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michigandem58

(1,044 posts) Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:26 AM Feb 2013

You're black? Buy another bottle or you're not going in [View all]

A trendy Manhattan nightclub charged black customers a whopping $320 more to get in than white patrons — and barred others from getting in at all, according to a stunning lawsuit.

“It was humiliating,” one of the black customers, Julia Cook, told the Daily News of her treatment at 230 Fifth in the Flatiron District.

She said a bouncer told her that she and her friends were “classless black b------” whom he wouldn’t let inside.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/black-buy-suit-article-1.1258608#ixzz2KJWE4SUo

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You're black? Buy another bottle or you're not going in [View all] michigandem58 Feb 2013 OP

Boy I wish that were surprising. nt el_bryanto Feb 2013 #1

Remember the tyrant bouncers of the 70's? annabanana Feb 2013 #2

Tips are always appreciated. leveymg Feb 2013 #3

Big old JustAnotherGen Feb 2013 #4