Black Man Thrown Out Of Sports Bar; Social Media To The Rescue
- June 19, 2012
- 9:35 pm
After Jonathon Wall, a Harvard-bound 21-year-old, said police refused to help him when he was kicked out of a Raleigh, NC sports bar for being black, he used social media to recount his story, and discovered that numerous other African Americans had received the same racist treatment. Now their grassroots campaign to shut the bar down is gaining traction.
As the story begins, on last Saturday night around 12:30am, I and 2 other friends went to Downtown Sports Bar and Grill off of Glennwood Avenue. The night got interesting as soon as we got to the door, and the bouncer told us “you need a membership to come in tonight, I’ve never seen you here before.” My friend Chris and I looked at each other in curiosity, knowing that the establishment was a bar and not a club, and that people in line before us walked right in after showing their ID. The only difference between those people and my friends and I was our race...... more
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