Black Physician and Her Family Attacked by Racist Couple While Vacationing In Orlando, Police Take Their Side

By Tanasia Kenney -June 2, 2018

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What was supposed to be a fun-filled day under the Florida sun soon turned sour for a Black doctor and her family after they were verbally attacked by a racist white couple.

The drama unfolded last weekend as Dr. Covey Banks and her family went for an evening swim at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate swimming pool. All seemed well, but the family found themselves the victims of a nasty attack after a white woman instructed her young daughter to pee in the pool as they swam.

Banks detailed the shocking incident in a Facebook post, writing, “The little girl was crying and begging her mother to take her to the bathroom. The mom started looking around we presumed for the bathroom, and we pointed it out to her … She started yelling ‘you don’t know what MY daughter is saying,’ ‘I’m taking her to the bathroom,’ ‘I was not telling her to pee in the pool (guilty conscience), etc.”

The encounter only escalated from there. After taking the child to the restroom, Banks said the woman began telling her kids to splash them. The doctor said her family splashed back as the woman’s kids repeatedly cannon-balled into the hotel pool. After failing to get much reaction out of them, Banks said the woman finally turned to leave, saying, “come on, let’s leave these Black bitches.”

http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/06/02/black-physician-and-her-family-attacked-by-racist-couple-while-vacationing-in-orlando-police-take-their-side/

"White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress, leading to what I refer to as White Fragility. White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium."

Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D

Grocery Store Cashier Shames Woman on WIC, Won’t Allow Customer to Help Pay: ‘They Keep Getting Handouts’

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Yesha Callahan

A woman at an Albertsons store in Gresham, Ore., attempted to help out a fellow shopper when she came up short at the register. But according to Jacki Carroll, a white woman, the cashier refused to let her help the African-American woman who was using WIC (federal food stamp benefits specifically earmarked for women, infants and children) to pay for her items, and said the cashier made some pretty racist comments in the process.

“(I) said, ‘I will pay,’ and she said, ‘No!’ very abruptly,” Carroll said in an interview with KATU-TV. “Literally, she raised her voice and said, ‘No, you don’t need to do that.’”

Carroll was only offering to pay the $12 the unidentified woman was short, but she said that the cashier, identified only as Debbie, went classist and racist at the same time.

“I go, ‘Well, I don’t mind; just let her have her stuff,’” Carroll said she told the white female cashier, who then responded, “‘No! You’re not going to do that. She has WIC. She gets her free stuff.’”

Eventually the woman left the grocery store with only the items she could afford, and when Carroll continued her conversation with the cashier, she wouldn’t let up on her stank racist attitude.

“‘That’s why they have babies, so they can keep on getting all of the free stuff,’” Carroll said the cashier told her.

https://www.theroot.com/grocery-store-cashier-shames-woman-on-wic-wont-allow-c-1826381401?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=The_Root_twitter

"White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress, leading to what I refer to as White Fragility. White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium."

Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D