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Posted: 10/8/2015 11:41:33 PM EDT

A yoga studio in Seattle is accused of promoting racial discrimination by holding special sessions which explicitly    


exlcude "white people".      












                                                                                                                                                           


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If it's illegal and considered racist for a white, straight business owner to deny service to a gay person or person of color, shouldn't the same be true for a yoga class that bars white people from attending?







KIRO Radio's Dori Monson thinks so.







Rainier Beach Yoga in Seattle has a class called "yoga for people of color." It started last week and runs once a month.







Teresa Wang, co-founder of the specialized class, said it was started by five queer people of color who came together to create a safe space for people of color who might otherwise be uncomfortable.


 














Link Posted: 10/8/2015 11:58:55 PM EDT
[#1]
Just like when Jay Z had his "no whites allowed" party, I give 0 fucks.  Any business should be able to do their business with the clientele of their choosing.

My only problem is with the hypocrisy of it.  If it was reversed, this would be a national outrage which would most likely result in them getting shut down.
Link Posted: 10/8/2015 11:58:58 PM EDT
[#2]
Lol... Rainier Beach. Fucking shithole neighborhood.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:00:39 AM EDT
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Just like when Jay Z had his "no whites allowed" party, I give 0 fucks.  Any business should be able to do their business with the clientele of their choosing.

My only problem is with the hypocrisy of it.  If it was reversed, this would be a national outrage which would most likely result in them getting shut down.
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Oh, I am sure Rick Rubin was in attendance, therefore it's not racist...
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:02:43 AM EDT
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A yoga studio in Seattle is accused of promoting racial discrimination by holding special sessions which explicitly    

exlcude "white people".      
                                                                                                                                                           

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If it's illegal and considered racist for a white, straight business owner to deny service to a gay person or person of color, shouldn't the same be true for a yoga class that bars white people from attending?





KIRO Radio's Dori Monson thinks so.





Rainier Beach Yoga in Seattle has a class called "yoga for people of color." It started last week and runs once a month.





Teresa Wang, co-founder of the specialized class, said it was started by five queer people of color who came together to create a safe space for people of color who might otherwise be uncomfortable.

 
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So...



Ms. Wang put up "colored folks only" signs.



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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:04:50 AM EDT
[#5]
That sounds about right.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:05:22 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:06:04 AM EDT
[#7]
Civil rights.........have come a long way baby.

Aloha, Mark
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:06:16 AM EDT
[#8]
What about my CAKE!

Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:06:59 AM EDT
[#9]
I wonder is they could be sued the way at least one bakery was for not catering to a gay wedding?
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:07:57 AM EDT
[#10]
double standard much?
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:08:22 AM EDT
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Fine by me. Their business their rules.
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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:08:59 AM EDT
[#12]
Gay wedding cake was in OR.

Seattle is in WA.

Needs more FEDERAL LAWS........to make things RIGHT.  Cough, cough......

Aloha, Mark
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:09:22 AM EDT
[#13]
Good, white people are scary.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:09:56 AM EDT
[#14]
Rainier Beach isn't an area white people would want to go, if you get my drift.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:10:36 AM EDT
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Fine by me. Their business their rules.
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Yep.

Sounds like a bunch of people that wouldn't want me around anyway.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:10:45 AM EDT
[#16]
I wish portland was in WA!
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:11:40 AM EDT
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Good, white people are scary.
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Right. So glad I don't live near any in this state
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:14:13 AM EDT
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I have full blown yellow fever and would not touch that.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:16:08 AM EDT
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http://www.seattlegymnastics.com/lakecity/sites/default/files/Teresa%20Wang%20small.png

I have full blown yellow fever and would not touch that.
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And I have a sneaking suspicion she would be an outspoken activist if someone tried to start a class that was "white people only."

But like I said, that is my only problem.  The sheer hypocrisy of it.  

And like FDE said, if you don't want my business, I don't want you to have my money.  You have enough competitors that will gladly take it.

ETA: And yes, I love me a sexy Asian broad.  She looks like she has bad breath though. I mean, other than her two front teeth, her teeth aren't even yellow, they are brown.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:18:37 AM EDT
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Teresa Wang, co-founder of the specialized class, said it was started by five queer people of color who came together to create a safe space for people of color who might otherwise be uncomfortable.
 
