Food menus are frequently seen outside for fast food restaurants that have meals for around 5 bucks. Food menus that are posted outside at upscale restaurants can be seen as a ‘one percent only’ sign for many citizens since a full course meal can be above the monetary note with President Ulysses L. Grant on it. These restaurants may think it is slightly amusing to show these prices and then see the people who choose not to pay walk away. This may be a bit of off-color humor that is appropriate for a comedy show and not a restaurant.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect citizens from discrimination based on social class, wealth, or the respective community’s perception of the customer(s). We need a state law that safeguards customers from the previously noted areas that are left out of the Civil Rights Act. A black customer was asked to prepay for a meal at a diner in Washington state unlike the other customers.
We don’t need to be asking customers how much is left on their pay stubs, credit lines, or for their tax returns at a restaurant like we are searching a suspect for a crime. In that case please plead the 4th amendment!
We don’t need for cops that happen to be white who have had claims of discrimination to be discriminated against in restaurants in minority communities, or anybody else who a community finds distasteful. We need everyone to be reasonably tolerated for who they are.
Jordan Thomas Cooper is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History and a 2010 graduate of the RealEstate School of Success in Irmo. He is the first African-American to serve in both the governor and lieutenant governor’s office as an aide and first to serve in the Inspector General’s Office in S.C. (Haley) He is also the first person to serve in the top three offices in the gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). He says research shows he is the second black presidential campaign speechwriter in American history and the first for a GOP presidential campaign (Bush 2015). He also played football for Coach Steve Spurrier.
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