Lawsuit Alleges Landmark Steakhouse Employees Referred to African-American Customer as 'McStinkynigger' and 'McNigshit'

• you know the jiggaboo didnt tip

• Dam that receipt, I would hate to have eaten that food.  Who knows what they have done to it?

• DONT WORRY ABOUT THE UNDERPAY KITCHEN STAFF,HAVE YOU WATCH "THE HELP" ............THE EAT MY SHIT PART? LOL WA WAA .............

• Ill. This shit would never happen on the East Coast. Screw suing. I'd beat the shit out of the owner and whomever typed this shit up. 

• Welcome to post racial america.

• You must be S-L-O-W.

• Seriously,your comment was just STUPID.

• Too bad that it sometimes takes this type of financial "American supplement" to force people to change and treat others with respect.

• Actually you are wrong - its both ignorance,as well as arrogance ... and Asians are not totally accepted either.

• You and Energizer2112 can suck my Dick.

• What you are is a Stupid White Troll,and a Dip Shit as well.

• Jamel fuck you,fuck your truck driver mom,and if you even know which of several men is him - fuck your funky ass,wet dog smelling dad as well.

• Go fuck off you White Troll pretending to be Black.

• I repeat you are a stupid mother fucker.

• You are a stupid asshole racist pig mother fucker ... I wouldn't waste my piss on you,or your kind.

• Some of your points are valid - no doubt about that;however you are still fucked up in the head.

• Idiot.

• Hey,I have an idea instead of that - just suck on my Black berries you piece of racist shit.

• I agree with you.

• You apparently haven't seen every fucking thing,and it makes you look idiotic to imply that you have.

• Waiting on that balloon of a head sitting on your shoulders to burst with all that pent up racism,and hot air that it's filled with.

• How do you ever get any where at all ? It must be awful tough with your head stuck in the sand like that.

• "White and Proud" - Tells me everything I need to know about you,and your mentality.

• You are most definitely a very confused person if you think that what these people did was ok in any way,shape,or form;and it does not take a person with a brain like Einstein to understand why this guy was paid not to go to court.

• The irony in your statement "The definition of Nigger refers to trash which will always be part of society" is that you epitomize those words with your ignorant viewpoints. It is that denial you exhibit, slandering ethnic neighborhoods, calling them hovels and implying only ethnicities choose to live on the government dime and not support themselves while caucasians receive the majority of welfare benefits in this country. It is the same ignorant delusion you entertain stating our cultures were never meant to mix when i would bet my house (the one i paid for with my EMPLOYMENT, not welfare dollars) you yourself are more than one (albeit euro-based) nationality, along with the fact that with all of the cultural integration in this country, what was once the minority in this country is estimated to be the majority by 2050. You are a relic and your closed-minded opinion is outdated. Someone should do you the courtesy of placing you next to the KKK robe exhibited in the Smithsonian.

• You are a funny fuck head,but then I am sure you already know that.

• OK ... that was kind of funny - but whatever ...

• PS - Suck my Black dick you Asshole,racist mother fucker you.

• Maybe you should put a sock in it ... maybe it would be ok with your stupid ass if they had done your mother like they did this guy.

• Your comment sucks and you probably do too.

• I didn't get the impression that he was slow,but you seem retarded to me.

• Yes ... you do in fact come off as a racist Dick Head.

• Fuck off you retard.

• You really must be a fucking Troll of some sort.

• Your question makes me wonder - What the Hell is wrong with you ?

• You really must be White to write crap like this ... Henry was not retarded,and someone would have to be fucking retarded to think this was ok in any way,shape,or form.

• You must be fucking s-l-o-w or something there is no fucking joke here.

• Not to forget that slaves were raped,and tortured.

• This customer must have been a demanding chiseler.

• Whatever the deal was, that was still "REAL FOUL" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• It's 2012, and still we're dealing with this ignorant crap.  Proof-positive that this will never die because this poison is being passed down from generation to generation.  Shaking my head...

