LOL! The restaurant made sure to get as many black people in the picture. The real question is if you're an Atlanta business, how the hell do you not know who Dominique Wilkins is?

NO talk for an understanding. we already understand. SHUT’EM DOWN

Le Bilboquet, a French bistro in the The Shops Buckhead Atlanta “crafted with racism in mind”

_Dress code_ or _race code?_ It's so confusing...

Is not about the rules. Is only when you used it to keep blacks out.

I was named after this dude. Same thing happened to me in 2016 in a bar in Minnesota. Said they gotta "no white tee shirt policy". These people man...

To many people in the world not educated taught about the devide (race, culture, religion, borders) not about humanity as being one but about the wars that devide us, the religions and cultures that define us, we the people make mistakes we live with that getting on tv caught in one of those mistakes i can hardly imagine but if it wasnt a mistake then its his upbring at fault we are all to quick to judge and opinions spread like wildfire we have to learn to understand and respect eachother or come together with one new culture called equality for all

So it happens once and you go to the internet?

No excuse for this,...Shame on this establishment. They better suck up fast or the general public might take their business elsewhere

With dress codes, "athleisure" can be tricky because it blurs the line between formal and casual/athletic. For context, it would be helpful if this story provided a picture of what Wilkins wore at the time of the incident. The reporter said Wilkins was wearing a shirt, but didn't say if it was a dress shirt or casual. What shoes? Jacket? More details are needed. Some restaurants would make an exception for Wilkins just because he is famous - which would be wrong, but sometimes permissible at the discretion of the manager. On Le Bilboquet's website, it might be helpful to post pictures of the types of clothing that are acceptable or unacceptable so people will have a clearer understanding of what to wear in their restaurant. This is not about race - it's a wardrobe misunderstanding with a possible lack of consistency. Let GQ sort it out. LoL

