EFF WESTERN CAPE RESPONDS TO THE UGLY FACE OF RACISM THAT HAS RESURFACED AT HANK'S OLDE IRISH PUB IN NO 110 BREE STREET IN CAPE TOWN
5 December 2022
EFF Western Cape abhors the racist incident that took place at Hank's Olde Irish Pub in 110 Bree Street in Cape Town. As the party we have been made aware of a video that is making rounds on social media showing a young white male confronting an older white male for displaying racism against a black person at the pub.
It is said that the racist who is being confronted in the video had tried to stop a black man from entering the pub telling him that in order for him (black man) to enter the pub he needs to be accompanied by a white person. This is blatant racism, criminalization, racial profiling, degradation and reduction of black people to criminals and prisoners who must always be under watch.
Hank’s Olde Irish / Love Thy Neighbour turning people of colour away if they aren’t “accompanied by a white person”??? Surprise, surprise another racist watering hole… @CapeTimesSA @mailandguardian pic.twitter.com/nvRhzlcgep
— nathannnnn (@Natenoged) December 3, 2022
This racism reveals the psychosis of many white racists who are still locked in a racist paradigm of white exclusivity and the old days of apartheid nostalgia. Furthermore, it also unveils the mentality of the co-owner/s of the Hank's Olde Irish Pub through whose racist utterances we get the sense that the Pub sees itself as a WHITES ONLY pub where blacks are not welcomed and when they enter they are characterized as thieves and trouble makers. This is reminiscent of the infamous Separate Amenities Act of 1953 that reserved the best facilities for whites only, while facilities for other race groups were of substandard.