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The Woke Truck, based in Los Angeles, gets a lot of questions in its inbox. Sometimes, these questions also arrive in the form of an in-person interrogation at the window of their truck either accompanying or arriving instead of a food order.When the vitriol and accusations are extracted, those inquiries basically amount to “Who are you?” They are Max Daniel, Kashmir Hughes and Michael Powers, all in their late 20s. When asked to give their elevator pitch, Hughes answers: “We are three people in a polyamorous relationship who live together and own a business. We are Irish, Black, and Asian; [we] sell fusion food and teach history at the same time. And we use our business to give back to the community. We hire employees fresh out of rehab, train teen mothers for the job and we do stuff for the community, as well.”“Are you white?”
“Are you even black?”
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“How do you feel about women’s rights?”
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