Black Panthers Protest ‘Drunken Negro Face’ Bakery

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Feb 26, 2009 ... Black Panthers Protest ‘Drunken Negro Face’ Bakery ... State Senator Thomas Duane is pressuring him to take a racial sensitivity course ...
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2/26/09 at 12:34 PM

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Ever wonder what became of Ted Kefalinos, the “Drunken Negro Face” baker? He’s still in business, though Black Panthers have been picketing his store, and the Secret Service has paid him a visit, thanks to his alleged statement that Obama will “get what he deserves.” State Senator Thomas Duane is pressuring him to take a racial sensitivity course (presumably he’ll be classmates with the folks over at the Post), and Kefalinos has agreed, saying “maybe they’re right, I do need a little bit of sensitivity.” Best part of the Villager piece might be the customer who’s torn between going to Kefalinos’s shop and nearby Patisserie Claude, with its notoriously cranky former owner.

[Villager Panthers vow to shut down ‘Negro Head’ cookie baker [Villager]

By: Daniel Maurer Filed Under: Beef, patisserie claude, Ted Kefalinos

Note that New York State Senator Thomas Duane is the younger brother of my partner John Duane, who co-authored the Editor's Choice column with me in the March 2009 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Senator Duane is openly gay and HIV infected, and is the new chairman of the of the New York State Senate health committee. In solidarity, Mary

PS My younger daughter Jessica saw Tom on the news and alerted me to this story. It's all in the family.