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Guests from Hell: The NAACP's Shakedown of the Hospitality Industry
A Different Drummer ^
| January, 2002
| Nicholas Stix
Posted on 12/30/2001 3:12:53 PM PST by mrustow
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To: mrustow
Folks, If you live in a city that has a "Black College Reunion" weekend, hire a guard with German Sheppards, lock your doors and load your gun.
If you own a business, board it up, hire a guard and take a vacation.
It should renamed "Black Felon Reunion" ...cause that is exactly what it is!
To: yoe
Thanks for the thorough article.
Even among the some 175,000 free blacks in America in 1830, approximately 4,000 of them owned some 12,600 other blacks.
By about 1860, the percentage of black freedmen who were slaveowners had risen dramatically, to 71.3 percent in South Carolina. However, the number of slaves held by black slaveowners actually fell, as the largest owners died off, migrated north, or reduced their number of slaves. Also, as war became an inevitability, blacks bought fewer slaves. See Larry Koger, Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slavemasters in South Carolina, 1790-1860.
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12/31/2001 5:37:09 AM PST
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mrustow
To: gonzo
This is just news, Jim, and it's real, and it has an economic impact. The Winn-Dixie Supermarket, where two white boys were were murdered in their parking lot, by two black criminals, is out of business - GONE!! I used to shop there...In a similar vein, I just got back from a Christmas visit to Tampa, my hometown. I was surprised and disappointed to see the Tampa Bay Mall closed....and then doubly dismayed to hear why. Since I wasn't there for the action, can somebody from Tampa fill me in?
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posted on
12/31/2001 5:43:03 AM PST
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stboz
To: rightwinggardeninggirl
Thanks for the expert testimony. That was my hunch, but I couldn't confirm it.
Two years ago, I was at an academic conference in Chicago. I went to dinner with an academic with whom I was friendly, and a professor girlfriend of hers. After dinner, I was chatting alone with Prof #2, who was from the Pacific Northwest, and she mentioned the Black Tipping Issue. She said that her teenage son had gone to a restaurant with black friends who had refused to tip the waitress, even though the service had been good. The son, not wanting to see the waitress screwed, tipped on behalf of his black friends. The prof wanted to know if the stereotype (of non-tipping black customers) was true. I told her that, as far as I knew, it was.
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posted on
12/31/2001 5:46:07 AM PST
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mrustow
To: stboz
I was surprised and disappointed to see the Tampa Bay Mall closed....and then doubly dismayed to hear why.
Why, indeed?! The suspense is killing me!
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posted on
12/31/2001 5:47:37 AM PST
by
mrustow
To: Kevin Curry
Government-sanctioned extortion beats working for a living. It pays far better with much less effort.
Ain't it the truth!
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posted on
12/31/2001 5:48:56 AM PST
by
mrustow
To: Victoria Delsoul
And Adam's Mark was only the beginning. The NAACP & Co. will hit more hotels and motels, and are targeting every major industry in America.
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12/31/2001 5:51:22 AM PST
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mrustow
To: VA Advogado
Glad you liked it.
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posted on
12/31/2001 5:52:14 AM PST
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mrustow
To: MeeknMing;all
From St. Petersburg's Times (Thomas C Tobin 12-31-2001), on how Adam's Mark was treated by the same group a year earlier: The previous year, 1998, hotel managers said they felt besieged by Black College Reunion guests.
There was a stabbing on the 11th floor, 11 aggravated assaults on the upper floors, a major fight in the lobby and more than 25 break-ins in the parking lot. Drug use was rampant in the rooms, with some maids refusing to fight their way through marijuana smoke.
Two employees were threatened at gunpoint, and sheriff's deputies took five guns from the rooms. Several rooms were damaged, the stairwells were sullied with trash and urine, and a naked woman was left unconscious on the front drive. Because of that experience, the hotel beefed up its security in 1999 as never before.
