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Woman uses a racial slur, tells another woman to get out of America. (Original Post) Kingofalldems May 2017 OP
Show this to the store manager. Beakybird May 2017 #1
The Braindead Among Us SoCalMusicLover May 2017 #2
I have faced two racism incidents in past 15 years even living in SFO bay area MyNameIsKhan May 2017 #3
I also live in the SF bay area kimbutgar May 2017 #10
Shine a light on these cockroaches. I'm glad she video'd it luvMIdog May 2017 #4
I bet she won't do that again. athena May 2017 #12
Emboldened Deplorables believe they've license to unleash their racism. oasis May 2017 #5
And payback will be a bitch dalton99a May 2017 #6
has anybody burnbaby May 2017 #7
I dream of the day I encounter a situation like this BannonsLiver May 2017 #8
And that is precisely why no one will do something like this around you. athena May 2017 #11
That's probably true BannonsLiver May 2017 #16
I agree with athena. No one will try anything if a large guy is around. Aristus May 2017 #13
These people are sickening. What is wrong with this country? smirkymonkey May 2017 #9
I. Have. No. Words. Hayduke Bomgarte May 2017 #14
The kind of vile people that went along Dawson Leery May 2017 #15
This Needs Circulation SoCalMusicLover May 2017 #17
I would bet someone a 12 pack GulfCoast66 May 2017 #18
UPDATE: Walmart to ban woman who told customer to 'go back to Mexico,' called another the N-word NutmegYankee May 2017 #19
 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
2. The Braindead Among Us
Tue May 23, 2017, 05:54 PM
May 2017

BIGOTED RACIST PRICK. It seems they did not kick her out of store, but they should have.

MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
3. I have faced two racism incidents in past 15 years even living in SFO bay area
Tue May 23, 2017, 05:55 PM
May 2017

1. One time, I was going out for lunch with my white colleagues while crossing road, one random person ask me go back my country, I told him politely, I am born here and I have no where else to go. I part did struck me, my white colleagues were silent and did not discuss the matter.
2. Second time shopping at whole foods, I was rudely pushed by a old white male and he said, all these guys and coming and occupying my country. I said same "excuse me", he just rolled on his cart...

kimbutgar

(21,055 posts)
10. I also live in the SF bay area
Tue May 23, 2017, 06:46 PM
May 2017

Just today I was in store and this shaved head white guy gave me the stink eye. I looked straight back in his face and gave him my best "f" you look. He looked away quickly. I chuckled at his cowardice.

athena

(4,187 posts)
12. I bet she won't do that again.
Tue May 23, 2017, 07:00 PM
May 2017

She thought she was picking on a fearful undocumented immigrant and would get away with it. It's good she stood her ground, and it's good the store manager stood up to her.

oasis

(49,326 posts)
5. Emboldened Deplorables believe they've license to unleash their racism.
Tue May 23, 2017, 06:04 PM
May 2017

People of color in Red states will be catching hell.

BannonsLiver

(16,294 posts)
8. I dream of the day I encounter a situation like this
Tue May 23, 2017, 06:26 PM
May 2017

I think about it all the time. The idea of shouting someone like that down drill sgt. style would be my pleasure. Blessed with the physical stature and voice to get it done.

athena

(4,187 posts)
11. And that is precisely why no one will do something like this around you.
Tue May 23, 2017, 06:49 PM
May 2017

They only bully those who seem weaker than they are, like petite Hispanic or Muslim women. They would never bully a big white guy. (I'm assuming that's what you are. My husband is a big white guy, and I've noticed that he never gets bullied.)

BannonsLiver

(16,294 posts)
16. That's probably true
Tue May 23, 2017, 10:26 PM
May 2017

But my point was if I happened to have rounded the corner and onto the aisle of the grocery store and came upon this I would speak up.

Aristus

(66,286 posts)
13. I agree with athena. No one will try anything if a large guy is around.
Tue May 23, 2017, 07:12 PM
May 2017

I used to work in a bank years ago as a lead teller and teller trainer. I had several young ladies under my supervision. Every once in a while, a customer would get nasty and abusive with one of these young tellers. I'm a pretty big guy; not tall, but broad-shouldered. I would walk up behind the teller and ask the abuser: "Can I help you with something?" He (it was always a he) would back down, mumble something like "No...nothing..." and slink away.

I would restrain the urge to shout after him: "You coward! You can yell and scream at this sweet young lady, but you can't do it to me?"

I hate confrontations, but I hate bullying more.

Bullies have the kind of animal cunning necessary for self-preservation. If they think anyone is strong and brave enough to stand up to them, they won't start anything.

But thank you for your determination to stand up for others.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
9. These people are sickening. What is wrong with this country?
Tue May 23, 2017, 06:31 PM
May 2017

Yesterday, I was in a little Italian market right near my apartment which is in a very liberal neighborhood in a very blue city. The market is mostly staffed by Latin American immigrants. When I went up to pay after this older woman, the women behind the counter said to me "She scares us"! I asked why and they told me a few days ago that she started screaming at them for speaking Spanish to each other. They speak excellent English with the customers, but this old crank had a problem with them speaking their native language to each other!

I was kind of shocked to hear about such ugly racism in this neighborhood but I told them to report her and ignore her because most of us are disgusted by that kind of attitude and behavior. They did report her to management. I am not sure what the outcome is, but I hope she is banned from shopping there.

 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
17. This Needs Circulation
Tue May 23, 2017, 11:39 PM
May 2017

I would like nothing more to hear that this woman was identified. She's probably too stupid to have a job, but if she did, would love having her exposed and then fired due to the backlash which will surely follow.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
18. I would bet someone a 12 pack
Tue May 23, 2017, 11:47 PM
May 2017

That the Quilted Northern was paid for by some type of 'socialist' program like SSI or SS. But of course because she is white she deserves it.

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
19. UPDATE: Walmart to ban woman who told customer to 'go back to Mexico,' called another the N-word
Wed May 24, 2017, 05:56 PM
May 2017

New York (CNN)Walmart says it will ask a customer to no longer shop at their stores after she was caught on video hurling racial abuse at other customers in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Monday.

Video posted to Facebook on Monday night that shows a woman telling one customer to "go back to Mexico" and calling another customer a racial epithet has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on the social network.

Eva Hicks, a mother of three, said she politely asked the woman to step to one side as she reached for medicine. It was then the woman became aggressive, Hicks told CNN.

"She moved back her cart and immediately started saying that people bother her on every aisle, and started saying more hateful things to me," Hicks recounted and then took out her phone and began to record the encounter.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/us/walmart-racial-outburst/index.html

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