UPDATE: There is alleged videotaped evidence that the white gay “victim,” Jonathan Snipes, walked over to his “aggressor’s,” who white gay media deemed a Black homophobe, table to punch his face without an exchange of words.
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By now, you may have seen the viral video of New York City’s Dallas BBQ’s restaurant brawl that took place on Cinco de Mayo. What should have been a fun evening of downing margaritas and tequila-fused drinks with friends became a disaster for dozens of Dallas BBQ patrons, especially a white gay guy who was TKO’ed with a chair by an alleged Black homophobe who appeared to be twice his size.
What most of us noticed, thanks to the headlines by Mashable, GailyGrind and every other gay blogger reporting on this, is the tall Black man striking a smaller white gay male on his head with a wooden chair Mortal Kombat “FINISH HIM” style. I eat at that Dallas BBQ restaurant occasionally with friends and attest that those chairs are heavy. In fact, I am surprised that the attacked was alive and maintained consciousness after his misfortune.
On Wednesday (May 6) afternoon, I noticed how more than a dozen of my Facebook connections, all Black gay men, posted the Mashable link, and they, along with their friends, jumped on the narrative that the Mashable blogger conveyed that the chair attack was a homophobic hate crime and that the white gay receiver of that knockout was the victim. I chose not to comment on or share the article because I was skeptical on how that attack happened inside the restaurant where the only physical contact over alleged homophobic slurs came from the hands of the alleged Black homophobic aggressor.
You mean to tell me that two Black men hurled homophobic insults at two white gay men – singling them out – in a restaurant full of queer people, and they savagely beat the two white gay men after insulting them without provocation?
I read the Mashable blog post and noticed that the narrative was a purposely misguided news story to incite readers of mostly the headline to cry out homophobia for a helpless white gay guy. Only a “friend” of the knocked out white guy mentioned that the situation was homophobic on Twitter. When that Twitter user, a white male, was contacted by a white Mashable blogger, he admitted that he did not dine at Dallas BBQ when the fight took place. The white brawling “victims” did not claim hate crime; though, one gave a statement about being called a “faggot” for bumping into the alleged Black homophobes’ table and knocking their drinks without an apology.
That white alleged victim’s name is John Varvatos employee Jonathan Snipes, and his unlucky companion who was Geraldo’ed is Ethan York-Adams, Snipes’ younger boyfriend. Here is Snipes’ account of the incident via an interview with DNA Info:
At the restaurant, Snipes got a text about a death in his family and needed to leave the restaurant quickly, he said. As he headed out, he accidentally knocked over a drink, he said.
“A table near us audibly started making pretty gross comments about the two of us like, ‘White f—-ts, spilling drinks,'” Snipes said.
“I don’t let anyone talk to me like that. I went over there and asked, ‘What did you say about us?'” he added.
Snipes said he’s 140 pounds, never thrown a punch in his life and felt he;posed no physical threat to anyone at the table, especially the two large men there — one of whom stood about 6 feet 4 inches, according to police.
“I may be a mouthy broad, but I wasn’t going to take it to that level,” Snipes said.
One of the men stood up and escalated the verbal confrontation, Snipes said.
“He turned it into a physical altercation very quickly,” he added.
Were that now-injured white gay man and his companion the victims or recipients of a horrific ass-whoopin’ that one of them provoked?
Why am I accentuating skin color so much in this blog post? I happen to live in America, a country that is supposed to be in a “post-racial” era since my country elected a Black President twice even though instances have been proven ubiquitously in recent months that criminal situations handled by Black people, particularly men, are judged far more harshly than white people. The judgments also apply to victimization. As crime victims, justice has not prevailed for mostly masculine, presumably heterosexual, Black men who were attacked or murdered by the hands of white men despite physical evidence proving the crime or insufficient evidence that supports the white criminals’ defenses. Often, mainstream media dig up these victims’ troublesome pasts that are irrelevant to the crimes to demonize the victims as deserving of their fates.
Get out of your immediate and incessant desire to champion victimization for Snipes and his beau and re-read the blog stories about this fight. After you decide to re-read before jumping on the bandwagon of the homophobic Black male narrative, check out the YouTube video of the fight. First, you would notice that the alleged white gay victim, Snipes, did not mention that his alleged attack was a hate crime. Snipes only mentioned that he was called the word “faggot” several times from Black men at the table he bumped. Did you read Snipes’ interview, that I posted above, that he admitted to approaching the table to confront the men about using the gay slur?
