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Easton restaurant owners forced to close multiple times say they are victims of favoritism, racism. City officials are investigating
The Morning Call
•Jun 15, 2022 at 7:30 am
When the couple opened Khanisa’s in 2019 on 118 Northampton St. in Easton, they thought the space they were renting on a prominent downtown strip offered more seating and a better chance to grow the dessert business, with specialties that include pudding.
“Look at where we are; we’re on the gateway block,” Khanisa Darby said recently, referring to the city’s entryway from the Northampton Street free bridge connecting downtown Easton and Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Read more here
Editorial: We are taking wrong lessons from racial slur video; By Pas Simpson
Pas Simpson is executive director, One Big SMILE Foundation.
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Recently our community’s sensibilities were provoked. (”Allentown School District cuts ties with Ortiz Ark Foundation following video showing use of racial slur by nonprofit leader,” Morning Call, April 19.)
A video circulated through social media that has become a call to action. A challenge to how we define race, see ethnicity, but more importantly how intense situations may cause a lapse of judgment or even an abuse of power.Interpretation and use of words are powerful.
I’m that Nigga, who understands the history of the word, and decided to own it. Who won’t let the enemy weaponize a word once used as a term of endearment.
Slave masters, in an attempt to rob us of history and quell our hope, took a term of high regard, and made us think it’s an attack. They have transformed Negus, meaning king, into nigger, meaning ignorant.
Most Black and brown people in the Americas are descendants of slaves. Whether your slave language was English, Spanish or French, we were all treated like niggers instead of regarded as Negus.
We can’t use the same templates set up in white supremacy to keep us divided.
EDITORIAL: PennDOT project in Langhorne will destroy monument to African American history
2022 Black History Celebration and Black History Makers Awards Reception: Fri, February 25, 2022 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Celebrate Black History Makers from Past
and Present with an Awards Reception