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Meimetea Discrimination

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The general argument made by author Nathan Place and Erin Durkin in their work, “Because you’re black’: Queens Bakery fined in discrimination case”, is that people continue to discriminate against colored people. More specifically, they argue that the Meimetea’s are racist and discriminate people based on their race and won’t hire them to work for them due to that. Patty Meimetea wouldn’t hire Jamilah DaCosta because she was black and claimed that the only thing she will bring is problem. The article starts, “She was telling me all this negative stuff – she couldn’t hire me because I was black, and I would scare away her customers.” Patty Meimetea couple wouldn’t hire any dark skin women employees to work at the front counter because of her

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