Pennsylvania golf club apologizes for calling police on group of black women

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Pennsylvania golf club apologizes for calling police on group of black women

By Julia Manchester - 04/23/18 10:43 PM EDT

A Pennsylvania golf club apologized on Sunday for calling the police on a group of black women, all of them members, after the co-owner said they were moving slowly on the course and ignoring requests to leave.

The club's co-owner, Jordan Chronister, and his father, former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, and several other white men approached the group of women playing, saying they had taken too long of a break in play and needed to leave, according to the Associated Press. The women said they had taken a proper break, but they were told the police had been called. “I felt we were discriminated against,” Myneca Ojo told The York Daily Record. “It was a horrific experience.”

Police said they left the scene without charging anyone. “We were called there for an issue, the issue did not warrant any charges,” Northern York County Regional Police Chief Mark Bentzel said. “All parties left and we left as well.”

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The manager who called the police on the two men has since left the company.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/384533-pennsylvania-golf-club-apologizes-for-calling-police-on-group

"Isolated incident".

[JI7]

1. Economic anxiety

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The term dujour for this is "white spaces"

Black in Rittenhouse and designing for a diverse city

Thursday, April 19, 2018
By Malcolm Burnley

One week ago, the arrest of two black men at a Rittenhouse Square Starbucks pushed a provocative idea about the racialization of urban space into mainstream conversation. Suddenly, millions of people across the globe were talking about the notion that a space as anodyne as a chain coffee shop found in airports and shopping malls the world over can operate in a way that serves white people better than those who are black or brown. In a majority-minority city like Philadelphia, the specifics of this ongoing conversation about "white spaces" may have been new, but the substance was not.

"What happened in @Starbucks is just a symptom of the larger issues of race and class in Philly," tweeted Philadelphian Erica Atwood in one of the countless conversations on the topic rippling across social media. Atwood and others pointed to an episode last year when Rittenhouse residents tried to ban sitting in areas of the affluent neighborhood's namesake park where black youth tended to congregate. They pointed to data: According to the ACLU of Pennsylvania, 67 percent of police stops in the district servicing Rittenhouse involved African-Americans, despite 97 percent of the area’s residents being white.

But for many people of color, no amount of data can tell the whole story. Tayyib Smith is one of those people. “I am one of that three percent living within the Ninth Police District,” says Smith, one of the founding partners of the coworking space Pipeline Philly, Little Giant Creative, and the Institute of Hip-Hop Entrepreneurship (IHHE).

The unspoken signs that make Smith, as a black man, feel a sense of otherness or unwelcoming in his own neighborhood manifest in myriad ways. It’s not irregular for him to witness neighbors on his posh street halt conversations when he walks outside. White men designed almost all of the neighborhood's historic architecture Even the veneer of farm-to-table restaurants and coffee shops full of refurbished wood, Smith says, are part of “an unspoken language that this isn’t designed for you.”

http://planphilly.com/articles/2018/04/19/black-in-rittenhouse-and-designing-for-a-diverse-city?preview=1

[Cha]

4. Must be

[betsuni]

5. That made me LOL.

Another LOL: economic stress triggers the limbic response so white people aren't responsible for blah blah blah.

[Cha]

2. And another manager bites

the dust.. did he learn nothing from Starbucks?

Thank you for the article, BRDS.. I'm glad no one was arrested this time.

[exboyfil]

11. Actually a coowner and his father

where the ones pushing the women on the golf course. Pick the lowest level flunky they can to fire.

[Cha]

13. I know, right.. that didn't make

sense to me.

It said.. "The manager who called the police on the two men has since left the company." But, then I was thinking it was women who were on the golf course.. and the owners were the ones harassing them.

I didn't go to the link.. The Hill runs slow for me.

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17. Here's an AP article that came out -with details left out of The Hill article

Golf club apologizes for calling cops on black women members


YORK, Pa. (AP) — A golf club in Pennsylvania has apologized for calling police on a group of black women after the co-owner and his father said they were playing too slowly and refused requests to leave the course. “I felt we were discriminated against,” one of the women, Myneca Ojo, told the York Daily Record. “It was a horrific experience.”

Sandra Thompson and four friends met up Saturday to play a round of golf at the Grandview Golf Club, where they are all members, she told the newspaper. At the second hole, a white man whose son co-owns the club came up to them twice to complain that they weren’t keeping up with the pace of play. Thompson, an attorney and the head of the York chapter of the NAACP, told the newspaper it was untrue. On the same hole, another member of the group, Sandra Harrison, said she spoke with a Grandview golf pro, who said they were fine since they were keeping pace with the group ahead of them. Despite that, the women skipped the third hole to avoid any other issues, she said.

It’s part of golf etiquette that slow-moving players let groups behind them play through if they are holding things up, and often golf courses have personnel who monitor the pace of play, letting golfers know when they are taking too long. The five are part of a larger group of local women known as Sisters in the Fairway. The group has been around for at least a decade, and all of its members are experienced players who have golfed all over the county and world, Thompson said. They’re very familiar with golf etiquette, she said.

After the ninth hole, where it is customary to take a break before continuing on the next nine holes, three of the group decided to leave because they were so shaken up by the earlier treatment, the women told the paper. Thompson said the man from the second hole, identified as former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, his son, club co-owner Jordan Chronister and several other white, male employees approached the remaining two women and said they took too long of a break and they needed to leave the course.

https://apnews.com/95e02521b2884a2abd1470fd9b6fecbb

[Cha]

18. Wow.. that's really

interesting to me.. thanks BRDS.

What were the owners thinking? ".. Leave the course"

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20. "Leave the course"

because... you know... "You don't belong here unless you are cleaning the floors".

[GoneOffShore]

6. Pennsyltucky - proud home of racists an bigots

[Ohiogal]

7. And yet the deplorables will tell you

"Stop playing the race card! Not everything is about race!"

or

"Stop being such a sensitive snowflake!"

Sigh.

[Demit]

10. Why do you think Wolf is a DINO?

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12. I definitely don't think he is

Since he has halted the draconian ALEC legislation that the GOP legislature has tried to ram through and worked with multiple parties to successfully get congressional redistricting through the courts so that PA can supplement our current 5 Democrats with at least 2 additional and possibly up to 5 additional.

[Demit]

15. He also did the Medicaid expansion & is pushing for new paper trail voting machines.

He wants to tax drilling in the Marcellus Shale. He's trying to increase the minimum wage. He served in the Peace Corps, for chrissake. Such an odd outburst by the new poster. Wish he or she would reply to my question. I'm genuinely curious.

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16. Yes and yes

and the poster made the same assertion in an earlier thread that I had.

I think the direct and unfettered Medicaid expansion (which was one of his first acts) was probably the most significant thing to positively impact the lives of poor Pennsylvanians.

[gollygee]

9. I just saw this and came to see if anyone posted it here

Calling the police on black people for golfing slowly. Yep, that's the world we live in. This is like the incident with the wine-tasting tour on the train last year, in that it shows wealthy black people get discriminated against too.

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14. Joe Madison featured this story on his show this morning

I didn't even know about it until he mentioned it and I looked it up. I expect stories like this will start to be suppressed because it establishes a known, consistent and persistent pattern of bias that happens over and over. However it must always be portrayed to be "an isolated incident".

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19. K&R nt