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Owner speaks out after Browne's Irish Marketplace vandalized with 'Immigrants not welcome'
POSTED 9:57 PM, JUNE 11, 2018, BY MEGAN DILLARD
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The country’s oldest Irish business is located here in Kansas City, and someone left the owners of Browne's Irish Marketplace a nasty message Monday.
Owner John McCain didn’t notice the words when he first got to work.
“I had a customer come in today and said, ‘I’m sorry about your building.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about?” McCain said.
Someone used black spray paint to mark the words “immigrants not welcome” on the side of the building at 33rd and Pennsylvania.
When George Vial became a citizen last year, after immigrating from Ireland two decades back, there was only one place to celebrate. Browne’s, of course.
“You come in here, you meet folks from Scotland, from France, from South America," he said. "It’s just a real welcoming, loving place, and this is just horrendous that this has happened to this building.”
Both men blame ignorance, lack of education, stupidity really.
Owner John McCain didn’t notice the words when he first got to work.
“I had a customer come in today and said, ‘I’m sorry about your building.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about?” McCain said.
Someone used black spray paint to mark the words “immigrants not welcome” on the side of the building at 33rd and Pennsylvania.
When George Vial became a citizen last year, after immigrating from Ireland two decades back, there was only one place to celebrate. Browne’s, of course.
“You come in here, you meet folks from Scotland, from France, from South America," he said. "It’s just a real welcoming, loving place, and this is just horrendous that this has happened to this building.”
Both men blame ignorance, lack of education, stupidity really.
http://fox4kc.com/2018/06/11/owner-speaks-out-after-brownes-irish-marketplace-vandalized-with-immigrants-not-welcome/
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