Bar incident involving Booker T & Boogeyman

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This evening, I came across a post on a message board that stated Booker T. Huffman [pictured above] and Marty "Boogeyman" Wright [pictured below] had been in a bar altercation. Curiously, I clicked the article title and was amazed to find out that Mr. Huffman is planning to picket a sports bar in Houston, Texas [Mr. Huffman's hometown] called Vito's Deck House because of what he believes was discrimination against the Christian Faith.


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According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Booker and Wright went to the sports bar this past Sunday afternoon to watch an NFL game and were approached by a bartender who told the gentlemen that Wright, who was wearing a cross, had to remove his cross or leave due to the cross being in violation of the bar's dress code.

Upon hearing this news, Booker got upset and asked to speak to the manager, who explained that Wright's cross violated the dress code. Booker then asked where the dress code was posted at and amazingly, the dress code wasn't posted anywhere inside the sports bar, at which point Booker refused to leave and told Wright not to leave as well.

As expected, the police were called and after arriving, told Booker and Wright to leave the premises. Booker attempted to inform the police and manager that he saw two other patrons at the bar wearing crosses and they were not approached by management and told to leave [It should be noted that the two patrons in question left the sports bar when they saw Booker and Wright being kicked-out over Wright wearing his cross].

As a result of this incident, Booker has scheduled a protest and hopes to get as much publicity as possible to inform people about the sports bar suppressing people's freedom to express their belief in God.

All I have to say is this makes me respect Mr. Huffman even more. I admire the fact that he stood up for what he believed in and didn't back down, even when the police came and told him to leave, and for also standing up for a friend in Mr. Wright.

Why should Mr. Wright have to remove his cross when that's what he believes in? Also, I have never heard of a bar having a dress code. I mean, I've heard of clubs having and enforcing dress codes but a bar?

It would be interesting to know the race of the two patrons Mr. Huffman mentioned to the police
because this story sounds borderline race-related with religion being used as a shield to hide the true motive of the bartender.

It is a sad reality that here in 2008, we could be on the verge of having the first Black president in the history of the United States and we still have incidents like this happening. It's story's like this that make me wonder if we are truly in 2008 and have made as much progress as people continuously preach or if we are still stuck in 1958 with just higher prices and different clothes.

I hope Mr. Huffman's protest is a successful one that not only gets the word out but causes such an outcry that the bartender and manager of the sports bar are held accountable for their actions.