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Meanwhile, I will also try to find different avenues to present the verifiable facts regarding this man and his business. I disagree with your assessment that my primary goal is to "malign" Frank Patti. My only interest is to bring to light his actions and his policies and allow others to come to their own conclusions. He is, by virtue of his personality and past shenanigans, a public figure. As such, there is a very different set of rules that apply to someone like him. This is the essence of many journalistic decisions that surely you understand.
The latest census shows Pensacola's population at approximately 34% African-American. Joe Patti's Seafood (a family business that Frank Patti oversees) has 2 or 3 black employees on a staff of almost 120, or less than 2%. These numbers speak for themselves. Every day decent, hardworking human beings unknowingly come in to this man's business to fill out job applications hoping to earn a meager living. They're not even be considered simply because they came in with the wrong skin color. Frank Patti's establishment, Pensacola's biggest seafood market and gourmet store, is seemingly in violation of federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and the Civil Rights Act on a more-or-less daily basis. There is nothing libelous about this statement; after all, libel requires that an accusation be false.
However, we will present that information to the media as you suggest and let them decide where the story lies.
