Happy Birthday! Have some racism from Elmwood Cafe!

[randomness]

Particularly for friends in the Bay Area.

"Scram!" eh?

Guess that's one place I won't be going to next time I'm in Berkeley.

http://wkamaubell.com/2015/01/happy-birthday-have-some-racism-from-elmwood-cafe/

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[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

My mind constructs this unpleasant narrative: A man dressed like a street person walks up to the patrons sitting at the outside tables of a restaurant that serves $13 sloppy joes. A waiter suspects he is a panhandler and shoos him away.

There's a lot of racism in that, but also a lot of classism. I doubt a black man in a good suit and tie would have been shooed away. Racism is slowly fading in American, but classism shows no signs of declining, and I could argue that it's getting significantly worse. In the long run, Elmwood Cafe's patrons will probably reward it for keeping the riff-raff away.