WEIGH IN: Black Restaurateur Goes Viral After Anti-Twerking Rant
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WEIGH IN: Black Restaurateur Goes Viral After Anti-Twerking Rant
WEIGH IN: Black Restaurateur Goes Viral After Anti-Twerking Rant
1. How it started...
1 of 162. Not the cliff notes!
2 of 163. "[We're] not talking about that statement enough for me."
3 of 16The True Kitchen & Kocktails owner said “I want men to respect themselves and how can I do that when ladies are in here twerking”
— vaquero pequeño (@LouisXXIV) November 30, 2020
We not talking about that statement enough for me.
4. In a middle of a pandemic...
4 of 16hosting a super spreader event yelling about manners
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) November 30, 2020
5. Just vibes
5 of 16No Twerking .. just vibes pic.twitter.com/paGEYlVhRc
— BackUp for Queen of Zamunda❤️✨ (@j0yyUnspeakable) November 30, 2020
7. All levels
7 of 16That restaurant owner was all the way wrong.
— brittany packnett cunningham. (@MsPackyetti) November 30, 2020
Also why was he packing folks in like that with no masks or distancing or any precautions whatsoever?!?
It’s a no for me on all levels.
8. Food for thought
8 of 16“You don’t see white folks doing that...”
— brittany packnett cunningham. (@MsPackyetti) November 30, 2020
A truly loving reminder that this one of the ways we internalize our own oppression: we make whiteness the aspiration and measure everything against it.
White is not the norm or the default it wants us to think it is.
9. No better opportunity to use a Shemar Moore 'Soul Train' clip!
9 of 16Waiter: Here are the shrimp and grits you ordered. Sir............sir....
— #TheThirstyHippie ⚜ (@just_loach) November 30, 2020
Me: pic.twitter.com/79rdTWWChC
10. Something isn't adding up
10 of 16Me reading these tweets about a woman twerking where twerk music was played inside a restaurant...... pic.twitter.com/nD1nsfdru3
— THIGHley Brothers (@KhaliaEvette) November 30, 2020
11. Thoughts?
11 of 16When y'all pretend white people are the standard for behavior and respectability, it just tells me you haven't spent much time with them
— Jezebel's Gem (@AmandaDannielle) November 30, 2020
12. The alternative approach
12 of 1613. Just our luck!
13 of 16You have me drinking tequila for 2 hours waiting on food, you lucky if this ain’t me pic.twitter.com/PctJ4yL0ic
— King Leo 🇭🇹 (@NYWiseass) November 30, 2020
14. The opposing argument
14 of 1615. I love our people!
15 of 1616. Where would you draw the line?
16 of 16“i don’t need your money” is exactly the moment that i would have walked out without paying. https://t.co/GEn9FgixXS
— da’shaun | they/them (@DaShaunLH) November 30, 2020
WEIGH IN: Black Restaurateur Goes Viral After Anti-Twerking Rant
A Black Dallas restaurant owner is getting dragged after a video shows TRUE Kitchen + Kocktails owner Kevin Kelley loudly laying down the ground rules for the establishment while telling his guests to stop twerking. See what Black Twitter had to say and tell us your thoughts.
A Black Dallas restaurant owner is getting dragged after a video shows TRUE Kitchen + Kocktails owner Kevin Kelley loudly laying down the ground rules for the establishment while telling his guests to stop twerking. See what Black Twitter had to say and tell us your thoughts.