The owners then go ahead and blame the victim, although they made poor attempt to apologize. The individual involved was not fired:

A restaurant in Pennsylvania is facing outrage after an employee printed the N-word in a receipt and handed it to a customer, KELO-TV reported.

The customer, who is identified only as “Kassie,” said that the restaurant immediately went “silent” when she walked in to pick up her food, claiming it was due to her being a Black woman. “People kind of stare at you being the minority and not the majority,” she said.

When she noticed the slur on the receipt, she called the restaurant and was told by one of the owners that it was meant as a joke that she wasn’t intended to see.

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This is almost identical to what happened to Ahmaud Arbery. He was shot at just because he was black. Apparently the lesson has not been learned. This story will probably be ignored by the media since there is no video. It is frightening that the lynching mentality is alive and well in parts of America:

Two white men are facing criminal charges after a black delivery driver says he was chased and shot at while delivering packages.

The driver, D’monterrio Gibson, says it happened on January 24 in Brookhaven, Mississippi.

He was driving a Hertz rental van that had no FedEx markings, though Gibson was wearing a FedEx jacket, shirt, and pants.

Gibson says he was driving down a street when a man in the middle of the road pointed a gun at his vehicle, waving at him to stop.

He hid behind his steering wheel and tried to swerve around him. That’s when Gibson says he heard shots hitting the van.

He believes he was targeted because he is black.

It seems the only way to protect the rights of African Americans is through the courts. The U.S. Congress is doing nothing to fight voter suppression. This is a small victory in a war that we are losing. The Republicans are engaging in full white supremacist attacks. And Democrats are unwilling to fight to defend the rights of our fellow citizens. Only a movement of the 99 percent will save the rights of voters of color:

A law to require voter identification in North Carolina discriminates against Black voters, making it unconstitutional, according to a 2-1 Superior Court ruling Friday in Wake County.

Citing a federal court ruling, the judges explained that the decision did not find “any member of the General Assembly who voted in favor of S.B. 824 harbors any racial animus or hatred towards African American voters,” but instead that the Republican majority targeted “voters who, based on race, were unlikely to vote for the majority party.” They said that constitutes racial discrimination “even if done for partisan ends.”

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