Facebook Publication Date: 6/29/2019 10:06

Ok. Let’s summarize this.

Two families in a Sizzler type eatery. Two kids get into it. The father of one of the kids yanks the arm of the other kids, and threatens the mother. The restaurant kicks the man out. To be clear, the action taken by Spur, the restaurant, was not arbitrary. It’s clear that the man was in the wrong. Videos taken during the fracas prove that.

The community is outraged at the racism and discrimination, holding a fairly successful boycott of the chain. Three years in, sales have dipped 9 percent. The chain, once a go to for birthdays and other celebrations has seen its demographic change.

Fun fact: it’s in South Africa.

Another fact: the man who was violent was white; the mother was black.

And now, the outrage has become a sort of referendum of just how successful post apartheid South Africa truly has become, 25 years after it was dismantled, at least in a legal sense.

Most of the restaurant chain’s outlets were in segregated legally enforced white areas, which changed after the overtly racist system was struck down. They are still mostly white areas, but black people go there now too.

The chain, who once based its business model on profiting off of a racist system, defended its decision to remove the father, thereby defending the black mother and family.

There is a lot going on here. Read, digest, reflect.

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