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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Ashamed to Be American Because of Wild Wing Cafe

After waiting for 2 hours patiently for a celebration, how is blatant racism acceptable?

Incidents like this make me ashamed to be an American!


Sat Aug 24, 2013 at 04:19 PM PDT

Restaurant Asks 25 Black People to Leave Because 1 White Person Feels "Threatened"

 
 
Remarkable.

Fifty years after Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech this crap's still going on. From Progressive Populist: Blacks Asked to Leave South Carolina Restaurant Because White Customer Felt Threatened. It happened at the Wild Wing Cafe in North Charleston.
Michael Brown was one of those 25 customers. They were there to send off Brown’s cousin, who was leaving the Charleston area. After finally being seated after the two hour wait, the shift manager came to the table and told the group that there was a “situation.”
By "situation" what she meant was one white person didn't like having 25 black people in the same room with him/her. Says Brown:
She (the shift manager) said there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours. Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.
Brown repeatedly tried to contact their corporate offices. He got no answer.What's wrong with this tired, old picture? Seriously. Can someone explain this business model to me? It seems it would make more sense to entertain 25 paying customers and throw one miserable old bigot out on their ass. But then, silly me, I don't own a bunch of restaurants.

If you like you can ask Wild Wing Cafe's home office to explain.

UPDATE: SocioSam published a diary on this same topic, only he did it shortly before me. He already called them. This is disastrous for them! You've got to go read it yourselves: Wild Wings Foul Service.
 
 
Sat Aug 24, 2013 at 02:44 PM PDT

Wild Wings Foul Service

 
I’m surprised but I didn’t a story on this. Twenty-five (25) African Americans were denied service in a Charleston, SC restaurant (Wild Wings) because a white customer said they scared him.
I went to the Wild Wings web page and found a Wild Wings restaurant in Charleston and called them. The manager was very polite. He told me that it was not his restaurant - there are 4 in Charleston. He seemed genuinely upset and said corporate had instructed all employees to say nothing about this. Corporate is panicked and trying to control this.

He then gave me the corporate phone number that is handling the “situation.” That number is 843-216-7601. I called and got a recording. The line will not open until 8:30 EDT on Monday morning.
It might be a good idea if one or two of us call to find out that is going on.

That number again is 843-216-7601. And the phone line is open at 8:30 EDT on Monday.


South Carolina restaurant ejected African-American customers when white person felt ‘threatened’
By David Ferguson
Saturday, August 24, 2013
 
Brown party via Facebook

 
 
A group of customers at a Wild Wing restaurant in Charleston, SC were forced to wait two hours for their table and then were ultimately denied service on the basis of their race. According to Charleston’s WNEW Channel 5, the group of 25 African-Americans were asked to leave because a white customer felt “threatened.”

Michael Brown and a group composed of family and friends were gathered in July at the North Charleston Wild Wing CafĂ© to say farewell to a cousin who was moving away. The party waited for two hours for a table only to be told by a manager that there was “a situation.”

“She said there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours,” Brown told Channel 5. “Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.”

A member of the party began to film the discussion between Brown and the restaurant manager with a camera phone.

“I asked her I want to be clear with you,” Brown recounted. “I said so you’re telling me I have to leave. She said I have a right to deny you service. I said so you’re asking me to leave because you’re upset because he was recording you, after we’ve waited for two hours, and after you’ve already pretty much discriminated on us, and she answered yes.”

Brown took the issue to Facebook on Friday after several unsuccessful calls to the company’s corporate office.
 


I will never go to Wild wings cafe in N. Chs again! We (Party of 25 family and friends) waited 2hrs, patiently and were refused service because another customer (White) felt threatened by us. This type of racial discrimination is unacceptable and we have to put a STOP TO IT. The manager looked me dead in the face and said she was refusing us service because she had a right to and simply she felt like it. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ESTABLISHMENT… PLEASE SHARE THIS POST… We need your help.

That got Wild Wings’ corporate office’s attention.

“We got alerted through social media, so we always encourage our customers to respond to us or to comment on our social media pages,” Debra Stokes, chief marketing officer for Wild Wing Cafe, told Channel 5.

“We had a conversation,” says Stokes. “It was a really good conversation. He and many of his family and friends were there about a month ago, and they are regular customers of ours. So, they were having a going away party, and they just didn’t receive the experience that they have come to know and love.”

Watch video about this story, embedded below via MNEM:


WNEM TV 5



Here's the rest of the recap from Daily Kos:
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  • An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America, by MinistryOfTruth


  • Anti-vaccine megachurch hit with measles epidemic, now offering free vaccinations, by Hunter


  • Kermit and Steve Martin locked in battle, by Jen Hayden


  • The growing blue state advantage, by Jon Perr


  • Tea party congressmen sacrifice staff's health for political statement, by Joan McCarter


  • Second New Mexico judge rules that counties must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, by Meteor Blades


  • Songs in the key of brutality: young black man tackled, immobilized and jailed for singing, by noise of rain


  • China's water pollution off the charts, must outsource food production, by VL Baker


  • The Donald sued for $40 million over 'Trump University' scam, by Laura Clawson

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