{"id":61418,"date":"2025-01-28T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tiktoker-sparks-debate-after-she-got-seated-in-black-section-of-restaurant-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:20:13","slug":"tiktoker-sparks-debate-after-she-got-seated-in-black-section-of-restaurant-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tiktoker-sparks-debate-after-she-got-seated-in-black-section-of-restaurant-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"TikToker sparks debate after she got seated in \u201cBlack section\u201d of restaurant &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikToker sparks debate after she got seated in \u201cBlack section\u201d of restaurant TIKTOK: banksudollyA Black TikToker claimed she got seated in a \u201cBlack section\u201d of a New Jersey restaurant, sparking debate. The content creator alleged that she was directed to an area of a restaurant with predominantly Black people after asking to sit in another area, in which most customers were White. In a video with over 252,000 views, TikToker Banksu detailed her visit to The Pub in Pennsauken, New Jersey, where she was asked to sit in an area with mostly Black people, despite wanting to sit at a different spot. \u201cThey directed us to the \u2018black section,&#8217;\u201d the text over the video read. In the clip, Banksu showed both parts of the restaurant. In one section, there were mostly Black people, while in the other, the customers were mainly White. \u201cThat\u2019s crazy,\u201d she said. TikToker sparks debate after getting seated at \u201cblack section\u201d of restaurant TikTok users were divided, with some offering an explanation as to why Banksu might have been seated at a specific section, instead of her desired spot. \u201cThe \u2018white people\u2019 room is clearly a private party and the \u2018black people\u2019 room clearly also has white people.\u201d one user noted. \u201cNo disrespect but that clearly is a private party, looks like they have a cake with candles at the back\u2026.\u201d another one added. \u201cDo you have to pay to sit in one section and not the other? Sometimes they have vip section that cost and free section that doesn\u2019t,\u201d someone else wrote. Others were convinced the TikToker was discriminated based on race. \u201cThey got you in the Rosa parks section? That\u2019s messed up,\u201d one user commented. \u201cOh yeah no that\u2019s WAY too many people to be a coincidence,\u201d another user wrote. \u201cI hope black people stop eating there until they get it together,\u201d a third user shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikToker sparks debate after she got seated in \u201cBlack section\u201d of restaurant TIKTOK: banksudollyA Black TikToker claimed she got seated in a \u201cBlack section\u201d of a New Jersey restaurant, sparking debate. The content creator alleged that she was directed to an area of a restaurant with predominantly Black people after asking to sit in another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}