Do they have a problem with dress codes also?
Isn't the Kokoamos Island Bar, Grill and Yacht Club's a private business (or in the case club) and can't the owners determine their own rules for admittance?
The Anti-American Commie Lovin Union can go to hell.
Freedom of association means that the business can serve whoever it wishes to associate with. If it chooses not to server to people who are drunk or smokers or wearing beads or dreadlocks, it has that right.
If someone wishes to patronize the place, they need to abide by the owners rules.
I've seen more white girls wearing dread locks than blacks....maybe it is my location.
I am curious to know the Bar owners rational for the dreadlock ban. (Not that it necessarily makes a difference)
From another source--
"When she complained to the club the following day, she was advised to visit the owner's "urban" club in Newport News."
Heh. Sort of like the Episcopal church. You know, they put up a branch in the poor part of town to keep the riff-raff from going to the main place downtown.
That said, corn rows is a racial affectation, the barring of which predominately bars blacks. How you feel about the Jim Crow south doubtless dictates where you think these chips should fall.
If the bar turns away white girls wearing cornrows and admits blacks who aren't, I don't see any validity to this.
Skokie?
My sense is that this suit will fail, cf. Washington v. Davis. Facially neutral policies are OK even if they affect one racial group more than others. They're not banning black people, they're only banning a hair style that is followed ?predominantly? by blacks. Now if they let a white person or Asian person in with that hair style, and deny to the black, THEN the bar will have a problem.
The AMbulance Chasing Lawyers Union makes it up as they go. They are clearly the most destructive force in the US today, followed closely by the democrat party.
Some yachts are corporate owned.
The incident(s) took place over 6 months ago.
Are Evans and Hines aquainted? How long does it take to file a lawsuit? Do they really want justice or money?
Must be a slow 'civil liberties violation' week for the ACLU. Carrying the banner for dreadlocks! Whew! This one could make it all the way up to the Supreme Court! LOLOLOL!
Sounds like an ACLU setup to me. Perhaps they needed to MLK more funds from us taxpayers.
We have a bar here near Orlando that had a sign in the window that said NO COLORS.
Of course, they meant GANG COLORS but that didn't stop some empty heads from taking up the cause of why this bar was keeping the Black man down!
This seems like a stupid ass rule, but if a bar wants to have it, so be it, I'd go elsewhere.. If I showed up with a friend who wore these hairstyles and we were denied entry, I'd go elsewhere.
I've been places where I wasn't allowed in because I was carrying my motor cycle helmet...
I don't think anyones civil rights have been violated, in fact, while the hairstyles listed may be worn mainly by blacks, most blacks I know don't wear these styles at all... so I can't see how you can claim overall racial discrimination.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus