Owner of Restaurant near Atlanta's Emory Univ. goes on racist tirade on Facebook

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The Rise-n-Dine at Emory Village restaurant is under siege over a post on the company’s Facebook page that takes aim at “privileged male hetero whitefolk.”

It’s no longer visible on the company’s Facebook page. One of the company’s owners, who identifies himself as a white male and as George, declined to give a last name. He confirmed he made and then deleted the post. The post touched on the subject of white privilege, the concept that white people who are not overtly racist still enjoy advantages because of their race.

The post sparked accusations of racism and a campaign to downgrade the company’s reviews on Facebook. Some white men who reacted to the post on Reddit said they will not be supporting the restaurant.

“I took it down because it was not producing dialogue,” George said.

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George said in the current social climate, specifically rise of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee and the Brock Turner rape case, has made customers ruder.

“Something had to do with the social context right now of Trump, just getting the nomination, the Brock Turner case and all of those people who lately come in being so rude,” George said. “The absence of those people made everybody’s experience so much better. I said if we lose some people everybody’s going to be better off and we’ll bonus our staff if it hurts them.”

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