Race discrimination at Chicago bar during senior class trip

Source: Washington University Student Life

Around 200 Washington University students participated in a protest this morning in Chicago in response to what is being called an act of racial discrimination that occurred at Mother’s Night Club Original bar Saturday night.
Six black University students were denied entry into the bar, even though approximately 200 other members of the senior class had already been allowed in.

The trip to the bar was part of the Senior Class Council-sponsored trip to Chicago.
Two of the students rejected from the nightclub were Iboro Umana and Regis Murayi, the internal vice president and treasurer of Senior Class Council, respectively.
According to a press release from Senior Class President Fernando Cutz, the six black students were told they were not allowed into the bar because of their failure to comply with its “baggy jeans” policy. A few white students who had already been admitted then came out to demonstrate that their jeans were more “baggy,” but the black students were still denied admission.

The black students offered to change their clothes, but the bar manager said they would still not be let in, as he did not think they were “trustworthy,” the press release said. The white students were allowed to return to the bar.

Read more: http://www.studlife.com/news/2009/10/18/students-protest-race-discrimination-at-bar-in-chicago-during-senior-class-trip/

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This made me ashamed to be a Chicagoan. Guess Chicago isn't post-racist.

faux, rush, beck, et al have turned over.
It is purely disgusting--but they no longer have to cower in shame because moral decency doesn't allow them to act the way they want to. Their heroes ENCOURAGE this behavior and it empowers them.
THAT is why they should be pulled off the air--if no other reason (even there are multitudes).

cuz i think racism is gonna stay around for awhile.
so sad in 2009 that the ignorant still hate ppl for
the color of their skin. shallow idiots n/t

generation to generation , it will always be here ( unfortunately ) for a long time ,
There are way too many race-aholics that wont get sober......ever, then borrow a buck for another swig !
They hate the very people that picked the cotton, for their clothes, bedding, and HOODS.

They didn't hate them as long as they stayed in their "place". They didn't hate them as long as they believed they had total control over black folk. They didn't hate as long as they chose not to deal with the reality that they are not really superior.

Read the bar reviews on this place.

http://chicago.citysearch.com/profile/11342767/chicago_il/mother_s_night_club_original.html

It must be the latest trend.

to some extent, it seemed aimed at making sure people come in wearing oversized clothing couldn't hide guns. However, it did say that "Collard Shirts" were okay. We got a chuckle out of that.

And why didnt the whole class then turn around and walk out?>

Any one of their fellow students who stayed in the bar after finding out about this is partly responsible - it's that kind of behavior that allows this kind of thing to keep happening. As someone else here has just pointed out, it doesn't take a lot of searching to see that this place gets horrible reviews for not only being racist, but also treating customers like crap in general.

Assunming of course, the other students were aware of what was going on and are in fact, not prejudiced in the final analysis..........

This is totally unexceptable.

I shared a table with a stranger in a public restaurant and not only ate, but met and talk story with her.
That was cool.

There is a crispness about NYC that I really love.

I could be graduating now as a Teachers Fellow coming out of NYC and maybe applying for the Communications Manager Role. had my landlord of 25 years not died, and her family illegally evict me. I was so sad for Mary, I really liked her, so I left in good faith,
but perturb they sent an attorney to serve due process. Then I found out they never filed.. They were guilty but the rules were
changing again in the middle of the lawsuit, or so they say, so I settled for about 25% of what I should have gotten for that behavior.

I wish all of the corrupt creeps would just Get Out of the country or go to jail.

:eyes:

NY (except, of course, for Giuliani), but doesn't have a bad word to say about Texas or, for that matter, about many Republicans. A:-)

I live and work in NYC and see racism on a daily basis.

I usually witness 2 or 3 racial incidents just taking the train into work. There's as much racism here as there is anywhere in the US.

really really bad reviews.

I never ever ever understood the appeal, but then again, I'm not heterosexual. So, that's probably why. :rofl:

:)

is that discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice are alive and well in places many think they are not. As someone who have traveled around this country, I can tell you that the southern U.S. gets a lot of bad press on this subject - as though that's all we are down here, when in fact, most of us don't hold these disgusting views of our fellow Americans. By contrast, places like Chicago and Philly don't get near enough bad press for the bigotry that still exists in their states.

i've been at countless places in my life where people are just plain nasty for no reason

and I'm a clean cut wasp-ish looking straight guy

i wonder if a black guy walked in the exact same place after me, got the exact same treatment might think it's racist?

i'm not saying i'd blame him for thinking that, i'm just wondering how often it happens?

