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I can't seem to determine if this woman was being spitefully rude and disrespectful towards the guests or if she was intentionally trying to create a racial disturbance.
It wasn’t racism, it was just rude drunk attitudeism. Jeez, not everything is about color. The writer acts like it was white supremacy here when we’ve all been subject to this type of behavior.
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This is what happens when people of different cultures bump up against each other.
If you have a place reserved at a restaurant, and someone comes and sits down, you say quietly, oh, sorry, we have this place reserved for the evening. There was clearly shared food on the table; this area was in use by this one group.
The Asian woman and the white guy didn't understand that, didn't know that somehow. It seems unbelievable to me that they're the kind who crash parties - they just didn't know the boundary thing, and saw an empty couch. They were wrong, and this is the kind of thing that a manager can help sort out before someone with a very loud mouth pulls out a phone and makes a big huge loud trashy disruption that attracts the attention of the entire lounge.
That's not how you behave in an upscale lounge. After an initial disagreement, you quietly go and find the manager. I would have thrown the woman out myself who was yelling and filming, and attracting negative attention myself had I been the manager. Comp the food and drinks that were consumed, and please leave.
They managed to get her fired. I missed the part where the lady with a glass of wine was loud.
She got fired over that? Why do companies cowtow to total strangers over their own employees? And what’s wrong with those people for wanting to get someone fired over nothing? Stupidity at its finest.
It wasn’t racism, it was just rude drunk attitudeism. Jeez, not everything is about color. The writer acts like it was white supremacy here when we’ve all been subject to this type of behavior.
I agree with you - but it's from the Root, so don't expect anything but racism.
This is what happens when people of different cultures bump up against each other.
If you have a place reserved at a restaurant, and someone comes and sits down, you say quietly, oh, sorry, we have this place reserved for the evening. There was clearly shared food on the table; this area was in use by this one group.
The Asian woman and the white guy didn't understand that, didn't know that somehow. It seems unbelievable to me that they're the kind who crash parties - they just didn't know the boundary thing, and saw an empty couch. They were wrong, and this is the kind of thing that a manager can help sort out before someone with a very loud mouth pulls out a phone and makes a big huge loud trashy disruption that attracts the attention of the entire lounge.
That's not how you behave in an upscale lounge. This is culture clash, and I would have thrown the woman out myself who was yelling and filming, and attracting negative attention myself had I been the manager. Comp the food and drinks that were consumed, and please leave.
She was looking for trouble as is obvious by her comment “I got what I need, we good”, referring to the video the lounge manager requested she stop recording. She wanted a pound of flesh for the lady with the glass of wine having the nerve to sit at “her (unoccupied) reserved” outdoor couch. Kodili Okechuwu even demanded security remove the woman from the couch/lounge.
She sounded like she was the drunk one, first claiming the other lady told them to **** four times, a few seconds later that became eighteen times and then, seconds later, fourteen times.
This was from the article. I thought it was an interesting little tidbit that further shows how this was not what these people thought. When she talked to the manager after the incident.
“He directed me to the Solis Hotel Facebook statement that insists no one was asked to leave. Okechuwu says some of her party were asked and some were not. Also, the manager of Overdrive Lounge met with and apologized to the birthday couple, but hasn’t spoken to other frustrated guests. [B There may even be some question about what table the party had reserved. Mind you, none of this changes the basic facts that a customer was vulgar and rude to a bunch of black patrons, and they, by force or frustration, ended up leaving while she stayed. Even though Pate lost her job, this situation is by no means over.”[/b]
So they may have had the wrong table, and they weren’t asked to leave (as I noticed on the video where they were saying let’s get out of here)? That kind of changes the whole narrative in my opinion.
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