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In reply to the discussion: "Is this a holdup or something?" woman to black delivery man [View all]Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,607 posts)She's not on drugs.
She's not drunk.
She's not mentally disturbed.
She's just racist.
She accused him of being a criminal. She accused him of not having a car, even though he pointed his car out to her. She even pushed up her nose to mock his appearance. She didn't use any actual racial epithets that I could hear, but her actions against him and the person he was delivering the food to were evidence enough.
Tangeranus lifted the rock and let all the maggot racists run free in 2016. It's not just any 'older' generation, though, either. It's the young ones, too. My niece called the north end of my hometown "Mexicoland" because that's where a lot of the immigrants from Mexico came from, and her father even said it was like Mexico up there. Especially because of "the dirt" and "the smell". Now, I don't know if she carried that bigotry with her out to California for college, but I bet there's a sliver of it still in her heart.
It's not just the older generations. And it makes me think that we'll never get past this as a country. Or as a world.
I amend my previous statement. They (racists) are bolder, for sure, but the proliferation of cell phones with cameras and social media in the past five years has been a tremendous help in shining the light on these maggots. For that, I am glad.