An indication that it was not an issue of dress code but of possible racism is that shortly later, one of the black kids, Regis Murayi gave his pants to a white student, Jordan Roberts. Jordan put the pants on. Jordan is significantly smaller, so the pants were even longer & baggier on him and he was admitted to the club, no questions asked.There's a picture of it posted on the school newspaper website.
http://www.studlife.com/news/2009/10/21/flyers-protesting-mothers-bar/

and i'm not passing judgement either

in the example i gave, how would one know it's not racism, if he didnt see the white guy get them same treatment an hour earlier?

And is a big racist. It is very alive and well in Chicago. She is a Con as well. She is fine with black people as long as they stay on their side of the city.

my hood, which is the most diverse zip code on the planet. (seriously, i am told this repeatedly.) lots of pockets of all white folks who will have a fit at the words "subsidized housing". and now, thanks to the internets, they can get together even when there are only a handful of them in the whole neighborhood.
http://theurbancoaster.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=519&Itemid=103

rush street bars, tho, have a long history of keeping people out based more on the perception of the amount of jingle in their pockets than anything else. they are really not stupid enough to keep people out based on the color of their skin, however much they might want to.

This is the United States. Much to our discredit, there is no post-racist.

When i was a kid archie bunker was one of the top shows on tv, Watch an episode of that some time it says a lot about how far we have come just in my lifetime. We aren't there yet to be sure but we are getting closer every day and progress is being made.

It was an excellent show. It showed us just how far we had yet to go back then, and though we have indeed made some preliminary steps since that time, we still have a long journey ahead of us. In fact, in many ways Carroll O'Connor's Archie was, for all his faults, a far better person than the rabid racists and/or fundamentalist Christians we see today who are more than ready to kill anyone who disagrees with them. In 1966 when I graduated from high school in small town Texas, the idea of a black man as U.S. President was unthinkable. Now a smart, charismatic black man holds that office, and he gets four times the daily death threats that his bumbling, ignorant, white predecessor got, and that's just the "newsworthy" racism. I will agree that this country has made some progress, but we are a far, far cry from post-racist. I really miss Archie. In his own strange and rather twisted way, he taught or at least tried, often in spite of himself, to teach us a lot. I regret to say that even now these thirty-odd years hence, it seems we've not yet learned those lessons well.

But, I have met many who would feel right at home at the bar bending elbows and sharing ugly remarks with Archie.

We're nailing the bar owners for jumping to conclusions, let's not do the same.

I think that's pretty fucked up, how about you?

Oh, and just as the swim club was found guilty, I certainly hope these folks get smacked with a huge :wtf: is wrong with you fine or put out of business completely.

been a gross tourist dump for total losers ever since I can remember.

For hiring racist bouncers or creating a racist policy.

Is only allowed when racists incidents occur in the South.

in Osaka, Japan. It had advertised a "Free Hawaiian Luau" for expats in the local English-language newspaper, so I thought what the heck, and after considerable effort, finally arrived at the time specified. The door said "Knock to Enter", and after I knocked, an eyehole in the door slid open and I saw some young Caucasian guy I recognized as American by his accent on the other side.
"I'm here for the free luau", I said.
"You can't come in", he replied.
"Why not?" I asked.
"Because you are wearing tennis shoes", was the reply. "Your shorts are OK, but you have to wear dress shoes".
"Dress shoes to a luau?" I protested. "There was nothing about that in your newspaper ad."
"Doesn't matter", he said curtly, "You can't come in". With that he slammed the eyehole shut.

I was there with my long-hair, wearing a T-shirt and with my Panamian date. Said I needed a collar which struck me as kind of weird since Mother's isn't really that fancy a bar.

Went back later while wearing a business suit and found half the patrons wearing collarless shirts. So I announced I had just gotten a 6-figure job and wanted to buy champagne for the entire bar. Got lots of high-fives and back slaps, went to the bathroom, then walked out the door without paying.

Revenge is best served cold ... and with expensive champagne.


On edit: my incident was twenty years ago!

Seems rather low to me. Were other black university students let in and only these six not let in?

An indication that it was not an issue of dress code but of probable racism is that shortly later, one of the black kids gave his pants to a white student. The white kid put the pants on. The white kid was significantly smaller, so the pants were even longer & baggier on him and the white kid was admitted to the club, no questions asked.
http://www.studlife.com/news/2009/10/21/flyers-protesting-mothers-bar/