“I found it dehumanizing that there’s some segment of white America that still see us as N’s no matter how much money we make, no matter where we live. So to me, it was a wake up call that the good ol' boy network still exists.”
This was the comment from Jerrick Jackson, a Black patron at J. Alexander’s in Bloomfield, Michigan who claims he was discriminated against in the restaurant. He also says that he was called the n-word and had food thrown at him when he came to the aid of another black patron who was also confronting apparent discrimination at the same time in a separate incident.
Mr. Jackson says this experience was for him, a ‘wake up call.’
In 2019, if we are still asleep to the challenges of equity and justice than we have a much deeper problem than the one he had in the restaurant.
Read more in my blog:
https://nurahmuhammad.com/blog/managing-expectations-in-400-years-of-domestic-violence
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