The Heart is racist
I've heard this from several people, including those that have been turned away, the Heart of Darkness, Phnom Penh's most infamous nightclub is barring its doors to black people.
The first account was of a black man who was with a white woman and they asked him to pay a cover charge. The Heart never charges admittance. Needless to say, the couple took their business elsewhere.
The subsequent accounts are of black men and women who were barred from entering altogether. I heard that someone has set up an African bar on street 63 because blacks are facing discrimination in this town.
This is disgusting. I suggest a boycott: don't go to the Heart. Find another place. I hear Q bar is nice. Let's vote with our feet and spend our money in places that do not discriminate based on skin colour. That is totally unacceptable.
The first account was of a black man who was with a white woman and they asked him to pay a cover charge. The Heart never charges admittance. Needless to say, the couple took their business elsewhere.
The subsequent accounts are of black men and women who were barred from entering altogether. I heard that someone has set up an African bar on street 63 because blacks are facing discrimination in this town.
This is disgusting. I suggest a boycott: don't go to the Heart. Find another place. I hear Q bar is nice. Let's vote with our feet and spend our money in places that do not discriminate based on skin colour. That is totally unacceptable.
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3 comments:
...wow. Who owns it, do you know? (i don't mean names, just what manner of people)
and uh, considering the name: irony! irony!! unless they thought Kurtz was right all along and -that's- why they...? well, "huh."
The Heart is owned by members of the Khmer elite as far as I know, the kind that rule in the lawless land of Cambodia.
It was infamous a few years ago for foreigners getting shot. They appear to have cleaned up their act a little since then but it is still really dodgy and now it's racist!
Here, the words Heart of Darkness have other meanings. I think many people think that Conrad's novel was set in Cambodia because of the close identification with that mentality. Of course "Apocalypse Now" had much to do with that. The association of the Khmer Rouge genocide and US incursions in Cambodia, which was a neutral state, is quite accepted here. Many Cambodians blame the American (Vietnamese) War for allowing the communists to seize power because of the bombing campaigns. In addition, the character of Kurtz rules from a camp in Ratanakiri, the province where the Khmer Rouge first emerged.
Irony is not a big thing here. And I've noticed that people take me seriously when I'm being sarcastic!
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