Current Events > A New Iowa Bar Opening seems to have BANNED Black MEN!! Would you be banned??

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A New Tavern opened up in Des Moines, Iowa is accused of RACISM after complaints emerged that it's specifically targeting Black MEN!!

Tispy Crow Tavern said it would refuse service to anyone wearing clothing such as: Bagging Jeans, plain t-shirts, construction boots...however the other part then says anyone wearing do-rags or scarf, cloth worn around their head and tied in the back, sideway caps and jeans hanging below the waist are also banned!!

Management later removed the sign after the embarrassing mishap went viral when it had fierce backlash

It remains to be known if this policy had been abandoned or just in secret

It raised the debate in town on whether dress codes in bars are instituted for safety purposes or a thinly veiled scheme designed to discriminate minorities.

The clothing ban in particular is aimed at young african american men who wear the apparel they are banning.

28 y/o Arnold Woods said "Not just downtown bars, but all bars want it both ways". Arnold is a black male graduate says "They don't want minorities there because if too many black men are in a bar it brings trouble. It's obvious what they're trying to do"

Steve McFadden, the owner of the bar said discrimination was not a factor in enforcing the dress code but claimed that nearby establishments had problems with "rowdy customers" and "recent shootings" with people who dress this way and said they just want "good customers". He said he took action after a group of black AND white customers harassed otheres.

Tony Tyler took the picture before it was removed said "Who doesn't wear a plain t-shirt??. It looks like a great place and i heard it's a place to be right now but i will not go to a place that targets racial groups"

Would you be banned if you went to this bar? let's see what people will vote

The Sign -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/23/20/429E0CCF00000578-4722742-image-m-58_1500838923187.jpg

Racist Bar -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/23/17/429C3CAD00000578-0-image-a-31_1500828266216.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/23/20/429E0CD300000578-4722742-image-a-57_1500838908048.jpg
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What an odd list. Plain tee? Lmfao what the fuck.

Full Throttle posted...

plain t-shirts

Really?

How is that controversial in the slightest? Most bars don't allow any of that or Affliction/Tapout/Ed Hardy tees and require collared shirts
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I don't understand the plain t-shirts thing
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As a white person that identifies as black, I sadly would be banned
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boxington posted...

I don't understand the plain t-shirts thing

Probably trying to keep out anything gang related. High schools and most bars here don't allow plain t shirts
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Not trying to generalize but a lot of gang members wear oversized, plain, colored (whatever their affiliation) tees.
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that isn't banning black people.

I've met plenty of black people who don't sag or wear snapbacks

Lame. A list describing all types of people yet racists automatically think black people and then try to get the harmless business owners in trouble. It's a vicious cycle.
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I'm from Des Moines and this doesn't surprise me at all. Folks act like they're not racist but act it out in "subtle" ways that are extremely obvious to anyone not from there. Literal bumpkins.
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SuperExcitebike posted...

boxington posted...

I don't understand the plain t-shirts thing

Probably trying to keep out anything gang related. High schools and most bars here don't allow plain t shirts

I guess that could be the case.

it's just that I see a diverse group of people wearing blank t-shirts, that I never really saw them as much of an issue.
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Milkman5 posted...

that isn't banning black people.

I've met plenty of black people who don't sag or wear snapbacks

This. The only issues are the t shirts and headscarf bans, otherwise nothing seems specific to race.
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Sounds more like Mexicans to me, if we're gonna go ahead and stereotype in here.

Or me right after work. I'm black and Mexican so la de da to them
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Construction workers in general seem to not be allowed in this establishment...
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I can understand stuff like baggy jeans cause no one wants to see other people's underwear, but lol at the rest of that list.
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