Originally published at: Drinking coffee while Black: Actor Mark Curry harassed by staff at Colorado hotel he was staying at | Boing Boing
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Colorado Springs has given itself quite the reputation.
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Colorado Springs. That tracks. It’s the home of LOTS of “conservative” politics in the state. (insert obligatory “I’m shocked, SHOCKED…well, not that shocked” GIF)
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Colorado Springs is home to NORAD and the Air Force Academy. It’s an interesting place.
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One of the reasons that the Xtianists moved into the town years ago was to proselytise and gain influence over the Air Force officer corps.
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More like, one can have reasonable suspicions about whether this man’s a hotel employee since he’s wearing those god-awful cargo-pants.
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Guest of the hotel or not, he was certainly a customer, unless they think he carried the coffee in from outside. (The video is behind a login wall, so I can’t see the cup.)
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I’m having reasonable suspicions over a guest right now!
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I dunno - no name badge, not wearing a hotel uniform of any kind. I would ignore this Duck Dynasty looking MF myself
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It’s a carry-out cup as seen when Curry is going to his room, but it really doesn’t matter. Unless someone is somehow being disruptive, most well-run hotels instruct their staff to leave people in the lobby to their own business.
The dweeby and racist “security”/engineer guy should be fired, but so should the desk clerk whose first impulse was to ask Curry if he was a guest rather than asking the staffer why he singled out Curry.
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Not the person I was referring to. 
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Could be a guest, could be meeting a guest. No reason to hassle someone sitting quietly except racism.
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Yeah. As a white lady i like to imagine I’d be like, “show me yours first, how do I know you actually work here?” but we all know I’ll most likely never be put in that position because racism.
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What the fuck is the guy’s “backup” doing anyway? You’d think he’d have some suggestions about how to better handle this.
There is a very simple way for hotel security to verify if someone should be in a hotel or not: ask to see a room key. They didn’t do that. They just wanted to harass this guy.
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Eh, as a frequent business traveller, I say fuck that. What if I’m there to meet a friend and we’re going out for dinner? What if I’m staying down the street but this is the meet up location for our conference party? Fact is, the lobby is a public space. It doesn’t matter if I was just walking by and it started raining and I ducked inside.
As I said, I’ll likely never have to deal with it, as a white person, but if some hotel staff asked to see my key because I was sitting in a public space I’d be less than impressed and would most definitely ask to speak to their manager.
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At the risk of racially profiling the guy, it sure looks to me like that janitor/rent-a-cop guy might be a regular reader of Daily Stormer.
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If I owned a hotel in Colorado in the middle of winter, I’d have one of my conference rooms set up specifically to give homeless folks a place to sit and be warm and have some privacy from the public outside of shelter hours (places like the Salvation Army kick you out every morning until after dinner).
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Ah, Colorado Springs, the Mordor of Colorado. Not to say racism couldn’t happen in Denver or Boulder, but it’s practically guaranteed in Colorado Springs.
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