Emilie Wickham stands in front of restaurant that discriminated against him.
Even in Canada, Blacks face the same type of discrimination most people of color here face in the United States.
Emilie Wickham and his friends were asked to prepay for their meals at Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant, while no others were required to do so.
This happened in 2014. Wickham went to Toronto's Chinatown for a birthday gathering with his friends. After the server took the order, he told the group that they would have to pay for their meals in full before receiving them.
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ordered the restaurant to fork over thousands.
The restaurant claimed that a large group of people often "dine and dash" whenever they come into the establishment. They said that sometimes the restaurant "attract something of a transient crowd."
Wickham felt the restaurant treated him like he was "a potential thief in waiting."
"Before the camera on the cellphone became a popular thing...all we had was our word," Wickham said. "And us calling out how we were treated, our word wasn't good enough, right?"
Reminder, Asian Americans have been hateful towards Blacks.
We mark another year of the Los Angeles riots. This event happened in late April and early May.
If you remember the Los Angeles riots were sparked by years of abuse by the police and bigoted treatment from the Korean grocers in South Los Angeles. The shooting of Latasha Harlins by Soon Ja Du sparked the flame. The Rodney King beating and the jury's acquittal of the four cops lit the fuse and sparked three days of unrest.
Blacks decided to burn down Korean stores and destroyed police vehicles. They also beat down cops, white people and some Asian American merchants. The riots happened in an election year that cost George H.W. Bush a second term.
Shit like this is bubbling up once again. With Black people being killed by police. most are starting to realize that their lives are in danger.
Donald J. Trump being tone deaf to the issues facing Black America. He never called or mentioned James Shaw, Jr.'s role in the Nashville massacre. The young Black man stopped a mass shooter and took a bullet. No response from Trump. However, he is worked up over comedian Michelle Wolf roasting him and Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Link Alexander was denied service at a pizza establishment. The Pizza Inn responds to the controversy.
In the city of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a Black Man was denied service at a nationally based pizza company called The Pizza Inn.
He goes into the Pizza Inn with a coupon he earned from his employer. The worker questioned the coupon and told the assistant manager. The assistant manager denied the service.
The Black Man gets his White friend to go into the store later that day with the same coupon and got through without any problems.
The White friend posts it on social media and it went viral. Now the Black Man threatens a lawsuit and the local NAACP threaten a boycott of the restaurant.
Link Alexander was one pissed off customer. He felt that his race played a role in how he was served.
“He looks at the card. He looks at me. He was like, ‘So where did you get the card from?'” Alexander said. “It has to be signed by my manager, or my [district manager], and this is neither one of their signatures,” Alexander said the assistant manager told him.
He was turned away from the restaurant and left without any food. In disbelief of the situation, his white roommate, Rex Sterling, posted a video on Facebook to see if the place would allow him to use the coupon.
“I took his coupon, the same one they rejected 2 hours earlier, and went to the same Pizza Inn myself to see if my experience would be any different and also to confront the manager and ask for answers,” Sterling said in his Facebook post.
After presenting his coupon Sterling was offered to sit down and was able to use his coupon for a free meal.
Steve Stancil, who owns the Pizza Inn, said: “We try to make our procedures clear on coupons but it does not always work. I take full responsibility in that all our managers should be on the same page and obviously they were not.”
Now what do you think about this situation? Is it safe to be Black in Trump's America?
Pizza Inn.
Two California men of color gunned down by police. Both unarmed.
Three white men killed police officers managed to be taken in alive.
Philadelphia Police arrested two men at a Starbucks after a manager called 911.
California Starbucks manager denies a Black customer restroom access. Gave an Asian American customer access.
Waffle House massacre in Nashville. Hero doesn't get a call from Donald J. Trump.
Waffle House customer roughed up Alabama cops after she complained out a surcharge by a rude server.
Joy Reid apologizes. The far right won't accept it.
So Joy Ann Reid apologized for her past blog.
She admits to using hateful words to attack right wing agitators. She said that she expresses love and gratitude towards the LGBTQ community.
