This story was orginally posted on August 26, 2013. The irony is that the company has had repeated claims of racial discrimination since. They are involed in one as you read this.A woman contacted Radio Facts who works at the Wild Wings restaurant that asked the black patrons to leave. and asked that we allow her to be anonymous.
She states there are several reasons the group was asked to leave (below) Radiofacts.com
You’re only getting one side of story here. I work at the restaurant and your representation of the events is way off base. The group was being loud and obnoxious to both customers and staffers.
They kept complaining about their long wait and were talking about how “whitey” was able to get seated, but they were not. The problem was that they had a large group and insisted on sitting next to each other. We only had one area that could accommodate their large group and the patrons in that area were not done.
So yes, some “whities” were able to be seated before them, but only because they were going to a different area. We also seated non-whites in other areas too… They made this a racial issue before anything.
One of the guests also insulted a deaf white girl because she didn’t respond to one of them telling her to move (she was deaf and didn’t hear them)
They were also all standing in the middle of the walkway, making it difficult for customers to leave. We asked them if they could move over, but they said they can stand wherever they want, and if we wanted them out of the way then we should seat them. The customer that was offended was offended by a particular individual’s constant use of the word “n*gger” When asked to stop, he threw out a long string of racial epithets against one of my co-workers.
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I think black skinned folks are some of the most racist people I’ve ever seen. And their sense of entitlement is sickening. They will over play their hand soon enough. Look, this is simple, we are all humans living on the same planet, made by the same creator. Skin color is not an issue. Character is. Oh wait, that’s what MLK talked about. Never heard Jackson or Sharpton talk about that. It’s been 50 years today since MLK made his “I Have A Dream” speech. And very few have learned a darn thing from him. Sad state of affairs indeed.
this is the society we wanted, we voted him in and now everything is racist. Im a Flight Attendant and was serving drinks to the passengers where a black guy was sleeping. I asked the passengers what they wanted and he woke up. He saw the passengers get their drinks first and then accused me of serving him last as he was black.
Thankfully the other passengers told him he was not ignored and accused him of falsely accusing me and that he was just looking for a hand out or a free ticket…yup, thats what I figured too.
Twenty-five people show up at a popular busy restaurant without a reservation?
Years ago I waited tables and tended bar and I hate to say it, but large groups of blacks were often loud, unruly and disruptive to the other customers.
When I had such a group, I could pretty much count on getting sent back numerous times for condiments, complaints, etc… and getting no tip.
I am a liberal Democrat and voted for Obama, so I am no racist. However, it has gotten to the point that incivility has become the norm. I don’t think I’m special because I’m white or think I deserve any special treatment. But I do see more black people get abusive over minor unintentional mishaps. Here is an example of what I’m talking about: I was waiting in a line at my bank during lunch time. It was crowded and people were feeling anxious about getting back to work. A man wanted to simply cut through my line on his way to a different section of the bank. When I stepped backwards to allow him to walk through, I accidentally stepped on the foot of the black woman behind me. (I am of normal weight) I immediately apologized, but she was furious and said “Fu*k you, bitch.” Things like this I do not understand. The incident had nothing at all to do with race, it had to do with being civil to another person.
I work in a popular French quarter restaurant and stuff like this happens all the time with large groups of all races. they come in on busy nights for one reason or another and all want to sit together. this puts a huge strain on the restaurant and the front of house staff. the wait is long bc they have to wait for all guests in a particular area to leave and that area has to be large enough to put them. sometimes the wait is 2 or more hours. my restaurant has party rooms available to accommodate large groups but it’s a $75 and hour charge and they don’t want to pay that. they don’t understand that you cant seat a large party that just walks in as you can a smaller party. once they get frustrated with the wait they get rude, beligerant, and downright mean to other customers as well as the staff. we actually had one lady walk up to a table and tell the guests that they had to leave bc her party was waiting. at that point we asked her party to leave the restaurant and refused them service. i’m sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle of both stories. we now have a policy in place that large parties must split into groups of six. we will try to seat you close to each other but there is no guarantee bc we seat them as 6 top tables become available. if they don’t like that option they are free to leave. for future reference, if you go out to eat with large party and insist on sitting together be patient. they staff is doing their best. don’t act like assholes bc you can’t have your way right away
As usual only one-side of a story comes out. Thanks to the slow response from Wings management, you have a free for all! Of course Managment is AFRAID to do anything but trip all over the place apologizing before they have accurate informaion, and sometimes when they do! I imagine some big money will exchange hands here soon.