• Andi I have Many white friends and quite a few married into my family, but trust me if any one of them called me a nigger it would be a problem so i doubt that it would be ok with Mr. Mc Henry or anyone else if they were called that your statement is VERY ignorant, you need to check yourself!!

• Its an unfortunate situation to be in on either side, I think no matter how friendly a customer is, always deploy a professional attitude towards them, keep all jokes to a minimum, no sex jokes, racial, political nor religious talks, i.e. conversations with customers period, the guy might have just been waiting for the perfect storm situation to occur, or the employee was an absolute idiot, who might have not been properly trained, overly naive ETC.

• McHenry your not getting compensated for the racial slurs....Think about it...If your a regular at this establishment and their writing these racial remarks on your receipts...Can you imagine what they were doing to your food?..So, really that's what your being compensated for....I don't want to even think about the things you were eating......Suggestion....Just because you feel your a successful businessman don't expect to be treated any different from any other non successful black person, You should try eating at home....Then you'll know exactly what's going in your food...

•  It's from the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" you fool. Educate yourself.

• If you think it's okay why don't you try that trick and see how it goes

•  It is shocking that these morons or moron would have the nerve, gall and audacity to put that on a receipt....there has been comments that black people are terrible tippers but this man was tipping about 20% which is a good tip....the standard is 20% and an extra dollar for special service.....on valentines day, I tipped $4 on a $6 tab because I told her it was a cupid tax, you do these things when you go there often or they let you order something for less after a time of day deadline passed.....

• Regardless,of what anyone 'thinks,by law any person of color,religion,sexual preference or sex,is entitled to the same respect as the majority that frequents a legal business that is requried to pay state and federal tax and licensing. There is NO doubt the culprit was/is a racist therefore, entitled full punishment to the law. Most often people/companies learn lessons and understand the law,once their pocket books are hit.

• Lucky he didn't get his azz whoop!! Black ppl don't play that I know I don't....

• Seriously. Even as a crude joke it's still offensive. Now the restaurant owner will have to pay up and pay to train his employees not to be racist assholes.

• Yes, they did do this out of the blue.  He NEVER had any verbal joking with those employees using racial slurs.  Typical trash, cave people.  They laugh and smile in your face and then do shit like this behind your back.  Only this time they got caught and McHenry WON his lawsuit and got paid!!!

• Stop lying!!!  Those employees NEVER joked with him verbally using slurs like that.  

• that is terrible

• Here it is 2012, Much hasen't changed has it.

• One last note... I realize I'm very late blogging about this (I don't live in CA), but just to show you I read the blogs, "Andi, Gustavo, and Andrew, you should just go ahead and blow each other.  We won't look..."

• BTW, is it important that I wouldn't EVER file a lawsuit over something like this?  If my receipt said "WhiteTrashDouchebag!", I'd just wonder what I did to piss them off.  It would be a laugh to me, and I'd try to be extra-nice IF I ever went back.  Too bad that "Lawsuit" has become the American "supplement."

• What the hell??  You have the freedom to THINK anything you want to, but what kind of DUMB*SS would print it out?  No matter what your racist beliefs are, only a moron would do something like this!  Someone deserves punishment for such a stupid act.  The restaurant pays, then they sue the bartender to recoup!

• Black people will never get respected until they turned their communities and nations around. Racism isn't a form of ignorance, it's a form of arrogance. Period.  No one harrass  or belittle those they are afraid of.  Growing up Asians were considered the inferior yellow race, but now they are suddenly part of the White race.

• gustavo,  let me educate you a little, "whats up my nigger"  is offensive.  whats up my nigga is a whole different word, ok.

• i am referring to Andi

• what the HELL is wrong with you.

• pseudo slaves.  I don't think so.  While the un-documented have my sympathy and support, slaves were not protected by employment laws in this coutry, worked a minimun of twelve hour days in the worst conditions wth little break and often for no wages and at the will of there masters.  when they did work, most if note all of there wages went to there masters,  and the biggest difference is that NO slave crossed in to this country seeking a better life for themselves.  slaves were brought to this country againist there will aboard ships where most died due to the conditions put upon them by there captures.   Un-documented workers have the same protections as any other worker in this country.  Even I know that.

