A public apology for himself, his brother and Bob Marley???s family.
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The Canadian Press
MONTREAL???A man told to cover up his Bob Marley T-shirt at an amusement park plans to file a human-rights complaint against the facility.
Brunaud Moise alleges that security guards at La Ronde theme park in Montreal ordered him to turn the shirt inside out or leave the premises.
Moise, who is black, alleges staff singled him out because they associate a black man wearing a Marley shirt with something deviant or criminal.
The 32-year-old says the guards told him the shirt was inappropriate for the family-oriented park.
His grey T-shirt features a design that includes a black-and-white image of the late reggae legend and a cluster of green, marijuana-shaped leaves.
La Ronde says on its website it strictly enforces a dress code that states clothing with rude, vulgar or offensive language and graphics are not permitted.
Moise, a medical technology specialist from Montreal, says he lodged a verbal complaint with a supervisor before leaving the park with his teenage brother.
He alleges the guards??? actions violate his freedom of expression.
Moise is seeking damages, reimbursement for two entry tickets and a public apology for himself, his brother and Marley???s family.
La Ronde, owned by U.S.-based amusement park company Six Flags, did not immediately return a request for an interview.
MONTREAL???A man told to cover up his Bob Marley T-shirt at an amusement park plans to file a human-rights complaint against the facility.
Brunaud Moise alleges that security guards at La Ronde theme park in Montreal ordered him to turn the shirt inside out or leave the premises.
Moise, who is black, alleges staff singled him out because they associate a black man wearing a Marley shirt with something deviant or criminal.
The 32-year-old says the guards told him the shirt was inappropriate for the family-oriented park.
His grey T-shirt features a design that includes a black-and-white image of the late reggae legend and a cluster of green, marijuana-shaped leaves.
La Ronde says on its website it strictly enforces a dress code that states clothing with rude, vulgar or offensive language and graphics are not permitted.
Moise, a medical technology specialist from Montreal, says he lodged a verbal complaint with a supervisor before leaving the park with his teenage brother.
He alleges the guards??? actions violate his freedom of expression.
Moise is seeking damages, reimbursement for two entry tickets and a public apology for himself, his brother and Marley???s family.
La Ronde, owned by U.S.-based amusement park company Six Flags, did not immediately return a request for an interview.
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His human rights were violated?
He was offered the opportunity to stay by having been givin the option to turn his shirt inside out. Case closed.
They singled him out because he was wearing a shirt with marijuana leaves depicted on it.
The guard was correct in that the private facility has the right to set its own dress code and rules as to what constitutes inappropriate imagery.
Tacky.
What part of this stated dress code does Brunaud Moise not understand?
Fair enough.
False. He was at a private facility where he has no such "freedom of expression." If he was a public facility he would have a case but, in this instance, he does not.
It is reasonable for him to receive a refund for his tickets (a fair compromise) but he should receive nothing else (though it being Montreal, Canada where he is filing his complaint, he'll probably receive the key to the city.)
Good for La Ronde. I'm sure that they have more important business to attend to.
I agree, but you're still a twerp.
U.G.H.
Lamprey goes by GiantLeech on Waxidermy, and until the site banned political threads altogether, he was a serious turd in the punchbowl.
His musical knowledge is valuable, there - I think, here, he will just annoy the lot of you.
I could claim that you are as well, but I would not be likely to do such a thing, as I don't consider someone who has a possible social/political opinion that is different from mine to be intrinsically a twerp.
haha! It has nothing to do with your opinions!
OK, fine (hey, you can't please everybody.) That said, on what points, if any, do you disagree with me on my assessment of the stated facts related to the news article you posted?
We agree on at least point; let us emphasize the positive and leave the disagreements for more important issues, yea?
daysminutes until Leech catches the BAN.Reynaldo is redirecting funds from a number of his bank accounts into Raj's Paypal as I type.
Fucking with this guy over his shirt in the first place is a damn ridiculous move by the park and/or its hammerhead employees.
(I hope the guy gets a good settlement and buys a shitload of weed.)
Six Flags has an interesting history. http://race.change.org/blog/view/companies_forbid_extreme_blackness
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/BlogPostView.aspx?id=3e3c9354-e295-4195-bb8a-0e50fd522cf9
Yes, I will disagree with that statement.
That amusement park is a private facility and that park's administration has the legal right to set dress codes that it finds appropriate to allow for and maintain a tone that they consider to be agreeable and pleasant to the majority of their paying customers. If the park employees thought that the image of marijuana leaves depicted on the man's t-shirt was outside the bounds of the park's dress code and would be considered offensive to other park attendees, then their move was reasonable.
Do you think they would hire a white dude with dreadlocks???
Whether they were right or wrong to kick him out, I can't see how he deserves anything beyond a refund for his tickets.
I'm sick of people thinking they're in for a giant pay day whenever they are slightly inconvenienced. Also, bear in mind these ridiculous settlements just drive up the price of everything - in the long run it's not the companies that pay, they just pass the cost on to the consumer.
Another amusement park won't hire a brown dudette with them.
(from 2008)
CityNews.ca
Jessica Devnani was excited about the prospect of starting her first summer job at Canada's Wonderland, but in the end, she found no amusement in the park's request that she cut her dreadlocks, or find work elsewhere.
"I went in for my interview and they hired me on the spot so a week later I went for my first day of training," she explained.
When she showed up she was given the bad news --- the hair had to go.
"I was angry they didn't tell me at the interview when they saw my hair," she adds.
As a private company Canada's Wonderland is entitled to a hiring policy and they have a rule of no extreme hairstyles.
A spokesperson for the company declined an interview.
"They got my hopes up with the job and then telling me I had to resign," Devnani complains.
Canada's Wonderland says it will look into better communicating its hiring policies and Jessica doesn't plan to take any action against them, but she just hopes it doesn't happen to somebody else.
I gotta re-plan my birthday.
The question is meant to elicit an answer about YOUR opinion about the move, not the rights of the company to behave dickishly.
Let's grant that they have the right to have a dickish policy, though they should enforce it fairly. But they're still dicks for having a dumbass policy against Marley shirts in the first place.
Isn't it a policy against weed shirts, not Marley shirts?
The park has a right to require what is considers to be "appropriate" hairstyles on it's employees.
If the person doing the hiring didn't tell Ms. Devnani during that first interview that a hair cut would be required (and in fact did know that that was company policy), then the person doing the hiring is a (for lack of a better word) bonehead.
We used to pack a cassette case full of joints and every few rides, get up in the skylift that would take you to the other end of the park and blow one. Then we'd ride some more, rinse, repeat.
Man it'll never be like that again. We'd all get arrested I'm sure if we did that in 2010.
There's a whole lot of overlap there.