Black People can't be racist

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Please take three and a half minutes of time out of your day and gain perspective. This is what we want white people to do:



If you Really want to gain perspective, I encourage you to take some time to watch this. Joy DeGruy Leary is amazing:

I only watched the first one but I've done something worse a few months ago.

I was at Winco and happened to be in the bathroom at the same time as a young black employee that I'd seen sweeping up the front of the store was in the toilet stall.

I was washing my hands and saw him walk out behind me and leave the bathroom. GROSSSSSSSSSS. That is one of my pet peeves. Winco has a sign posted that employees will be dismissed if they don't wash their hands.

I know for a fact I would have ratted out a white guy but I figured it would seem racist because nobody would rat on a white guy (which I would certainly do).....plus, I figured that since he only cleaned the front of the store it wasn't a big deal.

A month later I saw him working in the meat department and he wasn't wearing gloves and his coworkers were. FUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!

 

[santeesioux]

Can I be a racist?

 

[magnifier661]

Can I be a racist?

Your look offends everyone, so yes

 

[dviss1]

Do they?

You leap to conclusions much? That's rhetorical, you do

Have you ever been married? I have. We are separated now and I'm still doing taxes with that bitch.

 

[dviss1]

I only watched the first one but I've done something worse a few months ago.

I was at Winco and happened to be in the bathroom at the same time as a young black employee that I'd seen sweeping up the front of the store was in the toilet stall.

I was washing my hands and saw him walk out behind me and leave the bathroom. GROSSSSSSSSSS. That is one of my pet peeves. Winco has a sign posted that employees will be dismissed if they don't wash their hands.

I know for a fact I would have ratted out a white guy but I figured it would seem racist because nobody would rat on a white guy (which I would certainly do).....plus, I figured that since he only cleaned the front of the store it wasn't a big deal.

A month later I saw him working in the meat department and he wasn't wearing gloves and his coworkers were. FUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!

Yup. This one is completely on you. Look at what you did: Instead of telling on his ass, you assumed based upon some silly preconceived notion that the Black person would've lied and "played the race card" (another white privilege statement) instead of owning up to his nastiness (one of the grossest things in the world to me is when people don't wash their hands after they use the bathroom).

You should've told on his ass.

Conversely what I would've done is head him off before he gets away. I'd say something to him personally before I went to his boss.

 

[dviss1]

I watched the video and it makes a solid point. I would have liked to have heard what the manager's take and actions were. Was there actually a policy requiring ID for everybody writing checks? If so, then the cashier should have been reprimanded or fired for ignoring the policy with the "white" lady. If not, then the cashier should have been immediately fired for being racist towards the second lady. If the manager didn't take any action against the clerk either way, then I'd want to talk to the owner of the place about policies that are being enforced differently based, apparently, on skin color. There might need to be a complaint filed with the state for discriminatory practices.

All of that said, racism and xenophobia are pretty deeply ingrained in the human psyche and they aren't likely to go away completely no matter what laws are passed. I suspect that it's rooted in our DNA as a part of a survival mechanism to seek protection in the known group vs. the outsider or people who simply aren't like us. That doesn't mean that we don't fight against those tendencies to try to make things better for everyone, but it probably, unfortunately, means that change isn't going to come easily or ever be complete.

You've gotta be kidding me...

Bro... Racism is a learned behavior. There is nothing inherent about it at all...

 

[e_blazer]

You've gotta be kidding me...

Bro... Racism is a learned behavior. There is nothing inherent about it at all...

I'm talking about the tendency to fear the unknown, which is really the xenophobia part of what I was talking about. I think that's hard wired to a large degree. Banding together for common security and interests against the outsider is seen throughout human history...tribalism, nationalism and even gangs. Racism takes that tendency in a specific direction against people having different racial characteristics. While I think that the tendency towards fear and mistrust of people who are different is somewhat innate, I think that you're absolutely correct that the learned components of hatred are by far the cause of the majority of racial misery.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Please take three and a half minutes of time out of your day and gain perspective. This is what we want white people to do:



If you Really want to gain perspective, I encourage you to take some time to watch this. Joy DeGruy Leary is amazing:

I too only watched the first one since I don't personally know any living slaves, so ptslaved means nothing.

What are the national averages of fraud by race? Serious question. Maybe the employees were told to look for bad checks from a black female because there had been other instances? You don't know, and neither did she. Was she looking for "racism?"

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Yup. This one is completely on you. Look at what you did: Instead of telling on his ass, you assumed based upon some silly preconceived notion that the Black person would've lied and "played the race card" (another white privilege statement) instead of owning up to his nastiness (one of the grossest things in the world to me is when people don't wash their hands after they use the bathroom).

You should've told on his ass.

Conversely what I would've done is head him off before he gets away. I'd say something to him personally before I went to his boss.

I didn't think he would play the race card, I thought it would SEEM racist. I guess I talked myself into not ratting him out.

