Wait, a city led by a communist black mayor who wants "reparations" might be discriminating against non-black business owners??
The absolute state of America's third-largest city.
The funny thing here is that the guy isn't even "white" according to the Left's racist standards. Robert Gomez owns Beat Kitchen and has had a license to operate along the Riverwalk since 2019. That license was taken away and given instead to Haire's Gulf Shrimp, a black-owned business.
This is in line with Mayor Brandon Johnson's "racial equity" policies that seek to elevate black businesses at the expense of everyone else.
Gomez is now taking the city to federal court, and because his name is Gomez and not Smith, he might actually have a shot at his claim of civil rights violations.
More from the Chicago Sun-Times:
Robert Gomez, who also operates other restaurants such as Bar Sol at Navy Pier, said after his five-year lease expired in late 2023, the city left him in the dark. He had submitted an application last year to continue operating but was denied.
'They gave no explanation and no opportunity to respond,' Gomez said on Monday.
The lawsuit, filed last week in District Court, said the city 'privately and secretly invited another vendor to submit a proposal weeks after the publicly noticed deadline.' Beat Kitchen was the only business to submit a proposal by the April 2024 deadline for a concession contract at 91-95 E. Riverwalk, adjacent to the DuSable Bridge on Michigan Avenue, according to the complaint, first reported by Fox 32 Chicago.
Gomez says the committee that assigns licenses privately and "inappropriately solicited Haire's to submit a proposal even though the deadline had passed," then scored their application in "a blatantly biased way."
Because the federal government gave Chicago money for the development of the Riverwalk, the case has moved from county to federal court.
The complaint said city leadership has directed departments to increase opportunities for Black-owned businesses. This led the committee to award a new vendor for the Riverwalk space based on race, violating federal and state law, instead of following the city's request for proposal process.
Again, you're telling me that a city run by a communist black man who believes in taking things from whites (or people who look white) and giving them to blacks in violation of federal law would take a restaurant license away from a guy who looks white and give it to a black woman??
I, FOR ONE, AM SHOCKED!
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