IL POM REFUSES TO DENY THAT IT ENGAGED IN RACIST PRACTICES AND THAT IT IS ALSO A RACIST RESTAURANT.
IL POM REFUSES TO DENY THAT IT IS ACTIVELY CENSORING POSTS ON ITS FACEBOOK PAGE.
RACISM has reared its ugly head again in the very heart of Melbourne last weekend @ Federation Square.
Facebook activist group There's Nothing I Would Rather Be Than to Be an Aborigine posted the following on June 28.
"So I just wanted to share with you a form of discrimination I faced last night. My partner and I went out to an Italian restaurant last night and took a seat. While reading the menu a white man who was a waiter approached us and said 'sorry we can't serve you can you please leave the restaurant, if you like I can direct you to another restaurant in this area'. We were both looked at each other in shock and asked 'why exactly can't you serve us?'.. He then replied by saying 'please, I don't want to cause a scene in front of customers, can you please just get up and leave'. So we got up and proceeded to leave. It was such a degrading moment!! It's 2014 and we are still discriminated for being black and are being told to leave restaurants in a land that belongs to aboriginals. Absolutely shocking!!"
Despite being provided with an opportunity to set the record straight, Il Pom has failed to even deny any wrong doing so for all we know, the waiter was articulating a racist company policy as part oh his list of company duties.
SOCIAL MEDIA NOT HAPPY
Public reaction has been swift & vocal with almost 250 people commenting on the original post.
Face book user Heather Cross said : "That's completely illegal... Not too mention morally wrong and totally reprehensible."
Many users called for legal action, whilst the prevailing view seems to be one of "Name and shame".
James McEwen tapped into the larger, geopolitical picture, when he typed, "Its never going to change most racist country on earth everyone treats aboriginals like shit people living with there heads to far up there arse if they think this shit doesnt happen if u would of made a scene he would of rang the police & guess who they would believe not the aboriginals thats for sure makes me fucking sick" (sic)
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Maybe it was the way you dressed? Too casual maybe? I am sure Italy has black people..so maybe it wasnt racism?
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