DC fitness center apologizes for ‘insensitive’ Juneteenth cocktail

A well-liked fitness center in Washington, D.C. is apologizing after a bar at one in all their pool golf equipment served a Juneteenth-themed drink.

The drink, which some on social media say was served on the VIDA Health Penthouse Pool Membership in Washington, D.C., was known as a “Watermelon Henny Lemonade” and allegedly contained Hennessy, watermelon liquor, and lemonade. 

In an electronic mail despatched to members of the Penthouse Pool Membership on July 1, Aaron Moore, director of operations for VIDA Health, stated that the drink was “inappropriate, insensitive, and mustn’t have occurred underneath our watch.”

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“On behalf of the senior staff right here at Penthouse Pool Membership and VIDA Health, I need to apologize for the Juneteenth celebratory cocktail. It was inappropriate, insensitive, and mustn’t have occurred underneath our watch. I felt great regret and ache after I realized we had let down the VIDA household and our bigger neighborhood,” Moore wrote.

Moore stated that the corporate has “devoted appreciable assets” over the previous two years to make sure an “error like this could not occur.”

“Nonetheless, after an inner evaluate, we discovered that we didn’t comply with our personal processes and fell effectively in need of our requirements,” Moore then wrote.

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To keep away from one other occasion like this, Moore stated that the corporate has begun “retraining our staff on the correct submission course of for cultural heritage celebrations in order that offensive concepts just like the Juneteenth cocktail don’t occur once more.”

The corporate can also be offering “extra superior coaching” meant to “ingrain the sensitivities and larger consciousness of DEI into our each day lives.”

“We would like you to know that we personal this error and sincerely apologize to our members, staff, and visitors,” Moore stated.