OMG, they named it 'Redline'.

[wildeyed]

Jury Awards Black Bartender $687,000 in Racial-Discrimination Case Against DC Sports Bar

A former bartender was awarded $687,000 after jurors found that the owner of a Washington, D.C., bar violated her civil rights under federal and district anti-discrimination laws, the Washington Post reports.

Redline owner Mick Dadlani and his company were found to have racially discriminated against newly hired bartender Briggitta Hardin at the time of the bar's grand opening back in December 2012.

Hardin, who is black, accused Dadlani of refusing to shake her hand or speak to her when they first met. Within an hour after that, she was fired, the Post reports.

During the seven-day trial held this month, several white former employees testified about the absence of black bartenders and Dadlani's hiring preferences based on race, Hardin's lead attorney, Megan Cacace, pointed out, according to the report.

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Since it is in DC, probably ON the red line of the Metro, but the irony of the name is HUGE.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Not lost on me!

[awoke_in_2003]

2. I'm afraid I don't get it. nt

[Godhumor]

3. Redlining is refusing to provide something of need to neighborhoods based on its ethnic make-up

The concept is from drawing a big red line around a neighborhood on a map and saying something like "Don't go there, that is the black neighborhood."

Started to describe the practice of refusing to let certain ethnicities buy houses in white neighborhoods, it is now used to convey any kind of purposeful denial of services due to the make up of a community. For example, Buffalo just recently had a case where a local bank were purposely not opening branches in certain areas of the city due to those communities' demographic make up...even though those communities were in the bank's footprint.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Thanks for refreshing my memory. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

4. It started in the FDR Admin

The FHA. From 1934 to 1968 there were severe restrictions placed on where blacks could own homes, who whites were allowed to sell to, etc etc.


So since blacks were kept in specific communities that were kept depressed/poor by the Federal Government -we weren't allowed to accumulate wealth via home ownership.

It (as another poster pointed out below) is still being inflicted in a different way - but this is where/why I roll my eyes when white people discuss slavery reparations. From Gen X, to the Boomers to the Slient Generation -

They've got their own problems right here in the age of the development of suburbs, interstate highways, and the development of the modern American ghettos.

J'accuse.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Thank you. nt

[wildeyed]

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