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You Can’t Sit With Us: A Look At Racism In Restaurants

You Can’t Sit With Us: A Look At Racism In Restaurants

A lot of people have been asking me to write about this, so let me tell you the horror stories I’ve seen.

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Nov 02, 2022
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A lot of people have been asking me to write about this, so let me tell you the horror stories I’ve seen.

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My then-boyfriend, Juan*, was working as a photographer. He was a talented one, though he was very young. One of the gigs he had was at a local Spanish restaurant in Newark, right in the heart of the Ironbound.

He an…

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