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https://www.tmz.com/2020/11/30/dallas-resta...-table-lecture/TL;DR first:
Black woman is at restaurant. She gets up on some furniture and starts twerking. The (white?) owner comes out and tells her to stop because it is supposed to be a classy restaurant and she is being a cunt.
Black woman 2 is recording, posts on twitter. People are immediately torn between the woman recording being a racist, the owner's reaction being racist, and the woman twerking being a cunt.
Black woman goes on twitter, talks about how twerking is part of black culture, and white people are just trying to shit all over them. Twerking is not a perverse thing, just a dance, and it is white people that make it more than just a dance.
White person explains that Twerking originated from a bird's mating dance (bird is not black), and that Miley Cyrus popularized it (Miley is not black).
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The TL;DR was almost entirely from memory, as the original twitter post and the facebook posts have been since deleted.
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https://www.today.com/food/dallas-restauran...-tirade-t202109QUOTE
[owner] "All this twerking s-–t, don’t bring it here because we’re a restaurant," he said, as the women danced on top of furniture. "... If you want to do it, get the f--k out of my restaurant. Don't do it again. I don't want to hear if you don't like it, get out because I don't need your money."
The backlash on social media was swift, with Twitter users criticizing the owner for escalating the situation. The video also sparked a conversation about respectability politics, racial bias and misogynoir. Both Kelley and the women who were dancing are Black.
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https://twitter.com/ultimategeo45/status/13...-tirade-t202109QUOTE
A lot of restaurants play music that encourages people to get up and dance and that’s what people do. If you don’t want twerkin don’t play twerkin music. If they was twerkin to “fire and desire” then I’d understand his frustration. He could have handled this better in many ways.
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Kelley said that after the first incident, guests were "politely asked to stop and have respect for themselves and other customers." Video shows staff speaking to the guests; Kelley wrote that he declined to share more videos because he didn't want to "embarrass the guests sitting at those tables."
He wrote that the final straw came when "a customer stood on her seat, placed her hands against the glass windows and began to twerk."
"My immediate reaction was this woman could fall through this window and we could be the target of a lawsuit if she is injured," Kelley wrote. "My second reaction was enough is enough. After already addressing this behavior twice, these customers no longer deserved the courtesy of kindness I expressed in the earlier encounters as it was met with disrespect and intentionally ignored. This is why they were told to leave."
Kelley continued that he hoped the additional videos would "give a bit more insight" into the situation and said that going forward he and other staff members would "adjust our playlist and DJ selections."
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He also addressed comments that had said twerking was part of Black culture.
"We do not welcome the part of the culture that will come into a restaurant, stand on furniture and twerk while using 'culture' as an excuse," he wrote. "Would you accept this for your home? (Ask) yourself if you would do this at any other restaurant you frequent?"