WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!!! T.I. was joined by Atlanta television personalities Ernestine Johnson and Jay Morrison, calling Friday night at two Houston ‘s restaurant chains in Atlanta for a boycott over allegations of mistreatment black customers. Dozens of protesters marched from the Houston’s on Peachtree Road to the location on Lenox Road. The ordeal began when Johnson, Morrison, and guests at a restaurant were told that the restaurant would not seat their large party. Johnson took his issues to Twitter which started the outrage of others.
“I felt completely disrespected. There was a lack of regard for our presence and our dollars at that location. I felt discriminated against,” Johnson said, who told FOX 5 News her group of seven arrived at Houston’s hoping to be seated as a group, but was told the restaurant could not accommodate the group of that size.
“Friday we came in for a late lunch, as a party of seven. [The hostess said] we don’t seat seven and we don’t seat large parties,” Johnson said, then volunteering to the hostess to split the parties into two tables.
“She says, ‘We still can’t do that– we still can’t seat you,'” Johnson said, “It was ridiculous. It was very bizarre– why we couldn’t be sat as a party of four, with no sound reason.”
“They refused to let us be sat as a party of four and had no real policy behind it. I think they wanted to choose who they sat that day and it wasn’t us,” said Morrison, who explained that his group was then asked to leave the location.
“It was a power trip… and we don’t believe that’s the treatment they give everybody,” he said. Morrison said a wait list was never offered as an option to the party, but management claimed in the statement sent to FOX 5 News that they offered the option.
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