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Two diners at Joe's Crab Shack in Roseville found an offensive image among the decor on their table: an old photo of a black man being hanged.

In this Minnesota restaurant, racism was literally embedded in its tabletop

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A cartoon bubble above the individual about to be hanged read: “All I said was that I didn’t like the gumbo.”

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