"A Chinese restaurant in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been shut down and its owners summoned by authorities after it emerged it was barring black patrons, reports said Wednesday.
The restaurant became the focus of city authorities after furious residents took to social media to denounce an apparently racist policy of not allowing African patrons to eat there after 5pm -- pushing #RacistRestaurant, #NoBlacksHere and #TheChineseInvasion to be top trending topics."
Bad public relations on steroids. A ten year old could have told these geniuses that this was a bad idea.
Don't you kinda wonder what prompted their decision? I'm not saying it's right or wrong, or that I agree or disagree, but something must have happened.
ReplyDeleteWell, they should have simply shut down entirely at 5 if there really was a credible threat. I've heard tell that the Chinese are not very culturally sensitive, and that might be the real explanation here, coupled with their desire to cater to a purely Chinese dinner crowd. The Africans and the Chinese are famous for not liking each other very much.
DeleteOr, just bar them ALL the time.
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