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Reliquary of like indiscretions past, you know? >> but maybe to really tell the story of this place, you have to start with a story of its most famous employee, booker wright. he had been working at lusco's as a waiter since he was 14 years old. >> we don't have a red menu. i'd be glad to tell you what they're going to serve tonight. >> in 1965 nbc news came to town, making a documentary on race relations. booker's entertaining recitation of the menu at lusco's was famous around town, so they asked him to do his usual routine for the camera. >> shrimp cocktail, shrimp. half shell. >> but at th...

Past, you know? >> but maybe to really tell the story of this place, you have to start with a story of its most famous employee, booker wright. he had been working at lusco's as a waiter since he was 14 years old. >> we don't have a red menu. i'd be glad to tell you what they're going to serve tonight. >> in 1965 nbc news came to town, making a documentary on race relations. booker's entertaining recitation of the menu at lusco's was famous around town, so they asked him to do his usual routine for the camera. >> shrimp cocktail, shrimp. half shell. >> but at the end of his usual litany is whe...

If you don't, what's wrong with you? the meaner the man be, the more you smile. although you're crying on the inside. i'm not going to tip that nigger. you don't look for no tips. yes, sir, thank you. what did you say? thank you, sir. that's what you have to go through here. but remember, you have to keep that smile. >> telling the truth was still risky business in 1966 mississippi, and booker wright was not rewarded for his candor. >> it was not a good experience for him. it did not make him a star. >> not within the white community. but even the stokely carmichael mainly first chanted black ...

>> reporter: this controversy keeps getting hotter. today there were more charges, counter charges and more outrage surrounding mitt romney's record at bain capital. today mitt romney's attended church with his family while on the sunday talk shows his surrogates were on the offensive fighting back about whether the time at bain capital included outsourcing of jobs. >> this notion that while he was at bain capital governor romney shut down american jobs and moved them overseas. it's patently false. it's a lie. >> reporter: for his part this weekend in an interview president obama rej...

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