She remarks that she evolved. Her friends, family and co-workers are open about their sexuality. She said that her love for them, people of color and all religions keeps her motivated.
MSNBC stood by her.
Reid isn't a homophobe. She never acted the way of those who criticized her. Think about it. Listen to folks like Pat Robertson, Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, Mike Pence, old fart Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. They are homophobes, anti-Muslim and anti-science.
She is anti-conservative. She took shots at one of the most hated media agitators in modern history. His name was revealed as a part of a federal probe into Michael Cohen, the lawyer who paid Stormy Daniels the $130,000 to keep quiet about the affair with the inept leader.
Remember the Sean "Spitball" Hannity feud with Jimmy Kimmel. The annoying conservative agitator and his right wing minions went bananas over Kimmel making a light joke mocking Melania Trump.
Kimmel was called an ass clown by the Spitball. Kimmel on his part called the spitball, a guy who gets organisms whenever Donald J. Trump's in the room.
He said some homophobic things and it caught the attention of gay libertarian agitator Glenn Greenwald. The agitator remarked that Kimmel as well as Reid should face the same pressure as anti-gay agitators like spitball and Laura Ingraham.
The right won't let it go. They don't accept Reid's apology.
They want MSNBC to take action against her and fire her out the cannon.
Reid is still facing an onslaught of conservative attacks because of her blog targeting conservatives in homophobic terms.
Reid was calling out hypocrisy in the conservative bubble.
Reid had addressed The Reid Report back in 2017. She called Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL), Miss Charlie, in regards to his anti-gay stance as then a Republican governor. Crist has evolved and switched parties.
He accepted her apology and supports her.
The gay community came out in defense of her. Notable LGBTQ agitators like Stephanie Miller, Keith Boykin, Danielle Moodie-Mills, Janet Mock, Jon Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Jonathan Capehart, and PFLAG's Diego Sanchez threw their support to her.
Many in the LGBTQ community believe that Reid as many others have changed their ways. Reminder the early 2000s was a divisive year for those who stood up for gay rights.
Many people now support gay marriage.
Blacks have turned around.
I am supportive of the gay community. They are my friends, my family, my co workers, and human beings too.
Reid has apologized. It's time to move past her and focus on the real issues ahead.
Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence and Republicans aren't friends to the gay community. Trump has tried numerous times to keep LGBTQ from enlisting in the military. You don't hear any complaints from the right and the so called Bernie bros.
A strong black woman who wrote bullshit in the past. Yeah get her ass of the air.
See at least she apologized. She didn't double down in controversy like Spitball Hannity. The fool is a slumlord. He cheated on his wife. The truth will expose him as a phony conservative. He will be exposed.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his daughter Meghan. The View host is hinting the end is near for her dad.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is preparing for the end. The former 2008 Republican nominee was diagnosed with brain cancer and it's seems to be taking a toll on the maverick.
The news hasn't hit the fan yet but family members are hinting that the longtime Arizona senator is dying.
Conservative agitator and The View co-host Meghan McCain and her husband Ben Domenech hinted that the end is near for the former POW.
McCain, the senior senator of Arizona has often been a bipartisan type of lawmaker. There were times he would support Donald J. Trump when it comes to his support for ripping off the poor, taking away healthcare and keeping tax cuts permanent for the rich.
On immigration, McCain supported comprehensive immigration reform.
On using military force, McCain and best buddy Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would beat that war drum. They believe they support military intervention in most conflicts.
McCain would be best known for plucking that goofball as his running mate. In 2008, McCain made the visit to Dayton, Ohio to announce his running mate.
He picked Sarah Palin, a fairly new governor from Alaska who proved to be the reasons to why Republicans are so stupid. Palin paved the way for that inept billionaire to become the leader of this shithole nation.
McCain would lose in a landslide to Barack Obama, a fairly new senator from Illinois. The deck was stacked against McCain. George W. Bush, his former opponent in 2000 and then president fucked up the economy and made life miserable for millions. Obama was a fresh face, the first Black candidate to win support from the Democratic Party. A guy who used the skills of a community organizer to rally new voters to the polls. A tactic that Republicans seized upon in 2016.
