Black-owned business files lawsuit against Mississippi airport, alleging discrimination

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A Black-owned company that provided food and beverage concessions at the an airport in Mississippi is suing the board that oversees the airport after its contract was cancelled.

A Black-owned company that provided food and beverage concessions at the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport in Mississippi is suing the board that oversees the airport after its contract was cancelled.

According to court documents, Jacobsen/Daniels spent more than $2 million on improvements at the Jackson airport after assuming the food and beverage concessions contract in 2018. But airport authority attorney Dorsey Carson said Jacobsen/Daniels breached its contract when it unilaterally shut down its last concession over the Memorial Day weekend, normally one of the busiest periods at the airport.

 

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Always used as the reason for their own failings.

It's important to remark it's black owned? This is sheer racism. What about the 'black' owner. Is he/she/them. Racially pure, or they are blood mixed like most African Americans.

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