There are always two sides to a story and it is a good thing that both have been aired here. I daresay both sides feel themselves to be insulted or unfairly treated. Perhaps, in the future, both sides will also take more care about they way they act and the way they respond to other people around them, whether waiting or serving.
I keep reading that no black person uses the term “whitey”. I call BS on that. I overheard two older black men in grocery store (Dayton, OH) use it less than a month ago. I agree that I don’t hear it often, but it is a term still used my some.
We will only become ‘post-racial’ when bad behavior is rejected no matter what shade a person is on a color wheel. In other words, when ALL COLORS can be criticized or disagreed with, thrown out of a restaurant EQUALLY without unfairly assuming race is the reason, we will live in a colorblind society. When black people stop defining themselves SOLELY by a color, we can move forward. Everyone is ‘more’ than a color yet some oddly choose to only BE a color. Okay, so you are black, what ELSE are you? Rude? Kind? Bright? Angry? Giving? Smart? What ELSE ARE YOU? Remember:Those who separate themselves, shall remain separate. I’ll look forward to the mass epiphany. I hope it happens in my lifetime because we’re ALL sick of this.
Why hasn’t this info been previously released? If they were loud & obnoxious I truly believe that WWC would’ve expressed this prior to this unknown random employee doing so?
“rosa parks Posted August 28, 2013 at 5:33 AM
“Well, I see the haters and the racists are here in force today spewing the venom…..”
No, not that many, really. Just you, “rosa parks,” and a few other anti-white bigots.
The whole thing is a joke. My question is, does the place have security cameras? Most do. The camera will tell the story. Its easy to say that the party of 25 was unruly…and maybe they were…who really knows? I read their side of the story…they sound like upstanding civilized people. But at the same time, its easy to write your story and put yourself in favorable light. Same with the restaurant manager..how much of his story is true. Why wouldn’t he apologize? Easy, that would be an admission of guilt…opening himself up to a lawsuit. And I wonder if that’s why the camera suddenly came out..for a future lawsuit. My own theory is… could it be possible, 1 or 2 started getting unruly from the long wait, and others preferring not to say anything, had let them continue getting rowdy. Then they were asked to leave? I think mainly this incident was caused by the racial tensions being created by the news during this past year.
Large groups of black people tend to act this way. I 100% believe the restaurant was right in kicking them out.
“How do we know that this woman is telling the truth? Why didn’t the restaurant state that the group was unruly if this is true?”
How do we know that the other group is telling the truth? Why are we making various assumptions when we obviously don’t know all of the relevant facts?
Most of the comments I’ve read are purely emotional responses, no logic or reasoning.. Let’s all keep fighting amongst ourselves and never stop to look up at the real threats to out liberty. Divide and conquer anyone? Imagine if people began to look at the real threat, ‘banksters’, cronies, the ruling class, the 3 sisters, special interest groups, the disposition matrix, and so on..? It’s hard for some to stop and consider what is going on behind the curtains. There’s no way that the few would come together and conspire to rule the many.. Right? He who controls the money, controls the world. And the last time I checked, a select few control the money supply. Those of you who are unfamiliar with this info or apathetic to it, I implore you to do some research.. Things are not what they seem, and yes, reality is stranger than fiction at times… Welcome to the r3VOLution!
Ahem….
The Rev. is here, the…Rev….Is…Here.
Sorry it took so long to reply I was busy disproving that those black boys in Oklahoma shot that upside down Aussie Honky, then I had to go up to Washington to prove that the 88 y.o WWII vet that was ‘allegedly’ beat to death by those harmless afro-american teenagers of ours, actually died of natural causes.
This article is 100% false…DO NOT believe a word of that traitor lady. She has been brainwashed by the White Devil. In the name of Jesse Jackson, Amen.
Obama is not half white!
Thank you for posting the other side of the story. All I can say about the situation is that if you have a group that large, you need to call ahead and make sure the restaurant knows you are coming. I don’t know of very many restaurants that would be able to handle a group that size without a very long wait. I am in a group of less than 20 that has parties twice a year, and we reserve our spot two months in advance. (I live in Las Vegas. lots of restaurants here)
Blacks in America have secured themselves a “REPUTATION”. Because of that ‘reputation’ blacks are now believed to be the guilty party in ANY altercation of any kind with anyone NOT another black. They made this reputation themselves by behaving as this group of blacks did. Now, they will just have to accept the ‘reputation’ that they, themselves made FOR themselves. As soon as I hear ANY of the “racial whine” I automatically assume that it’s the black living up to the black “groupthink” reputation. Racism. And all that follows is “fabrication” and distortion of facts based on the ‘racial whine’. I just don’t believe what blacks say anymore. Haven’t since the whole ‘racial whine’ started.