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It seems to me, looking at the statistics of crime by race, one would feel safer with white people.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:18:52 AM EDT
[#21]
White people (mostly female) that do yoga are threatening?
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:20:27 AM EDT
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White people (mostly female) that do yoga are threatening?
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It is using PC culture to sit on their moral high ground and exhibit their personal racism.  Nothing more, nothing less.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:22:56 AM EDT
[#23]
Uh any white people in Rainer beach are busy making sure they don't get shot and robbed.  Not worried about yoga.  We built a community health center down there.  Jobsite got robbed multiple times at night and someone got shot at the safeway next door.    Didn't want to work late there.  The natives got active when it got dark out
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:24:25 AM EDT
[#24]
I feel offended
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:24:31 AM EDT
[#25]
There's non-white people in WA?
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:25:53 AM EDT
[#26]
From Facebook this is Teressa Wang...can you wonder why she decided to act as she did?

Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:26:50 AM EDT
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Just like when Jay Z had his "no whites allowed" party, I give 0 fucks.  Any business should be able to do their business with the clientele of their choosing.

My only problem is with the hypocrisy of it.  If it was reversed, this would be a national outrage which would most likely result in them getting shut down.
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diddo
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:52:16 AM EDT
[#28]


Soon they'll have their own water fountains... they'll even be marked "Coloreds Only"....









Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:53:31 AM EDT
[#29]
Ever notice that Latinos, Asians, etc. never consider themselves people of color, that its always the same group and the one in reference to in this article?  Its just a convenient term to use people of color so that it includes everyone, but white people.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 12:58:57 AM EDT
[#30]
Heard about this on David Boze she a tually used the word " upsetness"
This is racist
I am tempted to go we should all go
Arfcom yoga noght
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 1:01:59 AM EDT
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Fine by me. Their business their rules.
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There is that.

Link Posted: 10/9/2015 1:02:58 AM EDT
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Rainier Beach isn't an area white people would want to go, if you get my drift.
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Graduated out of Auburn High back in 86...Rainier Beach was a shithole then.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 1:07:43 AM EDT
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Just like when Jay Z had his "no whites allowed" party, I give 0 fucks.  Any business should be able to do their business with the clientele of their choosing.

My only problem is with the hypocrisy of it.  If it was reversed, this would be a national outrage which would most likely result in them getting shut down.
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It's only an outrage because the media whips it into a frenzy. Like anything else.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 1:29:05 AM EDT
[#34]
For real exclusivity, may I suggest Liberia?
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 1:34:12 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 1:55:05 AM EDT
[#36]
I love this kind of stuff

progressives used to hide their anti-white hatred

now it's right out in the open

Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:04:57 AM EDT
[#37]
I wonder what the headlines would read if a white male tried pulling off this stunt and claimed it was to feel "safe and comfortable."
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:05:08 AM EDT
[#38]
Was at a private, whites only golf course near The Rock, GA. A couple years back. The only way a non white person is allowed is as a guest with a member but of course the Members knew better.
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:06:46 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:10:01 AM EDT
[#40]
not racist or illegal if its against whites! duh!
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:18:03 AM EDT
[#41]
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:24:38 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:28:15 AM EDT
[#43]
Slippery slope there.

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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 2:30:08 AM EDT
[#44]
Fine by me. Any place that makes it clear they don't want my business can do what they want.

I'm all about yoga and downward dog and all that shit.

Link Posted: 10/9/2015 3:00:51 AM EDT
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Fine by me. Their business their rules.
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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 3:09:35 AM EDT
[#46]
You see that sign sir?

Link Posted: 10/9/2015 3:16:08 AM EDT
[#47]
I would not feel safe being there with queer people of color....also I suspect the sights could not be unseen...
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 3:20:45 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/9/2015 3:41:20 AM EDT
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Lol... Rainier Beach. Fucking shithole neighborhood.
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In dive school we dove the little pier at ranier beach.  I still have a bike we drug up, and were told if we found guns to either keep them, or leave them because it would be a 5 hour+ ordeal if we told anyone because they would have to call the police to dive and retrieve them. One guy found giant water bottle full of what looked like crack tied down with smaller bottle of rocks as a cache site at the bottom of one of the pilings, which was about 10' underwater which is a pretty smart storage spot...

 






Rich and vibrant culture!
Link Posted: 10/9/2015 3:47:14 AM EDT
[#50]
Could I go in black face and say I identify as African-American?  Baby got back in yoga pants!!!
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