Rand Paul

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Originally Posted by Krimson X

When I was in high school in 1991, some friends and I went to a Denny's restaruant in San Jose, Ca on Blossom Hill Road after a college recruitment seminar. When we walked up to the hostest, we were all told that we would have to pre-pay a 5 dollar sitting fee. We were told that this was a new policy of the company. We paid and were seated. We were seated next to a table of some of our white friends from school. We asked if they had to pay a cover charge to sit, and they said no. Long story short, that was the beginning of investigation of Denny's discriminatory practices. My personal experience was reported in the New York Times, where my classmate was quoted. Denny's Restaurants to Pay $54 Million in Race Bias Suits - NYTimes.com

That same year, my parents stopped at a Denny's in Truckee, Ca on their way to Lake Tahoe or Reno (can't really remember). Anyway, another long story short, they were never seated despite the fact that other customers who arrived way after them were seated.

Those are just some of my personal experiences about discrimination at a well known business establishment.

Sorry Krimson, you are wrong when you say "that was the beginning of investigation of Denny's discriminatory practices."

Denny's has been doing that crap since I was in HS (back in the early seventies). It's just that every few years they get CAUGHT and sued for doing it. Dennys is a chain that has always (as long as I know of) had racial biases. They seem to revel in it. They are not as bad as Maurices Piggy Park BBQ - a chain that not only had to be ordered to stop their descrimination, but also takes pleasure in flying the conferderate flag above the US and SC state flag, but also posts the typical "slavery was good for black people BS inside the restaurant."

This is one of the typical reasons why anti-descrimination laws are needed. As much as some people want to believe, discrimination in public accomodations, in housing, and in employment practices is not just a figment of people's imaginations. The situation may have become better, but blatant racism is not such an infrequent event that the laws need to be relaxed.