New York: Angry protests erupt at ‘racist’ Brooklyn bar that serves 40 ounces of rose wine in paper bags and brags about its ‘genuine’ bullet holes in the wall (Excerpt)

Protest erupted at a Brooklyn bar after they released a press release advertising 40 ounces of rose wine in paper bags and ‘genuine’ bullet holes

They met outside Summerhill, a ‘boozy sandwich shop’ in Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday to protest the ‘bar’s commodification of stereotypes that only serve to hurt the community’

Summerhill’s owner, Becca Brennan, wasn’t in attendance for the protest but did release a statement condoning her remarks as being ‘insensitive’

In a press release on Monday was an advertisement for a mixed drink next to a ‘bullet hole-ridden wall’ which was supposedly part of a ‘backroom illegal gun shop’

In addition to the bullet wall, Forty Ounce Rose – wine bottled to look like a 40 ounce Colt 45 – was mentioned in the release with Brennan adding that she wanted to put them in paper bags

People on social media also voiced their disdain with the restaurant’s publicity stunt and gave them one star on review sites such as Yelp

Source: Daily Mail

By Matthew Wright

23 July 2017

Protest erupted at a Brooklyn bar on Saturday amid anger at the owner’s decision to make a feature of a ‘bullet damaged’ wall on the property, sell wine in 40 ounce bottles and suggest she might wrap beverages in paper bags.

Dozens met up outside Summerhill, a ‘boozy sandwich shop’ in Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York to speak out against the ‘bar’s commodification of stereotypes that only serve to hurt the community.’

The area has been rapidly gentrifying in recent years and the owner – Canadian former corporate lawyer Becca Brennan – has been accused of racism for trading on the neighborhood’s African American roots.

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