Racist woman in New Jersey harasses a contractor and says "speak American"

[Norbert]

It took a couple reads to figure out what was going on. so apparently 'Peggy' was on the sidewalk hearing one of the contractors communicate in Spanish and she throws a fit. The woman who is getting her house worked on comes out to confront her and does a Tik Tok clip. Peggy eventually tells the woman to mind her own business which I find hilarious.

Peggy's head would have exploded at my house earlier in the year when I was getting my roof done. American errr English was not spoken very much there either.

Link to tweet

https://www.comicsands.com/nj-racism-contractor-speak-american-2655300283.html

[Haggard Celine]

1. Well isn't she lovely?

Why would anyone care what the roofers are saying to each other and what language they're speaking? It is so weird for people to insist others speak the same language you speak at all times!

[Joinfortmill]

5. Right, and they proudly display their ignorance, "speak American"??

[Demovictory9]

11. I'm reminded of the saying "we all get the face we deserve" Peggy has a MEAN face

mean face and mean voice

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Around here, one of the two roofing cos hires Ecuadorians, the other...

Nicaraguans.

They're paid fairly and do great work. So what's the problem?

[Joinfortmill]

3. Bad behavior and bullying are becoming "normalized". Horrible situation.

[pwb]

4. Speak American? O K

Fuck off lady.

[secondwind]

7. LOL

[secondwind]

6. I would not have been so polite.

[MissMillie]

8. In life, the ability to communicate is so essential

It's time for people to stop criticizing the manner in which people effectively communicate.

(I'll lay odds that the contractors were saying some not-so-nice things about Peggy--and were doing so in Spanish.)

[tanyev]

9. Oh, does she speak Navajo?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. My worst nightmare.

[CurtEastPoint]

12. Good for the recording woman to stand up for him. And Peggy? Go fuck yourself. No one else will

[onethatcares]

16. perhaps a visit to

the adult toy section of amazon would relieve some of her stress...

[bluecollar2]

13. Hey Peggy...come visit us here in Miami

Fly American...necesitamos el dinero pendeja.

[MineralMan]

14. I love it that the homeowner spoke to the contractor in Spanish.

If more people knew other languages than English, we'd be a lot better off. As for Peggy, well, she's an addlepated bigot, for sure.

[KentuckyWoman]

15. Body language

That waman is looking for someone to duke it out.

[Ilsa]

17. People should approach Peggy and speak different languages, like

german, czech, hebrew, russian, swedish yiddish, arabic, chinese, etc and then remind her that the USA has no official language and that we are a melting pot. I'd love to see her head explode after I give her the name of a realtor and a moving company.

[Iggo]

18. That is American...sweetheart.

[dalton99a]

19. Miserable disgusting Trump trash

[yardwork]

20. Check your tone and walk home, Peggy.

So many great lines - I'm impressed. And saying "May God bless you" in Spanish at the end was perfect.

[hunter]

21. My neighborhood would be her worst nightmare.

English isn't the primary language spoken at home for about 40% of the school kids here. It's not the primary language at the local Walmart.

The kids next door to us are trilingual. They can talk to all of their grandparents. At school they are fluent English speakers. That's always been the way it is in the U.S.A.. The grandchildren speak English.

Our immediate neighbors, and my wife, are all at least bilingual. I'm the odd white monolingual out.

My wife's parents were born in the U.S.A. to immigrants.

About a quarter of her ancestors were Native to what's now the U.S.A. Southwest and were forced out of their homelands into Mexico when their lands were annexed by the U.S.A.. They later returned as "immigrants." One of my wife's grandmothers was resentful of that. She had her green card but she never sought citizenship. She was a fiercely proud woman.

My father-in-law was born in a farm worker camp near a small farm my parents used to own.

I grew up in places that were 99% white. My wife and I made a very deliberate decision not to live or raise our children in a place like that.