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A married couple who fled Haiti for Virginia achieved their American dream when they opened a variety market on the Eastern Shore, selling hard-to-find spices, sodas and rice to the region’s growing Haitian community.

When they added a Haitian food truck, people drove from an hour away for freshly cooked oxtail, fried plantains and marinated pork.

But Clemene Bastien and Theslet Benoir are now suing the town of Parksley, alleging that it forced their food truck to close. The couple also say a town council member cut the mobile kitchen’s water line and screamed, “Go back to your own country!”

“When we first opened, there were a lot of people” ordering food, Bastien said, speaking through an interpreter. “And the day after, there were a lot of people. And then ... they started harassing us.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Brought to you by the ‘if you don’t like your country, you should just move’ crowd. Good grief.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

move to a city that isn't full of garbage people

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Shame they can't move to the West Coast (or to any bluer area really). There are tons of people who would love to try authentic Haitian food from a food truck - myself included. They'd probably make a killing.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So a family comes to our country and does exactly what they're supposed to do: Open a business and improving the quality of life in their community.

And what happens?

Redneck shitsticks absolutely lose it.

I bet you a billion dollars I know which presidential candidate those racist fucknuggets support.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And I'll bet you another billion none of them ever built a successful business themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That depends if pimping your daughter out at truck stops for meth is considered a successful business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some days I'm just ashamed to be white. I'm English/Irish so I'm so pale I glow in the dark but the white hood brigade just have me seeing red.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So I'm either an eighth black or half that. I'm see through white in skin color. Fuck that shit be white as fuck. Tell them motherfuckers to eat gravel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Racists make us all look bad. How are we supposed to expect people of other ethnic backgrounds or colour to be comfortable around us if the majority of white people they come in contact with are assholes to them?

Racists are embarrassing as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey sorry, quick question, do you listen to The Pixies by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
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