Posted on 05/28/2015 5:33:55 PM PDT by BBell
There are countless reasons to be outraged by last week's revelations that a waiter at Huck Finn's, a French Quarter restaurant, thought it appropriate to print the N-word on a receipt delivered to a table of African-American diners.
Debate over whether the racial invective was an "isolated incident" has raged online for a week. While I find it difficult not to question a working environment that allowed for an employee to use the company point of sale system as a forum for bathroom wall graffiti, the truth of whether the act was an aberration is immaterial to the issue of the message sent in the dining room and beyond. (Ask the folks up at Ole Miss about the effectiveness of dismissing last year's student noose "prank" as an isolated incident.)
The Huck Finn's news went viral. How could it not? The offense in question did not appear in a rap song or between the covers of an immortal 19th century novel. It appeared on the legal document that officially consummated a business transaction conducted within the four walls of the very type of institution where segregation was brought to its bloody knees.
Lesser vulgarities become bigger news on an hourly basis, and this one isn't likely to fade from public view soon. Liryca Neville, the recipient of the receipt and a member of the world-famous New Orleans music family, said during a press conference on May 19 that she was considering filing legal action against Huck Finn's.
But I ask you to consider here the damage to New Orleans itself.
I recently returned from a long weekend's vacation. The bulk of it was spent in a part of the country foreign to my wife and me. We went there to spend time together, not to meet new people, and, as a
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Are you New Orleans? How do you like it for everyday living?
Perhaps we should all take to Twitter, and become OUTRAGED that this sort of thing happens.
Be damned to the economy, or the fact that felonious children are running our gruberment.
Inevitably, these events turn out to be hoaxes perpetrated by the alleged victims.
Yep
That’s the first thing I thought of . I wonder if this on s a hoax. In today’s world, where we all have to bend over backwards to avoid offending the recognized grievance groups, such as blacks and homosexuals, it strains believeability that someone wrote the n word on their receipt.
Nope. Just outside of it. I can be in the quarter in 25 to 45 minutes.
Yeah, really. I mean, can you just imagine all the folks actually “outraged”?
I'm willing to bet that a touristy, high volume restauarant in a high crime area like the French Quarter, has wall to wall CCTV, that ought to be able to document the paper trail and pinpoint the moment of truth.
Oh noes, something else to run around in circles about.
Probably could look at the crowd and figure he wasn’t going to get a 5% tip.
I will care about the word nigger just as soon as the ‘offended’ community stops using it ever three seconds in rap songs and tweets. Otherwise, I couldn’t care less.
“Are you New Orleans? How do you like it for everyday living?”
I left New Orleans in 1970 and never looked back. Even in 1970 I could see the writing on the wall.
Stay away from that place even to visit!
I was born and raised in New Orleans and moved to the suburbs when I got married 40 years ago and wouldn’t move back to NO if you paid me. I hardly even visit there.
Was the waiter black? Is there any proof that this actually happened? Is this just another hoax?
I would never had posted this article here when it first happened but after a week I cannot believe it is still considered top news here(NOLA). Who really cares? I know a lot of black folks here and they don’t even care. I guess the media is being endlessly run by race baiters. Like I did not already know that.
Maybe the waiter was an Injun. Shouldn’t that be expected at Huck Finn’s?
My goodness, the amazing POWER these white racists wield!
All the problems we face are caused by them saying, writing, or even THINKING the “n-word”.
That’s downright MAGICAL power!
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