The café serves as a meeting place for several Oak Park residents who are running for office. Two African American candidates for village trustee said they were the targets of the brick’s message. By no means should a racist be comfortable enough to come across this business and try to throw a brick through the window with what they wrote on that brick, said trustee candidate Anthony Clark. We should be the ones that feel welcomed here. We should be the ones that feel empowered because we’re the ones that are truly invested in making this community better.
“We want to make sure that people understand that this is not just a one-off,” Graham Washington said. “This is indicative of the kind of systemic racism that, unfortunately, our village, our city, our state and our country has been wrestling with and struggling with.”
The glass did not shatter, but the damage was done.
The cafe serves as a meeting place for several Oak Park residents who are running for office. Two African American candidates for village trustee said they were the targets of the brick’s message. By no means should a racist be comfortable enough to come across this business and try to throw a brick through the window with what they wrote on that brick, said trustee candidate Anthony Clark. We should be the ones that feel welcomed here. We should be the ones that feel empowered because we’re the ones that are truly invested in making this community better.