From Starbucks to Waffle House, police and racists alike have damaged black folks' ability to consume coffee, breakfast foods and simply exist. Well, now, it looks like it's Opposite Day and … thank goodness for that.
According to VICE News, a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Riverside, California refused to serve a man after he went on a racist rant against a Muslim woman wearing a niqab.
The whole exchange was caught on tape and journalist CJ Werleman posted it on Twitter.
"I'm a Muslim [woman]."
"I know your religion and I don't want to be killed by you."
This took place at a cafe in California yesterday. pic.twitter.com/4WAWKcQDh8— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) May 12, 2018
The white man attempts to sass the woman wearing the niqab asking, "Is this Halloween or something?"
After the woman asked whether he knew she was Muslim, he responded in the affirmative adding, “I don’t like it because I don’t like your religion. It says to kill me, and I don’t want to be killed by you, how’s that?”
The two get into a back-and-forth debate about Christianity, which the white man identified as.
“You are committing hate speech,” the woman tells him.
Another customer can be heard yelling, “Get out of here, f*cking racist,” to which the white man responds, “F*ck you. Shut the f*ck up!”
After the heated exchange, the camera turns to another angle where the we can see the supervisor behind the counter denying service to the white man. In true entitled white dude fashion, he asks to speak to the manager. The supervisor provides the manager's name, and stands her ground.
He then promptly leaves.
"Why are you not serving him?” the Muslim woman asked the supervisor in order to record her response.
“Because he is disrupting a public place, and being very racist,” the supervisor replied.
No coffee for you, unseasoned racist!
“We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to discrimination of any kind and have the right to refuse service to any person who makes customers or team members feel endangered in any way,” Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf wrote in a statement obtained by Newsweek.