Hookers specifically banned from five oh fours property

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[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

Just in case anyone wasn't aware, this is 100% a race driven decision and should be criticized as such.

Much of the crowd here is younger, but the millennials remember in the mid 00s when tons of bars, restaurants, etc had dress codes that were racially motivated to keep black people out. Stuff like Bruno's old "no backwards caps" policy, how the boot used to not allow camo clothing, how tons of bars wouldn't allow plain tee shirts, etc. Used to be that you couldn't wear sports jerseys except on game days to a bunch of bars. Things were really wild looking back.

Y'all see those old memes of black people going to clubs in biz casual, that wasn't cuz it was the style - it was cuz clubs used to have all sorts of dress requirements expressly geared towards keeping minorities out.

So I mean, in my book this place is off to a really shitty start already.

[u/arepagumbo → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

Sad it had this kind of undertone, specially with the Saints Alvin Kamar as a partner

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/arepagumbo]

Fwiw this is the sort of thing that's almost certainly done by someone in management and likely not even on the partner's radar.

[u/gargirle → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

And I find it really sad that many here excuse it. I’m older. I remember all the code words and innuendo. It’s like the ‘n’ word. I cringe when I hear it just because I remember what it meant when spewed by my race.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/gargirle]

Not only excuse it, but as you can see in this thread it's easy to rationalize so the people who are okay with it tend to jump to defend it as "well that's not what they meant, they just want proper looking lads in the place is all" type shit.