'Will Be the End of Their Business': New Orleans Cafe Shuts Down Instagram Comments After Manager Threatens To Call Cops on Black Woman for Taking Too Long to Make a Purchase

'Will Be the End of Their Business': New Orleans Cafe Shuts Down Instagram Comments After Manager Threatens To Call Cops on Black Woman for Taking Too Long to Make a Purchase

A New Orleans coffee shop is becoming a racial battleground after a Black correspondent for HBCU Pulse was harassed by the manager for waiting too long to make a purchase. On July 18, Destinee Kerr, who goes by “thatgirlnamedes_” on TikTok, grabbed a table at the popular Uptown café Rue De La Course. The Xavier University alum was finishing up a video and trying to post it by her deadline when the white café manager approached her, and according…