Hundreds of residents of Springfield, Ohio, responded to untrue stories about their city’s Haitian residents by choosing to eat at a local Haitian-Creole restaurant in what they call an act of ‘organized love’.

“Springfield is diverse,” city resident Steve McQueen, who helped arrange the dinner at Rose Goute Creole Restaurant on Friday Sept. 13, told Dayton 24/7 Now. “We know Springfield is full of love. [It] does not have the hate that is being told to the rest of the country and world as they’re even talking about.”