So sad
Maybe what's sad is to assume that because the clerk was black, that had anything to do with what he said.
I've read many threads on the DIS lately about people being too sensitive and "reverse racism" and a lot of stuff to the effect that "these people" are just too sensitive and there isn't a race problem anymore, and if there is it's because of them being too sensitive.
There was an article on the Dallas paper yesterday. About a civil trial brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of a black man who was assaulted by four white men in Linden, Texas.
The boys, ranging in age from 17 to 24 at the time of the assault, lured a 42 year old, mentally ******** black man (with the mental capacity of a 12 year old) out to a field to a "pasture party". They gave him alcohol, forced him to dance for their amusment, and taunted him with racial slurs.
The plan was to beat the man, but the first punch thrown knocked him unconscious. Some of the partygoers wanted to take him to the hospital, but the assailant and three of his friends (one of whom was a corrections officer at the local jail) intimidated the rest of the group. They said he was just an effin n-----, why have his blood all over the seats of your car? The four men put the body in the back of a pickup truck, drove out to a place called Dump Road, because it was near the city dump, and deposited the body on top of a fire ant hill.
Fortunately, the victim was found, and survived. But unfortunately, the loss of oxygen to his brain caused him permanent brain injuries.
Despite solid evidence, local juries acquitted two of the men of felony assault, and the other two were permitted to plead guilty to misdemeanors. Three of the assailants served 30 days in jail, and one served 60. In the predominantly white town, sympathy was for the defendants, even the one who showed no remorse and referred to his victim as "it.'
On of the men's mothers commented that because of the misdemeanor convictions, her son and his friends would have their names ruined forever, while the victim, who can barely walk or speak and has memory loss, was "better off today than he's ever been in his life" than he had ever been because now he lives in a nursing home with round the clock care, whereas before he had often wandered away from the home he shared with his mother and brother.
The civil trial was brought in order to obtain money from the assailants, because Billy Ray Johnson, the victim, will require lifelong care. A Houston jury awarded a total $9 million, although that is largely a symbolic amount and will probably never be collected. Billy Ray Johnson's lifetime care was conservately assessed as costing $2.2 million.
This assault happened in
2003. This decade! The assailants were all born after the civil rights movement, in our so-called enlightened age.
I am just too cynical to believe that racism is really not an issue anymore and that minorities who take offense to anything are just being too sensitive.
When white people stop assaulting minorities because of their race - and getting away with it - then I'll start thinking that minorities are too sensitive about anything.
What has this got to do with hot dog buns? Nothing at all. And I don't know what I would have done in the OP's situation. Been surprised. But I wouldn't think the woman was crazy. I would wonder what she's seen in her life to make her feel the way she does.
), but that's just bizarre. What does she think they have those bars there for? I've never had that happen to me and I've been behind plenty of non-caucasian people in grocery lines.
That's what I'm thinking as I read this thread. The grocery store just got a whole lot more dangerous. Who knew?
