As if racial tension wasn’t bad enough in this country right now, people can’t even enjoy a nice lunch out without racism being thrown in their face.
Via NY Daily News:
The Neville Brothers, a famous musical family in New Orleans, was appalled to see the N-word printed on her receipt Thursday after dining at Huck Finn’s Café in the French Quarter.
The phrase “N-gger 100% dislike” was typed into Liryca Neville Branch’s check, weaved in between the woman’s itemized food orders.
“This is unacceptable. I couldn’t sleep last night,” Branch told the Daily News. “It’s 2015. You would think that we wouldn’t have to deal with this stuff right now. It just shows that racism is alive and well.”
The 33-year-old who works in marketing was eating lunch with three other black coworkers when they were given a bill with the racial slur blaring at them in all capitals.
When she asked to speak to a manager, she was told it was part of a joke employees play on black employees who work “in the back” of the restaurant, Branch’s fuming mother Gaynielle Neville told the News.
The restaurant has since apologized on their Facebook page and fired the employee. It’s sad that some people still think calling black people the N-word is a way to ‘joke’. It’s offensive and in no way, shape, or form should be taken lightly.