SOME DINERS AT A RESTAURANT ENCOUNTERED A FLAVOR OF SERVICE.
THIS IS THE FACEBOOK POST ABOUT EMERGED AFTER AN INCIDENT AT A
RESTAURANT IN HUNTINGTON BEACH WHERE TWO DINERS WERE
DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.
HERE IS AN EXCERPT FROM IT.
FIRST OF ALL
LET'S STOP THERE, THAT IS
AMAZING.
JUST THE LOGIC IN THAT QUESTION IS INSANE TO ME.
>>I JUST DID A GOOGLE SEARCH OF THAT RESTAURANT, 3.3 STARS.
YOU DON'T GET TO ASK FOR ANY KIND OF IDENTIFICATION UNTIL
YOU GET YOUR REVIEWS UP.
AND THAT IS STILL INAPPROPRIATE, BUT LET'S JUST START WITH THE
MEDIOCRE SERVICE AND FOOD.
>> I NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE FROM HERE BECAUSE PEOPLE THERE
FROM HERE RATE THIS PLACE SO
POORLY.
>> YOU GUYS ARE RIGHTFULLY CRITICIZING.
I KIND OF FEEL BAD
FOR THE OWNER.
THE STORY IS TRUE, AND HE FOUND OUT AND DID
SOMETHING ABOUT IT IMMEDIATELY.
BY THE WAY I DON'T KNOW IF THE
REVIEWS WENT DOWN AFTER THIS.
>> THE FOOD IS GREAT, THE SERVICE, EH.
>>THERE ARE
TWO THINGS GOING ON HERE.
ONE IS I REALLY BELIEVE
IT'S TRUE THAT THE TRUMP ERA HAS
GIVEN LICENSE TO BIGOTS TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET.
>> LITERALLY AT RALLIES PEOPLE LEARN MOTORCADES WITH
CONFEDERATE FLAGS.
>>AND OTHER DAYS THEY WOULD BE EMBARRASSED TO DO THIS.
BUT THEY
FEEL EMPOWERED NOW BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT SAYS THINGS LIKE THAT.
THE SECOND THING IS I DON'T WANT
YOU TO ñ TO THINK THIS IS A NEW PHENOMENON.
IF YOU ARE NOT FROM
LA YOU MIGHT BE PRETTY SURPRISED.
BUT THERE ARE BEACH
TOWNS IN LA THAT HAVE A REPUTATION FOR NOT ALLOWING
MINORITIES IN.
AND MIGHT NOT BE AS BRAZEN AS THIS, BUT YOU GO TO
A NIGHTCLUB IN AN AREA LIKE THIS AND YOU ARE BLACK, GOOD LUCK
GETTING IN.
THAT IS A STORY OFTEN TOLD BY AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN LA.
>> I LIVE IN THE SOUTH BAY AND SOMETIMES IT JUST SEEMS LIKE
HITLER ONE DOWN THERE.
THERE ARE A LOT OF ARYAN ATHLETIC PEOPLE ON THE BEACH
JUST HAVING THE BEST TIME.
>> ARE THEY NAZIS?
NO.
>>GOOD LUCK FINDING A DELI, BUT THAT IS BESIDE THE POINT.
>>IT IS ALSO NOT AN ACCIDENT THAT WHEN YOU GO OUT TO A CLUB
IN THAT PART OF LA IT LOOKS
INCREDIBLY WHITE.
ALMOST EVERY AFRICAN-AMERICAN I HAVE RUN INTO
LA CAN TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT
BEING EXCLUDED FROM THOSE CLUBS FOR HAVING THE "WRONG CLOTHES."
>>I WENT TO SCHOOL IN THESE AREAS AND I MADE IT OUT.
IT IS
REAL.
I DON'T KNOW THAT OTHER FOLKS ARE GETTING THE MESSAGE
ABOUT THEIR RACIST DISPLAYS, BUT IT WILL GET YOU FIRED.
BUT THIS
REMINDS ME OF THAT BLACK VETERAN WHO WAS ASKED TO SHOW SOME KIND
OF PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION AT CHILI'S.
I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE
YOU THIS FREE CHEESY SKILLET
UNLESS HE PROVED TO ME THAT YOU ARE AMERICAN.
I THINK IT IS
THESE SCHEMAS FOR WHO FITS IN ñ AND IT IS ALL RACE.
>> JESSE JACKSON TOLD HIS POWERFUL STORY THAT EVEN WHEN I
WAS A REPUBLICAN AFFECTED ME.
HE TOLD A STORY ABOUT HOW HIS
FATHER SERVED IN WORLD WAR II AND THEY HAD DONE A GREAT JOB,
AND CAPTURED A BUNCH OF NAZIS.
THEY WERE GOING ON A TRAIN
TOGETHER AND THE BLACK SOLDIERS
HAD TO SIT BEHIND THE NAZIS BECAUSE THE NAZIS WERE WHITE AND
THE BLACK AMERICAN SOLDIERS WERE
BLACK.
THEY WERE SO INFERIOR TO THE NAZIS IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE
THAT ENFORCED THAT SEGREGATION.
THAT IS DEVASTATING.
AT THE SAME
TIME IT WAS A LITTLE BIT BETTER WHEN THEY HEAD IN THE CLOSET.
>>YEAH THEY HAVE TO SHAME THEM.
THERE HAS BEEN AN UN-SHAMING OF
WHITE SUPREMACY SINCE TRUMP HAS TAKEN OFFICE.
AND WE HAVE TO RESHAPE ALL OF YOU.
>> SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
>>THERE IS THE BELL.
>>THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE OWNER SAID AFTER HE FIRED HIM.
>> THE MANAGER ALSO OFFERED THEM A VIP EXPERIENCE AND PLEDGED TO
DONATE 10% OF THE WEEKENDS
PROCEEDS TO A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.
>>THAT IMMEDIATELY MADE ME THINK WEIGHT, THERE IS A VIP
EXPERIENCE AT THESE RESTAURANTS?
>>WHO HAS BEEN GETTING IT IS THE QUESTION.
>>CAN I TRY TO BE A VIP?