Ghetto Geronimo

One of our security staff is deploying to a middle eastern country that will remain anonymous but might rhyme with Schmafghanistan. Stay safe brother.

Working the front door you get some random IDs shown. The obviously fake, the ripped in half, soggy, expired, photocopied because I lost my wallet.....yadda, yadda.

Occasionally you get one that is just mind boggling. So a group comes up and reads the House Rules sign. The first to talk to the door staff is an average looking black man. He has dreadlocks wrapped up, jeans and Tims on. He hands us his ID and we are a little confused. It is a Tax Exempt ID for the Native American tribes Creek, Chok'taw and Cherokee (one of our security staff had little concern about what the card said but as soon as he saw Tax Exempt he saw red and had to remove himself before he disemboweled him for civic negligence). Well, first time we had ever seen a reservation ID since the closest one is in North Carolina. We start verifying information to see if it has all the prerequisites of a true ID. Then the name hits us: Minister Abiz Majsit al-Seyit was an Aboriginal minister according to this ID.

The ID was formal just not sensible. It very may be legal and kosher, however we were unwilling to chance it.

Polite Bouncer: "I am sorry sir, while it looks to be in order we have no precedent to accept this ID. Did you drive here? I could look at your DMV issued Driver's License."

Minister X: "I am not a US citizen! I am a US nationale! You don't even know the difference."

PB: "Well, I am very sorry sir but without appropriate ID I can't help you tonight."

MX: "F*** this man, let's go somewhere else. They don't like black people here."

I turn around and look in to make sure the 150 black people that were in the bar 5 minutes ago are still in there then I laugh and go inside. While I would like to think that man is just the constant victim of circumstance (being a black/Native American Muslim minister) I can't help but think that ID is the sign of abuse within our system. He can receive Tax Exempt Status for his "church" and himself by hiding under something he is blatantly not. Maybe one day I will visit his reservation, at the PO box in Newport News.

Drink responsibly and be safe,
-Polite Bouncer