McCain faced challenges from far right nuts like J.D. Hayworth and Kelly Ward in his primary bids. He would successfully defeat them and went on to handily win another term as senator.
McCain has seven children. Three from ex-wife Carol. Three but one adopted from Cindy McCain.
John S. McCain IV, Bridgett McCain, Andrew McCain, Sidney McCain, Doug McCain, James McCain and Meghan McCain.
McCain despite his buffoonery as a lawmaker and presidential candidate was a hero among a lot of folks. He would often go against his party on many issues. He did respect his former rival Barack Obama.
He does not respect Donald J. Trump.
Trump mocked him saying he doesn't like those who serve getting captured.
Tom Brokaw under fire for allegations of misconduct.
The #MeToo Movement hits a veteran of the news media.
Former NBC and Fox News anchor says that veteran broadcaster Tom Brokaw sexually harassed her.
Linda Vester made the claim that the longtime NBC host and commentator said inappropriate things to her while she worked at the network.
Vester talks to Variety about the experience.
Brokaw responds back. It is 4:00 am on the first day of my new life as an accused predator in the universe of American journalism. I was ambushed and then perp walked across the pages of The Washington Post and Variety as an avatar of male misogyny, taken to the guillotine and stripped of any honor and achievement I had earned in more than a half century of journalism and citizenship.
I am angry, hurt and unmoored from what I thought would be the final passage of my life and career, a mix of written and broadcast journalism, philanthropy and participation in environmental and social causes that have always given extra meaning to my life.
Instead I am facing a long list of grievances from a former colleague who left NBC News angry that she had failed in her pursuit of stardom. She has unleashed a torrent of unsubstantiated criticism and attacks on me more than twenty years after I opened the door for her and a new job at Fox news.
Linda Vester was given the run of the Washington Post and Variety to vent her grievances, to complain that I tickled her without permission (you read that right), that I invaded her hotel room, accepted an invitation to her apartment under false pretenses and in general was given a free hand to try to destroy all that I have achieved with my family, my NBC career, my writing and my citizenship.
My family and friends are stunned and supportive. My NBC colleagues are bewildered that Vester, who had limited success at NBC News, a modest career at Fox and a reputation as a colleague who had trouble with the truth was suddenly the keeper of the flame of journalistic integrity.
Her big charge: that on two occasions more than 20 years ago I made inappropriate and uninvited appearances in her apartment and in a hotel room. As an eager beginner, Vester, like others in that category, was eager for advice and camaraderie with senior colleagues. She often sought me out for informal meetings, including the one she describes in her New York hotel room. I should not have gone but I emphatically did not verbally and physically attack her and suggest an affair in language right out of pulp fiction.
She was coy, not frightened, filled with office gossip including a recent rumor of an affair. As that discussion advanced she often reminded me she was a Catholic and that she was uncomfortable with my presence. So I left, 23 years later to be stunned by her melodramatic description of the meeting. A year or so later, as I passed through London after covering end of WWII ceremonies in Moscow, I saw her in the office. chatted and agreed to a drink later. (If NY was so traumatic, why a reunion?) She knew a bar but by that late hour it was closed so she suggested her nearby apartment (not, “Well, no where to go. See you tomorrow).
Again, her hospitality was straight forward with lots of pride in her reporting in the Congo and more questions about NY opportunities.
As I remember, she was at one end of a sofa, I was at the other. It was late and I had been up for 24 hours. As I got up to leave I may have leaned over for a perfunctory goodnight kiss but my memory is that it happened at the door – on the cheek. No clenching her neck. That move she so vividly describes is NOT WHO I AM. Not in high school, college or thereafter.
She came to NY and had mixed success on the overnight news. As I remember her try out on TODAY did not go well. Her contract was not renewed.
Here is a part of her story she somehow left out. I think I saw her in the hallways and asked how it was going. She was interested in cable start up and I said I didn’t think that was going anywhere. What about Fox, which was just building up? She was interested and followed me to my office where, while she listened in, I called Roger Ailes. He said, “send her over.”
