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The Government of Ghana has closed down a ‘racist’ whites-only restaurant turned night club at Osu in Ghana’s capital, Accra.

Citi News confirmed the existence of the outfit on Tuesday after it broke as a rumour on social networking site facebook a couple of days ago.

The place is being run by Atlantic Lobster and Dolphins Limited and owned by two Italians, Marco Ranaldi and Salvatore D’azeo. Locals have alleged that the place accepts only whites and blacks are turned away.

According to the deputy minister of Tourism, Mr. Agyenim-Boateng, government decided to close down the place because it was in violation of the laws of Ghana. He added that the facility was registered to be used as a restaurant and not as a club and directed the owners of the facility to acquire the proper license to be able to run the place for that dual purpose.

“We are going to close your place down because you are in violation of our laws,” the minister said. “We want you to do what is right and proper. You have to show complete and total respect for our laws.”

“You have to go to the Ghana Tourists Authority and get this place licensed. In its current form this obviously is a restaurant, which is veiled as a club. So for now you would not be able to operate the way you have done. ”

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Okuro, a half Ghanaian-half Nigerian, who visited the club recently told Citi News that she was told in the face by the manager of the facility that she could not register as a member of the club because she is not White.

A very furious Okuro is calling on Ghanaians to boycott Atlantic Lobster and Dolphins Limited since according to her the activities of the club smacks of racism which must not be tolerated in Ghana. She has created a facebook page to champion that cause.

She, however, added that she would consider aborting the campaign against the patronage of the place if the owner who made racial comments against her comes out to apologize.

Meanwhile, owners of the Atlantic Lobster and Dolphins Limited have denied that the club is promoting racism.

Owner D’azeo said he is married to a Ghanaian woman and cannot be deemed as a racist, adding that his comment to Elizabeth was only a joke.

By: Kobina Welsing/Citifmonline. com

SOURCE:  http://www.citifmonline.com/index.php?id=1.287144.1.635704

The New York World has uncovered what it says is a case of sex-segregation on a Brooklyn bus line.

When Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn, she was initially allowed to sit wherever she liked, the paper reported. But when more Hasidic men started to board the bus, which runs between Williamsburg and Borough Park, she was asked by passengers to move to the back of the vehicle.

“On any other bus,” Daily Intel notes, “such a request might have resulted in an uproar, an angry confrontation, and an entertaining YouTube video. But the B110 is no ordinary bus. It’s a Jewish bus.”

The bus is run privately with permission from the city, according to the World.

The New York Post explains that the rules on the bus are designed to keep women and men from coming into contact with each other which is forbidden in Hasidic tradition. A female Post reporter was told by a B110 driver that she could not sit in the vehicle’s first row because it was reserved for men.

The Department of Transportation is looking into the incident reported by the World.

click here for video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/sex-segregated-bus-brooklyn_n_1020064.html

The Rick Perry camp is in damage control over a Washington Post story that begins thuswise:

In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.

“Niggerhead,” it read.

The story goes on to note there’s a conflict between what Perry says about the name (that it was painted over soon after his father leased the property in 1983) and what some others say (that it was painted over later).

To conservative MSM bashers, the story is a perfect example of media bias. But you have to wonder if rival Republicans leaked this (remember that the Obama’s-a-Muslim story had legs in the 08 Democratic primary). After all, there’s a clause in the story about pictures of the offensive sign that says “according to photographs viewed by The Washington Post.” That means the Post wasn’t out taking pictures. Someone else was. So who? The suspects are numerous.

It’s likely not Republican Herman Cain’s camp (he doesn’t have the money for that type of oppo-research — yet), though the African-American businessman was quick to condemn it. Perry’s camp hit back with two statements one of which said:

Perry Campaign Communications Director Ray Sullivan today released the following statement regarding Herman Cain’s comments this morning on Fox News’ Face the Nation:

“Mr. Cain is wrong about the Perry family’s quick action to eliminate the word on the rock, but is right the word written by others long ago is insensitive and offensive. That is why the Perrys took quick action to cover and obscure it.”

Read more (its a bit long) : http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2011/10/the-nig3rh3d-controversy.html#ixzz1ZfKKpnsg

My thing is why paint the rock? Why not chisel the word out/destroy the whole rock? Even better, why put yourself in the public eye when you not only have skeletons but a whole grave yard in your closet? The GOP is its own worst enemy! The 2012 election is going to be a joke….