I think most actual specific dress code policies are specifically (and generally) problematic (if not totally classist or sub-culturalist) but also partially in the eye of the beholder. On the other hand, private businesses do not have to serve anyone, or even be polite, unless it is based primarily or exclusively because of specific very-limited criteria (dress-codes not being one of the criteria)*. I am totally against dress codes to a point (i.e. dressing like a stripper half way through their strip or a smelliest-homeless person contest contestant, would be a bit much for me but wouldn't necessarily cause me to want to discriminate). I grew up in Europe in the 1960s-70s when grown ass people wearing shorts and/or flip-flops or wearing a baseball or cricket or school cap to most informal public venues was considered downright immature if not merely crass or disrespectful, i.e they were considered almost as much faux-pas than wearing underwear over one's trousers is now,. Most Europeans don't see things that way as much anymore (such is the ubiquitousness of American slop culture and resilience of European snob-couture culture). Some may exclaim the restaurant incident was just another case of 'cry racism' (a modified form of 'cry wolf') or 'oppression paranoia' (i.e. minority or majority groups that are in fact, in other cases, actually discriminated against by another minority or majority group, but for obvious reasons, nevertheless engender a higher probability of misinterpreting motive or painting an entire staff or institution or section as being discriminatory for reasons other than what the 'victim' assumes from vaguely-or-mostly-similar previous experiences they've had - i.e. the pre-supposition of discrimination in cases of actual oppression paranoia is another form of psychological 'projection'). 'Oppression paranoia' is always based on a general truth but not a specific truth and is noticeably worse problem in the US than in many similar per-capita income countries, something that is readily obvious to many people, of all races and genders (etc), who visit or live extendedly in the US for the first time ever after living in multiple other nations. 'Oppression paranoia' is also one of the hardest types of paranoia to prove, disprove, or resolve, I give you two examples (out of hundreds I've witnessed, some experienced): (1) I worked as a desk clerk for tenants of a lowest-income residential hotel, where about 35% of the tenants were black (I'm white), and for decades I have had a hard time remembering anyone's face let alone name (not optimal for a residential desk clerk), and one of the more interactive tenants George (he's black), that I initially friendly-bantered with for my first six shifts asked me in a matter of fact non-accusatory tone (after I had confused three other [black] men's faces, strangers-to-me, names and ID cards, demanding in a very rude and unfriendly manner for me to hurry up and return their ID cards and fill out paperwork (as per regulations), and almost got beat up over it for being too slow and then for being too fast and giving all three the wrong ID cards as they raced out the door without looking if they had the proper ID cards), George witnessed this and said, "your racist, you think all black people look alike", I answered, "hey! all white people look alike to me, all people look alike to me!" [at which point he cracked out laughing and we became friendly 'at work' buddies after that], I continued to George, "almost everyone looks like someone else to me, I've met literally 10,000s of people mostly though public relations jobs I've had, everyone looks like at least a half dozen people I've met, most of the only people that I remember relatively quickly are people that really stand out for me, which could be anyone no matter who or what they are, but I eventually remember faces and names after a half dozen or less times, it just takes me a lot of time, however I learn faster the more embarrassed or humiliated I am per specific incident"; (2) more than half of white Americans suffer from 'oppression paranoia' to some too-frequent degree or another (same goes for all races, however, usually races or groups that have been historically + contemporaneously been oppressed the most, tend to be more 'oppression paranoid'), those that suffer from oppression paranoia usually automatically assume if a black person is rude to them or merely annoying, it's because they generally have a certain amount of disdain for white people and culture, usually the first thing that occurs to them isn't that the person is just being rude or annoying, it's because the person must have something against white people (a reversed situation for all races or groups, is obviously true too). The particular dress code for this establishment is nonsensically-discriminatory (e.g. shortish shorts and miniskirts and some T-shirts and sneakers are OK but sweatpants or leggings are not - unbalanced or unfair requirements for most people). However, that said the law is obviously on the side of the establishment, and legally-rightfully so in a democracy and it's accompanying freedom of association, and it's not too much or a moral-evil to require a dress code or 'uniform' as such. The celebrity guy who 'cried racism' should have just turned around and gone somewhere else like I would have done without adolescent whining about something he didn't even bother to understand more than or beyond his presumption, but he didn't, in a classic case of 'oppression paranoia' and 'self-centeredness' he assumed it was because he's black and they are targeting him and not anyone else, when in fact there were other black guests and staff there and everyone was being polite if not overly-happy-friendly to him (contemporary Americans more than most tend to think all customer service revolves around them personally and expect people serving them to act like their friend and actual personal servant), all the other guests were complying by the dress code, unbalanced or unfair that dress-code may be to some. The restaurant host 'looking me up and down' that the celebrity mentioned could mean anything, I personally find that looking someone up and down to be obnoxious and very irritating (unless it's automatic well meaning behavior, like when I come across a woman I'm suddenly extremely attracted to, of course the woman, or even I myself right away, may not realize this, depending on her present-capacity for intuition and the unconscious exchange of feeling intent, so to speak), but looking people up and down is quite common in American culture and can mean almost anything, good or bad or both. And as you know, in order to determine if someone is complying with a dress code, what does someone else have to do? Answer: look at that person from head to foot (or in reverse order). Maybe the celebrity had never been anywhere with a dress code before (except for the basketball court uniform and possible related off-court public-relations 'formal-wear' expectation pressure) or didn't realize dress-codes outside certain work-place occupations aren't as uncommon as he thought, that would actually make his over-reaction slightly more understandable. *note: to many outsiders visiting or residing in the US, the US is, ironically, considered a very caste-classist slave-like culture when it comes to work, employee-employer, and business-customer relations. Prior to the Americanization of world pop-culture, which really took off in the 1980s, few cultures outside the US literally-believed in the sociopathic mantra of "the customer is always right", because it's considered a slave-like mentality. "Boss" originated form the Dutch word for a sea captain, but what people don't realize is that a sea captain in the 1600s had slave-overseer-like power over most of the people under their charge, Americans adopted the word "boss" after "master" became considered to be a bit too revealing, by the mid-1700s the word 'mister' had changed its meaning over time, from 'master' to refer to any person who owned property and was at least a 'social-equal' to another person (i.e. it was considered a faux-pas for an aristocrat or ship-building magnate to refer to an underling under them that owns property, as a "sir", thus connoting a higher or equal class rank, thus connoting class-within-class-specific laws, freedoms and regulations, etc). Until the 1900s in parts of the US (and elsewhere), one could get publicly whipped (yes, including white folks) who became too uppity and started wearing certain types of clothes or adopting certain types of greetings beyond their 'social station'. Note: "mistress" and "madame" (etc) are still used today!

There were a lot of black people eating there in the picture. He was mad no one recognized him, so they had to be racist.

Dominique thinks he doesn't have to follow rules. So he falls back, and makes it a race issue. He should be fired from tv. It's ppl like him who hold the black communities back. Smh.

He got angry cuz he was not attended to by a restaurant. What about the white dead or injured people killed or attacked by blacks in Buckhead?? Should they start tweeting too???

No need to apologize if YOU THOUGHT FIRST BEFORE DISCRIMINATING. But you DID think before discriminating, and decided it was okay, we understand. #BOYCOTT

Then don’t wear shabby clothes what makes you think uu gunna get into a fancy restaurant wearing sweatpants and a tank top

So the new dress code is " I'm black, get over it..."? He probably owns a million dollars worth of clothes and he couldn't find a decent pair of pants?? Something is wrong with this story....

Sweat pants. 🤣🤣🤣

Cancelled !

Naw we done talking just dont eat there any more how bout that.

Sneakers and track pants (designer or NOT) are not appropriate attire for upscale commercial dining