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Originally Posted by guzzy

I don't disagree at all but it is a two way street. It is not a white vs. the rest scene which the media displays it as. I look back at high school where many muslims, regardless of where they were from, said they were lebs and pranced around the city like they owned it. These were violent mofo's and everybody feared them. Talk to owners of bars and they will tell you the same thing....it is usually groups of middle eastern areas that are starting the problems, not the whites or the blacks or the asians etc. It is a pathetic statement to make but go talk to different bar owners off the record. I know the head bouncer at Cowboys and he says the exact same thing.

You know, I agree. Many minority communties do have problems with gangs and violence. I won't argue with that. They have to do something from their end to alleviate this problem. And I also think that a lot of minorities need to make more of an effort to be involved in mainstream society, rather than just keep to their little communities and not have to integrate at all. It is a 2 way street.

But I just don't get how having a racist policy at a bar, and treating normal Calgarians like second rate citizens, is helping things. It probably makes things worse.