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The Cafe Has Black Lives Matter Signs. The Owner Voted for Trump. – The New York Times

By Thomas A. Smith

At Indian Road Cafe in Upper Manhattan, a Black Lives Matter sign hangs in a front window. Local writers, artists, musicians and political activists are regulars. And for years, two drag queens have hosted a monthly charity bingo tournament there.

Many in the surrounding Inwood neighborhood considered it a community hub and a progressive oasis.

But then the cafe s owner, Thomas Bosco, said in an MSNBC interview in late spring that he voted for President Trump in 2016 and was likely to do so again.

The backlash was swift, as you might expect.

Neighbors railed in the comments on various neighborhood Facebook groups, posting hundreds of angry messages aimed at the cafe and one another. Some people called for a boycott.

via www.nytimes.com