{"id":377,"date":"2018-12-05T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=377"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","slug":"claim-of-discrimination-in-public-accommodation-against-arab-american-customers-upheld-based-on-race-ethnicity-national-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/12\/05\/claim-of-discrimination-in-public-accommodation-against-arab-american-customers-upheld-based-on-race-ethnicity-national-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Claim of discrimination in public accommodation against Arab-American customers upheld based on race, ethnicity &amp; national origin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) has found a violation of the state&#8217;s public accommodatoin law on the basis of race, national origin, and ethnicity when a manager of a Subway store stated to an Arab-American family: &#8220;\u201c<em>I\u2019m the manager of Subway.\u00a0 You are banned from our store.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need people like you.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t you go back to your\u00a0 f**king country and learn how to speak English.\u00a0 We don\u2019t serve foreigners like you.\u00a0 God Bless.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/drohanhitt.com\/john-hitt-wins-case-on-behalf-of-an-american-arab-family-who-were-discriminated-against-in-violation-of-the-massachusetts-public-accommodations-law\/\">MCAD v. 2 Belsub Corp<\/a>., 15-BPA-101141.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) has found a violation of the state&#8217;s public accommodatoin law on the basis of race, national origin, and ethnicity when a manager of a Subway store stated to an Arab-American family: &#8220;\u201cI\u2019m the manager of Subway.\u00a0 You are banned from our store.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need people like you.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t you go back to your\u00a0 f**king country and learn how to speak English.\u00a0 We don\u2019t serve foreigners like you.\u00a0 God Bless.\u201d\u00a0MCAD v. 2 Belsub Corp., 15-BPA-101141.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}