Hell, I wouldn't have blamed him if he thought it was racial. I am a big completely bald white guy. Lily white. Like I have to hide from the sun.

I am not one to keep quiet in public, it is actually the complete opposite. I called a Sams Club receipt checker racist for digging through a black ladies' cart, to his face. I asked him why of the multiple times he had checked my receipt he never dug through my cart.

It was basically the same thing as the video.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

He just stared at me by the way.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I too only watched the first one since I don't personally know any living slaves, so ptslaved means nothing.

What are the national averages of fraud by race? Serious question. Maybe the employees were told to look for bad checks from a black female because there had been other instances? You don't know, and neither did she. Was she looking for "racism?"

That there is pure bullshit. If this woman fit the EXACT description of a specific person who'd passed bad checks at this exact store then maybe.

My wife has hired and fired hundreds of people over the years. Maybe thousands. You can choose whatever color or type of person big fat tall or short, doesn't matter. She hires people solely on their interviews and experience and references. Her stores are always setting sales records year after year and a more diverse group of employees would be hard to find.

My wife could refuse to hire people based on the same assumptions this cashier may have been operating on. It would be just as shitty.

 

[MarAzul]

He was following him and then began chasing him. What are we supposed to tell our children when a stranger is following them? When was Trayvon within his right to stand his ground?

My suggestion is to let your children know there is a neighborhood watch and inform the neighborhood watch that your children live in the neighborhood. That works for any race.
Then you need to understand, standing your ground is much different than going to Whoop Ass, your children should be informed of the difference, especially the importance of not doing Whoop Ass on the neighborhood watch. It could save their life.

 

[Denny Crane]

Have you ever been married? I have. We are separated now and I'm still doing taxes with that bitch.

I'm married. A reason to not file jointly is so both persons may pursue careers and to have some arm's length.

Google "married filing separately."

It probably doesn't matter what his tax situation is, it's a smokescreen.

His wife made money as a conservative activist all along. No matter how he and the court ruled, she'd have been paid the same.

Next?

 

[Mediocre Man]

That there is pure bullshit. If this woman fit the EXACT description of a specific person who'd passed bad checks at this exact store then maybe.

My wife has hired and fired hundreds of people over the years. Maybe thousands. You can choose whatever color or type of person big fat tall or short, doesn't matter. She hires people solely on their interviews and experience and references. Her stores are always setting sales records year after year and a more diverse group of employees would be hard to find.

My wife could refuse to hire people based on the same assumptions this cashier may have been operating on. It would be just as shitty.

I think its probably bullshit too, but we dont know.

If stores around town were getting hit by a black female, and that was the description, then the checker should be more cautious

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I think its probably bullshit too, but we dont know.

If stores around town were getting hit by a black female, and that was the description, then the checker should be more cautious

I always wanna know why but the most obvious reason is probably best. Maybe the cashier's cat got hit by a black lady in an SUV? If we find out that was it, we can call racism dead forever. It was just a misunderstanding.

I mentioned my wife hiring and firing people in this thread. She's told me things employees she doesn't care for personally have done and asked if she should fire them. I asked her if the ones she liked would be fired for the same thing and if she says no....... I tell her not to.

Life ain't fair but that's no reason not to try.

 

[dviss1]

That there is pure bullshit. If this woman fit the EXACT description of a specific person who'd passed bad checks at this exact store then maybe.

My wife has hired and fired hundreds of people over the years. Maybe thousands. You can choose whatever color or type of person big fat tall or short, doesn't matter. She hires people solely on their interviews and experience and references. Her stores are always setting sales records year after year and a more diverse group of employees would be hard to find.

My wife could refuse to hire people based on the same assumptions this cashier may have been operating on. It would be just as shitty.

That's not the correct response but it's the one I would expect from a white male. Your response has no empathy and could not even try to step into the shoes of the person dealing with the issue. You don't know what that woman has gone through in her life. Oscar winner Forest Whitaker was accused of stealing from a deli. This shit happens to us every day. I don't think for one minute that she made that up. But your response is typical for someone who never has to deal with anything like that.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

That's not the correct response but it's the one I would expect from a white male. Your response has no empathy and could not even try to step into the shoes of the person dealing with the issue. You don't know what that woman has gone through in her life. Oscar winner Forest Whitaker was accused of stealing from a deli. This shit happens to us every day. I don't think for one minute that she made that up. But your response is typical for someone who never has to deal with anything like that.

Cool, I'm glad people liked your post disagreeing with where I said MM's post was pure bullshit. So, you agree with him that maybe checkers were told to be like that?

Read it again. Hope you just quoted the wrong post. Don't expect everyone to think one way and I won't either.

His reaction is what I consider the knee jerk type stuff people use to deflect things.

 

[riverman]

There is nothing right about the treatment that woman recieved from that clerk. Period! It's also a bit unfair to assume someone is a typical anything

 

[Mediocre Man]

Cool, I'm glad people liked your post disagreeing with where I said MM's post was pure bullshit. So, you agree with him that maybe checkers were told to be like that?

