london restaurant gets caught discriminating against black people, issues non-apology

As one might imagine, racial discrimination isn’t limited to the United States. Now the UK is dealing with black customers in similarly racist ways. Which is what appears to have happened a few days ago at London’s The Ivy Chelsea Garden when UK singer Rage and her friends were stopped from entering the restaurant. In the video of the exchange with a manager or hostess that Raye posted to Instagram, Raye points out that a white friend (wearing an oversized sweatshirt) was allowed in while her black male friend (dressed in a puffer jacket and khakis) was turned away. The Ivy Chelsea Garden is a casual, but nice dining spot, but their dress code was not previously listed on their website. Making it hard to tell if this dress code is heavily enforced when it’s not a black person waiting to be served. But watch the video and make up your own mind:

RACISM in the most disgusting and blatant form. It says on ur website there is NO DRESS CODE. Do not EVER go to @ivychelsgarden . I am fuming

A post shared by RAYE (@raye) on Apr 23, 2018 at 6:43am PDT

As the video has gained more attention, The Ivy Chelsea Garden has responded to the allegations of racial discrimination with this non-apology, calling the whole incident a “mistake”. Yeah, I’ll say. They’re not sorry for the discrimination, they say it’s about the way they mishandled their dress code policy.

A post shared by The Ivy Chelsea Garden (@ivychelsgarden) on Apr 24, 2018 at 7:57am PDT