Grammy Winner DENIED room at hotel because he is black.
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Chivalry may be dead, but racism in this country, unfortunately, isn't. Yesterday (Sept. 30), guitarist and composer Leo Nocentelli sued Travelodge Hotels, Inc. for race discrimination. Nocentelli, a member of New Orleans instrumental outfit the Meters who has won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and recorded with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Etta James, Paul McCartney, and Mavis Staples, alleges that San Francisco's Market Street Travelodge denied him a room that he had he reserved because he was black.
And people say racism doesn't exist when people are openly mocking black people with blackface and still denying them entry into establishments because of race. Vaudeville teas.
