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T-P-CBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 2:07pm
I don’t blame the restaurant. It’s their decision to make after having what was a pretty serious/traumatizing past experience. If you were to go and have a bad experience with something and someone asked you to do it again, youd probably say no too
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  Sigma_Since93T-P-C
  7/05/18 2:33pm
  That’s some B.S. If venues let bad experiences keep them from booking events, they would never have events. When Kenny Chesney comes to my city, folks trash the venue but it hasn’t stopped the venue from booking other country and western acts.
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  T-P-CSigma_Since93
  7/05/18 2:43pm
  1 - every venue, every where gets trashed who ever comes to play, because they make money
  2 - there wasnt a shooting, bet if someone got shot, theyd reconsider
  3 - this is a restaurant, not a dedicated venue, shooting that clearly was in someway related to them most likely hurt their business and no way as a business owner would I take the chance again
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Tippi GordonBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 2:38pm
This is a tough one. I’m very anti-discrimination when it comes to race, but very pro-discrimination when it comes to frat bros.
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  sigmapapiTippi Gordon
  7/05/18 4:30pm
  Frat Bros? This was an Alumni chapter event. I have been to such events held by my fraternity and Pan Hell events. We are professionals that get together to have drinks, talk shop, network, and dance. The most outrageous thing that happens at the event is when a bunch of 40 year olds decide to party hop.
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  sigmapapisigmapapi
  7/05/18 5:43pm
  PENDING APPROVALShoshannasmithsigmapapi7/05/18 5:34pmFrat bros never grow up.Reply
  Obviously you know better than the rest of us “Frat Bros” that have gone on to become US Congressmen (John Lewis, Edolphus Towns), Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party (Huey P. Newton), Rhodes Scholars (Alain Locke), and professional athletes (Emmitt Smith, Hines Ward). Just a bunch of frat bros with nothing on our mind but the drinks, pussy, and party.
  FOH!
  
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ElusiveCupcakeBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 8:35pm

Damn, girl! What happened to you to generate this much vitriol towards fraternities? Animal House wasn’t a documentary

These are 40 + year old Kappas. The worst thing that could happen is that an elderly Kappa fractures his hip trying to shimmy like he did in the late 1960s.

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  Rooo sez BISH PLZElusiveCupcake
  7/05/18 10:56pm
  They don’t know. But at least you had the good sense not to take it out of the greys.
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  ElusiveCupcakeElusiveCupcake
  7/05/18 11:21pm
  Oh great. Another mentally deficient grey responded to me. I know greys are functionally illiterate, but damn. The sentence, “These are 40 + year old Kappas,” indicates that the group includes men older than 40 as well. Which is exemplified by the following sentence where I talk about an elderly (meaning at least 65 years old) Kappa injuring himself while doing a dance step the Kappas are famous in the Black community for doing. A Kappa man who is elderly is old enough to have joined the fraternity in the 1960s.
  TL, DR: Don’t try to insult me when my post is well beyond your intelligence level. Let me simplify that even more: STAY OUT OF GROWN FOLKS BUSINESS!
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cdwag14Breanna Edwards
7/05/18 2:07pm
The time has come for the Divine 9 organizations to begin to flex their financial and political muscle. We are supposed to be the talented 10% & now with a collection of racist pigs trying to drag us back to the 1860's it is time for us to take a stand and show these people what happens when you decide to take stances like this establishment did.
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The Intersectional Feminist part dosBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 2:18pm
I’m from this town. I’m going to die from NOT surprise.
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K__Breanna Edwards
7/05/18 3:18pm
first i was on the side of the restaurant who wants a bunch of frat bros running around and I was going say your kind meant frats but then I went to the side of the frat bc they said all black <- see thats where they messed up, but now Im leaning more towards the restaurant given that previous incident and its not even about the shooting for me as that happened off the property, but the discovering of them selling public tickets and last event that resulted in shooting, 700 people is double the amount, Im sure they have a limit, so next thing you know same thing happens, fire marshall comes out and next thing you know its a “partying while black” article about how restaurant owners called fire marshall and police on party goers. If they really said all black thats where they messed up but spoke their truth so thats discrimination.
Im also confused on how they lost money? it says it was refunded. flyers advertising the event couldnt have been THAT much but then again it doesnt say how much they are suing for
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  Raineyb1013K__
  7/05/18 6:23pm
  Booking venues at the last minute tends to cost more.
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  K__Raineyb1013
  7/05/18 7:36pm
  ahh i see replacement venue right?
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DarkwingChuckBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 2:39pm
“Our outside security firm recommended against hosting the party because the fraternity was proposing to sell tickets to the public, and our security firm strongly recommended against hosting that type party out of concern for public safety,” the restaurant said.
Who does business like this? If that security firm doesn’t want to cover that type of event then they decline it and you use a different firm. They don’t get to tell you how to run your hotel. That’s like hiring a caterer and letting them cross people off your guest list because they don’t do vegan meals.
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HiMyNameIsJayOnceAgainBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 2:15pm
[shimmies menacingly]
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PaulMooneysTongueBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 9:16pm
I get why they want to bring suit and probably should. However, I have to wonder why they didn’t seek out a Black business for their event?
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  Rooo sez BISH PLZPaulMooneysTongue
  7/05/18 10:59pm
  You know why. I have this discussion with my brother organization practically every year. *weary sigh*
  To be fair, once it gets successful, you're a target for mean sloppy wypipo, but ...
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  PaulMooneysTongueRooo sez BISH PLZ
  7/05/18 11:24pm
  Yea....welll I’d say this is where “respectable politics” has it’s place. IJS
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capeoBreanna Edwards
7/05/18 6:42pm
I hope the fraternity has more evidence than in their initial complaint. Right now it’s entirely based on snippets of a conversation that can’t be proven. A business has wide latitude to deny service. It’s going to take more than he said/she said evidence to prove service was denied due to race. It seems like the Cypress Inn is aligning its defense around not wanting to provide a venue where tickets are being sold to the public making it impossible for them to control the number of attendees. That’s a fine defense and would stand up easily, especially after the incident in 2016. The fraternity would need to show that since that incident the Cypress Inn allowed that same type of event, but predominantly white, to have taken place. That would pretty much cinch it for the discrimination case.
Another option would be for the plaintiff to be able to display some kind of discriminatory pattern. That may be tough given that the Cypress Inn did allow a black fraternity to rent the space fairly recently and it ended badly. Especially given that they’re asking for a jury trial... in Alabama. The Cypress Inn will say they changed their policy in regards to events where they aren’t selling the tickets and aren’t able to control the number of attendees. The only way I can see the frat winning this is if they can show that the Cypress Inn has allowed similar events since, and the difference is that the attendees were expected to be predominantly white. That might not be that hard given that, after looking at their Instagram, their customer base and events seem to be a sea of whiteness.
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