Racism Charged Against Hollywood Bar That Forbids Hip-Hop
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Credit: Andy J Scott Rapper Open Mike Eagle was barred from playing Harvard & Stone
One man's purity is another man's segregation. You don't expect to encounter those ideas in Hollywood in 2013, but they creep in through coding and innuendo.
Public racial slurs are rare, but people casually mention frequenting a club until it became overtaken by "the...well, you know." The doorman in Knocked Up was only half joking when he expressed his hopes for a black midget in the crowd, because the club promoters only permitted one and a quarter blacks for every 25 whites.
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