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Two diners at a Joe's Crab Shack in Minnesota were shocked when they realized the decorative photo on their table depicted the lynching of a black man. The picture of the 1895 hanging carried the supposedly amusing caption "All I said was I didn't like the gumbo." The manager apologized, but customer Chauntyll Allen said the photo was "the last thing I expected to see at a family-friendly restaurant."
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