This should not be happening in this day and age

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2359316/Yorkshire-cafe-owner-Martha-Renee-Kolleh-puts-sign-warn-customers-Im-black-woman.html

I am , I did not realise that this can happen nowadays. This poor woman should not put a sign on her door warning people of her race. If I was nearer I most certainly would vist her cafe

Jst makes this town look like its full of nasty bigots

I do love how people think that people make up/have a chip on their shoulder about racism as some form of hobby.

I think the sign is brilliant and wish her care was close enough to visit.

People wonder why the countryside isn't very ethnically diverse - things like this are why.

I live in Birmingham, somewhere people may be rather unkind about, but I can go about my business here without getting any nasty looks.

When one family turned around to go she heard them say: ?I think we?re in the wrong place.?

See, I can imagine myself saying that, but it wouldn't be because the owner was black. It would be because I'd seen the sign saying 'cafe' and gone in without reading the menu outside (maybe if raining/cold or kids whinging), I would be surprised to see a sign for afro-caribbean food etc. If I'd been expecting to be surrounded by mugs of tea and beans on toast I would indeed think I'd gone into the wrong place.

I live near wakefield, and I can well believe that this really is the case. The place I live in and its neighbouring town are well known for racism, and as a result there are virtually no black people, and the only Asian people are those running takeaways etc. I could walk around town every day for a week and see nothing other than white faces.
I think it's awful actually, and I will go and visit that cafe as soon as I can. Good for her for not being intimidated by it. Bigots and racists in this area have got away with it for far too long. There was a black family who tried to settle in my town in the 1990s. They had bricks thrown at their windows, racist graffiti on the house, car tyres slashed. They didn't stay very long.
Sometimes I am very ashamed of my local area.