Read it again. Hope you just quoted the wrong post. Don't expect everyone to think one way and I won't either.

His reaction is what I consider the knee jerk type stuff people use to deflect things.

I think my post is anything but knee jerk. I am trying to look at it impartially.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I think my post is anything but knee jerk. I am trying to look at it impartially.

It doesn't even have to be true in this instance. You could literally be right about this one time and it wouldn't change the point that millions of black people have been treated like this by millions of white people. And others, I don't speak Spanish but I know the Spanish version of the N word.

I didn't ask what it was, I asked what the word I kept hearing meant.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I'll tell you how I learned the word and this is no bullshit. I thought guys were talking about a Miata and we rarely have a Miata to work on. I heard this a ton of times and finally asked why they were always calling cars Miatas when they weren't.

 

[MarAzul]

I sort of favor Profiling even though many leftist wimps think it is racist.

Back when I was a Development Manager, it was brought to my attention that someone was pooping on the toilet seat in the mens room on our floor every morning.
Umm, maybe not so strange! So I set watch for a couple of specific suspects. The trap was sprung the very next day. When I entered the restroom right after being informed that
so and so had entered, I saw no one in the room and a quick check of the floor under the stall doors revealed no feet. I had put a stool in the room the day before, so now was the time
to use it, peering down into each stall. Viola! the perpetrator in action, squatting over the toilet with his feet on the seat. The dude had very poor aim.
Any way, I asked why is he doing this despicable act? Calmly he replies, I can't sit on the same seat the infidels use. I discriminated against him badly. He left for Pakistan the next day
without completing his mission.

Profiling did work though in zeroing in on the problem.

 

[dviss1]

I sort of favor Profiling even though many leftist wimps think it is racist.

Back when I was a Development Manager, it was brought to my attention that someone was pooping on the toilet seat in the mens room on our floor every morning.
Umm, maybe not so strange! So I set watch for a couple of specific suspects. The trap was sprung the very next day. When I entered the restroom right after being informed that
so and so he entered, I saw no one in the room and a quick check of the floor under the stall doors revealed no feet. I had put a stool in the room the day before, so now was the time
to use it, peering down into each stall. Viola! the perpetrator in action, squatting over the toilet with his feet on the seat. The dude had very poor aim.
Any way, I asked why is he doing this despicable act? Calmly he replies, I can't sit on the same seat the infidels use. I discriminated against him badly. He left for Pakistan the next day
without completing his mission.

Profiling did work though in zeroing in on the problem.

Sigh...

 

[dviss1]

Cool, I'm glad people liked your post disagreeing with where I said MM's post was pure bullshit. So, you agree with him that maybe checkers were told to be like that?

Read it again. Hope you just quoted the wrong post. Don't expect everyone to think one way and I won't either.

His reaction is what I consider the knee jerk type stuff people use to deflect things.

I was confused. Thought you were agreeing with him.

 

[MarAzul]

Sigh...

Did I mention, the guy was a Phd no less.

Ha! Given the same situation to deal with, I suppose dviss would watch ever white dude for months. And fail.

 

[riverman]

I sort of favor Profiling even though many leftist wimps think it is racist.

Back when I was a Development Manager, it was brought to my attention that someone was pooping on the toilet seat in the mens room on our floor every morning.
Umm, maybe not so strange! So I set watch for a couple of specific suspects. The trap was sprung the very next day. When I entered the restroom right after being informed that
so and so had entered, I saw no one in the room and a quick check of the floor under the stall doors revealed no feet. I had put a stool in the room the day before, so now was the time
to use it, peering down into each stall. Viola! the perpetrator in action, squatting over the toilet with his feet on the seat. The dude had very poor aim.
Any way, I asked why is he doing this despicable act? Calmly he replies, I can't sit on the same seat the infidels use. I discriminated against him badly. He left for Pakistan the next day
without completing his mission.

Profiling did work though in zeroing in on the problem.

I can't believe a Development Manager would peer down toilet stalls but I believe you Marz!

 

[MarAzul]

I can't believe a Development Manager would peer down toilet stalls

Yeah, me neither. Never heard of another that faced the same disgusting problem. My guys were freaking out.

 

[dviss1]

Did I mention, the guy was a Phd no less.

Ha! Given the same situation to deal with, I suppose dviss would watch ever white dude for months. And fail.

You muthafuckas woulda had to figure that out on your own. I don't watch people shit. I use a different stall and go tell a janitor. That's what they get paid for.

MarAzul finally admits his racism. Baby steps... Baby steps...

 

[Denny Crane]

You muthafuckas woulda had to figure that out on your own. I don't watch people shit. I use a different stall and go tell a janitor. That's what they get paid for.

MarAzul finally admits his racism. Baby steps... Baby steps...

Sadly, I think he's just ignorant about bad some of his posts are.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

It is interesting to know that being a bathroom monitor in grade school and lead to a career being a bathroom monitor for IBM.

(Just kidding Marzy!)