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12/31/2001 5:54:33 AM PST
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GOPJ
To: MeeknMing;all
From St. Petersburg's Times (Thomas C Tobin 12-31-2001), on how Adam's Mark was treated by the same group a year earlier:
The previous year, 1998, hotel managers said they felt besieged by Black College Reunion guests. There was a stabbing on the 11th floor, 11 aggravated assaults on the upper floors, a major fight in the lobby and more than 25 break-ins in the parking lot. Drug use was rampant in the rooms, with some maids refusing to fight their way through marijuana smoke. Two employees were threatened at gunpoint, and sheriff's deputies took five guns from the rooms. Several rooms were damaged, the stairwells were sullied with trash and urine, and a naked woman was left unconscious on the front drive.
Because of that experience, the hotel beefed up its security in 1999 as never before.
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12/31/2001 5:56:27 AM PST
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GOPJ
To: MeeknMing;all
From St. Petersburg's Times (Thomas C Tobin 12-31-2001), on how Adam's Mark was treated by the same group a year earlier:
The previous year, 1998, hotel managers said they felt besieged by Black College Reunion guests. There was a stabbing on the 11th floor, 11 aggravated assaults on the upper floors, a major fight in the lobby and more than 25 break-ins in the parking lot. Drug use was rampant in the rooms, with some maids refusing to fight their way through marijuana smoke. Two employees were threatened at gunpoint, and sheriff's deputies took five guns from the rooms. Several rooms were damaged, the stairwells were sullied with trash and urine, and a naked woman was left unconscious on the front drive.
Because of that experience, the hotel beefed up its security in 1999 as never before.
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posted on
12/31/2001 5:57:39 AM PST
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GOPJ
To: mrustow
Middle-class blacks already have a reputation as lousy restaurant and taxicab tippers (actually, non-tippers).I have it on good authority that this is also true in the cosmetology business. It's been said that most ill-tempered threats of litigation come from blacks - usually for some ludicrous variant of perceived racism - as do excessive demands that vastly exceed the norm. Of course, there is little to no tip in most cases.
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posted on
12/31/2001 6:05:16 AM PST
by
angkor
To: GOPJ
Well, I guess the only thing to do now, is sue the St. Pete Times!
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:31:47 AM PST
by
mrustow
To: CCRM; Peacerose
fyi
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posted on
12/31/2001 7:34:12 AM PST
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mrustow
To: mrustow, rightwinggardeninggirl
Thanks for the ping.
I'm black, I tip, and there's no real excuse for anyone who doesn't. At the same time, I would hope you can refrain from stereotyping all blacks as "non-tippers," even if most appear to be. (mrustow, why did the subject come up in the first place?)
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posted on
12/31/2001 10:18:05 AM PST
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mafree
To: MissAmericanPie; glc1173@aol.com; brat; jshankles; expose; dighton; annalex; JimVT
fyi
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posted on
12/31/2001 11:04:29 AM PST
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mrustow
To: mafree
I brought it up in #30, in response to #4.
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posted on
12/31/2001 11:06:57 AM PST
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mrustow
To: All
Here's another BLACK person who tips - at restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, etc. - often in excess of 20%. Yes, I even tip taxicab drivers. Even more shocking, I have BLACK friends who tip as well. They'll all be disappointed to know that we just don't fit into your sweet little generalization of black folk. It's so . . . boo hoo!
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12/31/2001 11:42:29 AM PST
by
Ganymede
To: rightwinggardeninggirl
The attitude of the meanies is like "heyyy white b**ch, you gonna run yo azz off, becos my peeps been pickin cotton and now it's time fo U to pay for that!" I think that sums it up pretty nicely. They live to intimidate and get things for free because they have learned they can get away with it.
To: HoustonKevin
Folks, If you live in a city that has a "Black College Reunion" weekend, hire a guard with German Sheppards, lock your doors and load your gun. Yup,and don't even think about trying to go out in public places by yourself without getting physically attacked if you are white. The police will do nothing because they are afraid of being called racists.
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