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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 04:34 PM Mar 2016

Fresno bar kicks out two black women — and it turns out they are attorneys for the ACLU (xp from GD)

Source: Rawstory

A Fresno, California bar is under fire for kicking out two African-American attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union who were trying to have a night out singing karaoke, according to the ACLU.

Attorneys Abre’ Conner and Novella Coleman went to a bar called Brig. The two women were hoping for a night of karaoke and planned to sing the R&B classic, “Waterfalls,” by TLC.

But before our song was called, a bar employee came up and said we had to buy drinks to sing karaoke,” they wrote on the ACLU’s website. “Another bartender lunged at us within inches of our faces and shouted ‘Buy drinks!'” This despite the fact they had already bought drinks, they wrote.

“A second bartender — a very tall and large man — shouted louder and louder that we were loitering and that the bar wasn’t a hangout place,” they wrote. “Over and over again he pushed his body up against Abre’ — who is just 5’4” tall — to force her out of the bar.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/fresno-bar-kicks-out-two-black-women-and-it-turns-out-they-are-attorneys-for-the-aclu/

I have a feeling that these two women aren't ones to be playing with!

I hope they end up owning that bar lol!

h/t NWCorona

Ah yes, Fresno, where the police chief had a special ringtone for an AA city council member. Care to hazard a guess?

"Mammy's little baby loves short'nin', short'nin', Mammy's little baby loves short'nin' bread!"

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Fresno bar kicks out two black women — and it turns out they are attorneys for the ACLU (xp from GD) (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
Those employees will regret their hasty actions.........if they don't regret them now! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2016 #1

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,678 posts)
1. Those employees will regret their hasty actions.........if they don't regret them now!
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 04:52 PM
Mar 2016

Talk about hassling the wrong people!



They really did.

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