• We have the right not to frequent that business.  Spread the word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• I like rice you zipperhead

• shut up koon

•  here come all the white "work at home racist"

• fuck you nigger

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• What happened? Before The housing crisis i thought we had made progress in racial discrimination. Are groups looking for someone to blame tough times on? It seems like Dr Kings' dream is slipping down a slippery slope. down an avenue of ignorance, racial crime and scapegoat politics.. I thought my 1 yr old would have a better tomorrow but even with a black president; police, prisons and now waiters are proving otherwise

• avoid the groid racism saves lives

• and you are a nigger

• niggers are offensive period

• go to niggertown were you belong nigger

• they call the junglebat a stinky nigger all the time. it don't bother the junglebat because i am a stinky nigger. the junglebat smell real bad

• poor editing- the server can choose to name the party on the ticket if they want

• And here come the neo-Nazi dipshits...

• So what if he was McStinkynigger? All you black bastards smell like dried shit and coco butter! Take a bath you bootlipped savages! Or go eat in niggertown where you are welcome!

• Well. The server was super lucky. if it were me, he would have been piledrived through the table. WWE style.

• Niggas got a point...

• Are you mad that we make more money than you?

• Awww. are you mad cause you have a black boss? Mad cause your dick is too small? Lol. Black people call YOU Boo in prison. Is that how you got your nmame? Did a black guy give u the name BOO in jail?

• WTF? are you high? re read what you just wrote... The black dude sued the place. MEANING, we have enough money to sue ANYONE. This aint the 60s dear. We have money. lol

• u damn right a lawsuit. Lucky tho. if it were me, they would have got a grade A ass whooping.

• how about who gives a shit.

• How about Fuck You. That still gives them no right to say that. How would you like it if they put Rice a Rony?

• have your parents teach you manners

• i thought we were past this stuff, grow up people, havae ur parents teach u manners

• I've been there, and I'm African American..I do think the place is totally racist.  For those that say, "Well why do you go there?"  If we didn't go to racist places, we would have never gone to restaurants, schools, professional sports or half of the other "non-racist" places there are to go today.  It takes something like this to bring it to light and break the walls down.  I'm there tomorrow because I just read this LOL.

• Using the word "Nigger" is offensive "Nigga" is not. There is a difference. Respect is key. Now minorities can tell when any race is using a racial term to mean friend or enemy by context. Meaning if you are not close to the person why would you try to act as such.

• I agree with dradonus_40 it's 2011 why is everybody still racist. Let me say I am black and have a white roommate I we have a great relationship(come together on groceries and business plans) Now I have met black racist people and white racist people. The only real difference is that white(majority) racist people can hold other races(minority) down. Yes we come from a different culture. But isn't the world about making money, Everything else is trivial.

• Calm down everyone. I never said what the staff did was ok. Never.

• Andi has not taken the prescribed meds before that response!

