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In reply to the discussion: Black man blocked from entering NJ gym where hes a paid member and even the cops are confused [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)You got my point. As for other customers who were sitting there, not having bought anything, that was not the story I read initially. It was that customer(s) said they had in the past not bought something there. But without audio or a witness saying s/he said that, we don't know for sure. You and I weren't there.
I've been kicked out of a business before. Was I being discriminated against?
My brother has been kicked out of several businesses before, and banned from going back. Was he being discriminated against?
I keep going back to the start: If they had bought a cup of coffee, none of this would have happened. That leads me to conclude that it wasn't racism; it was behavior. Maybe an overzealous manager. Maybe she had had it with people sitting there for hours w/o buying anything, while she struggles with low sales. Maybe she was in a bad mood and decided to enforce hte company's policy. Maybe she's always that way.
And of course, it COULD have been racism. All I'm saying is, there's no proof of that. In fact, similar things have happened to me and my brother.
So who knows.
I look forward to your responses.