents who never considered someone's skin color a defining factor in who they are or what they're capable of achieving, and I've always followed their lead.

Unfortunately, that same racial lens that makes some people celebrate Toast on Lenox is now being used to punish it, thanks to our friends on the left.

Earlier this month, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson stopped by the restaurant to enjoy a meal. Apparently, while he was there, he and Young talked and took a picture together. Later, Jackson posted the picture on social media, saying that as governor, he'll fight for small business owners like her, and he added that he was grateful for the good food and conversation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; blackownedbusiness; bottoms; brunch; buckhead; demagogicparty; dsa; election; georgia; jacksongeorgia; rickjackson; sarahandersdotter; tamarayoung; toastonlenox; virgilharper

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Bottoms is a joke and she wants to push more hate based on race and demands service be denied to political opponents. Remember her antics in 2021. The NBA could host a telethon disguised as an All-Star Game but not MLB because they are in Cobb and they wanted to punish Cobb.
1 posted on 07/25/2026 6:38:05 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Can it be that the people who scream racism are racists?


2 posted on 07/25/2026 6:42:48 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Can it be that the people who scream racism are racists?


3 posted on 07/25/2026 6:42:48 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Possibly.. 😊👍🇺🇸


4 posted on 07/25/2026 6:46:58 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Black-Owned Atlanta Restaurant Faces Boycott Calls for Serving “Customers” ,LOL


5 posted on 07/25/2026 6:47:15 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

All REPUBLICAN AMERICANS need to join together and boycott all restaurant and store owners who don’t serve Republican Americans. I’m in.


6 posted on 07/25/2026 6:48:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The crap going on in America ISN'T immigration. It's friggin' colonization. America is falling.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Apparently some Blacks have forgotten that the Republicans freed their ancestors from slavery. I wonder how they would react if this restaurant had a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the wall?


7 posted on 07/25/2026 6:55:55 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

May it backfire on the boycotting foods like it did with chic fil.et orhoweverits spelled


8 posted on 07/25/2026 6:57:17 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Republican policies are favorable to business. democrats would nationalize all the means of production and make the government the only employer. Privately owned businesses would disappear.


9 posted on 07/25/2026 6:59:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. Remember Iryna Zarutska and Justine Damond.)
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To: I want the USA back

WIKI

The main policy Lenin used was an end to grain requisitions and instead instituted a tax (Prodnalog) on the peasants, thereby allowing them to keep and trade part of their produce. At first, this tax known was paid in kind, that is in the form of agricultural service, but as the currency became more stable in 1924, it was changed to a cash payment. This increased the peasants’ incentive to produce, and in response production jumped by 40% after the drought and famine of 1921–22.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy


10 posted on 07/25/2026 7:05:58 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (The data centers might be hunting down guns. Black tape device cameras and PC microphones.)
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There will be boycotts from both sides - Democrats who are outraged that the restaurant served a Republican - and Republicans who now won't feel welcome there.

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"The Democrat ex-mayor of Atlanta Keisha Lance Bottoms, to pile on. While she didn't necessarily join in the calls for a boycott, she didn't defend this particularly black business owner, despite the fact that she considers herself a champion of minority-owned and female-owned businesses."

Hopefully, the doors of this restaurant won't close - but they certainly will if the DSA comes to power and demands they serve their food for free.

11 posted on 07/25/2026 7:06:26 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Bottoms is hated by Braves Country for her antics during the 2021 All-Star controversy.


12 posted on 07/25/2026 7:10:51 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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Black owned businesses should not talk to politicians who might have the power to enact laws or policies which affect their businesses?

They should turn away good paying customers because they're of a different ethnic background or because they may disagree with them politically?

Being against racial discrimination is anti Black?

Anybody who is of Mexican heritage must support illegal immigration?

The racism on display is simply breathtaking. Jackson should openly call her out for being a racist.

13 posted on 07/25/2026 7:11:13 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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“Let’s not boycott them. Let’s all go there and dine and dash! That’ll teach ‘em!”


14 posted on 07/25/2026 7:27:27 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Dems gotta keep black people on the leftist plantation by any means possible.


15 posted on 07/25/2026 7:40:30 AM PDT by PGR88
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In other news Lil Wayne is an enthusiastic supporter of the White House Ballroom being built. Nikki Minaj twerking and Lil Wayne rapping! What in the world is happening? Democrats’ grip on reality is slipping.


16 posted on 07/25/2026 7:51:34 AM PDT by Kudsman (Socialism= dead people are cheaper and eat less.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Keep them crabs in the bucket.


17 posted on 07/25/2026 8:02:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Oh no she di’int!


18 posted on 07/25/2026 8:07:05 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Bingo!


19 posted on 07/25/2026 8:09:55 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Bingo!


20 posted on 07/25/2026 8:09:55 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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