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05-10-2007 #11
Any business owner can refuse to take the business of anyone they so choose. Casinos do it everyday when they find a card-counter. They simply say we don't want your business, please leave. If the person refuses then they can have security remove him, forcibly if need be. This is because a casino, though open to the public, is private property. A restaurant, like a casino, is private property.
Mr Ruby did nothing more than exercise that right.
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05-10-2007 #12
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The only place race and OJ go together are that damn jury's not guilty verdict. The jury was 90% black and they werent convicting a "brother" who killed a white woman under any circumstances!!
Nice justice, eh?
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05-10-2007 #13
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Originally Posted by Mylon
One more thing: I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood, most of my closest friends are black, dated black women, and also have a best friend who is black, and I doubt very many of them think OJ didn't do it. All of those in my inner circle think he committed the crime. Stop painting all blacks with the same narrow brush strokes, and your paranoia and bigotry comes through loud and clear with that comment about blacks threatening your power.
How many black friend have you had just out of curiosity?
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05-10-2007 #14
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Originally Posted by Kramer
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05-10-2007 #15
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By the way, I applaud the restaurant owner for what he did. I just don't understand this culture of celebrity we exist in that can and will overlook a man's crimes and still fawn, including having women -- any woman -- still want to date him. I don't hate him for murdering a white woman, I hate him for murdering and getting away with it, period.
The same hatred goes toward Blake, Shatner(?), or Spector. Just as in OJ's case, it's about celebrity trumping justice, and that gives these guys an edge that the average Joe doesn't ever get.
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05-10-2007 #16
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Originally Posted by dskreet2
Reality is perception.
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05-10-2007 #17
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I laughed at the comment about Michael Jordan taking his table spot, whether true or not, wouldn't Michael Jordan bring attention as well? While maybe not completely negative it is still attention. The article said a customer was Giddy, is giddy a bad thing, or a good thing? Wouldn't that be the same kind of attention MJ might bring?
In the end, the place does have the right to refuse business to anyone, its the whole "private propety of business" stuff.
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05-10-2007 #18
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Wouldn't that be the same kind of attention MJ might bring?
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Poe
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05-10-2007 #19
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Originally Posted by chefmike
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05-10-2007 #20
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Ok people, lets get this shit right. It was not about race and the owner is totally in the right to not serve his ass. The reason he gave is that he is sickened not just by the attention OJ gets but also his attitude towards the families of the victims. The fucker has never acted contrite. Owner also said that he was a fan of OJ and even had a picture he took with OJ on the restaurant's wall and took it down after the killings.
OJ should consider himself very lucky he ins't in prison. Getting tossed from a restaurant here and there is nothing compared to what he should be getting which is prison muck for lunch.