Which part of Mr. Lumukanda's mother had been terminaly sick for a few months and sad to say, she passed on at the same time the application was made for the liq. lic.didn't you get. And of course, our favorite "journalist" and her so self righteous husband who fought abra on "procedure" chose to not publish that along with the lies that she witnessed Feeley trump up about complaints he admitted that he never got (in front of 3 commissioners). What happened to procedure then?? But before I backtrack and explain all the trumped up issues and nasty tactics used to mobilize Whites in this community to protest using fear (ask former commisioner Blair), I am going to simply ask you this --- So pray tell me after two and a half years of operating with a great menu and no disturbances, etc., what was the reason was for still appealing the original lic in the court of appeal for a second time and protesting the application for the outdoor lic. and expansion??
Please humor me and Explain how you "understand" where the opposition came. If there was a reason to doubt, Black folks definitely only see racism as the reason now!! Are we all incapable of properly analyzing this situatuon?? And you and others who continue to avoid the racist elephants in the room, says volumes. Or do you need the "N" word for you to get the message.
FYI -- once again is this statement close enough for you -- (in writing to the public) Mr. Lumukanda attire is that of the nation of islam -- signed "Christ's Servant". Pray help us understand!! We are listening!!!
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:30 PM, <jeromepeloquin@fastmail.fm> wrote:Still, having said that, here are a few rational if not impartial observations. If one just looks at the situation from a community perspective a few question come immediately to mind. First, two small commercial food businesses start in our neighborhood. One is immediately set upon by the ANC, the local paper, and a number of other community members. Charges (unsubstantiated) are made, characters are attached, and legal actions initiated. All charges, actions, and efforts are found by ABRA to be baseless and a license is issued. Still, additional charges are fabricated, license is suspended, charges are also found to be baseless, license is restored ... after two years of clean operations and the accolades of the community, the first entity seeks to obtain an outside seating permit. It is immediately challenged again by the same group of disaffected citizens! I can assure you as an experienced business person, that this has cost him and the establishments he owns hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.Next case ... The second establishment applies for and receives a permit without challenges and without any obstruction whatsoever. WHY!...?This is rather an oversimplification of what actually did happen.In the case of the BCafe, a significant part of the issue was that a lot of its original paperwork and licensing applications reused a lot of info from a separate business that had been planned for Adams Morgan, the character of which was not at all like the BCafe that actually opened. A specific group of residents (not the whole community, but a specific group) opposed it on that basis. The subsequent issues with BCafe's liquor license were based on the plaintiff's assertion that ABRA had not followed its own rules and needed to take another look. This is not to say that I think the Cafe should not have been granted its license, only that I can understand where the opposition came from.In the case of Menomale, perhaps you missed the ridiculous kerfuffle about its license, in which the ANC commissioner originally opposed Menomale's liquor license based on the objections of the principal of the nearby Noyes school (who should have raised his objections through the DCPS process created for that purpose, rather than improperly taking it to the ANC) on the grounds that children might see alcohol being consumed during their walk home from school. Halfway through that thread, the ANC altered his objection saying new information had come to light, but refused to say what it was for a couple of days. He finally admitted that it had recently come to his attention that there was a residential alcohol treatment facility near to Menomale's location that he was concerned about, but this information hadn't come to light in any of the previous several months when a restaurant was obviously being built (a 5500 pound stone pizza oven being moved in and installed apparently didn't raise any alarms), and only came to light shortly before the hearing. In any case, the ANC dropped his objection after Menomale agreed to not serve alcohol between 2 and 5.But if we're going to have this conversation about Rob and me, personally... I really must point out that at no point did I oppose the granting of any kind of license to the BCafe, and when its license was temporarily suspended, I was as shocked and dismayed as anybody. In fact, the first time I heard the name Rob Ramson was on the listserve thread about it, in which I expressed support for the Cafe and, somehow, he felt the need to attack not just me, but several neighbors who supported the Cafe but had the gall to think there might have been an explanation for the opposition, for doing so. So I'm really not sure why I am bearing the brunt of Rob's ire over that (indeed frustrating) situation, but I do know that it was his behavior toward the people who spoke up in support of his business that convinced me I wasn't interested in visiting the BCafe anymore. I'm sure he IS very frustrated by the whole thing, and I don't blame him, but that's not at all an excuse for the abuse he heaps on people who actually HAD been on his side.Which is why I continue to find it perplexing that any time I express appreciation of a business I happen to enjoy patronizing, Rob suggests that I go to THAT business over HIS business because of some nefarious form of bias. Speaking only for myself, I go to Menomale over the Cafe because 1. The food is more to my personal liking, and 2. The owners do not choose to attack me in every possible public forum over the slightest imagined provocation. I assure you, if Leland and Ettore treated me the way Rob does, I wouldn't eat at their place, either.So yes, I actually do think it's too much to ask to show Rob a little support at this point, because I've seen how Rob treats people who express support for him.-Tiffany in Brookland__._,_.___
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