You know this actually made me think about a restaurant/bar I go to all the time. It’s an Asian Fusion restaurant with mostly white bartenders and occasionally a light skin one but he didn’t last long. I myself am biracial and in the past when I would go to that bar it was always with white men. Some people say I’m ambiguous . I remember for the longest time feeling an off vibe at the bar and from the bartenders. But it was the sort of vibe you don’t really care about because you’re mostly already drunk when you go in there.

Anyway, I would go consistently with a few white gay men and one time a white straight male date took me into there as well. I have never had any issues.

But one time I went downtown with my visibly black on sight coworkers. Well ex coworkers now. First off, I was use to getting instant service when I walked up to the bar. Forgetting that I had been with all white men every time I had come in there. Once the white “alt girl” did come over to us she addressed primarily me and acted like they weren’t there. Except of course when one of the girls next to me asked for a drink she checked her ID (She’s 29).I’ve never had them ask for ID ever. Even when I went in with the white guy date who had just turned 21 but looked younger honestly. So anyway her ID was bent and the waitress didn’t accept it I had already gotten my drink. So I finished it (cause it’s a drink) paid and we left. She wouldn’t even look at them.

It’s almost like the thin vibes of anti blackness that I had been getting in there all along became obviously racism when identifiably black people came in. I use to think it was just the bartenders and not management but now I wonder because even the black bartender that was there the one time seemed kind of antiblack to be honest like he only hangs out with white women.

White people here in South Florida really take issue with having to serve black people. They make up the tipping part to hide that fact that they can’t believe they are “so low in society” that they as “white people” have to serve black people. They then give the black customers the sh**tiest service imaginable and then wonder why they didn’t get a tip. If people sit down and you are hostile to them they probably aren’t going to want to tip you ? I’ve always tipped even when I got shtty service because I never realized they were treating me that way because I’m black/biracial (I was adopted by whites they didn’t tell me anything) . I thought it was because they were shtty servers.