{"id":7831,"date":"2022-05-30T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2022-05-30T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:43:06","slug":"the-alchemist-is-on-the-spot-yet-again-for-allegations-of-discrimination-against-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7831","title":{"rendered":"The Alchemist is on the spot yet again for allegations of discrimination against Black people."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>.The posh joint is this time accused of having separate queues for Blacks and the others of Caucasian and Asian origin.On Sunday, May 29 a social media user posted a video clip that allegedly shown the bar\u2019s bouncers sending a Black out of the queue which appeared to only have non-Blacks.&#8221;This is racist, I swear! So there\u2019s a White people line and a Black people line?\u201d the man recording the video is overheard saying as he films the said patron\u2019s encounter with the bouncer. \u201cThey might let him through because he has an accent,\u201d he says, after which the bouncer is seen shouting at the patron, \u2018Just go!\u2019&#8221;They have actually sent him back!&#8221; another patron exclaims.In a statement delivered on Sunday, The Alchemist apologized for the incident, saying, &#8220;To anyone that has felt aggrieved, we sincerely apologize and we look forward to sitting down together and addressing these issues head-on.&#8221;The club claimed further that it had reached out to the man who was purportedly sent away via phone and he confirmed he had no issues, and he was not even aware there was a footage. Ii<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653906182529-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653906182529-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653906182529-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.The posh joint is this time accused of having separate queues for Blacks and the others of Caucasian and Asian origin.On Sunday, May 29 a social media user posted a video clip that allegedly shown the bar\u2019s bouncers sending a Black out of the queue which appeared to only have non-Blacks.&#8221;This is racist, I swear! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FB_IMG_1653906182529.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}