I’m from Charleston and I have been to all of the wild wing locations there. The staff are all very accommodating and when I read the story about the group of 25 getting refused seats “because they were black” I laughed my ass off because I knew they were probably being roudy. Thankfully a waitress spoke out telling the true story. How can a group of 25 people, waiting for 2 hours because they expect to sit together without a reservation, regardless of race, not get obnoxious in the waiting room?
This sounds about right!
Hmmm….let’s see. An “anonymous” caller; a mgr who had them wait for 2 hours; a reason given that a custorm was “uncomfortable” with them;a corp head office that waits 3 wks and doesn’t respond until a complainants facebook page goes viral. I’ll said with the family on this one. And btw, anyone prefacing their comments with “and I’m African-American” probably isn’t.
I frequent this establishment all the time and I am never treated unfairly. I believe this women’s version of the story. I have seen the staff at this establishment treat whites, blacks, native americans, and all other races the same. I am so tired of everything becoming a race issue!!! This is the problem in this country today.
They were ‘entitled’ to be obnoxious by their dear leader.
I’ve witnessed a huge upsurge in this type of behavior.
Get this folks, You are SPECIAL……….Just like everyone Else!
So get over your attitude, it is NOT making you better and it is certainly not helping you get what you want…respect!
White guilt is all used up. For some reason blacks in large groups get aggressive and very racial. Whatever.. who cares anymore? The majority of crime is by blacks. They have a lot of hatred and while our society used to really want to fix that, I think we all realize now that the more we tried, they more entitled and aggressive they become. Our apologetic society has created a huge monster class. The only large group of people left that care about skin color are the blacks. Im done , I don’t care what their ancestors went through. Im American Indian and we were almost wiped out. I mean get over yourselves. I think the first step to control this should be to stop giving extra welfare money for each child popped out after two for whites and blacks and pinks or greens. Quit paying to increase the ghetto class and we will begin to take control of perpetuating this kind of lifestyle and attitude. I want to quit paying for these people. I think America wants to quit paying for these people. Browse youtube and look at the aggression from blacks targeting whites. Its sickening. Im just done pretending. They create their own problems. No sympathy
So, I almost completely side with the staff on this. Even though there’s little evidence in the entire case for either side, honestly, what makes more sense? A restaurant, a place of business that stays open solely on the fact that customers come to purchase their food and can be ruined easily by bad publicity, treated a large group of people (and therefore a decent dinner bill) with disrespect? Or, that these people were being disrespectful and got told to leave and now in an attempt to cause some static or possible eek some money out of the place they cry wolf?
About two years ago I finished up my third year as a cashier for a locally owned grocery store in a decent suburban area. Take two guesses as to which race of people were the most infuriating and problematic. Sure, there were plenty of white people who were just insufferable. I had a pregnant white woman in the store calling another cashier a bitch, slut, and everything else because when wasn’t allowed to get a roasted chicken with her foodstamps. Being assholes isn’t exclusive to one race. But what I noticed when dealing with black customers (not Hispanic, Asian, or any other minority) is that if anything happened the race card would be the first thing thrown out. And I’m not talking about a bunch of ghetto boys running around acting like lunatics for fun. I’ve had grown women and men which were making a decent living (we chased their paychecks there too) start braying out calling me a racist at the silliest of things.
I pressed a food stamp button while cashing a check once. The buttons are literally right on top of each other with | | that much space in between. It was an honest mistake and I corrected it on my own as soon as it happened. No problem right? No, there was obviously a problem. The women (a black woman btw) decides to start complaining about how I’m a racist for assuming she had foodstamps and when I tried to explain to her it was a misunderstanding she just pushed the issue. I’m obviously under the impression that she’s trashy because I’m white and she’s black and blah, blah, blah. So, she goes on a rant for about five minutes, drawing the attention of the other customers and making a spectacle of herself. At this point I gave up and just let her go on with whatever she was trying to do. Now, she’s calling to her family across the store and telling them to come over and talk to the “whitey with a bad impression of our people”. My manager comes up eventually and tells the family to leave. Being that my boss was also white, things didn’t get much better. To make this long story a little shorter I ended up telling the woman off a little. Nothing insulting but rather stating the obvious that this had nothing to do with race and she’s only bring this up because all she can see about me was that my skin color was different than hers, if she didn’t like what was going on then she can leave and go call the store owner or file a report with whoever handles this kind of stuff. We had to call the cops to get her to leave.
