By now most of you have seen the video of the alleged bias attack on Jonathan Snipes and his boyfriend Ethan York-Adams that took place at a Dallas BBQ in Chelsea earlier this week on cinco De Mayo.
It it quite clear the story that most media platforms are telling. However in the words of Robert Evans There are three sides to every story: Jonathan Snipes, the alleged attackers side, and the truth.
The story that has been going around since the incident is…..
The confrontation began when the unidentified suspect and another man started yelling anti-gay slurs at Jonathan Snipes, 32, after he accidently knocked over a drink inside Dallas BBQ on West 23rd Street shortly after 11 p.m. on May 5.
During the argument, the man became enraged, smashing a chair over the heads of Snipes and his partner Ethan York-Adams, 25.
“A table near us audibly started making pretty gross comments about the two of us like, ‘White f—-ts, spilling drinks,'” Snipes mentioned to the press.
For a minute I was outraged. But something like this account of events didn’t sound right.
Then is happened… A counter-narrative has sprung up to Snipes’s account, alleging that he was the aggressor, and the suspect is a gay man himself. Waddie Grant Jr. writes on G-List Society that the man who filmed the fight, Isaam Sharef, told him that Snipes “struck one of the Black men first which kicked off the entire brawl.”
The fight did go a little too far with a chair being thrown. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is in full effect.
But It is honestly up to you to decide what the truth really is… There are two very distinct stories, with both sides not looking nice anyway you put it.
But one can wonder just a little about..
- Dallas BBQ in Chelsea is the gayest restaurant in NYC. It doesn’t quite necessarily mean that you are gay but 8 times out of 10 the person sitting next to you in Dallas BBQ’s in Chelsea is gay. Does not rule out he was straight but it’s kind of hard to distinguish when Gay men as well as straight men call each other every homosexual-based derogatory term under the sun.
- What did Jonathan Snipes say or do to provoke another party to get up and beat him with a chair.
- If he knocked and spilled another tables drinks over how easy would it have been to just replace the drinks vs. whatever happened that lead to the WWE scene.
We can also talk about how racially segregated the gay community is currently. And how would we know that the suspect was straight? No one ever addresses the underlying racial tensions in the gay community.