NEWS: Chris Rock's Mom in Cracker Barrel Discrimination Feud

CELEB: Chris Rock's Mom in Cracker Barrel Discrimination Feud

Chris Rock’s mother announced she plans to sue the southern-based restaurant Cracker Barrel. Rose Rock claimed she faced racial discrimination during a recent trip to one of the restaurant’s franchises in South Carolina. What, you might ask, caused Ms. Rock to feel discriminated against? She said the hostess seated her upon her arrival, but then the wait staff ignored her for the next half hour.

Cracker Barrel claimed they are taking the complaint "very seriously," and plan to investigate it fully.

Although Cracker Barrel doesn’t tolerate discrimination, the company recently defended itself against a federal inquiry focusing claims it refused service to black customers, and discriminated against black and gay employees.

Shooting straight to the top, Rose Rock contacted the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Good way to spend your time while the waitress is ignoring you.

Oh, Al Sharpton is getting involved. I'm sure he'll keep everyone calm and level headed.

hello, the place is called cracker barrel.

recently moving to the asshole of creation (also known as "the south") I did get a chance to eat at a Craker Barrel for the first time. all I can say is who the fuck would want to eat there in the first place? redneck assholes, bad food, country living... ugh

i hate it when people sit there for ages and then complain they the staff are ignoring them.

you have a mouth! you can say 'excuse me i want some fucking food!'

the place was probably busy. deal with it.

i always thought it was racist that they put all the white people in one restaurant and called it Cracker Barrel...

If neither of them wanted to eat, why were they at cracker barrel?

Yeah, but it's a restaurant-- with a seating chart. Someone knew that that was their customer and busy or not, chose to ignore them. If you were the only woman in a restaurant otherwise filled with male customers-- wouldn't you find it at least a little bit irratating/suspcious if you were the only one not getting service; especially if the place had a documented history of mysoginistic practices?

I have no idea if they were discriminated against or not, but who in their right mind sits at a table waiting for service for THIRTY MINUTES?? I get steamed after 5! I would've raised hell.

Good lord, if I sued everytime I had to wait before being served for half an hour in restaraunt...

Are you being serious? You've really waited on multiple occassions for 30 mins for service?

i have a 10 minute limit..then i get up and leave..i complain, and leave why stay if you are getting blown off..and the way i look at it is, if they are so busy they cant serve you chances are they are so busy they cant prepare the food right

it happened to me a couple times over the past month, but i didn't go overboard and threaten to sue; i just didn't leave a tip.

I have once or twice . Anymore though , I just take it as a sign they don't need my money bad enough & leave .

Yeah, I would never sue (unless I felt legitimately discriminated against) but I would certainly not wait that long for service. Anywhere. Ever.

Shit, you already wait for a hour and a half to get a table at Cracker Barrel, what'a another half hour as long as you're sitting down.

I've walked out of a place before for being ignored, but it never dawned on me to sue.

Maybe the waitress recognized her as Rocks mom and she didn't want to bother them like a dirty paparrazo....

To be fair, let's remember that most of the CB waitresses got their wings at a Denny's. And we all know how they are. Moons Over My Hammy indeed....

Aren't the owners of CrackerBarrel black?
I thought I heard that somewhere... I'll have to dig.

thats funnier than a barrel fulla crackaz. yikes, i ate there once. when you walk in , you can almost smell the inbreeding.

I have never in my life eaten at Craker Barrell or Denny's not on purpose the occasion just never presented it self

So, Cracker Barrel's policy is to immediately seat black people, but then not serve them?

Exactly.
Not to make light of any discrimination that alegedly took place but... :eek

And if you go in there on a Sunday you can wait for an hour or more to get your meal. I enjoyed my water and the waitress touched our table and said "i'll be right with you"

It sounds like another impatient (wanna be) celebrity with the "don't you know who I am" syndrome.

I certainly wouldn't assume that their claim that they waited for half an hour is accurate. I hope that Cracker Barrel has security cameras because then they can see exactly how long that table sat without being greeted. People in that situation exaggerate all the time. I've seen it happen plenty of times.

Now, let's say they were ignored. Does it have to be a racist issue just because they're black?

This summer I forgot to greet a table which had a couple black people sitting at it and I can assure you I ignored them because I was a moron and forgot the table was in my section, not because of their race. There could've been purple aliens sitting at that table for all it mattered.

I'd love to know how they intend to prove that the reason they weren't served was because they were black. Just because they were the only black people in there doesn't mean anything. I'd like to see every single person who didn't get greeted in a reasonable amount of time at a restaurant to sue those restaurants. That'd be great. Might as well, right? Sue everybody.

you must really like the "extras" raising hell will get you... snot, piss, and other wonderful condiments

I don't raise hell and stay, silly. I take my money elsewhere.