Let me play the devil’s advocate here:
Alchemist is one of the few bars in Nairobi where you can leave your drink unattended and nobody will spike your drink.
It’s also one of the few bars in Nairobi where people mind their own business. Hakuna ile ufala ya kuangaliana na kupiga usoro.
Also, 99 percent of the crowd in Alchemist is drinking beers and cocktail.
But if you go to a popular club in Nairobi full of typical middle-class and you buy 3 beers, most people will stare you weird like you’re a “broke-ass nigga” who doesn’t belong there.
Just try to go to a club like Bar Next Door, and almost every table is filled with 2 or 3 bottles of expensive whisky. This is something that I have not seen at Alchemist.
Wakenya wanapenda kukunywa pombe sana. But most wazungus barely drink excessively compared to Kenyans.
A white person will drink 2 or 3 beers or cocktails and he will be done for the night. Those white people and wahindis also take mdma or ecstasy which doesn’t mix with too much alcohol.
@Azor Ahai argument about Alchemist doesn’t hold water.
That trending video doesn’t tell the whole story. From what I’ve gathered, white people in a foreign country tend to line-up in a group even if they don’t know each other. And black people will do the same subconsciously.
Even in prison, white and black people tend to segregate themselves with nobody telling them to do it.
The body language of the guy who was told by the bouncer to keep off says a lot. It looks like the black guy for reasons unknown was flagged by the bouncers and denied entry. Even if he went to the other line, I can bet he was still be denied entry.
A 25 seconds video doesn’t tell the whole story. It looks like racism, but it’s not racism.
Alchemist has released the actual CCTV footage of the night and it looks like I was right.
Hakuna racism hapo.
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