Fort Worth, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas, who also lived in Arlington and Fort Worth before moving to Philadelphia to attend graduate school at Drexel University, is talking about an incident at Fort Worth’s popular Varsity Tavern.
Sam Sayed told the Star-Telegram, while on spring from graduate school at Drexel University in Philadelphia, he brought several friends home.
They ventured out to the Varsity Tavern in the West 7th area, where one of his friends, Stephen, who is black was turned away because he was wearing Jordan sneakers.
After the group left, Stephen and another friend, who is white, switched shoes and tried to get in again. The white man wearing Jordan’s got in; Steven who was wearing his friends Sperrys, a popular boat shoe, was given the thrice-over before being let it.
Once inside the pair switch shoes, when according to Sayed, almost immediately Stephen was approached by a bouncer asking him how he got in wearing Jordans and was asked to leave. The trio left the establishment.
After multiple incidents in which people to the publication that they were denied entry , the Varsity Tavern said in a statement they take the matter seriously and is doing an internal investigation.
The Star-Telegram spoke to five people who said they were turned away from Varsity Tavern on Norwood and West 7th streets for violating the dress code. All but one were black men. https://t.co/qNOmmimijP
— Star-Telegram (@startelegram) April 16, 2018
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