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StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2020, 01:28 PM Jun 2020

"I don't want your sympathy. I want you to explain why you're treating my son differently" [View all]

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This breaks my heart.

It's not just shooting and brutality and name-calling. Society damages our black children in so many ways, chipping away at them a little at a time every day. I hope this mother's strength and fearlessness helps to countermand the daily humiliations her son is subjected to in today's America.

“To separate [black schoolchildren] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.” Earl Warren, Brown v. Board of Education, 1954

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"I don't want your sympathy. I want you to explain why you're treating my son differently" [View all] StarfishSaver Jun 2020 OP

K&R, Some people aren't even interested in how they look to the outside !! He could've just looked uponit7771 Jun 2020 #1

I have never been in a restaurant where anyone cared what children were wearing. madaboutharry Jun 2020 #2

Ex-manager, so I heard. Cirque du So-What Jun 2020 #4

Officially, he is suspended. wnylib Jun 2020 #40

His determination to dig in his heels suggests to me he was following company policy StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #43

Agree. But he is also responsible wnylib Jun 2020 #48

Definitely! StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #51

they have changed their stupid dress code now IcyPeas Jun 2020 #13

It is the dress code exboyfil Jun 2020 #17

If he was told to selectively enforce the dress code, the restaurant has bigger problems than StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #21

I think it was nudge nudge wink wink kind of communication exboyfil Jun 2020 #22

Why do they need to go through that much trouble StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #23

Build a case for selective enforcement exboyfil Jun 2020 #24

That shoudn't be the responsibility of this mother StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #27

Agree. The manager looked to be a scared young white guy trying to follow some boss's orders. erronis Jun 2020 #38

Please don't try to paper over what was happening there. Politicub Jun 2020 #34

Of course it was discrimination. wnylib Jun 2020 #44

Ridiculous. Caliman73 Jun 2020 #3

And the condescension StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #5

Well said greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #8

Exactly. You can actually see the process unfold. Caliman73 Jun 2020 #11

They didn't even think to check the 2 white kids Johnny2X2X Jun 2020 #19

It wasn't solid exboyfil Jun 2020 #18

Give the kid a break, let them in. Bluepinky Jun 2020 #6

Those children were dressed in exactly the same style greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #7

This is the kind of thing black people are subjected to every single day StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #12

+1000 . Hard to say oh you probably were mistaken now that they see it themselves not just hear i lunasun Jun 2020 #28

Yes, it is good that we see, but people still deny and ignore sanatanadharma Jun 2020 #50

It's not about the shirt. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #15

Thank you greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #20

Yeah, it's possible he never saw the other child until she pointed it out to him-- BusyBeingBest Jun 2020 #53

Same way I feel about people rationalizing a lack of dignity for the dead, LanternWaste Jun 2020 #55

It was a little kid, FFS. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #9

restaurant is Ouzo Bay and is getting walloped on yelp. IcyPeas Jun 2020 #10

Apparently, this is nothing new StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #16

Racists will be racists n/t malaise Jun 2020 #14

He has been to some business school. He wasn't talking like some uneducated worker. LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #30

JFC ornotna Jun 2020 #25

I hate to click on these things because I know they will ooze hypocrisy and evil. Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #26

"You're welcome to pick up some food at the little window in the back marked 'COLORED'". BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #29

.....WTF??? titanicdave Jun 2020 #31

This disgusts me to no end Politicub Jun 2020 #32

Jesus. ismnotwasm Jun 2020 #33

This only became a big story and the parent company apologized because of the video and social media erronis Jun 2020 #35

He was worthless. I would have asked for the manager. nt Quixote1818 Jun 2020 #36

I think he WAS the manager StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #37

correct response to the Atlas Restaurant Group and Ouzo Bay should be something like this: PurgedVoter Jun 2020 #39

Could you explain it for us deafies? Thanks. nt tblue37 Jun 2020 #41

Sure StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #45

Thanks! nt tblue37 Jun 2020 #47

The most insidious thing about this, the most disturbing........... jaxexpat Jun 2020 #42

Exactly StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #46

I would like to see an update on this. jorgevlorgan Jun 2020 #49

The white kid was dressed the very same Bettie Jun 2020 #52

It wasn't even as if the clothes looked as if he came from the playground after hours of playing Hav Jun 2020 #54

K&R Blue Owl Jun 2020 #56