• Gustavo, the only thing I wish you might add to your writing, in my humble opinion, is a politically theorized stake in the game. I generally agree with you. I think your work is brilliant reportage on the obsession with race that creates a space like Orange County. You really call it out as a space where the psyche meets geography. Of course, Orange County flourished in part as a reaction AGAINST the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of Los Angeles--and especially as a kind of haven for whites and nonblacks against the black and brown populations. And it remains governed by that same kind of colonizer fantasy of perpetual vacation space, in part by keeping a bright line between the black populations of LA and itself. And, as the piece you wrote a while back about the Floral Park area of Santa Ana (that celebrates Halloween with their kids on a special day just so they can shut out the Latino children who come trick-or-treating on the real Halloween), OC is a reaction against the very populations it amasses in order to feed its fantasy of itself. As many of the comments here indicate, there is nothing stopping OC folks from continuing in this delusional self image and schizophrenia. You are a powerful intellectual in the struggle for the freedom and dignity of humankind everywhere, but you are still writing as a regional social critic who is stuck in the binaries of liberal/conservative. I, for one, wish you would relate OC to the larger matrix of white supremacy and antiblackness across the USA and the globe. When you say that this incident or these comments are "typical" of Orange County, you make it sound as though Orange County, while admittedly having a "special" role in maintaining a white supremacist society, is uniquely positioned as a white supremacist location. The same shit happens all the time in "liberal" spaces like the Bay Area and elsewhere. Malcolm X said, "Stop talking about the South. As long as you're south of the Canadian border, you're south." The problem is of course much bigger than Orange County, although OC is certainly an expression of that problem. I know I'm preaching to the choir. It would carry the analysis of the problem further if we admit that the USA (and, really, the racial formation of the modern world) takes pleasure in defining citizenship and space and even humanity as something to which the settlers/colonizers control the access and that they mostly exclude brown people and almost entirely exclude black people. Liberal and conservative politics alike, and the spaces where those politics concentrate, are implicated in this. And these are not problems we can move away from by avoiding or escaping OC.

• Boycott Orange County!

• Wow--just saw this article--you all should come over to Ohio and see this racist stuff happening daily. People don't try to hide it here either--just followed a car to work yesterday with a "Pro-America/Anti-Obama" bumper sticker with the "Anti-Obama" side of the sticker portraying Obama with a monkey face. Had my car vandalized during the 2008 election, n-lover was sprayed on one of my signs in my yard--ridiculous. And I live in a Democratic district too! Fine if you don't like Obama's policies, I have many problems with him myself, as a progressive Dem, but I am just so sick of all this racist crap. One of my friends said, why don't you move to California or Oregon or somewhere a little more "liberal and tolerant"? Yeah right. Racism is racism, no matter where you live. Have a great day folks--we're all on this planet together.

• OC Weekly could you please post the complaint that was filed?

• For your information White and Ashamed, I cannot claim to use race as an excuse because I don't. I am in school getting an education and working part time, and doing everything I can so I can efficiently provide for the family I will have in the future. Do NOT group me with others that claim they can NOT succeed because of their race. WE as African Americans could do ANYTHING we put our mind to. Do NOT be bitter because you dislike us as a race. That is your problem. Deal with it. While you sit in a corner and are bitter about diversity, I will just continue to further my education to succeed. Seems like you're the disorganized one here. It's people like you that made these preposterous receipts in the first place. Good day.

• Some of these comments don't have reply buttons, so I'll put this here: <i>I am confused, why can other African-Americans call each other the n word and not get sued?</i> -Why do some gay people call each other "faggots" and not expect to get sued? -Why to some Irish-Americans call each other "micks" and expect not to get sued? -Why do some white people call each other "rednecks" or "peckerwoods" and not expect to get sued? -Why do some Cajuns call each other "coonasses" and not expect to get sued? Now, I don't call people faggots, micks, rednecks, peckerwoods, or coonasses. I also think it would be rather presumptuous of me to criticize them for calling each other those things, or (especially) take it as a sign that <i>I</i> can refer to them by those names. Get it?

• That replay was intended for Dee. Thanks.

• Why do you want or need to call a black person that? I am black and I don't call anyone that. I cannot believe that white people actually are upset that a black person won't let them say nigger. If you don't want someone else to call you a name that you are sensitive to, then tell them not to say it (unless you are afraid to?). How many people do you run into that call you racial slurs? I never hear them from white people, but I know that other people hear them and I won't dismiss that. I am sick of this "why can't we say nigger" argument from white people. Remember...every single black person in America is not the same--just like every single white person is not the same. It isn't about being PC; it's about respect. People don't want you to say the word, so just don't say it and move on. BTW, if I said it it would sound like a racial slur and I'd be put in my place just like you'd be. I am not from the hood and I don't want to identify with that anyway. I am a normal black American who refuses to get caught up in this irrelevant issue.

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