Wild Wing Cafe Removes Black Family For Intimidating White Woman

Welcome to 2016. An African-American family was reportedly removed from a Charleston, S.C. restaurant after allegedly intimidating a white woman while they waited to be seated.

Michael Brown says that he and his family, a party of 25, were waiting to be seated at the Wild Wing Cafe in Charleston earlier this summer. After waiting for nearly two hours, they were informed that they had to leave.

Why?

Brown claims that a manager told him that there presence was intimidating one of their White customers.

WCSC in Charleston reports:

Michael Brown says he was celebrating his cousin’s last day in Charleston last month at Wild Wing Cafe in North Charleston. He says after his party of 25 waited two hours for a table, the shift manager told them there was a “situation.”

“She said there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours,” explains Brown. “Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.”

Brown says while he was talking to the shift manager, someone in his group began videotaping the conversation. Brown says that’s when the manager became upset and refused to seat them.

“I asked her I want to be clear with you,” says Brown. “I said so you’re telling me I have to leave. She said I have a right to deny you service. I said so you’re asking me to leave because you’re upset because he was recording you, after we’ve waited for two hours, and after you’ve already pretty much discriminated on us, and she answered yes.”

Brown says that he called Wild Wing Cafe’s corporate offices numerous times. But when no one answered, he did what everyone does when they need to vent in 2016.

He went on Facebook.

Photo: Instagram

His post reads:

I will never go to Wild wings cafe in N. Chs again! We (Party of 25 family and friends) waited 2hrs, patiently and were refused service because another customer (White) felt threatened by us. This type of racial discrimination is unacceptable and we have to put a STOP TO IT. The manager looked me dead in the face and said she was refusing us service because she had a right to and simply she felt like it. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ESTABLISHMENT… PLEASE SHARE THIS POST… We need your help.

The post soon went viral. Wild Wing Cafe took notice and responded promptly. They apologized for the terrible experience, but never denied that it happened. To try and make up for it, they offered Brown and his family a free meal. Brown turned down the offer.

“We weren’t coming there for a free meal,” says Brown. “When we came there that night, we were coming to patronize the business. This is not a situation where you can just give us a free meal and everything is ok because it’s deeper than that.”

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