Hello List, I had eaten at a Denny's only one time before the famous lawsuit, and that was enough. They treated myself and my friends as if we did not exist. When we went in, we were among less than 10 customers. They kept putting off taking our order, and more people cane in (non-black) and they would be waited on, etc.
I finally told them in not so Minnesota Nice terms to get the lead out - tactfully. When we finally had our not very pleasant meal, we left them a tip. A penny. I hope she did not spend it all in one place. So, I felt very justified in sharing in the spoils of that lawsuit. It was not much, but when the check showed up, it paid for some work that I was having done on my car. The LORD moves in mysterious ways, doesn't he? Now Denny's is constantly bending over backwards for Black people. They are donating quite a chunk of money to the A.A. Museum. They might as well get a lifetime membership to the NAACP, ya think :) Pamela Taylor (Who notes this story has nothing to do with education except as a part of our Denny's history lesson, chiming in from Tampa) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Anyone who reads the papers knows that Denny's, > particularly in the period > > referred to by Mr. Mann, was one of the most > notoriously racist service > > companies in American history. Even if they didn't > know this, Mr. Mann's > post > > goes into some detail about this, referring to one > colleague who thought of > > black customers as "niggers" and referring to > another one of his worker > > colleagues who quit rather than wait on black > people, and apparently tried > to > > get Mr. Mann fired because he wanted to institute > a policy where all people > > are treated equally. > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic > Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
