'Because you’re black': Framboise Patisserie in Middle Village, Queens, hit with $25,000 in fines, penalties in discrimination case

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Since we're talking about bakeries and businesses be able to do whatever the h*ll they like...

At the Framboise Patisserie in Middle Village, Queens, the pastries are elegant, the cakes are custom-made — and city officials say the hiring is discriminatory.

“I can’t hire you because you’re black,” Jamilah DaCosta, 25, said she heard when she applied for a job working the counter at the cozy French bake shop.

The Rego Park woman interviewed with co-owner Patty Meimetea in October 2011 but was told she wouldn’t be a good fit for the “counter girl” position because black workers in the front of the store would scare away customers, according to findings by the city Human Rights Commission.

After an investigation and a trial, the commission last week fined the bakery $25,000 for racial and gender discrimination for weeding out DaCosta because of her race and discouraging men from applying for the job with a gender-specific “counter girl” ad on Craigslist.

“I felt hurt. I was disgusted,” DaCosta said of her experience at Framboise Patisserie. “Before I could even pull out my resume or start a formal interview, she was telling me all this negative stuff — she couldn’t hire me because I was black, I would scare away her customers.”

ead more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens-bakery-hit-25-000-fines-penalties-discrimination-case-article-1.1470612#ixzz2r8AZXjGS

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I posted this story a while back. Of course no one believes this.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Do a Google Search on Ted Kefalinos bakery in NYC.

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Damn, now that's messed up.

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Just googled it.

#######! This baker realises it's not 1950 any more right?

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

There are plenty of folks who still wish it was 1950.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

#######! This baker realises it's not 1950 any more right?

Oh, but how they wish it was. We have the species right here on VJ, too.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Oh, but how they wish it was. We have the species right here on VJ, too.

Yes we do, difference is, they're too scared to say what they feel. I guess being online only gives you so much courage.

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Going off on a tangent a little but the title of this thread made me think of the very funny anti racist scene from Lethal Weapon