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A British family has sparked a legal storm when they told staff at a US luxury hotel that they did not want to be served by any black people.
The family allegedly told staff at a five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel in Florida that they didn't want to be served by "people of colour" or staff with "foreign accents".
But Haitian-born waiter Wadner Tranchant has sued the hotel claiming that by preventing him from serving the family, the Ritz-Carlton violated the Civil Rights Act, the UK Times newspaper reported.
Mr Tranchant, who is black, was moved to other duties when the UK family were seated at the restaurant.
Mr Tranchant's lawyer said nine witnesses would testify that the family had made the racist request.
"My client was prevented from waiting on this couple because he was black," he said.
"Plaintiff was humiliated, embarrassed, frightened, intimidated, subject to undeserved shame and suffered severe emotional stress, which is continuing and for which Plaintiff is seeking medical and psychological treatment," the lawsuit read.
Prices at the luxury hotel range from $480 a night for a standard room to $5400 for the presidential suite.
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COMMENT: At least Australia has tough laws to stop this insanity.
This family should have been booted out of the United States.
