KC pair finds demanding respect is solution
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Simmons pats down several males at the front door and feels a fist-sized wad of cash in their pockets. Red flag. Such cash-heavy customers are used to flashing money for favors. They’ll often try to bribe the doorman to overlook clothing or to give someone a break in the line.
For the reader thinking: “All this to keep the lid on?” Yes. Neither Salomon nor Simmons is naïve. They know mixing liquor with hundreds of people has risks, no matter what the race of the client. Honky tonk bar fight, anyone?
But they speak with one voice in their belief that Kansas City’s black community has wrongly been denied clubs by the antics of a few customers for far too long.
“The quality of the patron comes before the quick buck,” Salomon says. “You have to have honor, even in this crazy business.”
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