“My heart is fucking broken right now in this country,” says Nigel Jones, the chef-owner of Kingston 11, a Jamaican restaurant in Uptown Oakland.

He’s talking about George Floyd, the black man whose death earlier this month at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the impetus for massive protests around the country this past weekend, including in Oakland and elsewhere in the Bay Area.

Jones is one of many black chefs and restaurant owners in