African American women were playing too slowly. Then they called the police.

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

African American women were playing too slowly. Then they called the police.

By Rachel Siegel April 24 at 4:02 PM

Five African American women say they were discriminated against at a Pennsylvania golf club when they were told they were taking too long on the course — and then the police were called.

On Saturday morning, the women — who, according to local media, were experienced golfers and part of a group called Sisters in the Fairway — teed off at Grandview Golf Course in York County. The women told the York Daily Record that they were told by the club’s owners they were not keeping a quick-enough pace. The club offered to refund their memberships and then called 911.

The confrontation follows a spate of similar confrontations among businesses, their customers or members, and the police. From the arrests of two African American men at a Philadelphia Starbucks to a 911 call made on two African American men working out at a New Jersey gym, the incidents have reignited racial tensions in commercial spaces and cast scrutiny on how law enforcement and companies respond.

“I felt we were discriminated against,” one of the women, Myneca Ojo, told the York Daily Record. “It was a horrific experience.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/04/24/white-golf-course-owners-said-five-african-american-women-were-playing-too-slow-then-they-called-the-police/

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Source: York Daily Record

Women say they faced racial, gender discrimination at central Pa. golf course

Ted Czech, Published 6:54 p.m. ET April 22, 2018 | Updated 2:19 p.m. ET April 24, 2018

Five African-American women say the ownership and staff at Grandview Golf Club in Dover Township discriminated against them based on their color and gender during an incident at the course on Saturday.

The women — Sandra Thompson, 50; Myneca Ojo, 56; sisters Sandra Harrison, 59, and Carolyn Dow, 56, and Karen Crosby, 58 — were at first told they were not keeping the pace of play by former York County Commissioner Steve Chronister, who they said told them he was the club's owner.

Later, the women were told they had taken too long of a break between the first and second halves of the course. They were then asked to leave, offered their membership money refunded, and the police were called.

The women say no one else at the club was treated the way they were.

"I felt we were discriminated against," Ojo said Sunday. "It was a horrific experience."

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Read more: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2018/04/22/women-claim-racial-gender-discrimination-dover-township-golf-course/540439002/

[laserhaas]

1. WASP are as WASP do

Stinging America with bigotry and racism, religiously

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. The Situation Was Handled Stupidly And Never Should Have Happened.

When playing the general rule is that if you are not keeping up with a group in front of you the courtesy is to let faster players play through. Also you can speed up play. Stopping too long between nines gives following groups the right of way.

And every group should be treated the same way when it comes to keeping the course moving. It is important to have course awareness knowing if you are getting behind and adjusting you play accordingly. It appears there were many errors here.

Calling the police is a bit over the top. If the slow group was too slow then they are partly responsible. Now if they truly were treated differently then that is a problem.

[gollygee]

6. You think they call the police routinely when people don't let other people play through?

You think a group of white golfers would have had the police called on them for that?

[MaryMagdaline]

8. A bit over the top?

[TNNurse]

3. Everyone who blames racism on the south needs to apologize right now.

This is awful, but it was in PA.

I carried the guilt and blame for racial bias for years as a teenager, and then I traveled out of the south and learned. However so many damn people always malign the south as if it is isolated. Unfortunately is is everywhere.

[MrScorpio]

4. I think that most of us understand that American racism isn't just confined to the South

Even though the South does has more of its fair share of racists.

[TNNurse]

5. You may not be as sensitive to the slur of southern racism,

but I see it on here as well as other places. Yes, there are horrible racists in the south, no question. But look at the news this week from Michigan and Syracuse and that golf course in PA. There are those who are holier than thou about not being in the south.

[MrScorpio]

9. I live in Michigan... I was born here

I also lived for more than 20 years in the South.

I'm well aware the racism is all over this country.

[quickesst]

7. It's called willful ignorance

I've always said that it is easy to point over the fence at a pile of shit in someone else's yard while ignoring the pile of shit you are standing on to do it.

Ever notice that when someone starts bashing the South that it's never "some" in the south, "many" in the south, or even the "majority" in the south. It's always just "the South", which we, meaning liberal Democrats, are a part of. Collateral damage as long as the primary target is destroyed.

[ProfessorPlum]

10. I don't think that anyone would claim that there are not racists in PA

I grew up in the heart of Pennsylbama (or Pennsyltucky), the vast swath of land in between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and there are lots of virulent racists in that area. Some because they've never actually seen live black people or lived next to them or had them in their schools.

I won't comment on racism in the south, but it is pervasive in the north (too) as far as I can tell.

[geardaddy]

11. SMDH

Fuck that shit.

[radical noodle]

12. At the heart of the issue is...

offered their membership money refunded Typical membership BS to keep non-whites out.