Bonus info – This woman was the wife of a minister. He was a regular customer but his wife had never been there before that day. He came back and apologized to us later. I was around 18 years old at the time and this woman was probably in her mid-30’s, so she felt the need to accost a teenager in public. Also, I was in an interracial relationship at the time and currently am married and have a child with the same person. So yeah, pressing the wrong buttons make you racist.
After all this I was reprimanded for speaking to the woman so this might be why the person didn’t give a name. Business can be so backwards some times. I know where I worked we were “encouraged” to keep silent if problems like this happened even if we were attempting to defend ourselves. I’ve seen many coworkers give out half-forced apologies to assholes because “the customer’s always right”.
Black people are demons
hypocritical demons from hell
He had a dream, when man would not be judged by the colour of his skin but by the but by the content of their character. Our problem in this case seems that we don’t know for sure whether it was the content of their caracter or the colour of their skin. Since I was not there I chose not to judge either party. Is it possible that both are telling some part of the same truth but are unwilling to tell the whole truth. Why weren’t they told that there would be about an hours wait? And yes if my wife and I had to wait an hour and hadn’t beed told, my wife would be all over them, obnoxious and making flippant comments to customers and staff. I’m afraid it’s not the colour of her skin, but the content of her character. But I sort of like that character when they are on your side.
Figures. Pretty typical. Too bad it has to be that way.
But really, 2 hours wait and you don’t expect people to get irate??? What type of management do they have? If you have one area that could accommodate them and you have agreed to give them an area for all to be seated together, as the customers left that area you don’t keep seating smaller parties there. And you will not make me believe it took two hours for that area to be cleared! And this so called employee has made the situation worse and should be disciplined for speaking out of order.
I frequent this wild wing in fact im sitting here right now and im telling you there is no discrimination that goes on here. You really have to be over the top to be asked to leave. I will have to say that there are alot of rude African americans in the North Charleston area. Ive traveled the country and have never seen such rude entitled folks here. There was a table just the other day of my fellow Boeing workers who were all African american and they ran up a $180 tab with great service mind you and left 0 tip.
Oh and btw this wasnt Buffalo Wild Wings by Tanger it was Wild Wing Cafe on Rivers just found that out but same thing applies. Rude assholes get booted period no matter your skin color!
Well i know this group of people, and they are not the type to say these words. One person is a preacher and talented music instructor. I dont believe the worker at all
If there was ever any doubt that the group was discriminated against all you need to do is read all the comments from the racist bigots in here. Thank you for demonstrating so well why bigots like you should be mocked and ridiculed.
This makes me laugh so hard! Some of you are unbearably ignorant because you have determined in your feeble minds that ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE SAME. When a group of black individuals from the Boule and Jack and Jill or MENSA step into a restaurant, do you honestly believe they are going to act the same as a group of people from Hood-Town USA? Honestly?
You probably don’t even know MENSA, or that your are using a PC because a black man managed a team that created the modern PC (and he holds the patents).
ANYWAYS, I refuse to take a side in this story because everyone wants to make their side look better.
I WANT VIDEO! But oh wait, they had to turn that off because . . . why? Think about it.
Oh Terrel, here you are accusing us of taking the first thing we hear and running with it and it looks to me like you are really excited to take the second thing you hear and run the opposite direction. I bet every wingnut on the planet will be sharing this from here to China within an hour like it was handed down from above. By tonight this woman will have grown a name and picture and be snapping her gum in a video. I too found a couple things that just don’t seem right. Its almost like this thing tries to hit every racist talking point from a list. And ya, I really don’t hear “whitey” used by anyone much besides white people who are trying to parody black people. This thing is about as phony sounding as George Zimmerman’s heroic rescue. And Kingpin, the last time I heard anyone call themself an Afro-American was in the 70’s. Good try guys but this dog don’t hunt……
No way I can’t believe a group of people acting stupid got kicked out of a restaurant!!! Wtf people? Really? Doesn’t matter the color of your skin, you act like an idiot and and are disrespectful to an establishment you will most likely get kicked out! Now the fact that they were black makes it wrong? Just because they were black? White people do dumb sh*t all the time and yes to all our surprise get arrested and thrown out of restaurants and clubs and bars just the same as blacks. So why is this controversial? Oh they were black, that’s right I guess the restaurant owes them something now.. Right!!
