Word: bon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walked into Au Bon Pain to get some coffee, I decided it would be too much of a pain to put out my cigarette, so I just kept...
...last week, as I sat in Au Bon Pain waiting to meet my mother for dinner, I had the sort of epiphanal moment that brought together lots of fragments that had been floating around in my mind concerning race (primarily) and class (secondarily...
Outside, I realized that I found the Au Bon Pain's supervisor's behavior appropriate not because the kids were obnoxious, but because I assumed they were up to no good. Black, inner-city kids--obviously not well-groomed Harvard students. And the fact that the manager was a minority only served as a buffer against looking at my own racism...
...manager kicked them out of the store because he knew, just like I knew, that a lot of people would look into Au Bon Pain and see a bunch of Black kids and think: Gang wannabes. Crack. Guns. Inner-city violence...
Never mind that these kids were not only less obnoxious, but less violent than a lot of drunk Harvard assholes I've seen in Au Bon Pain on plenty of weekends. With Harvard students, Cambridge seems to adopt a boys-will-be-boys attitude...