‘He was going to give us a free round and then keep it moving. ‘Can you just imagine how I felt?’ It was a slap in the face to me.’ A manager then came outside and offered a free round of drinks. Pace said he called over a restaurant security guard and asked why he hadn’t been let inside.
‘I agreed to their dress code and to sit outside. ‘I felt humiliated, embarrassed and frustrated,’ Pace told Atlantic Daily Voice. In a week, the video was retweeted 11,600 times and ‘liked’ 27,600 times. In the same Tweet he said, ‘being black in america is being told you can’t come inside of an establishment because you have on sweatpants but you can sit outside, and as you sit outside you watch white people walk smoothly inside with sweatpants and hats to the back’