I’m just not ready to believe that a group of african americans could be so obnoxious.
I AM AMAZED AT THE COMMENTS IM SEEING I KEEP MY RACIAL COMMENTS TO MY SELF BUT RACISM IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL IM IN FOOD A BEVERAGE AND I HAD A CUSTOMER THAT WOULD NOT LET A BLACK YOUNG LADY SERVE HIM SO HE GOT OUT THE LINE AND WAITED ON THE NEXT AVAILABLE PERSON TO SERVE HIM WHICH WAS WHIT FOR PEOPLE TO GET ON HERE AND TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY HATE BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT ITS REAL WE AS BLACK S HAVE IT HARD IN OUR COMMUNITIES ON OUR JOBS IN SCHOOL EVEN WITH THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND I DONT THINK ITS FEAR TO US SLAVERY IS OVER THERE NO SUCH THING AS BLACK AND WHITES HAVE TO EAT AT A DIFFRENT TABLE OR CANT DATE I LOVE WHITE PEOPLE I HAVE WHITE FRIENDS WHO AGREE WITH ME SOME THING HAVE TO GET DONE ABOUT THIS FIGHT TO YOU ALL CANT FIGHT AND MORE FOR WHATS RIGHT
I find it amazing how some people act in restaurants. If they acted that way at somebody’s home as a dinner guest they would be kicked out at gunpoint!
Courtesy is something lacking these days. I’ve seen many mouthy and arrogant black diners, I wished I knew where they learned that kind of behavior. If you’re over 13 years old and still doing that you have a problem!
I don’t find this hard to believe at all!!!! I see black people act like this on a daily basis. And it is only getting worse. I live in Tulsa OK and I am Native American and it is disgusting to me that they think American’s owe them EVERYTHING!!! If you want to be treated with respect, no matter what color you are, SHOW RESPECT to EVERYONE!!! if you don’t like it here, you claim you’re African American, then GO BACK TO AFRICA!!! and shut the hell up with your damn ebonics. . . it just makes you sound stupid and uneducated!!!
Probably wouldn’t tip
There are two sides to every story…but this side seemed to somehow weave every stereotype of large groups of African Americans into it. They were loud, rude, impatient, bullies who called people whitey? I am surprised she didn’t throw in a comment about them threatening not to tip. Not to mention, thus far her story is the ONLY counter claim from that night.
Stereotype: a set of generalizations about a group that allows others to categorize them and treat them accordingly
Stereotypes occur through repeated experiences that lead to predictions of an expected behavior.
If you want a different stereotype, the group needs to learn to behave in a civilized world
What’s that? A group of ethnic people immediately calling something racist? That’s racist. Only white people are racist.
Nice try Carl, but it is bigots like you who give racists a bad name
None of us were there. So next subject.
I’m calling bullshit on this supposed “confession” by the “worker”
This supposed story from a worker who supposedly contacted this website of all places…is nothing more than a comment left by a reader of the original story. I saw this yesterday. Anyone could have written that. Bullshit like that easily takes on a life of its own because you all are so ready to believe that blacks are just whining about racism and are the cause of EVERY negative encounter that you don’t even care how bogus the source is as long as the words back up your biased opinions….
I sure wish you black people would stop ruining it for those blacks who chose to make something of themselves and are now doctors lawyers and even President and arguably the most powerful person in the world.
pull up your draws, get an education, get some manners get a job and stop whining like a girl.
Black americans have it better than blacks in any country on the planet.
Don’t make me come out of this grave and haunt you!
If this was an issue of some unruly people whether black or white why would corporate offer a FREE MEAL. Businesses are in this to MAKE money not give it away. As for that Unknown woman if you were a racist getting flack for being a racist dont you think she may just try to be ANONYMOUS?? I would to save my job. Give me a break. Look Mrs. Manager maybe you ought to own up or are you one of those people that think they are perfect. Humans make mistakes. Its also a good idea to own up instead of COVER UP. Maybe you parents didnt teach you that.
Seriously people, it is North Charleston.
It doesn’t matter what color you are, not calling to make a reservation or at least give a restaurant a heads up BEFORE you arrive when your party is more then ten people is stupid.