As a man who felt threatened or offended by name-calling, wouldn’t Snipes’ intelligence suggest that confrontation may escalate such contention?
Also, if you pay close attention the YouTube video, you noticed that the chair smacking scene was not the only location of the melee. Snipes’s boyfriend was knocked down by the chair tosser after Snipes struck one of the men, in a different area, despite his boyfriend trying to pull him away.
Now, what Snipes chose to leave out in his interview was that during his exchange of words with the two alleged Black aggressive homophobes is that he struck one of the Black men first which kicked off the entire brawl. How do I know this information? My friend, the concerned citizen who caught the latter part of the fight on camera, gave me the T because he sat next to the table of the Black men, where the fight originated upon Snipes’ confrontation.
[THE VIDEO HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN DUE TO RACIST WHITE GAY MEN WHO SUPPORTS THE AGGRESSIVE SNIPES’ DECEITFUL NARRATIVE WITH THREATENING MESSAGES TO THE VIDEOGRAPHER WHO WAS A CONCERNED CITIZEN WHO HELPED MAKE SURE THAT THE TRUTH WAS EXPRESSED.]
Additionally, the word “faggot,” according to the concerned videographer, seemed to be a response to Snipes’ arrogance after knowing that he bumped the Black men’s table and knocking their drinks rather than homophobia.
According to another source, who did not give me permission to identify his name – who I happened to have been cool with for years, mentioned that the chair throwing Black male seemed to check him out with frequent eye glances in a flirtatious manner. In other words, the alleged Black aggressor is possibly a same-gender-loving male, according to my source.
And guess what? One of the patrons at the restaurant called me and identified the chair thrower by name. I looked up the chair tosser’s Facebook profile, and he is allegedly gay, gay, gay and pretty popular in the ballroom scene. I am not going to snitch the guy out because I am on his side of self-defense minus the chair tossing and hate the white gay privileged narratives by gay bloggers, blogs and organizations who sensationalized this incident into more than what it was to protect the white gay hot head who wanted to demonize the Black gay men as aggressors over a physical altercation that he provoked when he could have ignored their foul language like I always do when insults are hurled my way.
If you read the articles about this story, you would notice that the NYPD ruled out a gay hate crime as a possible charge.
In other words, Snipes came across as a pissed off privileged white gay man who thought that his skin color allowed him to approach brown-colored men without repercussion because he felt the self-important right to put them in their places.
After living in Chicago for more than a decade and currently living in New York City, I know better than to confront anyone who is not threatening my personal space, especially over words. I know that I cannot beat everyone in a fight and that fights do not always consist of fists.
On the other hand, I understand having to fight by any means necessary in order to protect oneself from further physical attacks, but homeboy could’ve killed Snipes’ boyfriend who actually tried to stop Snipes from fighting. That Black man, who people identified as a 35 year-old standing at 6’4″ weighing more than 200-lbs. , clearly won the fight which makes the chair smacking seem excessive as the fight appeared to have been interrupted, as shown in the YouTube video.
All parties involved in the restaurant brawl were in the wrong. If anyone deserves to be charged with crimes, all those who fought should be punished. Wrong is wrong, and everyone could have avoided what was seen in the viral video.
It is most unfortunate that Snipes’ boyfriend suffered the greatest injuries for Snipes’ hotheaded temper. If I were him, I would block Snipes out of my life after suing his hotblooded ass for all my injuries.
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Sidebar: Because of its notoriously ratchet vibe during evening hours, why Dallas BBQ restaurant lacked having enough security to break up a fight among three or four men, especially on Cinco de Mayo? Every time I have visited that restaurant, I have always seen two or three security men on duty after 6pm. All those guards seemed ready to take down any transgressors at the restaurant.
Sidebar: Dallas BBQ’s is the only NYC restaurant chain notoriously needing security because of its reputation of brawls occurring similar to this reported brawl.
Sidebar: With all the fights that have taken place at that and almost every Dallas BBQ location, has the restaurant installed cameras that would have captured what occurred in that melee?
Sidebar: I hope that Black chair tosser and his friends who dined with him do not return to that Dallas BBQ location for at least two years unless he wants to be identified and tried by law enforcement and the general public.