That would have been funny if it weren’t so sad.
A restaurant in Lima, Peru has been shut because of its discrimination of customers: it refuses entry to darker skin people.
This wasn’t the cafeteria of the ‘Front National’ (France’s racist party) or an FPO-sympathizing restaurant in rural Austria: it’s in a developing country that has suffered occupation and territorial wars up until the nineties.
That’s utterly ridiculous.
Isn’t it a habit of poor countries to try emulate their Masters (in the colonial sense of the term) in many of their pettiest things... and skin colour is one of those.
So, yeah, whiter (European?) Peruvians aren’t very keen on darker Peruvians, the same way that Egyptians - who aren’t snow-white themselves - look down on ‘Africans’ - a generic term they use to designate their Sub-Saharan neighbours...
Then we go ask for equal treatment for brown people in Europe. Pffff...
(And for the occasion... this photo, which was taken in a bar in New Orleans, Louisiana. Makes me smile every time.)
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