She got the job. I never heard from her or saw her again. I was aware that she became a big fan of Ailes, often praising his considerable broadcasting instincts in public. But when he got in trouble on sexual matters, not a peep from this woman who now describes her self as the keeper of the flame for Me:Too.
I am not a perfect person. I’ve made mistakes, personally and professionally. But as I write this at dawn on the morning after a drive by shooting by Vester, the Washington Post and Variety, I am stunned by the free ride given a woman with a grudge against NBC News, no distinctive credentials or issue passions while at FOX.
Linda Vester.
As a private citizen who married a wealthy man she has been active in social causes but she came to Me:Too late, portraying herself as a den mother. In the intervening years since we met on those two occasions, she had no reason to worry I could affect her career.
Some of her relatives by marriage are very close friends. She couldn’t pick up the phone and say, “I’d like to talk. I have issues from those two meetings 20 years ago?” Instead she became a character assassin. Strip away all of the hyperbole and what has she achieved? What was her goal? Hard to believe it wasn’t much more Look At Me than Me:Too.
I deeply resent the pain and anger she inflicted on my wife, daughters and granddaughters – all women of considerable success and passion about women’s rights which they personify in their daily lives and professions. We’ll go on as a family that pursues social justice in medical emergency rooms, corporate offices, social therapy, African women’s empowerment and journalism. And no one woman’s assault can take that away.
I am proud of who I am as a husband, father, grandfather, journalist and citizen. Vester, the Washington Post and Variety cannot diminish that. But in this one woman piece of sensational claims they are trying.
Tom Brokaw
He said that Vester had a problem with the truth and the accusations against him were flat out lies.
Vester claimed that Brokaw tried to forcibly kiss her without her permission.
According to her, Brokaw twice tried to force a sexual relationship on her.
She eventually left NBC to join Fox News. As you know, Fox News is facing controversy for allowing sexual harassment to go unnoticed for years.
The White House Correspondent's Dinner 2018 begins tonight.
This event is held on the last Saturday in April. Every year, the junk food media, Broadway, Hollywood and Washington gather together to attend an annual ribbingof each other in the honor of a free press.
The WHCD hands out scholarships to those who want to inspire in the task of reporting the news and offers opportunities for young journalists to explore the gift of writing.
Donald J. Trump will not be in attendence again.
He decided to campaign in suburban Detroit to highlight his many accomplishments as leader of this shithole country.
Trump blasted the junk food media as being dishonest.
He also lauded at the junk food media for not promoting his accomplishments.
The Daily Show's Michelle Wolf will do her best to discuss the issues that happen to make the news.
On MSNBC, Joy Reid responds to the controversy sparked by her old blog The Reid Report. The progressive agitator facimg calls for a cannon firing after a blogger unearthed her old blog through the Internet Wayback Machine.
She targeted conservatives, former governor now lawmaker Charlie Crist and others in these posts.
The agitator denies writing those things. She claimed that she was a victim of a hacking campaign. However, she did take one good step to calming the controversy, she apologizes.
On AM Joy, she remarks.
Now as expected, the right wont let it go. The very same folks who've attacked people of color, the LGBTQ community and Muslims are now all of sudden supporters of their causes. They continue to be bigots.
The progressive agitator made it clear, she was deeply sorry about homophobic remarks she made against conservative agitators and lawmakers.
Reid also addressed the issue of how Black America managed to overcome the homophobia. Blacks are still more conservative on gay marriage.
Again, you notice that Reid apologizes for her past.
Sean "Spitball" Hannity hasn't apologized for his past. Matter of fact, he has doubled down on most of the shit he's gotten himself into.
The Guardian reports that the annoying comservative agitator is a landlord to mulitple properties and is comstantly jacking up rent. The spitball was named as a client to embattled attorney for Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen.
Reid hammered the spitball for weeks.
Most believe its a retilation tactic from supporters of Sean "Spitball" Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Roger Stone.
Those three are facing a boycott.
Keep this in mind, people do change. If you are a progressive, you support progress.
Joy Reid is a staunch supporter of the LGBTQ community. Whatever the noise says won't keep her down. We need some Joy.
