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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 21 (Reuters Life!) – A blacks only fitness gym was cleared on Tuesday of charges that it illegally discriminated against a white man by barring him from becoming a customer.  

A British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal said Ralph Stopps was not unfairly hurt by being refused membership in Just Blacks Fitness, which markets itself to blacks who do not want to use mixed race facilities.

“In the circumstances of this case, treating Mr. Stopps the same as these black people would actually result in an adverse consequences for these black people,” the tribunal wrote, saying that Stopps had the option of using other mixed race gyms.

Stopps said he tried to join the gym because it was near his home in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, but the tribunal said there was a mixed race facility that was actually closer.

The gym is part of a fitness chain that has 40,000 black members. Of its 300 employees only four are white — one of whom is the company’s president and founder.

Whoops! Got that mixed up. It was a women’s gym refusing a man. Never mind.

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