20 March 2008

A tragedy averted!

The proprietor of Geno's Steaks in South Philly, Joey Vento, is off the hook as the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations has most curiously ruled that the "English Only" sign at his establishment "did not convey a message that service would be refused to non-English speakers"; Probably because the commissioners believed that non-English speakers couldn't read the sign and therefore would be blissfully unaware that they were being refused service.

In many ways this is a good thing because there is only a very small portion of the Philadelphia population, largely to be found at Penn, that speaks anything that could be confused with English. If Mr. Vento were to refuse service to anyone who did not speak English properly he would rather swiftly go out of business.

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