Golf Club Sorry for Calling Cops on Group of Black Members

[Demovictory9]

http://www.newser.com/article/1893c1469ff343dbb8dcdc5a01d73157/golf-club-apologizes-for-calling-cops-on-black-women-members.html


A golf club in Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course, the AP reports. "I felt we were discriminated against," one of the women, Myneca Ojo, told the York Daily Record. "It was a horrific experience." Sandra Thompson and four friends met up Saturday to play a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club, where they are all members, she told the newspaper. At the second hole, a white man whose son co-owns the club came up to them twice to complain that they weren't keeping up with the pace of play. Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP, told the newspaper it was untrue. On the same hole, another member of the group, Sandra Harrison, said she spoke with a Grandview golf pro, who said they were fine since they were keeping pace with the group ahead of them.

Despite that, the women skipped the third hole to avoid any other issues, she said. After the ninth hole, where it is customary to take a break before continuing on the next nine holes, three of the group decided to leave because they were so shaken up by the earlier treatment, the women told the paper. Thompson said the man from the second hole, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister; his son, club co-owner Jordan Chronister; and several other white, male employees approached the remaining two women and said they took too long of a break and they needed to leave the course. The women argued they took an appropriate break, and that the men behind them were still on their beer break and not ready to tee off, as seen in a video Thompson gave the newspaper. The women were told that the police had been called, and so they waited. Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone. The AP has more on the incident and the apology.


http://www.newser.com/story/258299/golf-club-sorry-for-calling-cops-on-black-women.html

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. That is horrific. Those poor women.

[panader0]

2. The golf club was only sorry when they learned that Sandra Thompson

was an attorney with the NAACP--that's my bet.

[dalton99a]

5. Yep.

[dalton99a]

3. NEXT: White restaurant manager calls police about black customers not eating fast enough

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Or using one too many packets of sweetner. nt

[Demsrule86]

15. Hey...they probably count the condiments and silverware before seating 'those' sort. (Sarcasm)

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. Hey, they are lucky to get seated at all. Double down on your sarcasm. nt

[EffieBlack]

20. They didn't order within 2 minutes after sitting, so they're trespassing - whoa, here come the cops!

Yerrrr outtahere!!!

[MaryMagdaline]

4. They are sorry? It was one of the owners not a flunky

Who harassed them.

[Shrike47]

6. I hope the apologies are accompanied by substantial checks or perks or SOMETHING.

[Angry Dragon]

7. +5,000

[Cha]

8. It's an epidemic..

[EffieBlack]

9. "Why do these black people always want to make everything about race?"

Looking forward to the excuses and defenses my fellow DUers will come up with for this one.

3-2-1 ...

[HipChick]

11. Right behind you Effieblack..

'cos we'll surely know it will come...

[dalton99a]

13. "You know, when I was 15, I was very very slow and they kicked me out too"

"and I am white!!!"

[EffieBlack]

19. :-)

[Demsrule86]

16. I was pretty shocked by some of the responses on the Starbucks thing.

[EffieBlack]

10. "Northern York County Regional Police arrived, conducted interviews and left without charging anyone

I thought the police "had no choice" but to make an arrest once someone calls them to complain about black people taking up space.

Why did they need to "conduct interviews?" The owner of the club wanted them gone and called the police. Isn't that more than enough for the police to haul these women off to jail?

Or does that only apply to Starbucks?

"We sincerely apologize to the women for making them feel uncomfortable here at Grandview, that is not our intention in any way," she told the newspaper. "We want all of our members to feel valued and that they can come out here and have a great time, play golf and enjoy the experience."

She said she hopes to meet with them to discuss how the club can use what happened as a learning experience and do better in the future.

Thompson said she's not sure a meeting is what needs to happen.

"There needs to be something more substantial to understand they don't treat people in this manner," she said.

Um, Mrs. Golf Club Owner - black people are tired of having to educate white people about "how to do better in the future." It's not our jobs to teach you how to treat other human beings with respect. You do better by just doing better.

Damn.

[Wellstone ruled]

14. This crap needs to stop!

[yardwork]

18. I can only say that I'm glad that these instances are being revealed.

This happens much too often. It needs to be exposed and the perpetrators shamed.

[bullwinkle428]

21. The game has been in a tailspin at the recreational level for a good 20+ years. I had

read/heard sometime in the last year that there has been a 40% DROP in the number of those that play regularly since the mid 1990s!

I started playing at age 14 back in 1978, and totally accept those numbers as accurate - there's clearly a significant decrease in the number of people I see playing the public courses I've spent nearly all of my time on, when playing.

Clubs need to be going out of their way, bending over backwards to attract newcomers to the game, and they'd better fucking understand the demographic shift that's taking place in this country!

[sarcasmo]

22. Caddyshack 3, rich white assholes edition.