First, Mr Corpulent is an East Coaster. What's with him posting about something that supposedly happened on the West Coast?
Second, and more to the point:
http://www.dailycal.org/2015/01/30/elmwood-cafe-host-community-meeting-incident-described-local-comedian-racist/Elmwood Cafe to host community meeting after incident described by local comedian as racist
BY CHLOEE WEINER | STAFFLAST UPDATED JANUARY 30, 2015
Berkeley’s Elmwood Cafe will hold a public conversation next week after a local comedian posted an open letter to the cafe on his blog Thursday about being the victim of racist treatment earlier that week.
On his blog, W. Kamau Bell, a black sociopolitical comedian and community activist from the Bay Area, and his wife recounted the incident. During a Monday visit to the cafe, an employee allegedly told Bell to “scram” as he was talking with his wife and her friends, who are white.
Bell wrote that after asking him to leave multiple times, the employee “realized that no one at the table was bothered by (his) presence” and told Bell she “thought (he) was selling something.”
The couple and their daughter left the restaurant soon after.
Although Bell stated in his post that he and his wife were “not calling for anyone to be fired” and “not asking for a boycott,” Elmwood Cafe dismissed the employee Friday, according to owner Michael Pearce.
“Our employee said it was a misunderstanding, but an understanding like this one is against who we are and what we do,” Pearce said. “Somebody came here and left feeling unwelcome and uncomfortable, and that’s just unacceptable.”
After seeing Bell’s post Thursday, Pearce said he was “appalled” by the incident and reached out to Bell and his wife to apologize and ask to meet in person to talk about the issue. After the conversation, Bell and Pearce agreed to hold an open discussion to address the matter in a group setting.
So (
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* The incident happened 3 1/4 years ago.
* The cafe' apologized to Bell and his family.
* The cafe' fired the employee.
* The cafe' opened its doors for a community meeting to discuss how people feeeeeeeel about the incident (or something like that).
Did Mr. Corpulent not notice the date of the blog post he linked? Nor the month and year of the post in the url he posted?
Did Mr. Corpulent bother to see whether there might be more to the story?
Another side?
Follow-up?
Will anyone on DU bother to factcheck the story and look for updates (only one response, but it was posted just an hour ago)? It's posted to DU's AfAm forum, so I doubt that will happen soon, if at all.
