Gym membership terminated....because I'm white?

[AxeMurderer90]

So yesterday I was at the gym and a few guys were on the bench doing dumbell presses. I'm on the incline bench next to them. Not only are they loud and obnoxiois but they're literally throwing the dumbells, there is never a need to throw your dumbells, especially considering they were 40s. Im not baggin on em for the weight, we all started somewhere, but they're lifting and flexing like they're the biggest dudes there.

So I'm about to begin lifting when one of their dumbells they throw hits me right on the calf. I get up and say "what the fuck are you doing?, your throwing dumbells around and one just hit me, watch what your doing, you're not the only ones here." So one of them comes up and gets in my face and says nothing. I turn around to go back to the bench and he backhands me in the back of the head.

I immediately turn around and punch him, he falls to the ground and he's out. Gym staff comes over tells me to leave so I do. So this morning I get an email stating that due to my behavior my membership has been terminated. I completely understand, I let my emotions get the best of me, i deserve it. Then about an hour ago I come to find out that the other guy was not kicked out. A guy I work out with from time to time tells me he overheard the gym manager talking to the guy today saying "ya i got you, I kicked that white boy out of here, you know I'm not gunna let a white boy pull that shit in my gym"....what the fuck

CLIFFS

Obnoxious gym guy slapped me
I punched and dropped him
He faces no consequences
I get banned from the gym...because I'm white?

UPDATE: got reinstated, made a thread about it
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f48/update-got-my-gym-memebrship-reinstated-2366175/

 

[Kiddo716]

file charges, sue and own gym.

 

[Iceman_Fan09]

Start going to a different gym.

 

[AncientEnemy]

find new gym

 

[AxeMurderer90]

find new gym

That's the plan, I mean it sucks because it's literally down the street from my apt. But the fact that I get terminated when the guy who instigated the whole thing faces no consequence is bullshit, is it not?

 

[Bloody Pulp]

http://www.ehow.com/how_2078684_sue-business-discrimination.html

 

[Michaelangelo]

They can cancel your membership without question right? Go find a 24 hour fitness.

 

[Bloody Pulp]

Or open up a white's-only gym across the street. That'll show them.

 

[CraneKicks]

They were jerks. You were a jerk. The gym owner is a jerk.

You can't do anything though. His comments are hearsay.

 

[CraneKicks]

That's the plan, I mean it sucks because it's literally down the street from my apt. But the fact that I get terminated when the guy who instigated the whole thing faces no consequence is bullshit, is it not?

The second guy always gets the blame. You stooped to their level man.

 

[AxeMurderer90]

They were jerks. You were a jerk. The gym owner is a jerk.

You can't do anything though. His comments are hearsay.

I dont see how I was a jerk, I got hit by a thrown dumbell, then when I turned around I got hit. Would you not hit the guy back in the situation?

 

[AncientEnemy]

yeah it's bullshit, but you should take the high road out. find a new gym, maybe an ancient asian master and start working out like crazy. become a super powerful body builder and return to the gym and say YOU COULD HAVE HAD THIS

NOW YOU MUST SUFFER THE WRATH

and start windmilling barbells around the place as they all flee in horror

youll probably get arrested but you can just break out with your muscles and go on to star in some movies or something

 

[AxeMurderer90]

The second guy always gets the blame. You stooped to their level man.

Ya I know, I shouldn't have hit the guy but that doesn't change the fact that he's as much to blame as me and we should both be terminated.

 

[EyeTrainUFC]

I dont see how I was a jerk, I got hit by a thrown dumbell, then when I turned around I got hit. Would you not hit the guy back in the situation?

I personally wouldn't have hit the guy for that, but my hands are registered as lethal weapons in 46 of 50 states.

 

[CraneKicks]

I dont see how I was a jerk, I got hit by a thrown dumbell, then when I turned around I got hit. Would you not hit the guy back in the situation?

Nope

 

[lakersfan45]

They were jerks. You were a jerk. The gym owner is a jerk.

You can't do anything though. His comments are hearsay.

exactly what someone overheard means nothing. the fact that the blackdude is still there after he hit you could be something... if there was a police report or proof he hit you.

 

[El Chimpo]

new gym....just forget it..

 

[BigRed78]

So yesterday I was at the gym and a few guys were on the bench doing dumbell presses. I'm on the incline bench next to them. Not only are they loud and obnoxiois but they're literally throwing the dumbells, there is never a need to throw your dumbells, especially considering they were 40s. Im not baggin on em for the weight, we all started somewhere, but they're lifting and flexing like they're the biggest dudes there.

So I'm about to begin lifting when one of their dumbells they throw hits me right on the calf. I get up and say "what the fuck are you doing?, your throwing dumbells around and one just hit me, watch what your doing, you're not the only ones here." So one of them comes up and gets in my face and says nothing. I turn around to go back to the bench and he backhands me in the back of the head.

I immediately turn around and punch him, he falls to the ground and he's out. Gym staff comes over tells me to leave so I do. So this morning I get an email stating that due to my behavior my membership has been terminated. I completely understand, I let my emotions get the best of me, i deserve it. Then about an hour ago I come to find out that the other guy was not kicked out. A guy I work out with from time to time tells me he overheard the gym manager talking to the guy today saying "ya i got you, I kicked that white boy out of here, you know I'm not gunna let a white boy pull that shit in my gym"....what the fuck

CLIFFS

Obnoxious gym guy slapped me
I punched and dropped him
He faces no consequences
I get banned from the gym...because I'm white?

Take it the other fella was athletic and explosive?

 

[El Chimpo]

shoulda challenged him to bench teh 275

 

[AxeMurderer90]

I personally wouldn't have hit the guy for that, but my hands are registered as lethal weapons in 46 of 50 states.

LOL, the fucked up part is I don't even care to take legal action, I just want my membership reinstated or his terminated as well. I'm even thinking of emailing the owner with an ultimatum of reinstating me, terminating both of us, or legal action.