Clubs will blast Black music, but turn people away for looking too ‘urban’.
Rohini Kahrs, a representative from race equality think-tank, Runnymede Trust, explains how “Light-skinned and mixed-race people have easier times getting past doormen than their darker friends based on Eurocentric conceptions of ‘beauty’. Clubs want to make money and attract clientele who will spend a lot. The assumption is that having ‘attractive’ women in the club — i.e. women with white features — is the way to do this.
This double standard sneaks past bouncers and doormen, seeping through the front doors of clubs and onto their dance floors. One 24-year-old co-founder of anti-racist student organisation, BlackEd, who wishes to remain anonymous, recalls working behind the bar of a predominantly white club in, “white DJs would play songs with the N-word, which gives white and non-Black people the opportunity to use it.” Relentlessly played on every shift, she found Chris Brown’s Freaky Friday especially wearing.
The assumption is that having ‘attractive’ women in the club — i.e. women with white features — is the way to do this. The double standards are rife, from clubs that will blast Black music but turn people away for looking too ‘urban’.find themselves on nights out can, in a moment, turn a night of leisure into one fraught with fear. “I remember walking into a room in a club on Halloween as a student and the walls were covered in swastikas” explains 26-year-old writer Molly, who is.
I remember walking into a club on Halloween and the walls were covered in swastikas. I reported it as a hate crime, but the police told me they didn’t understand what the problem was.friendship group and often the only brown person on an Edinburgh dance floor. “People come over to tell me I look like Princess Jasmine — but they don’t tell my white friend with brown hair and blue eyes she looks like Belle.” Kavya says she cannot go on a night out without her ethnicity being commented upon.
Kai Stone from Good Night Out Campaign, an organisation dedicated to safer nights out, explains that drinking “creates a conducive environment for predatory or oppressive behaviours, because of the idea that somehow ‘anything goes’.” Amidst what is being called an ‘epidemic of violence against women’, this point is particularly salient. One
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