News at Eleven: Among the discriminatory acts,

the plaintiffs allege that as they were leaving the restaurant they were handed a note which they claim was a racial threat.

The note read: "Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live."

However, the Southeast Texas Record found that those lines are from the poem "Resume" written in 1925 by American poet Dorothy Parker.

The complete poem reads:

"Resume"

from The Sou theast Texas Record: 'Racial' note contains lines from poem about suicide

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