White Pride at Gianni and Mac's at Marietta Square
Went out for dinner at Gianni and Mac’s last night and encountered a man seated right in the middle of the dining room wearing a white T-shirt with "White Pride" on the front and the Aryan Nation symbol on the back.
To be clear, what disturbed me wasn't just the shirt, if you have lived in Georgia long enough, you unfortunately learn to expect this kind of bigotry, both overt and covert. What was genuinely infuriating was management's complete lack of response.
If I had walked in wearing baggy jeans, a durag and Timberlands, I guarantee I would have been immediately reminded of the dress code and turned away at the door. But when management allows patrons wearing explicit hate symbols to sit openly in the main dining room while strictly enforcing arbitrary rules on others, it sends a loud and clear message about who they are and the kind of environment they condone.
Needless to say, I won't be returning. If an establishment is going to look the other way on white supremacy while policing what everyone else wears, patrons deserve to know before choosing to spend their money there.
Oh and the chicken parm tomato sauce was watery and the chicken undercooked.