User talk:TAMU Discrimination

'''PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO AS MANY PPL AS YOU CAN. THIS IS A FACTUAL STATEMENT OF AN INCIDENT THAT OCCURED IN COLLEGE STATION'''

March 30th 2007 Time 1:00 a.m. Area: Northgate Bar: Hookah Station

This is to inform you of recent incident that has taken place on North Gate. This incident took place approx 1am March 30th, 2007. Three of us had just entered a place called "Hookah Station" in North Gate. One of us does not drink any alcohol and was only there to be with friends. The other 2 had a couple of drinks from previous bars. We met up with more friends currently in school or alumni from Texas A&M University. One of us sat on a stool right next to the bar for less than half a minute when he was violently grabbed from the behind by the bartender and told "If you are not drinking then get the f*** out of my bar". He was surprised at his rudeness and retaliated by saying "If you are going to be that polite, I will never order a drink from you", to which the bartender verbally abused him even more and called the bouncers to kick him out of the bar. In spite of any provocation, he was physically assaulted by the bartender (Jack) and asked to leave the bar.

As we did not want to create a scene we simply left. We then walked into another bar across the street (Logan's). After around fifteen minutes, we came back out on the street and met another person who was held by his neck, dragged across the bar and thrown onto the street. His wrist was clearly hurt on breaking his fall. This was one of our friends, who also happened to be of Indian origin. There were around 8 Indian people thrown out of the bar for absolutely no apparent reason.

There were police officers on duty outside and we took our complaint to them. After talking to one police officer (Officer A. Tucker) for a long time, we were all told that it was absolutely okay for the bartender to physically assault a person and throw him out if he had a problem with his/her attire, the color of his/her hair, the color of his/her eyes, etc. He was then specifically asked the question "So, you are saying that the bartender can physically throw you out if he has a problem with the fact that you are brown or from India?" To which he replied in the affirmative, saying that "Yes! The bartender can throw you out if he has a problem with the fact that you are brown or Indian!" When asked whether he would repeat that for the record on a cell phone recorder, the officer said that he was already recording the conversation.

After hearing this (1:50 a.m.), the entire group of Indians left Northgate and returned to their homes.