Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of the Greenwich Village Lafayette French Pastry, asked a patron, “Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.” Later, her friend stopped by the bakery and said Kefalinos corrected her about the name of the cookies—they’re actually drunken “N-word” cookies.
Kefalinos denies intimating that Obama would be assassinated, and insists that the cookie is “not unflattering. I think it’s a fun face… And anyone who says anything else should be ashamed of themselves.” Also, Kefalinos insists he can’t be racist because, for one thing, “my brother-in-law, he’s Cuban.” More at this link.
And guess who is determined to get the bakery shut down? The New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, chanting:
“Ray-cist Lah-fay-ette!” they chanted as they circled round and round inside a protest pen police had set up.
“Brick by brick, wall by wall — we’ll stay out here and make you fall!” they cried.
“You’re a coward and a racist, that’s why you closed the bakery today,” a female Panther bellowed at the store’s shuttered gate. “We’re going to shut you down Ted Kefalnios! You think your gates are closed now — we’re gonna keep you closed!”
Bakery Death Watch is now on. Racists had better brace for a tough 8 years coming up. Here is a video summation of the baker, his patrons and the controversial language about our new president, Barak Obama.
Some people don’tunderstand free speach.
“Some people don’tunderstand free speach.”
And some people don’t know how to spell it.
Some people don’tunderstand free speach.
Good business people learn to steer away from controversial issues like religion and politics.
He can say all he wants about his product. If enough people find it offensive, he’s just shot his ownself in the foot and put his entire business at risk. He apparently does not understand that we are moving away from racial bigotry of the past.
He’d do great with the free thinking libertAryans and red-diaper repugs in Orange County. I hear Fleischmann is holding a fund-raiser to get him a place in Tustin? In any case, lots of Repugs have the same feelings about the big O. Many students I know are convinced that the unanimous rejection of the big O’s budget is rooted in Racism. Some are comparing Repugs to the fascist/Nazi parties that the corporatist, torture endorsing Bush Reich emulated. Fancy that- and I grew up in the OC believing that all dimocrats were Commies ! Turnabout!