RACIST!!

Everytime I return to Boise, Idaho, I am pleased too see a more and more ethnic city. Of course, Boise is still overwhelmingly white and will always be a 'mountain west' town, but seeing a little color in my home town makes me happy. And, thankfully, there never seemed to be any tension with this growth....

Then one night, with a group of people walking by a popular downtown bar, a one friend says to another "You're going to have to put that hat on straight if you go in there."

Confused, I asked more and found out that this particular bar, Mac and Charlie's, enforces a seemingly anti-African-American dress code:

No Doo Rags
Excessively Baggy Clothing
Team Jersey's
Wife Beaters
Hats on Straight (Front or Back)
Any Attire deemed unfit by Door Staff

Now, when I asked the bouncer he said it was deter fights, and alluded to gangs. However, Boise does not have a gang problem and frankly the few fights I've seen in Boise have been between drunk BSU jocks.

The only Boiseans I've seen that dress the way alluded to in the 'dress code' are African Americas; in other words, Boise does not have a sect of white youth that dress in the urban black style, so this sign seems clearly aimed at blacks.

Thus, I can only assume there are sinister undertones. Racist? Obviously not overtly so, but the first blatant sign I've seen of possible tension...