Are we back to Negroes must use the back door in 2008? Patrons say Las Vegas casino is racist

This blogger claimed blacks were required to go through a back entrance to enter the club, but when white oriented or non-black oriented events were taking place patrons entered through the front door. I am mad, because I thought I had bookmarked the blog and now I cannot recall the name. The blogger wrote that the club owner joined the protesters in a "silent protest" AGAINST the casino.

I read this story of a protest by black Poetry Night Club patrons located in a Las Vegas casino, and thought about the story my mother told me when I was a kid of how they would have to use the back door to see the dentist when they were kids in Florida in the 50s and 60s. They would have to trek through cardboard boxes and stored items just to sit in the dentist seat.

Now fast forward to 2008, later in the week after reading someone's blog on the story who attended the protest, I ran across this LA Times article which picked up the story.

According to the LA Times:

"Poetry, located above Wolfgang Puck's Chinois, has been involved in a tenant-landlord dispute with Caesars and the landlord of Forum Shops, Simon Property, and is in court with both (the next hearing is set for Thursday)."

"At the center of the dispute is the closing of the main interior entry from Caesars to the Forum Shops at 1 a.m. At that time Poetry is the only business still open in the Forum Shops. So, to access the nightclub after the gate closes, patrons must go outside the resort to walk from the casino to the club. The result is that spiffily dressed clubgoers must walk through a service entrance past doors labeled for emergency use, then outdoors past piles of trash to get to the high-end-marketed nightclub."

"Local radio personality Mike P. from station Power 88 agrees. "They put a huge wall up to prevent African American people and people who like hip-hop from coming to Poetry," he said, while waiting for the gate to shut. "Instead of walking through a nice air-conditioned casino, we have to walk through a dirty back alley. Why is there a wall here? Why are minority people forced in through a back alley in 2008?""
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