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Chinese Restaurant Closes After White Owner Is Outed As David Duke Supporter
Lynda Carson, an investigative reporter for Indybay, a self-described “independent media center” based in San Francisco, published an article earlier this month identifying several individuals in the Bay Area who supported Duke via donations to his 2016 Louisiana campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Among those listed was Roger Grigsby, owner of O’mei in Santa Cruz, who reportedly donated $500 to Duke’s campaign, according to public records obtained by Indybay. “One place to start exposing the supporters of hate would be to expose some of the local supporters of David Duke who reside in the Bay Area,” the Indybay reporter added.
Grigsby said he has been unfairly targeted and called a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and a member of the KKK, all because he supported Duke, a prominent white nationalist and Holocaust denier who was grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the late ’70s. His Senate campaign hinged on “European American” rights and included ending what he called the “ethnic cleansing” of white America.
In response to accusations of racism, Grigsby told The Mercury News, “My girlfriend and my former wife were both Chinese. Anybody who knows me, it’s like the United Colors of Benetton in our restaurant. We’ve had every ethnicity.”
Among those listed was Roger Grigsby, owner of O’mei in Santa Cruz, who reportedly donated $500 to Duke’s campaign, according to public records obtained by Indybay. “One place to start exposing the supporters of hate would be to expose some of the local supporters of David Duke who reside in the Bay Area,” the Indybay reporter added.
Grigsby said he has been unfairly targeted and called a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and a member of the KKK, all because he supported Duke, a prominent white nationalist and Holocaust denier who was grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the late ’70s. His Senate campaign hinged on “European American” rights and included ending what he called the “ethnic cleansing” of white America.
In response to accusations of racism, Grigsby told The Mercury News, “My girlfriend and my former wife were both Chinese. Anybody who knows me, it’s like the United Colors of Benetton in our restaurant. We’ve had every ethnicity.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/santa-cruz-chinese-restaurant-closed-owner-supported-david-duke-kkk_us_59a893f9e4b0b5e530fd6be5
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Hey, Chinese people in China don't eat chow mein either
