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Delivery discrimination claimed Pizza policy angers local NAACP head, others
Daily Progress ^ | 2/11/05 | Claudia Pinto

Posted on 02/11/2005 6:05:20 AM PST by Taylor814

Two pizza delivery chains refused to send drivers to a public housing community Thursday afternoon, shocking and angering members of the AIDS/HIV Services Group and the president of the local NAACP.

Kathy Baker, ASG’s executive director, said that when Domino’s and Papa John’s were called to deliver to an HIV testing event at Westhaven public housing community, the businesses responded that they don’t deliver to Hardy Drive.

“I find it quite inappropriate. Whether it’s intended or not, it results in socioeconomic and racial discrimination,” Baker said. “We order pizzas from them all the time and it never occurred to me that it would be a problem. It seemed mind-boggling that they could consider doing that.”

Managers from Domino’s and Papa John’s said they don’t deliver to certain areas of the city out of concern for their drivers’ safety.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; papajohns; pizza; pizzahut; publichousing
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1 posted on 02/11/2005 6:05:20 AM PST by Taylor814
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To: Taylor814

People shouldn't have to put their lives at risk just so you can eat pizza.

If you aren't willing to clean your neighborhood up and you want pizza that bad you can get off your fat arse and go pick it up.


2 posted on 02/11/2005 6:07:53 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: Taylor814
Let the drivers carry guns. That'll make the thugs in the bad neighborhoods think twice.
3 posted on 02/11/2005 6:08:49 AM PST by wolfpat (Dum vivimus, vivamus)
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To: Taylor814

It will be interesting to see Freeper responses on this one. I am all for the pizza chains deciding when and where they deliver.

I live way out in the boonies. Do I get to whine (and maybe sue) because I can't get pizza delivery?


4 posted on 02/11/2005 6:08:55 AM PST by jacquej
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To: Taylor814

Just charge a $100 dollar fee per delivery for security gaurds and start delivering in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.


5 posted on 02/11/2005 6:09:13 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: Taylor814

Managers from Domino’s and Papa John’s said they don’t deliver to certain areas of the city out of concern for their drivers’ safety.

** maybe this is why?


6 posted on 02/11/2005 6:09:24 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Taylor814
Businesses have a right to not serve whomever they choose. The also have the responsibility to protect their drivers! It's not the pizza joints fault that certain areas attract unsavory types!!

Don't get POed at the pizza folks...look around you and get POed at THOSE folks because they brought it on themselves!!

7 posted on 02/11/2005 6:09:51 AM PST by sweet_diane ("Will I dance for you Jesus? Or in awe of You be still? I can only imagine..I can only imagine.")
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To: Bikers4Bush; mhking

It's about safety, and many of these drivers are hard working college kids who are also black themselves. NAACP irrelevant as ever.


8 posted on 02/11/2005 6:11:19 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Taylor814

They don't deliever in my neighborhood either. Too far and not worth the trip.


9 posted on 02/11/2005 6:13:58 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Taylor814
Baker said Whether it’s intended or not, it results in socioeconomic and racial discrimination

I think his statement reeks of racial arson. He seems to be making a bold assumption that all of the residents are of a particular race (I doubt it) and that the place is as safe as the rest of the city to deliver to (I doubt it) and that the delivery people have relatively the same incidence of getting stiffed for the tip or taking a stiff tip of a knife. He's the racist, not the business people.

10 posted on 02/11/2005 6:15:27 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I done told you once you son of a bitc4, I'm the best there's ever been.)
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almost all restaurants have the right to refuse service so why shouldn't pizza delivery places have a right to choose their delivery zones--maybe that address was outside of normal delivery routes and then it could be a "combat"zone for drivers.This is about a business's right to run their business as they see fit.If this was the only pizza they could get then why didn't they drive and pick it up???
11 posted on 02/11/2005 6:16:45 AM PST by alchemist54
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To: Fierce Allegiance

The articles states that an address gets put on a no deliver list when a driver gets robbed and/ar assaulted there. Have they addressed THAT issue that got them put on the list in the first place? It's about safety not discrimination. Not that racial discrimination doesn't happen because it sure does! I don't think that this issue about that.


12 posted on 02/11/2005 6:17:52 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: cyborg

Exactly. The businesses are not the racists, Baker is for running to the press and trying to make it a racial issue, ala Jesse Jack-Sin.


13 posted on 02/11/2005 6:21:06 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I done told you once you son of a bitc4, I'm the best there's ever been.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Of course because his job is all about race and racial issues, otherwise the homerelief line for him. Jack-sin *lol*


14 posted on 02/11/2005 6:22:06 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Taylor814

For point of reference, the pizza places are NOT refusing to sell pizzas to those customers, they are only refusing to deliver. Delivery is an extra service they are not obligated to perform.


15 posted on 02/11/2005 6:23:11 AM PST by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has never led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: Taylor814

The pizza places should stop delivering altogether and then the Righteous Activists can show everybody how it's done.


16 posted on 02/11/2005 6:26:23 AM PST by Mmmike
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To: DainBramage

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!


17 posted on 02/11/2005 6:27:09 AM PST by PaRebel (Visualize Whirled Peas!)
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To: DainBramage

Hummer H2?


18 posted on 02/11/2005 6:30:32 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

For Baker: Tell me about a time in the world when there has never been socioeconomic and racial discrimination? If I make one dollar a year more than you do, that's economic discrimination. Do you want everyone to be exactly the same? What about your great God "Diversity"? Or do you want just a certain kind of diversity? Insanity!


19 posted on 02/11/2005 6:34:09 AM PST by PaRebel (Visualize Whirled Peas!)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

The poor 'hood victims...


20 posted on 02/11/2005 6:35:20 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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