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I'm Black. However, aside from what happened (which doesn't surprise me at all), it baffles me that they'd even want to go to a bar like that. I'd rather stay home than go to an all-White bar in small town in the middle of Kentucky.
I'm white, and I wouldn't even go to an all white bar in Kentucky... not one that didn't ALLOW black people to enter, anyway. Not my kind of people.
They have no where else to go, almost all of the so called black bars in my area have been closed down due to violence and killings. I honestly don't blame them for protecting their establishment from this. Let a few good ones in and the bad ones follow.
This.
Never understood why you'd want to give your money to someone who hates you anyways. Doesn't make much sense, does it?
Video footage of black customers being the victims of blatant racism in 2012. But of course let the Right Wing tell it, racism died out in mid 60's with the passing of the Civil Rights Acts
Sorry, but that statement doesn't justify a "to be fair." Whether they should WANT to enter an establishment or not is irrelevant... they should be ABLE to patronize any business they so desire, regardless.
Maybe it's because he's wearing a white jacket and you know, it's before Memorial Day. The guy at the door was wearing a Coca Cola tee shirt and this guy wants to get in wearing a necklace and a white jacket? Didn't all those New York Clubs in the 70s used to reject people at the door that didn't look right?
Well, I could be considered a "minority" but mostly every club, bar and restaurant where you have lots of Blacks and Hispanics, there will always be fights, ignorance, uncivilized behavior and violence.
I live in Iowa, a mostly White state, and we do not have much violence here, mainly because we do not have a large minority population(IMO)
There are quite a few Blacks and Hispanics that are educated, polite and know how to behave but unfortunately, the vast majority DO NOT.
I am not racist, as a matter of fact, some of my best friends are Black, heck, I even had a Black couple over for dinner ONCE, but stereotypes are mostly based/built on facts, and repeated patterns of behavior, as unfair as they may be sometimes.
I actually do not believe the Civil Rights Act as it pertains to accomadations was constitutional and believe business owners should have the same rights as homeowners.
Yes, there are racists. There always will be. I once went into a bar and all the other patrons were hispanic, they gave me funny looks. I had one beer and left. I think they thought I was immigration.
Thsi is the non-racist conservative viewpoint? All the other patrons in the bar were hispanic, so they must have been illegal aliens?
It depends on what you mean by street sense. I am street smart to some extent, but maybe not the version you speak of.
Dude, there is only ONE version of street smart. Not two, or three. One. It's instinctual...and either you have it or you don't. It's not something you just pick up once you become an adult. It's a combination of having common sense along with absorbing the things other people with street sense tell you, watching mistakes other people make, and being able to spot trouble long before it jumps off....and knowing how to react to it. It's also being aware of your environment, without being scared of it.
If it aint what i delineated above, then call it something else...but it's not street smarts.
JMHO, but I would only go to Kentucky at all would be to visit Harland Sander's grave.
(Or see some of the places that one or two of these people lived: Moderator cut: link removed, linking to competitor sites is not allowed
Maybe the Boy Scout Museum.
Did the Kentucky Derby visit a few times.
Go see Mammoth Caves again.
Daniel Boone grave.
But Kentuckians can claim the longest stilt-walking the longest stilt-walking endurance was started there.
JMHO, but I spent more time typing this than I care about the state, and its residents' behaviors.
Kentucky has just a ton of democrats, more than republicans.
Do you even know your own history?
Do you know it was republicans that ended slavery?
It was republicans that voted for the Civil Rights Act. If not for them, the racist democrats would have kept blacks in slavery.....oh wait.
You try and play a rose is still a rose by any other name. Notice I did not label Dem or repub because those are just names and you know it. I mean no matter their label at the moment in history it is always the same type of people. Today those people are called GOP/Tea party. Back then they would have been Dixiecrats. In the future they may be Dixiecrats again but it doesn't matter the thinking and intent are the same. Thank God though you keep losing. 1865 1965 2008 2012............
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