You just as easily could have said we were behind two people and XXX happened.
But that's not what the poster's experience was. He was giving the whole story. To leave OUT race and description is another form of 'ism".
(heh, heh, made an assumption without reading the OP's name...since so many of us here are female, I wrote "she")
DAS cards light the fast pass mickey head blue.
THAT is likely the answer, OP.
your post implied that the CMs were scared of the big black guys. How is that not offensive?
How is it offensive for the OP to tell a story and wonder what happened? If offense was caused, it would be on the part of the CM who might have been scared. And even that isn't offensive; we are allowed to have feelings, after all. What would be offensive would be to NOT allow access and have them kicked out for their appearance.
Why does their physical description have anything to do with them being sent through.
I think that's part of the question the OP is asking? I think he's telling the whole story and wondering what went on, or what might have gone on.
Appearance has nothing to do with whether or not they were let through.
How, exactly, do you KNOW that? What if it was?
Are you assuming because they look as you describe that the CMs were waiving them through because they were scared of them or intimidated?
I think the OP is ASKING. That's not assuming. That's asking. Wondering. Trying to figure it out. Assuming means the OP decided it, fixed it in his head, and never asked the question.
d that scanner comes with a whole lot of power - fear the blue!
But not in the case of the men in question, it seems.
Would you have asked this question if they were 2 big tattoo'd white men?
Why would you assume the OP would not?
It's ironic that some posters are adamant that appearance shouldn't matter; but they immediately assume what a posters ethnicity may be just by reading a post.
Heh heh, interesting.
you are assuming it's preferential treatment, you don't actually know it was.
Pretty sure that's why the OP posted...to get other answers of what might have happened. That answer, a really good one, might very well have been given VERY early on.
Maybe I missed it - where did anyone assume your ethnicity? Or did you mean something else?
Well, if we assume that laidbackdad is also a black man, is the description of the men offensive now? No, not so much. So we're assuming LBD is NOT black. Right? Right. We're assuming (and acting on those assumptions in the way people are responding to LBD) the race/ethnicity of LBD.