Denver white woman accosts black man minding his own business- until other white people call her out

[Cal Carpenter]

48. This has happened to me - white lady assumes I'm 'on her side' vs a black man

It was in the context of work, so I had to be diplomatic. About 15 years ago I was in social services and in a low-income housing facility to oversee a distribution of essential goods. A black man, resident of the building, was the sort of lead guy for this monthly thing. Usually we just dropped the stuff off and they took it from there, but there was one lady that kept calling my boss about 'problems' so my boss sent me to figure out the problem.

Problem was, lady was racist. We had already gone out of our way to accommodate her, making arrangements to have stuff delivered to her apartment so she didn't even have to interact with this guy. Well that wasn't good enough. She couldn't handle a black man in charge. "He was even a Black Panther!", she said. "Us white women need to stick together". I switched from friendly and warm to a brick wall. I told her that's not how this works, he does a great job, and we've done what we can do to, and have a good day.

Asshole.