Black customer forced to prepay for meal files $100K discrimination lawsuit
Source: Fox News
An African American man who says he was asked to pay for his meal before dining at a Washington state restaurantunlike white diners around him-- has filed a $100,000 discrimination suit against the chain.
Brian Eason, a real estate agent who also serves as a deputy with the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, went to the Vancouver, Wash. location of Elmersa pacific Northwest chain of dinerson Dec. 16, 2014, reports The Oregonian.
After ordering from the waitress, she demanded that he prepay for his meal, according to the lawsuit.
"I was kind of curious about it and said 'Well, is that new?' And she said 'Yes, we had a few walk-aways and my boss asked me to ask for prepayment," Eason told The Oregonian on Wednesday.
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jtuck004
(15,882 posts)PatrickforO
(14,572 posts)It might just be that one restaurant, but the more publicity something like this gets, the less likely it will be to happen to someone else. Too bad we can't say that about the cops that are killing unarmed kids.
PatrickforO
(14,572 posts)jpak
(41,757 posts)yup
PatrickforO
(14,572 posts)I'm still glad the guy is suing though. That restaurant needs to be punished for that shit.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Not a chance I'm going to read the comments, but I'll bet there is big support for the restaurant.
McKim
(2,412 posts)Thank you, Mr. Eason, for making this a fairer world. From a Portland lady.
RandySF
(58,799 posts)I'm not saying this specific case is not discriminate, but I've been asked to prepay even when wearing business clothes. Once, a restaurant made me turn over my drivers license. WTF.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)aceofblades
(73 posts)And I decided to stay, I wouldn't tip. It's not the servers fault, but I won't prepay for service I haven't yet received and I'm not taking out my wallet a second time. Sorrynotsorry
Reter
(2,188 posts)There is no other way around it. It's not the server's fault and you said you know it. Do you also not tip when the prices are too high?
NOLALady
(4,003 posts)singled out to prepay?
RandySF
(58,799 posts)Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)I hope he gets every penny and that at minimum everyone involved in the policy is fired.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Racists think they can get away with murder these days.... Oh wait....
I wanted to read the entire story so I went to the Fox site.
Then I read the comments.
Then I had to sit for a few minutes.
The comments from Fox readers are so disgusting it makes me want to call myself anything except American. How can there be so much ignorant hatred in this country?
Their guns and their religion...no, that's not all they cling to. They cling to a profound hatred of anything they don't understand. Black people, brown people, gay people, Asian people, intelligent people...
I don't know what will save this country. Perhaps as the balance tips and people of color become the majority a more accepting nation will evolve. Perhaps as humans become pets of the machines and reason and logic take over this nation may have a chance at survival.
Right now, all I see is a cesspool of hate. And Fox is right there spewing it out along with the other haters, the false prophets.
No wonder the Republican Party is a shattered mess. "I hate those people more than he does!" "No! I'm a better hater than you!"
I hope that Brian Eason sues and wins.
And that all the haters on that stupid Fox site see that and it makes each one of them so sick to their stomachs...oh I can't even wish something horrible on them. They choose to be dumb and in A-mur-eh-ka they is free to do so. Go Free dumb.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)The owners may well vote on the D ticket.
Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)But Vancouver is in a purple county (leaning right) - voted Dino Rossi and W. (twice). Not that D's can't be racist (I've personally experienced a lot in deep blue Seattle) but those responsible in this case could well be GOP.
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)and not read comments on such articles, though occasionally I forget. I don't want to think people are that ignorant and ugly.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)when really, the people causing them the most pain is......rich white men
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Just back from a weekend hike and was a little dirty and unshaven.
I laughed at it at the time, but thinking back, I probably should have insulted.
Good luck to him on his lawsuit.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Even though you saw excused it in a way.
Npw imagine this happening so often it put a dread in your heart every time you dared to go to a nice place.
Am I going to be humiliated in front of a date? In front of my family?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)that it happens to him all the time?
Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)on the way to see Bernie in Portland, Or. The food and service were excellent. We did not have to prepay.
But then, we are all white.
olddots
(10,237 posts)this boils my blood .
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)through sleazy, dishonest means: trying to intimidate black customers behind the backs of their Anglo customers.
They clearly think the tide has turned, with so many half-snapped, racist Republicans ruining what's left of our country. They have never learned, apparently, from their ignorant parents that good white people in the U.S. did NOT approve of slavery, and most clearly stood, sat, and marched and died with black brothers and sisters during the Civil Rights movement years.
If only blacks boycott this dump, that's what the management wants, no doubt. It will take other human beings opting to take their business elsewhere to wake these a-holes up long enough to sell the business and get out of town.
romanic
(2,841 posts)The man had every right and then some to sue their asses.